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If anyone still cares, here's a video...

Final turn being done today, I would imagine the first lift is next on the agenda (with the drops)... Aforementioned final turn... Supports for the drop(s) coming into place... Mechanisms on the lift hill... Coming off the vertical lift... Decent transistion for a Gerst Alton Towers Guide's pics

Hehe, you moan at me for twisting words, then naturally miss out that I said (with an air of tonuge in cheek of course) that Slammer had PROBABLY been down more than Rameses (although I would say it would be amusingly likely a situation, as Rameses' still has most of it's original manual untouched by post-its and appendices due to the botching of Slammer over the years)... Where did I 'forget' how 'complicated' Slammer is? Because it uses compressed air cylinders (which are actually in the Engineering world, quite a simple system, since all the system does is pressurise the stored air, pushes it into another container via the ride) to raise and lower the paddles? (Of course, there are naturally a different level of issues with the pressurised air situation, but that's another story all together)... Of course Rameses just uses both pneumatic and hydraulic systems within itself, with the additional joints connecting the arms and seating (changing from fixed to free positioning modes)... And I haven't even mentioned that all those components required motors to run (which of course, can't always cope and withstand the 8 hour a day 7 days a week 8 months of the year work they go through)... So really, looking at it with my engineering hat on and degree in hand, Rameses is actually more complex a system due to the multitude of moving parts with differing workings (the aforementioned hydraulics AND pneumatics) it has in comparison to Slammer... How weird... Author's Note - Unfortunately detailed information straight from the manufacturer's mouth is hard to come by on Slammer, since S&S stopped making the ride (and it's components) years ago... Of course it uses motors to power the ride's rotational aspect, but the majority of the workings is based upon the usage of pressured air to allow the ride to rise and fall into ride/loading positions...

I thought that was Storm Surge?

Huss have 3 ride categories on their website... Classic Family Giant Amusingly enough, there's this in the Giant category... http://www.hussrides.com/giant-rides/giant-top-spin.html And other rides in the Classic category include... http://www.hussrides.com/classic-rides/booster.html http://www.hussrides.com/classic-rides/frisbee.html http://www.hussrides.com/classic-rides/fly-away.html http://www.hussrides.com/classic-rides/shotn-drop.html That's quite a lot of thrill rides listed in the Classic category there... Huss can't have messed up their website THAT bad now can they? Although of course I'm not going to stop you treating your opinion as fact (even after it being disproved by myself and others)... As for Slammer, it's been open (redefining the term whilst at it) for 8 years... And has probably been shut more times than Rameses... Settling in is not a valid excuse for a ride that old (especially of a ride type where 2 were made and the other has been sent to the scrapheap)... Not that you read the entirity of posts against you, otherwise you would have noticed I mentioned I don't ride Rameses myself, but also understanding it's role in the park at being the big and scary rides the younger visitors can either: Aspire to ride Watch parents go round due to it's excellent role in visual ability Whilst also being a popular attraction amongst the older side of the park's family demographic...

I thought that's what the storage shed was for...

The majority (I.e. 99% of other posts) are agreeing with Holly though... Like, just because Chessie isn't aimed at the thrill market doesn't mean it cannot have a thrill ride... And indeed as she mentioned, what MAKES a thrill ride is all the eye of the beholder (great examples exist in Disney, especially with the likes of Rock n RollerCoaster and Tower of Terror, which would in many other parks be deemed as full out thrill rides with their launches, loops and massive drops, but Disney push them both towards the family market)... "It's a pile of crap and doesn't perform" sound like similar comments made towards Slammer, a ride you were defending Thorpe for fixing up even though it's had a worse life than Rameses... Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean others have to hate it as well (for the record, I haven't ridden Rameses in years, but I realise that it has a place at the park and having worked on it a few times it does get queues and is well received by its riders)... We are really classing a ride that has the following points; Very high gravity-induced accelerations of up to 4 g Vertical circular and swinging movements Exciting loopings within a very small space to NOT be a thrill ride? Just because the manufacturer doesn't mention it as being a 'thrill' ride doesn't automatically make it a family or kids ride... Indeed, let's look at the Intamin page for the Gyro Swing (Maelstrom at Drayton Manor)... http://www.intaminworldwide.com/amusement/RoundRides/Gyro+Swing/tabid/141/ProductNumber/Gyro+Swing/language/de-DE/Default.aspx Doesn't mention being a thrill ride, guess it must be for kids then...

A row one would cause some issues with smaller children sitting next to their parents (or other large adults in the row), as you do get bashed about a fair bit... Individual lapbars would be the only avenue to take, and that would be tricky to implement due to a lack of space...

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My work here is done... MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Have you seen how Grizzly Mountain's works? (I.e. NOT like Everest's) It's AMAZE <3

The seatbelts are an issue (because a good number of them are already broken, which causes mass issues when boarding, had a whole empty row and a couple get off my one ride for example) and are being looked at...

EVERYTHING at Chessie has rubbish throughputs...

Whilst Gerstlauer vertical lifts do HAVE the potential to stop whilst vertical (hello Fluch), I doubt it could 'freefall'... Enthusiast wishes I would believe...

Sorry, but when you can't even back yourself up correctly... http://www.hussrides.com/family-rides.html I suggest that you stop, because you're just going to embarrass yourself dear... Suggesting I couldn't get things right when your poor attempt at being right was in fact, wrong...

Wait, a ride that can go upside down multiple times isn't a thrill ride? Considering Huss Rides don't list it under Family Rides on their own website, surely the manufacturer cannot be wrong? Rameses IS a thrill ride, indeed, surely Top Spins are deemed as such since so many seem to want Thorpe (the THRILL RIDE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD) to get one?

Let's go back to the days of the park adding Hocus Pocus Hall, Land of the Dragons and Peeking Heights, that'll make the park better... Family park means the WHOLE family, it is NOT a kids park, as it is not Legoland... Whilst it has a fair amount of rides aimed at the younger market, so does Disney, and that's not considered a kids park (but wait, Disney have thrill rides... OMG MIND BLOWN)...

That looks so different (and as such, weird) to the other Gerst lifts... Massive aesthetic change...

It is really that difficult to convert minutes to hours? Or am I assuming too much of the brain power of Thorpe's guests?

Thorpe's staff aren't THAT great at sending trains out... If there's ANY park in the world people should be trained at, it's Europa... Simple as...

I would think that a talking lemur appearing with a research team not in it's native habitat is the least of Zufari's worries...

Madagascar is now no longer part of the continent of Africa then? Will agree that the pre-show is pointless... Could've easily done a decent station instead with a loading video playing in the background...

That's so, so awful... RAVE TO THE EXIT!