Mattgwise

Originally it was planned to become an area on Alton Towers before becoming it's own individual place.

Still unbelievable how inconsistent it is. To be on and off in the space of a couple of hours really is odd. Perhaps it operates by timer and actually switches on and off at intervals. Who knows?

What day? If you are talking about yesterday I rode it at 5:40 and it was working.

Today the mist was back in the tunnel and coming from the vent on the stairs. Wasn't on at all during all of my summer holiday visits.

That the guests can miraculously appear in the all pods of the ferris wheel whilst it is loading!

Both sides of the beach were fully open to the public today. The picture on thrill nation was simply staff preparing the area for its daily opening. Work is due to start on the beach extremely soon though.

Well operations are opposite to my last visit. All teams working hard and ride queues short and being dispatched/run quickly. Only Swarm on one train for reasons mentioned above.

But its not even that the park hasn't got high capacity attractions. Both Tomb and Vampire should get through a much higher throughput like they did in the past. Its the way things are run and excessive health and safety protocols that lead to the long waits and prevent them running as they should, eating through the queues much faster

But its not even that the park hasn't got high capacity attractions. Both Tomb and Vampire should get through a much higher throughput like they did in the past. Its the way things are run and excessive health and safety protocols that lead to the long waits.

Chessington Buzz have just posted on their website that planning permission has been submitted to extend the chicken shack and build a grillhouse. http://www.chessingtonbuzz.co.uk/news/restaurant-extension-planning-begins/

Strange because peeking heights is at the top under "advisory" saying it is currently unavailable but the others are under "normal operation" with closed next to the queue time.

Ah ok, I'm sure each year we gain more and more bizarre rules at these parks.

Bubbleworks has ridiculous queues because it is currently operating at reduced capacity only filling every other boat due to low water levels.I queued for 45 mins with my little cousin when it was about a third of the outside queue line area. Fastrack and exit pass queue was massive too which didn't help. Crazy!

Will feel busier too, queue wise with a normal queue, fastrack and Reserve n ride!

Not really common sense when the previous post mentioned a fence being put up, no one expected the fire engine to disappear and you put "it" . I don't post on these forums for rude comments like that! Thanks for your response also Whatever.

What's been removed? The fence or fire engine?

Looks great already! Here is the link to the blog that goes with the photos. https://paultonspark.co.uk/lost-kingdom/2015/08/3890/lost-kingdom-site-taking-shape-august-2015

Lift 1 100% has the fins as well, but haven't seen it reverse before. Picture from Towers Times forum

That is true usually, but The smiler is unique in that it IS designed to reverse trains down the lift hill, hence the fins on the lift hills that you don't usually see. I may be wrong, but think it is the first ever rollercoaster featuring a lift hill designed this way. Here it is in action on the second lift hill

So those few rides do actually stay open to anyone. I always thought it was just for hotel guests?

Well they will lose out to an extent. Especially Fridays as for example my cousin and several parents from a nearby school visit every week after school for a couple of hours and always purchase food and drinks.

I thought the same initially but read it again a few times and think they have just worded it badly muddling "stalls" and "stop". I then took it as the car on the lift hill stops as safety sensors activated due to stalled carriage on bat wing section.

Human error. Manual override as most of us predicted. Worth pointing out that nothing mentioned seems to be directly from Alton Towers or HSE.

Surprising that it reopened the same day. I would have thought the entire track and every bolt would have to be thoroughly checked after something like this.

Not sure on that as I didn't reach Thorpe until 12 due to being at Chessington until 1130.