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    MattyMoo got a reaction from J.S217 in Rumba Rapids   
    EXCLUSIVE: 2015 will see Rumba rethemed as Rusty Rapids, with numerous shipping containers and rusty metal scattered around the ride, and the dark section rethemed to a warehouse - who knows what rusty theming lies within! Dare you brave the orange waters of Rusty Rapids?
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    MattyMoo got a reaction from paige in Rumba Rapids   
    EXCLUSIVE: 2015 will see Rumba rethemed as Rusty Rapids, with numerous shipping containers and rusty metal scattered around the ride, and the dark section rethemed to a warehouse - who knows what rusty theming lies within! Dare you brave the orange waters of Rusty Rapids?
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    MattyMoo got a reaction from HermanTheGerman in Rumba Rapids   
    EXCLUSIVE: 2015 will see Rumba rethemed as Rusty Rapids, with numerous shipping containers and rusty metal scattered around the ride, and the dark section rethemed to a warehouse - who knows what rusty theming lies within! Dare you brave the orange waters of Rusty Rapids?
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    MattyMoo got a reaction from Cal in Rumba Rapids   
    EXCLUSIVE: 2015 will see Rumba rethemed as Rusty Rapids, with numerous shipping containers and rusty metal scattered around the ride, and the dark section rethemed to a warehouse - who knows what rusty theming lies within! Dare you brave the orange waters of Rusty Rapids?
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    MattyMoo got a reaction from Whiteknuckle in Rumba Rapids   
    EXCLUSIVE: 2015 will see Rumba rethemed as Rusty Rapids, with numerous shipping containers and rusty metal scattered around the ride, and the dark section rethemed to a warehouse - who knows what rusty theming lies within! Dare you brave the orange waters of Rusty Rapids?
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    MattyMoo reacted to Ryan in Wicker Man   
    Wow I thought this thread was bumped due to actual news, how annoying!
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    MattyMoo reacted to SteveJ in Tomb Blaster   
    I'm not sure where the show control plant is but there will definitely be one separate from the op box, since the scenes have to run in sequence rather than being individually triggered by the train (as with the Haunted House for example). It will all be computer based, although highly unlikely to be the same technology that ran 5th Dimension/Terror Tomb! Someone please correct me if they know the ride better, I'm interested in knowing myself!
     
    The 5D show building comprises of one large double-storey warehouse, containing the majority of the ride. The spike room and axe corridor are on the top levels (below the spike scene is the maintenance bay), then both levels are used for the fire pit to give that grand sense of scale. On the lower floor is the station, revolving tunnel and epilogue corridor only.
     
    The warehouse also has two additional "wings" on either side, which is hidden by the extensive facadery added in the Terror Tomb redesign. The right wing contains the preshow queueline and the snake pit scene overhead, which the train enters immediately after ascending the ramp. The building's left wing is dedicated entirely to the finale scene, hence the only point in the ride where you can see the building's floor and roof at the same (the track is elevated about half way up).
     
    There is not actually that much room below the track at its lowest points. I don't know what's down there, probably maintenance areas, I'm sure somebody else will know for sure!
     
