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Retrofitting a 20 year old building is a bit different from a country where the constant hot/muggy weather requires every building to be a freezer 24/7... I would be interested to see how much it would cost them to fit in a system and how much work it would require to keep the entire building to a suitable temp considering it's two floors and split into multiple rooms...

I would personally rather them move completely away from the Bubbleworks name, sure the original was a real classic, but remakes always lack that something that made the original what it was...

I rode Blue Fire with a lot of hype prior to it, Shambhalala will be the same... There's only one way to build an opinion, and that's riding it yourself, regardless of prior people's experience...

I guess you're referring to the theming that was already falling apart and a danger to everyone hence it's removal? Chessie can't afford anything worthwhile...

Oh... Oh... Confirmed Heide Park trip in 2014...

Saving money at the expense of guest experience... #surprise

Fury hasn't run on 8 cars in YEARS, like 2005... Mark9 will be able to confirm reasons for it, but I think 8 car operation meant that the was literally no room for error in regards to loading... Which is of course, not the best thing to have in any park due to the unseen factors of idiotic guests, but Mark will confirm the reasons himself... 7 cars is decent enough for Fury, but of course the main issue at the park is that they have a distinct lack of high throughput rides and have done since forever... Fury can get 600 odd theoretically (and used to be able to) whilst Vampire was about the same on 2 trains (with 3 getting over 1000), so the two biggest rides cannot get anywhere near 1000 now on busy days... Then you get rides like Berries, Peeking, Jumbos, Truckers, Seastorm, etc which all have low throughputs and half now have Fastrack on them... Then you have the stupid loading procedures on Buccaneer... Then you have Toadies lowering capacity... It's a comedy of poor errors that has lead to this... I recently saw a fan made design of a Gerstlauer Sky-Fly (the massive multi seat arm one) sitting on the spot of Samurai/Peeking and I went "that's a cool concept and could work for Chessie"... The throughput is however pretty low (about 360) so it's an improvement comparatively, but then again, not the sort of thing Chessie need unless they could double that number up... What the park need to do in future is get rid of every crappy low capacity ride they have (so Toadies, Truckers, Peeking Heights would be my personal choices to get chucked out, with Temple of Mayhem, Playhouse and Capers also removed due to their pointlessness) and replaced with some decent capacity attractions be they unique to the country (like the SkyFly) or generic park rides the park lacks (for example, Teacups)... Then get a high capacity coaster... Thirteen would have been a brilliant fit to the park as an example... I've also always been a pusher of the park getting a Gerstlauer launched coaster, after riding both Anubis and Lynet, I can safely say that either would be an excellent addition (and apparently Lynet gets 900pph, add a short dark ride section pre-launch to fit another train in, and that could squeeze it over 1000)... Hell even a Bobsled from Gerst would get higher throughputs... Another concept I just thought of, would Tomb Blaster be better off being retconned into an Omnimover? The slow nature of the ride is very much an issue in experience and queuetimes, so perhaps a constant motion (with themed buggies a la Laser Raiders or Gardaland's Ramses) would benefit the ride and the park... Finally, get a Madhouse in Wild Asia... If there's one dark ride that loves to people eat, it's that, plus some decent chances for good theming with it too... And of course, it goes without saying that the operations NEED to improve... Get some decent staff and train them up well to sort their lives out...

And that the staff kept stacking it on the 3rd train on the 2nd lift... Weird how it worked for about 10 years on 3 Vekoma trains without any form of incident that was down to because there were 3 running at the time...

But then people might see Bintorongs getting eaten by Lions again and permentantly scarred for life... Might as well just close

Fastrack does make queues longer, otherwise why would queues after closing time not be as long as advertised? I experienced that plenty of times at Chessie to see it...

Found out tonight they run 3 cars on Toadies... No clue... Absolutely none...

If I saw the Vampire queue THAT long (which would probably involve seeing the end from the Bubbleworks entrance) I'd go to the Zoo... That simple...

I keep reading this and I just cannot seem to understand it... Are you trying to imply that fully removing Fastrack wouldn't make the normal queue quicker?

I initially read that as joint turd *facepalm*

And it's reopened...

I would hate to see a new ride wasted on a Stand-Up coaster... The horror circus theme is so Candy Holland isn't it?

Random test video AHOY!

I've had that precise situation with Kobra before with Fastrackers/Disabled, and I complained about it on the day... It's not great at all... Chessie's operations have fallen off a cliff and sunk into that massive gorge in the ocean...

Who really cares if Dragons Playhouse is closed?

It reaches a top speed of 30 odd mph... Yep, 30... So it's not going to be an amazing huge world beating coaster, but with Dollywood's pechant for quality theming and interesting layouts, this is going to be a fab little coaster for the families... A shame the adventure course thing got spited though...

Oh, well there goes the odds of the event being any good then

Let's be honest, Blair Witch is begging to use the CCR rail-line...

25 minutes for Fury Fastrack? You say the queue hit 2 hours... That is not a valid complaint... Fastrack does not grant instant access to the ride, it shortens the individual's queue-time in comparison to the main queue... Everything else sounds about right though... 45 seconds for Vampire was for 2 trains mind, 30 for 3 trains... Not surprised in the slightest the staff wouldn't believe it could be done...

A Blair Witch and Cabin ones done right could be amazing and more than likely the best mazes there... More surprising to me that Lionsgate own that many franchises...