Marc

^There are definitely multiple trains - think how long the VR sections are v's the live action scene - you would be stood around a good 10 minutes or so if it was just the one running that way!

Likely slightly turned down for Cabin - That said i thought it was still fairly loud today!

I really can't see how they can say it was "hanging upside down" with a picture of it clearly vertical on the lift hill..

I don't believe it's had a day closed since it had its down time in the summer... it's usually open much closer to opening time now too... it's not perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than it was. Easily could have added it on there by now judging by the amount of people who ask for it social!

Just thought would bring this topic up - so often people are quick to slam Thorpe / Merlin for how they "oversell" fastrack without caring for the main queue. Well we are in Fright Nights and they are still not selling fastrack for Ghost Train - I assume they are still getting to grips with throughputs and are putting the guests in the queue first when they could very easily sell fastrack and it would no doubt sell - so nice work Thorpe

Was that at about 10:15 tonight? Also was on at that point!

Can't answer for the vr issues with individual headsets but the middle scene was working fine at 9pm last night! I ageee with headsets they are so inconsistent - hopefully over closed season they can work on getting these more reliable!

Ive been to one before and it was very much the "real deal" - being quieter just expect more attention from the actors! Enjoy!

Depends how much evolution it requires.. feedback from the GP generally seems pretty good until the second train where you hear comments asking whats happening. I dont think any new ending for it will be the 2nd ending we never saw this year - i expect it to be completely new

Its the groups biggest ever investment, of course they will continue to evolve and promote it for longer than its first season!

Ghost trains at night!

Im fairly sure people have had the infamous 2nd ending during tech previews - and it very similar to what's on there now with a couple of different bits - as I said I expect this to be completely new

I wonder if this will be a totally new ending or an alternative? I'd personally guess completely new - I'm in no doubt they are aware that most of the criticisms are about that 2nd vr section - I expect we will see something totally different!

No as she said its when Experiment 10 closed

Fire too!

Sounds like its playing over the entire Old Town area / Platform 15 (Loggers) Queue line - the attraction may have different music.

Any one any idea why they've removed the scores / leader board from skyforce was a great feature..

See I'm not sure if it it cost cutting with the amount of staff around in the batch / entrance area - I think it's more because the bag room was madness as people were being batched in, if anything it slowed the process down. I guess time will tell!

The windows are able to mist up / de-mist when needed - that said for most of the time you with your vr on!

Is the bonuses thing really that bad though? As much as it's a good headline I'm not sure you can directly link that and the accident - the ride had been shut an hour and had a long queue - I expect the engineers were keen to fix the ride as soon as possible regardless of what ever bonus they get. I also doubt that it's very unusual - I expect engineers in other industry's will have similar payments for hitting targets.

From what i understood from the court case the problem come with the confusion between the number of trains on the track - the engineers resetting it thought there were 4 and accounted for 4 trains when of course the 5 with on the track and stalled.

This one?

Whilst 5 Million dont sound an awful lot, it is the highest fine which has been issued in this industry - also the judge said the fine was originally 7.5 million but was reduced on Merlins guilty plea. This also wont include the costs of compensation to the guests on the ride - and of course the business impact felt by Merlin and which will be for i expect a few years yet.

I wouldn't say the 2 person rule cripples throughput.. it rarely stacks in the trim brakes so it's running as well as it can

Hmm on 3 trains not stopping I doubt the throughput is any worse than it was on 4 when it stopped - no idea what it got on 5!