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TPM hate fat people, who knew? Poor show from an apparently senior member of the team suggesting people who complain get burnt, joke or no joke, it's not an amusing situation whatsoever...

Trying to work out where the roofs are being stored, whilst wondering if they'll also be part of the area... Interesting...

*looks at Saw*

I do enjoy a bit of watching rugby on the tv sometimes, it gives off such a different vibe compared to footie... Both on the pitch and in the crowds (since mixed fans and drinking in the stands)... Even better when the South Africans get served in the last minute... Still don't understand why people not interested in these sports must proclaim it in the topic for no reason...

It probably should be, if only so you can go there and say "This park is basically Thorpe but massive and without any restrictions"...

I know it was 3 adults per car (going to assume that it upped to 4 people when they decided that the weighing station was a good idea), hence why I said: I.e. Rather than cause all this extra hassle like this just reduce everything down again cos it's how Chessie seem to operate... Even reading the procedure makes me head hurt, can imagine it's even worse for the hosts... It was bad enough with max 3 adults...

Ermmm, why? They might as well just say 2 adults per car and be done with it rather than this palavar, which will cause a LOT of issues (and potential embarassment, since at least with the lines/seatbelts on restraints you have some physical reasoning on a ride as to why you cannot ride, rather than making someone stand on some scales)... Like, only other actual cred that weighs people is Flying Turns at Knobels... No-one actually visits Chessie though now, so updates are naturally sparse...

Standard thing for any HSE reports to be put into the public domain, especially high profile ones...

Ghost would've been a high investment if it'd been accepted...

Lol wut? Boycotting the park because it's making decisions you don't agree with isn't relevant because you live nearby? That makes zero sense to me, because surely if you were disagreeing with any park decisions/choices/etc, you wouldn't visit irrespective all how close you live to said park...

Probably a County Hall thing, given how old the building is and is probably not able to withstand sharp sudden motions from heavy pieces of equipment... Overlooked issue I guess...

I'm not 100% sure how much the system alone costs... Ratatouille's price is boosted by the animation, music and voice-work all done by the same people involved in the film, and I'm not sure on Mystic Manor (though can't imagine Danny Elfman is cheap)... I'm sure if they wanted it, they could get it (or something similar)... Dull and never-ending...

Maus au Chocolat's ride system is the same as Toy Story Midway Mania... A trackless dark ride at Phantasialand would be something amazing... But they need to remove Night Hawk and Hollywood Tour first, since that part of the park is bloody awful (not helped by everything else since then being next level stuff)... Wouldn't be surprised if they were next on the chopping block, either that or Geisterschloss or Atlantis... Hell Night Hawk's building could become another completely internal area...

Swarm didn't draw in the expected crowds because everyone seemingly left the country when the Olympics were taking place... I still don't understand why the parks didn't try and take advantage of a massive global event happening on their doorstep, there was barely any marketing over the summer yet millions of tourists in the London area... Plus dodgy summer weather, something Merlin are blaming this year's low figures for (as well as the Smiler, obviously)... Swarm's brand wasn't that weak, it just wasn't pushed in the same way that Smiler's was... Hindsight is a wonderful thing though, and at the time the campaign was good, but I think external factors were the problem...

Thorpe/Merlin are the idiots really... How come Smiler was such a success for Towers then, since that didn't have an IP?

Any detailed information on the incident is not in the public domain... And you didn't exactly specify that you wanted actual cause, you just asked how they crashed...

One train went into another that had stalled in the Knot...

Few pics: Themed footers <3 Dreaded Intamin trims... A new tunnel being built Still some rumours over a second coaster coming in with this monster, but I'm not 100% sure on this as of yet... Would be insane if we do get another one though...

Just ripping it off instead

It's going next to the 4D Cinema at the back of the Duplo Valley area... I think Billund has a surprisingly high amount of land available...

http://www.legoland.dk/en/Explore/LEGO-NINJAGO---The-Ride/ New area announced, including a dark ride... Described as: Sounds like a 4D simulator of some kind... Picture of the area:

Because everyone on here who works/worked in the rides department hates Fastrack and would rather it not exist at all then deliberately on their end create more demand for it... The correlation is more coincidence, there have been some cases at the parks when Sales get a big complaint from the Rides department about over-selling Fastrack, because it's the Rides mob who have to deal with the fallout... Let's not forget the lack of engineers that Thorpe seemingly have no ability to fix (probably due to the lack of experience many engineers would have with ride based systems, as there's not really any dedicated training for it out there, annoyingly)... It's a lot of factors adding up which doesn't get helped by Thorpe's rather pathetic excuses of environmental standards and a lack of demand... The problem lies with the company setting ridiculous spends per head that need to be acheived, otherwise we end up with budget cuts and the like, because they decided that one big park wide pot of money was better than each park operating independently (Hence why because Towers isn't performing after Smiler, the other parks end up having their openings slashed, or ride budgets cut because other rides that are termed more important need the extra bit)...

You'd think people constantly forget how Merlin like to wind enthusiasts up with non-sensical crap like this... This is gonna turn into Thirteen's construction, where focus on the ride's background ended up being guessed as a dog because there was one in the promotional art... Then everyone will be upset we didn't get a Doctor Who themed ride... Even though the clues didn't actually point to one...

I've found out that a lot of the voting is done by ACE members... ACE had a trip to the UK this year... The likes of Towers and Blackpool haven't been in the top 10 Best Park for years... Similarly Nemesis and Valhalla in their respective categories... Shows how easily these things can be manipulated by recent trips...