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The majority of roles at the parks/midway ARE zero hour contracts though... You pretty much just fill in a calender at the start of the year... The difference you see between parks that retain their staff and ones that cycle every year is astounding... But since most staff at the UK parks are students, we won't see much of a change in this...

Bear in mind only the spokes of the wheel will spin... Very unfortunate really... Looks amazing though... Surprised they haven't tested it at all yet though...

Gotta love some good wild speculation based on pretty much nothing at all... Or dismay at people posting utter rubbish... Either option really...

That's what happens when you live in countries that just don't care about being 'offensive'...

I really hope they don't follow the American market of big rides, minimal theming, as because it's more bland than Enchanted Village...

Let's be honest, Summer Nights in the empty park format were never going to last... For the exact reason people loved it... Add in some apparently famous bands and the event will probably rise to £20+ base price... Of course ride whorers might still be happy, assuming most guests go and see bands instead of riding things...

If you can get a good cheap deal on the hotel (and unlimited Fastrack) then its worth going, especially as it would generally be cheaper than most other major European parks... Tis good when the Euro countries mess up financially...

Always reason to update it, but there's only so many ways one can say it looks fantastic... It's not even a surprise the details come coming...

>Accuses rides of being over-rated >Rates Millenium Force(less)

There's Dragon Khan as well to consider...

There's a reason why no other park in the world has built a ride like Baco... Even Intamin know they messed up...

Well given that Duelling Dragons no longer duels because of people deliberately throwing coins into the other train........

Fury used to be aimed at 600-700 an hour too... It's depressing to see their new throughput goals in the op boxes, given that there's usually a few hundred chalked off the majority of rides... So many rides there have needed replacing with better throughput ones for YEARS...

Nemmie's been closed for two days... Not two weeks...

In happier news, Avengers Age of Ultron is out this month... And the Russos are writing the Infinity Gauntlet films...

Be interesting to see how busy Drayton is during those hours between 5 and 7, just to see if it's viable for other parks to open that late on a more regular basis... Ideally, the standard hours should be 10-6 like the majority of Europe...

One wonders why they didn't expand the current building or build a new building to house the maze... Then they could've designed it all to a reasonable degree and had the doubled up rooms and hence an improved throughput... If there are problems with the park, there should be complaints... But they NEED to be constructive, moaning that the attraction is poorly designed in regards to getting a decent throughput is constructive... Probably not helping if Thorpe are doing their usual upselling of Fastrack though...

Fastrack on Skyway? Merlin, you don't have to keep giving me reasons to not care about me lack of renewing my MAP, you've done enough already...

Cattlepens are crap... Just a fact of life really, especially given that we end up spending a LOT of time in such queues, it'd be nice if parks provided either some interactivity or something beyond the dull, flat cattlepen... Something that was once something very important, the differences between Colossus' queue design and Swarm's are astounding...

I believe it was meant to be a Stand-Up coaster (ew, ew and thrice ew) going into Katanga... Doubt they'd put a Floorless coaster right next to Nemesis either...

I think Varney only stated it would be a game change in regards to the UK, especially since Universal already have a SFX coaster... Being a game changing dark ride in the UK isn't particularly difficult though, given that most are around 20 years old...

Walking into this topic like: Josh posting the picture of the Swarm mood board where it distinctly says "we've teased the geeks" is exactly what's happened with this topic... £3 million on the entry plaza sounds, strange to me... That's a tenth of the apparent cost going into that... Assuming that the ride system is one of this new dynamic dark rides but creds things, which will probably cost around half of the total budget... Maybe Merlin Studios have put their prices up again? Sometimes the way in which Merlin parks seem to spend their budgets is just as confusing as their operational standards...

Don't the T&Cs pretty much state that things can change without warning? It's a generic thing to have in any company...

Golden Horse pretty much rip off every kind of Vekoma ride type.... That's what happens when your country is lax about copyright and what-not...