Marc
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Whilst obviously the main queue will move quicker with less fastrack, it's hardly the cause of all the issues at the park yesterday.
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Slammer medals reduced to £1 - what you make of that is up to you!
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It will be fine. Not being open for an internal preview event really has no / little bearing on it being ready for Annual Pass preview. I do believe Containment on the other hand isnt open and has been advertised as such.
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Needs must and all of that... how many rides were removed at Blackpool during the harder times?
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Very different sensation but the one at winter wonderland has always been great - very intense!
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Samurai is currently being re-constructed
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I believe you were meant to get a bit of a "shock" from the fence but I think it was removed before it even opened to the public (not really surprising!)
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X was strongly rumoured to go last year, Slammer, lets face it could go at any point and Loggers leap has been closed numerous times throughout the year with issues - none of that would surprise me in the slightest.
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I don't see how a ride closing for extra maintaince over the closed season means the park is in bad times... Everyone would just moan if it opened in April / May.
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Maybe tidal wave needs additional work to it over closed season so it's closed early to ensure they have ample time to complete this?
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https://www.thorpepark.com/resort-information/getting-here/ Looks like the park are continuing to struggle - 5pm Closes on weekends now. Also looks like the last week is now 10-4. Lets hope this dark ride gives them the boost they need!
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Rows are shut off to make it easier for staff - noting to do with it stalling. On Colossus every bar needs to be raised before you can re-lock them , on dead timed that's alot of effort so it's acutely more efficient to run with less seats
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Are you suggesting the park should limit its capacity just incase annual pass holders turn up? As nice as that would be it's not very realistic during a time the park often hits capacity.
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The issue comes when people (some openly on these forums) state they are booking multiple free tickets they have no intention of using, whats going to fix this? A tiny charge. Not sure how compulsary booking will be, if you turn up early I'm sure you will have no issue gettung in not being prebooked- if you turn up late on a peak day I can see you having issues getting in without pre booking.
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Whilst it may look like that it won't be the case - Colossus spent the last few weeks on 1 train due to the other needing repairs.
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The thing is people go to the park and buy fastrack first thing - without waiting to see if the parks busy so they still need to accept the ticket dead or not. They could not sell fastrack till later but that would cause murder. On the other hand the last time I was buying a fastrack ticket someone next to me attempted to buy a storm surge fastrack and they were told the queue was only 10 minutes so there was no point.
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Whilst I'm not saying it would be the answer - id personally say a coaster with some sort of record would be a "safer" bet in comparison to a dark ride in regards to boosting attendances etc. Not that a dark ride is bad atall - its nice to see them take the risk.
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There are 2 shifts - engineers are at the park till around 11pm.
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I still think its far far to early to judge, with the exception of Storm Surge Thorpe generally do care what the park looks like and I've no doubt when this is complete it wont look as awful as the construction pics make it out to be. We will see in march I guess!
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If you could get us a picture of one of them ride building around 2 hours after the building was constructed id love to compare
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Maybe we should wait till March next year to judge how good / bad this looks?!
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Sounds like there was an issue with the park wide system if all that was broken!
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Or maybe they are working on improving the ending in reaction to guest feedback and instead of closing it completely they are re-routing the maze whilst this is in progress?
