Ricky
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I feel The Smiler will be thrown into the limelight again as a girl has died in Sux Flags Magic Mountain. It has already poured into the news article of The Mirror:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/magic-mountain-girl-aged-10-5891693?ICID=FB_mirror_main
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I like how people said they where "stunned" it's almost like they have been living in a black hole their entire lives.
- Matt 236, Mer and OldFarmerDean
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Universal are doing well in relation to guest figures. Almost all of the Florida parks have seen an attendance increase in 2014 compared to 2013.
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Unless there is evidence that this was a little more than Human Error and more a case of "terrible maintenance/incompetent staff members", I seriously doubt a criminal law suite would go anywhere.
If this was a case of being beyond anybody's control, all a law suite would do is compensate for the injured.
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Unless I am mistaken but I believe those are only useful at relatively low speed collisions, they would be almost useless at high speed.
- jjh123horry and Tom
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I guess we're all have to wait and see what happens.
But I know this will not put me off rides and I do think the media has exaggerated so much. Did find it funny how they kept repeating how the ride had broken and been put "into test mode" which means they know the ride had problems.........surely the media reporters have been to theme parks and ride testing is a common experience every time you go to a theme park. Just hope saw re opens soon as don't wanna make a trip to Thorpe until its operational again :-)
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Alas, the media care not of their knowledge, only power. Even if they had the intellect many enthusiasts have, they would be forced to report otherwise.
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From this point forth, please can all members keep the threatening tone to a minimum. Whilst I'm sure we can all agree, that the interview was unfair and we are all entitled to our own opinion, however, threatening behaviour is unacceptable.
Please take a more political stance in regards to the Interview.
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Didn't Stealth have a bit of downtime to replace its launch cable when Rita's snapped?
It's probably just one of Merlin's policies.
It wasn't replaced, they where reviewing the integrity of the cable and ensuring that any extra measures of safety could be be implemented. This is why parts of the launch track now have higher catwalk rails.
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Just going to add, if Smiler is anything similar to SAW, when trains have been moved around manually they have to execute a Block Reset to inform the PLC where the trains are on the track and what block us free.
If this was the case and the block was reset to say it was empty this could be the reason the train departed the lift.
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It would seem I have been misinformed.
I've operated Storm Surge, which has 5 cameras, only about 40% of the ride is actually visible from the cameras.
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I honestly find it revolting how many of you are bickering over what went wrong and almost oblivious to the fact that 16 people, 4 of which seriously, have been injured.
Who gives a pigs bum what the stock level is, who cares that the manufacture weren't notified instantly.
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I honestly can't believe they are still clinging on to this terrible concept.
- holtjammy16 and Project LC
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Ride & Rave was made complete with the finale being a Pendulum DJ Set. Back then the line-up was pretty fantastic too for such a small event!
- Pendulum DJ Set
- Tinchy Stryder
- Rudimental
- Skepta
- The Wideboys
- Majestic
If they had all those guys then I would actually buy an Annual Pass and go to every event.
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I hope they get Pendulum to do a DJ set, they where absolutely fantastic at their last music event.
- Rich and Mitchada04
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Source: Theme Park Guide
Still nothing major happening on the site, but the first photo would seemingly confirm an Annual Passholder preview event for the ride, which - other than Saw - I don't think Merlin have done for any of their major new additions?
Really starting to get a look at the scale of the attraction. Much bigger than originally looked!
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I think if we got something similar to Forbidden Journey at Universal, we could be on to a winner. The contrast between screens and sets is remarkable.
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^ Don't forget the cable ties.
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About 90% of the gate figure from opening to 12pm end up in the queue for The Swarm, so in any sense they may as well just open the coasters at 10am