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From Towersstreet The jacket................................................ The blonde

Meanwhile, at SeaWorld... Source - Screamscape

25 days worth of testing required apparently... Still doable to open mid-May (although maybe not the penciled in date of the 18th, looking like the week after (which is Half Term, wahey) atm), as they can still finish the paths/fences/etc (which have already been started) during testing like they did with Swarm (and every other coaster ever)... Shame it's so late, because quite frankly, it's amazing to look at... But this might give Merlin a little poke in the face to say "Look, this is what happens when you rush massive coaster projects! Unexpected delays happen and cause it to finish/open late and in excess cause issue with guest numbers"... I think the compact nature of the ride also didn't particularly help construction either as well (in addition to the groundwork trouble, snow, wind, alien beasties rising up from the ground, secret vaults being discovered, curses, etc)... This project is probably the most complex in the UK (the more they built, the more complicated it got to build the rest of it with lack of space, etc), and definitely sits up there with Oblivion and Nemesis for complexity... Either way, looks like it might be opening when I'm away, which is good, means I can avoid the inevitable descension of goons on the park and the inevitable cries of it being 'crap', 'rough', 'not better than Nemesis', etc.

If they're gonna have a later park opening they'd have to put on a fair few more buses over the night... Wonder how much that'll cost them...

A correct Grammar Coaster?

No sarcasm, it's just a result of a stupid censor system...

Why the feck is Light-water on the censor-list? *facepalm*

By reacting, do we mean when the flame actually ignites, or when it fails to and covers the area in a gas cloud of death?

So gorgeous Also, the Hypnotiser leg is being done... Theme Park Worldwide

Hong Kong Disney have opened Mystic Manor, and it looks damn awesome... Massive spoilers obvs... Some of the animatronics in there are just amaze... And I want the monkey

Hah! I knew when I saw it from Skyride yesterday it wasn't set properly...

Right, car broke itself today and a bodge allowed me to go to Towers and home, but it needs garage asap... This combined with no trains means I'm not going...

</3 That's annoying as hell...

12 degrees is not shorts weather...

Banners down, Fences up! ATG

Animals are arriving! Legoland FB

Typical Merlin...

You might need this...

Slammer has let me down and should therefore be removed...

+1

It's time to Man Up!

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...