    Something fun to do... If you look up just before coming into the offload station, you can see the back of the anubis statue through a missing ceiling panel. This is because at this point the track is actually on three levels and the epilogue set (most of which is now gone anyway) is squashed into the small space available behind the fire pit set.
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    MattyMoo reacted to AJ in Introduce Yourself   
    When it comes to lawke you can thank me and J.s217 for stealing the idea but welcome to the forum after you excellent first meet
    Toriadisphoria welcome to the forum and hope your childhood comes afresh and will be great to see you at towers, nice to see more females on the forum tbh
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    MattyMoo reacted to Toriadisphoria in Introduce Yourself   
    Hello everyone !!! I'm new here and I'm rediscovering my childhood by revisiting the best thing about it....THEME PARKS!!! Yah, and I thought I should introduce myself too ) My name is Tori and I love really, really scary rides but being a big #childatheart I like all rides, just the scary ones are the best. I like wet rides too. Well, like I said, I like all rides....and steak - you cannot beat a good steak !! Anyways, looking forward to getting to know some of you and having an awesome year x x \m/ ;P \m/ x x
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    MattyMoo reacted to Mer in Rant   
    Gah, yes!
    Speaking of incorrect signs (although this was obviously a joke), that reminds me of a seaside cafe in Worthing which has a sign outside saying, "Open 8 days a week" Well, I'm not sure if it still does now, but when I was young, my nan and grandad would take me and my brother down to Worthing for a day in the summer holidays, and we always used to go to that cafe!
    Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk
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    MattyMoo got a reaction from EC! in Rant   
    "Your" and "you're" are two different words. Any argument online where the wrong one is used renders said person's argument null and void
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    MattyMoo reacted to AJ in The Banning Game   
    Banned for not being brave enough to post first before scarycoasterboy
    As peaj is in an abusive mood
    WHO IS NEXT
    The next person to ban me will be banned for 48 hours
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    MattyMoo reacted to Mer in Rant   
    Being called a grammar Nazi when correcting someone! We're just trying to help them look less foolish!
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    MattyMoo got a reaction from Kerfuffle in Fastrack   
    To add to fastrack discussion - I've never bought one, and never would, out of principle.
    Kaithanxbai.
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    MattyMoo got a reaction from Smidget in Rant   
    "Your" and "you're" are two different words. Any argument online where the wrong one is used renders said person's argument null and void
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    MattyMoo reacted to pluk in Rant   
    Your not wrong!
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    MattyMoo got a reaction from AJ in Rant   
    "Your" and "you're" are two different words. Any argument online where the wrong one is used renders said person's argument null and void
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    MattyMoo reacted to RobD in Rush   
    Ah, the age old swing A/sing B height thing.
    Okay. So, it's basically done this since 2007. Swing B outperforms swing A, which means the computer goes a little crazy when B peaks much earlier than A at just over 90 degrees (anyone noticed how the first of your 4 full height swings on B is significantly higher than A?). The computer then has a paddy and desperately tries to re-sync the swings by powering A as much as it can, and basically doing nothing with B, thus why the ride ends up with A performing better.
    By the end of the ride, everything is out of sync and it looks a mess. It did this up until 2011 when the piping that delivers the air to the piston was replaced with titanium rather than a plastic. The ride briefly did better, before returning to it's current, terrible state that it was in towards the end of last year. The usual suspects for loss of pressure are the piston seals, a little like that in a car or on bike forks. If the seals are damaged, some air escapes, the ride under-performs, but, with the consistent nature of the issue I would question whether it is in fact that A get's less compression than B.
    The short of it is, everything in the book has been done over closed seasons to try and rectify this and it seems to be an on going experiment to try and replace whichever element of the ride is causing the poor performance of A.
    In regard to ride cycles, it always has been and remains 4 full height swings. The only exception is if the operator stops the cycle, which does occasionally but rarely happen.
    Don't expect a fix anytime soon, and in the meantime, enjoy the rare days where you get one swing only, as that's when Rush does it's best.
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    MattyMoo got a reaction from Mer in Rant   
    "Your" and "you're" are two different words. Any argument online where the wrong one is used renders said person's argument null and void
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    MattyMoo reacted to tomglazed in Samurai   
    I think through Slammer, we have been given a good indication of the lengths in which Thorpe are willing to go to in order to keep their rides. Whilst Samurai's reliability record isn't spotless, I'd be shocked if it was as close to the scrap heap as Slammer has come.
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    MattyMoo reacted to darkadder312 in Fastrack   
    I wished they just bring back that Single Rider Queue. I loved it on Saw The Ride opening year.
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    MattyMoo reacted to Project LC in Fastrack   
    yes they pick a number at random and type it in as the queue time.
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    MattyMoo reacted to Cal in 2014 Season   
    I'm going to miss listening to loud chart music in the toilets
    What music is playing, the entrance theme or the music from the new video?
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    MattyMoo reacted to pluk in Rant   
    None of you know what old is. It only gets more depressing.
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    MattyMoo got a reaction from Adam P in Funfair Rides   
    Cheeky buggers, the signs on the road said 99p for all rides
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