Benin

You learn to hate it after hours on platform listening to it... SNEEZE ALREADY DAMMIT!!!!

Classic ECC... Fortunately, Thirteen is a hit with the GP nowadays since it's shifted that marketing scheme monkey off it's back...

Can't blame them really can you considering the amount of downtime it's had...

1 train operation on opening weekend?

The random Oktoberfest stuff was back this year... I prefer it over the Halloween music...

Maybe if Intamin had done their calculations correctly it wouldn't NEED the trim...

I would hope they mention it before the 10th tbh... Not that there will be people clamouring the gates and demanding a ride on it mind...

But pointless arguements are what enthusiasts do BEST!

3 times the LENGTH... Length of ride =/= Duration of ride... Length is the ride's total length of track in metres...

Thorpe surely couldn't be THAT stupid to change only one train...... Could they?

Seeing as my 100% accuracy this year at claims has been less than so, you can forgive me for being cautious

It LOOKS that way but I didn't want to say that as it's not 100% definite from that pic...

TPM FB... That wasn't the winning slogan!

I'm really not of these hybrid style coasters (see also, Outlaw Run and that other one... I forget it atm)... They just look aesthically awful and generally unsafe... I also don't get the whole "OMG LOOK WHAT THEY CAN DO WITH A WOODEN COASTER" when well, quite frankly, it's not a wooden coaster in a real sense, just a mass of steel track put on top on some wooden supports to make it look like one... Things like Voyage and Hades look miles better than these ones, which seem to just be loved because they look 'mental'... Where in mental does not equal a good ride... I think it's the inversions which really put me off, as they just look tacked on because INVERSIONS MAKE RIDES BETTER... GCI supremacy...

I KNEW there would be a corkscrew/zero g thingy after those big inversions... As for the spider theming stuff, I'll wait until it's finished for actual judgement, as thematic pieces are always harder to judge whether or not they'll actually be good or work well until (unsurprisingly) they are finished... DAT FINALE...

Looks awful...

Better off contacting Towers directly on that one... Considering he needs a photo, I would say no you cannot collect on someone's behalf... But I stress that you talk to the people who work at Towers' Guest Services for this...

There's this, a topic about a speed bump and a topic about going to the toilet at a theme park on several forums, it's an awful time for actual discussion...

I fear that the only way we'll see Imperial Leather go is if they actually decide to retheme the ride...

It worked yes... I think really there were a lack of effects on the boat ride and Drop Dead (lighting mostly)...

Due to the train over-speeding actually, as a result of some poor calculations, hence the addition of trims on the first drop now... As I said though, even the simplest systems on coasters are complex due to the amount of safety systems in place...

Compressed air systems are just as complex as other systems (such as closest example being hydraulic launches)... And are also quite similar in a ways (fluid vs air (which in turn can act like a fluid and tends to do so in such systems))... Simpler technologies in rides these days are ones which just have a lift hill... And even those have complex systems...

As mentioned, between the options of MASSIVE COASTER against tiny couple of mm thick rope... Which is more noticeable... It does NOTHING to the ride's presentation...

Yeah, right next to the "Unfortunately Slammer will not be available today due to technical difficulties" sign...