
Everything posted by Benin
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Colossus
I think just Intamin hate tall people, even on Stealth I have to contort weirdly to get into the seat, whilst I just don't bother with a back row on Colossus because I literally cannot get in/out... Hideous design...
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Vampire
Lol at Chessie having Fastrack on Annual Pass Day... Manual restraint checking will never go, that simple...
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Europa Park
First update in a while... This is gonna be terrifying... Those character models :/
- Liseberg
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Rant
You aren't going to get empathy from lecturers about having lots of deadlines to acheive, that is essentially the working life... Sometimes you'll have multiple projects on the go and it's down to you to plan your work accordingly to get it all done on time... The extra element situation is of course, completely different...
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Colossus
Anything would be an improvement on Colossus' trains...
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Terror (Forbidden) Tomb
Yep, judging the reaction we get from X getting lights and lasers and Scorpion Express having FIRE...
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2014 Season
If they did, GS would've been packed... They did the sensible thing, but only because of a typo... Closing would have been as advertised (4) if not for that...
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Samurai
It's amazing how a cracked component hasn't been replaced by now... Surely, from an engineering standpoint and the manufacturer's view would be to replace such an issue as quickly as possible, if only for precautionary measures...
- X
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Annual Pass Day
Some bloke was working on Samurai today, tinkering in the cherry picker...
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Annual Pass Day
It's clear that the new giant wooden blocks will be finished to coincide with the opening of Angry Birds Land (though I'm so bemused by the idea that these areas now have to open mid-season, I blame Smiler), but that's the level of theming we'll be getting in Balamory, then it'll be lovely, bland and corporate... The Merlin ideal in a nutshell...
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Annual Pass Day
The park receives a big "Hmmmmm" from me today... Operational standards were naturally, not great, but a lot of that being clearly down to new staff... However, 1 train op on Inferno (which opened late), Colossus and 1 arm Rush is a bit meh and unhelpful... Confusion reigned on Swarm first thing with the Fastrack queue open instead of the main queue, and especially so on Rumba with people using both the normal and Fastrack queues, leading to a clusterbuggery at the merge point... Felt like Calypso BBQ took forever to get food, maybe the new Wetherspoons method of ordering compared to the old days... Samurai and Slammer both having work done to it... Didn't look at Zodiac because that required more effort than it was worth... X now looks like Rock n Roller Coaster in Paris... S'ok, a rather brightly polished turd it's become now... If they could find a way to get the lighting sequenced to 1) specific cars, and 2) to go off as the cars go around rather than at random, then it would become solid enough for what it is... Lots of families today... Meant most big rides had no queues (bar the 1 train Inferno and Colossus)... I didn't know Angry Birds was set in Balamory... Looks pretty weird tbh... Det's new sign-posts are the quality to expect I reckon, so it will look pretty damn bland and lacking in soul (much like the new style clean branding, which still needs to take over the whole place, though what will soon be Peckish looks exactly like the place I had lunch at Southend earlier this year)... Overall, not exactly enthralled or disappointed... Just non-plussed about it all...
- Slammer
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2014 Season
Was advertised as 5 on Eventbrite, probs covering any potential OUTRAGE...
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Zufari
I wouldn't trust Merlin to organise a piss-up in a brewery...
- Slammer
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Scorpion Express
It's probably why I'm so confused by people's love of the X refurb last year, are expectations that low these days?
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Next Big Thing - 2016 Development ?
Would people really care that much if Thorpe literally copied Wodan? Great wooden coaster with decent theming? I probably would turn the other way and ignore a cloned ride if it meant we got a GCI...
- X
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Scorpion Express
That's not the finished scorpion... Right? Shame...
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Vortex
It SHOULD be done by Thursday, what with it being the park's official opening...
- X
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Park Music
Good parks though use memorable music to create memories... I'm still singing bits and pieces from Efteling and other parks I've visited over the years... Thorpe's old entrance music was a fantastic piece of work, and it was always disappointing it went in the first place... Hopefully the rebrand reaches to this element as well...
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Merlin Entertainments
A 1.4m restriction doesn't automatically make the difference between a thrill and family coaster... As for the pack, it's really pointless isn't it? I won't be using the lanyard (would rather keep my pass in my wallet thanks), and the vouchers aren't really that special bar the £10 birthday ones... The Fastrack is weird since MAP holders go so regularly do people buy them on a constant basis?