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Bet Lorikeet Lagoon/Monkey Walkthrough were both closed for lunch as well as they are every day... The Zoo portion is actually more for renovating two enclosures which isn't exactly something to ruin the day... Dunno what they're doing to RMT though, it's hard to judge since they've hidden it from view, but they've certainly repainted the track at some point... I get the feeling they're waiting till end of season for the real work to begin to be able to access the site with large vehicles more readily... Same no doubt for Falls... Clearly it's not all bad, when I went into the Lorikeets I was about to purchase some nectar and told by the staff member it was pointless to do so and save my money... Surely the sign of a person who is focused on not short-changing the guests... Difference to Legoland is that it didn't have years of Tussauds neglect to contend with, although they could do with renewing the entirity of Miniland to make it all work and look decent again... All the other complaints are across the board with Merlin really... All the parks have mention of letting too many people in and being too expensive and over-selling Fastrack, but in order to actually provide the parks a reason to reduce it, people need to stop the spending on these things to do so... As any business would do, find that max limit people will spend and then stay there... Though of course, only Chessie sell Fastrack for things like Seastorm and Tiny Truckers, so they need a slap around the face for that... I still think the hotel extension is pointless though when they could just return to that refurb plan from 2011 for that area... I want the giant aviary dammit!

You mean like DLP offering kids go free and increasing the adult prices? Dunno how these people are getting charged more though... That sounds rather dodgy...

It's a weird one really and would be dependant on the situation... As these single supports have to work harder to hold the ride up due to the minimalistic approach... Think it's just the way they went about it... If it was more solid, it would probably have more fatigue in the Fury case... A rather weird case is Fury...

Doesn't need to be raining for Peeking to be miserable and uncomfortable

Clearly isn't a demand for it at Europa, rather the demand is that the rides eat throughputs like me in a chocolate factory...

Nah, you're right, easiest comparisons are buildings that are built in earthquake zones and designed to shake because otherwise they'll just collapse... If the track has no ability to move at all, then it's more likely to have faults within it... You can see it on Nemesis after the Zero-G that it happens quite severely, but for the most part the track motion is un-noticeable... I always found it quite entertaining how it would make people so worried about riding it...

So Gerstlauer have this to say about the 'Infinity Coaster' (or Smiler/Karacho)... Sigh... Stupid Merlin...

Surely Europa has the best method of Fastrack and all parks should be emulating that?

This hotline thing makes me wonder, how successful was the old anti-social behaviour one? Will people use it? Dunno, depends how much OUTRAGE people have if the queue isn't precisely accurate...

Must have been a fluke as they weren't doing that first thing in the morning...

Well, considering every park in the entire world over-exaggerates queue times in order to give the illusion that the park's queues aren't burdenously long it's not something that's a major issue... It's retail who are the problem... Not the ride staff... Especially as more often than not, oversold Fastrack leads to rage between the two departments...

Those in retail don't have any control over the displayed queue time... If they actually do, then something's wrong with the system...

But the Spanish don't use Fastrack to queue jump...

Then why are those selling Fastrack making up the queue time to suit their sales? It's the whole that person who sold Fastrack in the Nemesis queue thing it seems, so much pressure to fulfil sales targets that people resort to aggressive underhanded tactics so that they don't get the boot... It's a sad sight to see at the parks, but unfortunately it seems these tactics are pretty much acceptable to the parks because it means money over guest experience...

Indy at Paris came in because Space Mountain didn't open for the original park opening... Hence a quickly made (but still well themed) adult coaster...

Staff members selling Fastrack should not be making up the queue time and go by the queue time given by the queue time board... The flat out lying to get people to fork over money is indefensible...

Of course, did you really expect that they would have solved that issue?

Krypt was ridiculously fab <3 Apart from the really crappy ending of course... But I guess it suffered from location and general awful throughput... A shame though...

Blah blah Merlin Gerstlauers are awfully unreliable for some reason when none of the others seem to ever have had such issues... Though most of Smiler's isn't down to Gerstlauer really when they weren't responsible for the groundwork...

Another batch of photos for you all! http://www.heide-park-world.de/baublog/blog/saison-2014/2626-baustellenupdate-13-september-2013 My guess is the building being built will be a shop/food outlet...

LOL GERST FAIL POST!

Precisely the host... I hadn't been for several months so to me it was a change... People don't update on Chessie that much anyway... No one had mentioned the tarp of trees hiding Mine Train from Jumbos...

The park is exceptionally weird atm, as in some cases, it looks terrible (although they've now taken steps to hide Runaway Train completely, especially from Jumbos)... But on the other hand, they've added the odd little bit that looks nice and makes the park slightly better... Vampire opens up at 9:30 which allows for some early morning whoring if you can withstand the poor operations, and the new method of pre-show and lapbars on Zufari improves the loading situation greatly... Shame that the pre-show is still awful mind... Two lots of construction in the Zoo, the aforementioned Monkey and Bird Garden looks to be a new style enclosure, whilst there's also a new thing going into Wanyama... I had a decent enough day yesterday... Skyway is ridiculously fun in the rain going down by the back of Sea-Life...

In comparison to the old version, it's god-awful... In comparison to most dark rides, it's so lifeless, sterile and reeks of marketing... Pretty colours do not make up for broken effects and still figures staring into the distance... As for the ride yesterday, weirdly all the house lights were on throughout... I don't understand why but that's something I say about Chessie a lot atm...