Kevin

STOOOOOP THE BOAT! Dan you're on your last warning, next time you advertise your site on here you're getting a week ban. Especially posting pictures from areas accessible to the general public and calling them exclusive. And to put you out of your misery they're refurbishing Smarties Castle into a Sales and Fastrack unit. Big wow.

Car 1 is loaded with 1 adult, 3 kids. Car 2 is loaded with 3 adults. (Follow me here - this justifies why you can't load 4 because the cars catch up between low and high weight cars)Car 3 doesn't matter what weight.Situation 1:Car 1 reaches Block 2 as Car 2 reaches Block 1, then Block 1 will hold Car 2 as there isn't anywhere for the car to go. Operator sees this and resets Block 1 after Block 2 is clear.Situation 2:Car 1 reaches Block 2 as Car 2 reaches Block 1, then Block 1 will hold Car 2 as there isn't anywhere for the car to go. Operator misses this and sends Car 3 out, and the ride will then shutdown as too many blocks are over represented.

You'll find Fury will have a higher throughput pro rata - I can nearly guarantee you that.The difference is staff on Fury batch, send, batch send. Unfortunately block shutdowns happen when cars catch up and that's the reason 3 adults are only allowed in a car. Spinball will stop cars and release, as will Fury; however when you send a car in behind it then the ride will block shutdown. If you batch 1 adult with three kids and then a car of 4 adults, the cars will catch up - remember its 4 blocks for 2 cars.I'd imagine because of this Spinball has a lot more block shutdowns - thus a lower throughput, however if this is trained out (how you're actually meant to batch the ride) then block shutdowns that are random blocks will be non existent. However that obviously excludes sensor failures causing block shutdowns etc.

On going debate about a differing opinion between one person who placed an opinion in that topic, and the person it was discussed about.Lets hope we, as a team, can all see clarity very, very soon.

For the purposes of continuity - I think all of us understand what hell is brought upon us when rules in a park on or a ride changes..

More Arial.

Jesus Christ on a bike - its silent!Never seen such smoothness from that sort of machinery before. Well done B&M!

Don't pretend you're immune boy!

Good evensong ladies and mentlegen.Your post counts have unfortunately nearly all decreased - this is due to a forum wide mass deletion of topics inappropriote, stupid or pointless.Please don't be too crushed by this sudden destruction of parts of the forum.

Jokers!

JLS are a bunch of swingers, the Saturdays are thicker than three bricks put together - and Eliza Dolittle just walks around whistling, hoping it'll sell songs.

Benin you absolute babe.

I'm still unsure of this song. FM was an amazing album - easily my favourite ever album but this new track isn't doing it for me.

When it comes to the opinion of 'Merlin don't seem to care' - I don't agree with the opinion that this will be long lasting. The business as a whole are interested in expanding at a great rate until the market is decently saturated with such a set of products and brand, so that the company can be seen to be financially secure on its own two feet. The company has some amazing expansion plans on the already existing plans however unfortunately - Midway attractions are maybe something that are seen as a starting to be a dead horse, as much as I dislike saying it.Merlin seemingly is interested in opening and pushing brands such as 'high level experiences' (for example Eye, BP Tower), the Sea Life brand, Madame Tussauds brands, Legoland brands and the Dungeons brand. The company regardless of whatever your opinion on these brands is; will continue to expand these in massive and maybe unexpected - however clever - new areas and continents. The market they are tapping into is so very vast - only a 1/20th of the worlds population probably has only heard of the brands and the experiences offer but the company is already increasing profits past record levels within the Leisure Industry itself, just on that 1/20th of the world.When it comes to the 'Midway Attractions', there are solid brands in there fortunately - Legoland is a brand. It's so so so simple which makes it so clever - it's pure pure branding down to having Lego name badges - all the way up to employing someone at Senior Leadership level who is focused on Product Excellence - Tussaud's just never did it. The company is not one to rest on it's laurels as maybe Tussauds did - I can prove this with one word; and that is STEALTH. That's the ride. Nothing but pure focus on holding onto the massive change it brought to TP. Merlin isn't about just saying 'Hey here's Chessington lets throw money at this problem and hope it goes away.' Come on, everyone can see that yes, it may be a quick fix but it won't last long in this environment. The park is sitting on a great path and incorporating the hotel, theme park and zoo will be their biggest challenge however such sweeping changes have occurred in the park. Yeah we all know it'd be amazing if they threw money at the park, spent good couple of million and made the place look sparkling. I can promise you that will happen however the directors within Merlin are continuing to look at how they can take the park forward to be 'Britain's Wildest Adventure' - but also taking into account of return on investment, and how it will affect guest satisfaction scores.I think people tar Chessington stupidly with the same brush that they brush TP with - you have to remember that TP is such a massive 'snowball' - that if they stopped investing in TP it would end up in massive amount lost and such a financial disaster; the park is a cut and shut case of such amazing return on investment.Alton you need to remember doesn't get that much investment - pro rata, Chessington does get more I'd imagine. I hope this does make sense to all the people who think Chessington is a lost case, and please don't take this as an arsekissing post for Merlin - it's an honest look at the business and where it is positioning itself within such a volatile market.

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From a mod point of view it doesn't prove you to be bigger or take on everyone in an elitist way - we're here to delete the forum and help the admins take forward the site. We as keepers of the peace can't do it ourselves - I know for a fact people take this up personally when you need to swing the hammer around the forum. However; the team at the moment is the best it's ever been and we're trying to take the forum forward to new areas however too much of what you've posted about happening, is being posted. I for one will delete and throw the banhammer around EVEN IF it means no one likes me on the forum, and EVEN IF no one exists on this forum anymore. All those that disagree with this and Will's post need to take a long hard look at themselves and why they're here.

Take a look at this please.Clearly states maximum of 4 guests on any ride, with the exception of Rumba.

What's the joke? Ya Mama is actually quite a good song!

Wow, talk about absolutely dire attempts. Nothing like defacating over some amazing adverts, right there!

Great day too, sorry I didn't come onto the ice but the bar was too cheap!

Thank christ it's only got two trains for the moment - we all know what happens with three..

Considering the ride cost £12 million, your point is disregarded.

Was this the same BBC3 program that essentially said drugs are ok?Reminds me of the stoner bloke from tool academy, how cliche can you get.. :\

Definitely thought the same as Mark when I saw this...!