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Benin

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  1. Benin

    The Smiler

    To be fair, they don't even need to show images of the ride testing, it's imposing enough as it is...
  2. Benin

    The Smiler

    Who wants a teaser video? Official Towers peoples
  3. In the States you can see up to (and sometimes over) $20 to park your car... Indeed, for a long long time, the UK was the exception to the industry in regards to paying for parking, we Brits over the years have been extrememly lucky in the sense of being reasonably different from the foreign parks, including longer seasons and free parking... Until people stop going though, this charge will still happen, like most expenses anywhere leisure based... The business world for you...
  4. Benin

    The Smiler

    I'll be at Djurs Sommerland that day, riding Juvelen and Piraten... Denmark > Smiler confirmed...
  5. Not difficult mind... Literally though, they need to do regular (not yearly, that's silly, but every 2/3 years) repaints on EVERYTHING... Flat rides, shops, restaurants, theming and coasters... If they can do that (goes for the other parks as well), then we can say things are better... Presentation goes the longest way in a guest's perception...
  6. Would explain why TPM has stopped acting like a school...
  7. Benin

    The Smiler

    3rd video is up...
  8. Will no doubt be the right answer... B&M's in America just seem to lack a piece of quality on a rather regular basis... Enjoyable, but, nothing that's not been done before or is actually unique...
  9. Benin

    Rita

    The best solution would be to remove the piece of crap in the area, and then there won't be a need for the scaffolding...
  10. Something that only really happens in the UK, most other countries actually repaint their rides...
  11. Benin

    The Smiler

    That's cos it's behind a massive mess of track... Not plonked down...
  12. That's why you get changed in the loos beforehand
  13. And the stupidity of not wearing practical footwear when you're walking around all day... Then again, I saw someone in a blue dress you tend to see on nights out at Thorpe Saturday, so people have no sense...
  14. To be fair, I do remember going on Banana Boat a few years back during Fireworks and it was playing Cha Cha Slide... To which we danced to... It was fab <3
  15. Benin

    The Smiler

    The problem with the station is because it's so big and has a vast expanse of plain concrete it looks so plain... Needs sommat to break it up more than the piping... Fake windows would have been a start... EDIT It LIVES! ATG
  16. Benin

    Logger's Leap

    With the way the English weather is, are we surprised only about 2 proper water rides in the country actually get people soaked?
  17. Benin

    The Smiler

    Advert being filmed tonight then...
  18. Actually, I've just remembered that Treasure Trove used to have music, whatever happened to that?
  19. Benin

    The Smiler

    Can just see the guests looking confused as they try and go on the running ride only to find a half finished construction site... Then they'll trot over to Guest Services to express OUTRAGE!
  20. Weirdly on my visit (however briefly) on Saturday, only Stealth went down...
  21. Maximum possibility of 360 riders per hour? Not a great idea...
  22. Space and money would be my guess... Chessie have neither...
  23. Benin

    X

    It's partly momentum, but the brakes can and do slow the train down (in the same fashion as any MCBR would)...
  24. Benin

    The Smiler

    Merlin aren't beating their own record though, beating Tussauds'... [/pedant] Towers are really struggling to keep stuff quiet it seems this year, with the leak of the Sanctuary video, the papers releasing the Smiler story quickly, and now Krave... 14 inversions is a big thing, especially considering the space they had available... I think for me it's the way they've used the space that's the most impressive aspect of the entire thing... Inversions are easy to market and as Marc said, it looks like subtle gimmicks aren't successful over here, so we have to be more in the face of people...
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