
Everything posted by Benin
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Europa Park
Transportation to the park would depend on how much faff you want to do... Booking a shuttle would be painless but expensive... Buses/Trains/etc would be painful but cheap... Europa themselves say:
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The Smiler
So the ground playing up and the site being sat under a fair few inches of snow aren't valid problems? It's weird how spoilt we are in the UK really, there are loads of parks in Europe and America which open their rides later in the season (Plopsaland are opening an entire new area in July, and that's a Splash Battle and Disko Coaster)... Construction projects get delayed sometimes, some more than others, unfortunately Smiler has been hit the hardest of most UK projects ever...
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The Smiler
Today is, putting on the ride car day... Towersstreet piccy 25 days of testing yeah? May half term is gonna be a hell of a push...
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Heide Park
From a member off CF, gonna put this to bed before it continues... Pisses me off that people find it funny to post fake imagery on sites...
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The Smiler
Because it's going to be left like that isn't it? There were already pics of an extended support in the same style of the unconnected one... Unsurprisingly with construction, not everything gets done 100% correctly all the time (for various reasons, mostly seen in this project), and as such solutions to problems that cannot be experienced until the thing is put together in real life are done... You can test calculations 100s of times on a computer, then when you try and build it in real life it won't work, that's engineering for you...
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Feedback of the Forums
Think that's to stop any 'newbies' posting topics that already exist... Don't think any member aside from Mods and above can create a new topic in the Thorpe side anyways (I can't for example)...
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Your Chessington
They need to invest in both sides, as the zoo is still a very good pull for guests (as many older guests remember when it was just a zoo)... Defo a swift kick up the arse regarding overall investment on new rides and renovating old ones though... Whilst Falls and Runaway are a start on that, half the park still looks shoddy and/or crap... And a lack of new high throughput rides is a problem... And they need to try and think things through a little bit more... Zufari being a prime example of this...
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Random Picture Thread.
- The Crash Pad
208 people can stay at this 'hotel' at any one time... No wonder it's making a difference to the park attendances...- 2013 Changes
Do people EVER read the signs though? In my experience, barely anyone does...- Terror (Forbidden) Tomb
So this was posted on YouTube yesterday... Interesting since I'd never really seen how the ride went along originally... Although the finale is just so random I must say...- Zufari
If we're going down this route of pedantry, it'd make sense that it'd be a two way system with a secondary monitor showing the status of the pre-show room... But really, that issue is definitely the least of the pre-show's problems...- 2013 Changes
Surely some smoke effects can still cause flare ups of things like asthma and similar reactions? Indeed, it might be due to the ride that an asthma attack has occured...- The Smiler
I do love a good bodge job... At least it's not sinking into the ground though...- Zufari
The afternoon thing is so true, yesterday on our second ride everyone couldn't be arsed... It can detect it because there's a person doing the speech (hence why most of the time the lemur, referred to a he by Chase, then sounds very SARF LANDAN female)... It's a very, VERY poor imitation of what Disney have been doing on Stitch Live and Turtle Talk... Whilst kids love it, I can't help but think it was a needless (and poorly thought out, just look at the loading procedure for it) addition to the ride (which to some degree, actually sums the ride itself up)...- Chessington General Discussion
Madagas.... Oh...- Parks, Rides And Coaster News
I truly hope that park is a success, whilst it may not be perfect according to some reviews of the dark rides (I India apparently is a poor copy of Soarin') and many other rides are cheap knock-offs... It's a MASSIVE project for the country and I don't want to see another B&M go to waste...- Zufari
Some changes have happened... Louder audio... Extra things in the DangerCave... That's it... Seatbelts seem to be less broken than before, but god the pre-show is so turd... Kids don't know quality these days do they?- Scorpion Express
Depends if they open it sans theming or rebuild it first... Although I think if they remove enough of the rockwork it'll all fall down anyways...- Your Bucket List
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This will probably have better theming at least... I cannot believe I'll be doing two of these this year...- Scorpion Express
- Chessington General Discussion
There's a massive issue with the whole 'park doesn't make money so we wont invest in it' train of thought, as it causes massive stagnation and continues the trend... Actual investment in a park can completely change it and cause an influx of revenue (I.e. Thorpe)... And families spend more than other groups... Because kids... If Chessie got more investment and some ability to build quality things rather than average, it would be in a better situation... That simple...- Chessington General Discussion
Thorpe could also have economic learning based off Fastrack sales... "If we run one train on all coasters for the first 60 minutes, how many Fastracks can we sell at the entrances of these rides?" - The Crash Pad