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How long was Swarm down for when it did this?

To be fair, they've always had the Merlin Magic Wand thingy in regards to being charitable... Really going to town with the family stuff atm though, don't think we'll see much change though until 2015 in regards to how the attendances variate, as with Thorpe, it has a really big reputation in regards to becoming the whole 'thrill capital' and not particularly the nicest park to have a day out with your family... Hence they have to fight against that reputation first before they can actually reap the benefits... That will be the biggest hurdle in all of this...

Typical Gerstlauer and their poorly manufactured rides, not as if any other manufacturer ever has this problem...

The Belgians recently took affront to Walibi looking into a paid system, and have since changed their plans... Apathy is a lovely trait of the British...

Also, few people complain about Disney because they have the capacity to run it reasonably well and limit the hell out of it... Apart from Midway Mania or so I hear...

Standard time it takes Katun to put on a second train is 5 seconds from my experience...

You can just ask them for one... Although no one really understands the point in them... There's not enough for people to trade them properly either... So as per, it's a flawed but good idea...

A weird mix of the American counterparts and home of the delightfully unique Space Fantasy Mack Spinning Coaster, this park have recently debuted a Resident Evil (Biohazard) variation on the scare maze genre with the addition of guns... Groups of 8 enter and do the usual stick of destroying whichever class virus this one focuses on... Sounds like an interesting idea and a neat addition to the park... It's also led to this food offering... Source - http://kotaku.com/a-frightening-look-inside-japans-newest-resident-evil-833310331

I think 3 extra hours is more than enough for everyone if they limit things correctly..

So Europa are all like, you know what we really need? A virtual pop band based off the characters in the park... They started that last year with a collab with some random bloke (probably famous on the continent) but now Rustis are going forward... For the serious amongst us, the following link is a Swiss article about Europa and the Mack's in general, which is quite interesting and it proves their knowledge of the industry and why their park is quite frankly the best in Europe... http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zeit.de%2F2013%2F28%2Feuropa-park-rust-schweizer%2Fseite-1

Probably to do with queues, but at the same time this causes a build-up of queues at the Doughnut places (where I waited 10 odd minutes just to refill my drink because those have the worst queues on park really)... Might as well just let everyone refill at any place with the ability to do it, saves people having to search for that specific place...

Apparently said person has since been sacked, so clearly Towers agreed that it was way beyond what any sales person should be doing... Seems it might well have been the person's idea, rather than the park itself (though of course, that goes against the Merlin = bad thing)... Thorpe are stupid for being selective in their drinks place choices though, causes more queues at specific places and if I recall Glass House doesn't do it, meaning that I wouldn't want to eat there because I'm not paying extra for a drink when I can get it for free elsewhere... See also Kebab place... It's a daft choice and bollocks is it against wasps...

But that must mean the design contest isn't real... #falseadvertisingOUTRAGE

*Puts up Facebook page* Is there an actual source to this story btw? Or are we re-hashing the one from Towers years ago? EDIT - Chessie have practically confirmed it themselves through responses... Although have seriously opened themselves up for further crap... Can pages not approve posts before they actually appear publically these days?

Sigh, why can't we have nice things?

Methinks some people do not fully understand Mark9's post... He was referring to the post he quoted (and edited), not the actual ride itself...

Leave Beanoland alone, it was fab when it opened Things actually worked and they had (for the UK) quite good shows of varying types... Of course in the end it needed redoing because it was old and not suiting to the park's new brand or the guest tastes...

Mushu

Hence how we ended up with the best ride at the park right in front of the entrance area, yet it completely gets ignored at opening because of Crush's Coaster... Such poor planning... Maybe they did Zufari as well?

This... A LOT...

Knowing the way the parks operate currently, I wouldn't be too sure

None of the others I've ridden have one, so you might well be on to sommat...

When Smiler opened didn't Towers say they wouldn't sell Fastrack for a reasonable amount of time? 10'000 was probably an over-exaggeration, hell I didn't even notice they used the term 'without queueing', which is completely shooting themselves in the foot if there is any actual queueing... But let's remember, this is Merlin (and Blackstone, who are probably the bigger villains in charge of the Merlin puppets), if the event is popular enough (and why wouldn't it be to the main public when they've stated that there will be NO queues whatsoever) then they might well have a rather large limit...

+1 not going to pay £16 for 3 hours of ride time... Of course, they SAY limited, but of course this limit could well be 10'000 tickets... Or more... Just because it says limited doesn't automatically mean there will be no queues, they have to make such events profitable...