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I like the music... No point basing it off small snippets of it as it could be a very long and variating piece of track (indeed, past records for Merlin music are quite good)... And of course the quality of music recorded through any form of camera ALWAYS fails... Looks like a typical rush to the finish whilst they sort out the details... Fun times... Look forward to returning to the country with half the enthusiast population killing themselves because this ends up being crap

Let's not mistake over-exaggerating marketing speak for what ACTUALLY happens on the ride yeah? Lest we forget Thirteen being the ultimate coaster...

Considering even the likes of Swarm and Thirteen only (just) hold around 90-120min queues, I would suggest someone is making stuff up to completely troll the enthusiasts... Let's not forget that Fastrack will not be running on Smiler for the initial bedding in period as well, so that will prevent any further issues with a long as hell queue... Indeed, it might well get up to 3 hours on the Bank Holiday weekend/Half Term, but 6 hours is just ridiculous...

Giant tin building =/= Giant shipping container...

There's another POV milling about from Capital Radio which basically confirms that absolutely nothing of any mechanical interest occurs before the first lift hill... So basically, whatever happens indoors will not be a washing machine... Huzzah!

ATG That's some bush!

But by THAT reckoning, the old Count's Cauldron facade NEVER fitted into the original idea of Translyvania???????!

Since the retheme was just done for monetary purposes, was more that new Bubbleworks came into Translyvania... I don't think revisiting the original concept would be ideal either... It needs a complete revamp of ideas and themes... No point attempting to link or better nostalgic memories...

Indeed Europa are run by Mack, but for me, the real clincher is how they treat guests, with a fantastic viewpoint on throughputs, and the overall feel and cleanliness of the park... They also have something for everyone, and it's not just the rides that are the focus, the shows, the vibes, the look of the park are what set it apart from the majority... In reality, they only have a few 'quality' coasters out of the 11, but they are perfect for their guests... But for those who don't like big rides, there are walkthroughs, hidden dark rides and of course the shows... They just seem to know what people want from the park, hence why their 5 hotels have a 98% occupancy rate, meaning they need a 6th hotel to be built...

Hey look, an unladen testing train going slowly through a layout, it's such a shock... Tests will of course involve seeing what the minimum ride load can be... In a similar vein to Thirteen needing X amount of people to ride (14? I dunno, but there's a minimum limit), 8 on this one in the middle (which is in itself unlikely with actual riders) two rows seem to be that minimum amount... It still picks up a hell lot of speed on those drops...

Denmark, then a trip to Wembley... Zaha

No more expensive than over here really... But then for the most part the stuff is slightly better quality... Take a few hundred...

Worked for me this time... Looks like it's been corrected... No point me entering mind... Oh wells...

What's the trick then?

I think only two of those are relatively doable at the current time, and that's removing the pre-show and lowering the fencing... Pre-show can even be re-jigged into a queue line video just so we can still have Chase dodgy accent Driver... Lapbars would probs require a bit of reduction of the amount of people per truck, as there's not much space in them (even for seatbelts, let alone lapbars)...

4th and final video... Smile

Printing out hotel confirmations and park tickets for Denmark... Woot woot!

@Josh, I don't think Disney California reduced entry fees when the Adventure park turned into Construction Board Land... It's the usual thing hidden in the T&Cs of any park that covers them for such eventualities (not saying it's right to do so, just more they have it covered)... The worry atm is that the theming might not return (as there are previous examples at the park) or it just won't be of any viable quality... Whilst most of Merlin's thematic additions are quite decent, there's always a few parts which could've been better... Waiting game for this, but it's not one of hope...

Couldn't care less about the station, we have an exceptional ride and the Marmaliser to look at instead... The extra details as well

There were a LOT of issues with the seatbelts as quite often they were either twisted up so couldn't come out of the holster or just wouldn't come out at all, so unresponsive and completely the opposite design style of car seatbelts, which I think is one of the issues, as people just try pulling them out when they need to half the time actually start from the base... Poor design indeed... Be interesting if they fit lapbars instead, although this would be problematic with small children (assuming it's a row-long one, individual bars would actually allow little ones to ride though, so that would actually be a must)... Just such a shame Chessie made a load of simple design errors with this ride, ranging from high fences so you can't see anything, to the addition of a squeezed in Pre-Show which doesn't do anything worthwhile, and the less said about the Platform the better...

#Team2008

Not if you're one of the last people batched in... It's a very poorly laid out situation... And of course, there's the issue if you skip the pre-show, others follow, then all of a sudden you have a packed out queue to the loading platform... So... badly... done...