Benin

Went again this past Friday with Nicky...Not a lot to say really... Aside from the awesomeness of being the only two on Nemmie train in the morning <3Ride Count:Nemesis - 3Air - 1Blade - 1Runaway - 1Sealife - 1Maurauders - 1Hexy - 1Blivvy - 1Singing Barn - 1Duel - 1A few pics...

How much was Fast-track last year? Last I remember was 7 quid for 6 rides but that was in 2009...Thing is, if it's gonna work like that, gonna be some messed up pieces of paper... It makes little sense to have Vampire, Kobra and Fury on the same one as Toadies, Truckers and Jumbos... (Of course saying that, I of course will ride Toadies and Jumbos should the queues be acceptable)...

I think they be gone now... Not sure if that's good or bad...Regardless, Ahhhhhhhh, you survived... Please, exit to the left...

Woah-Ho, hold on tight Tiny Truckers, cos here we go woo!

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooah, you shouldn't have come this way, there's a HUGE fire dragon waiting to spin you in a dangerous dizzy dimension...

"The only ride that will be down all day is Bash Street Bus, Rides 1 please acknowledge.""That's received."<3

And this is not abusing Mark as we love him...

Defo the same by looks of things...Since it was always a shop, the main entrance (into Octopus Gardens) wasn't enough and rather claustrophobic when busy...Hence, another entrance was made... Simple solution here... Help reduce everyone trying to get in and out of one section by building another in the side...

Trucks needs to go die ANYWAY...Fast-track added on... It's just going to be a nightmare for everyone involved, I honestly feel sorry for those who have to work on it this year with that added on... Absolute shambles...It's very similar to Lego having Q-bot on loads of small attractions, but at least they are limited by the time-frame given to them, unless Chessie revamps the system here, the queue for Truckers WILL be an hour in peak days... And that's not right at all...Jumbos as Mark said is similar... It's always got consistently high queues in peak days, and it doesn't have the full overall capacity to allow easy acceptance of Fast-track...And Toadies? Just... WHY?I liked Chessie's low number of rides on Fast-track, especially as they were all rides that could take on the extra number of people without kicking up too much of a fuss aside from those exceptionally busy days... Why are Chessie wasting money on things like this when there are a lot bigger and more important things to do... It's not like they don't sell enough surely?And if they're doing it to help warrant an increase in price? What crap that would be, yeah I wanna go on Fury and Vampire before hitting up Truckers... Bloody brilliant...

It does seem very random this, as there's no way I can see people saving money using this...If they did it for families rather than individuals, then I could see an idea forming, but... I don't think the average spend per head in March will be that high just for f&b...

The great Chessington website war of 2011 begins TODAY!

This is Chessie's problem atm though, it's stuck in a loop of investment versus income...The park CAN get the people in... That much is certain, but it seems that it needs to prove that fact to the big bosses, because it appears that if it doesn't do well enough in their eyes, projects like Toytown get cancelled, yet that would give the park something to heavily advertise and get more people in...Consider the fact that between Fury and Sea-Life, with barely any investment bar Peeking and a hotel, the park was still able to bring in a million guests a year... And in 2009 broke into the top 20 visited European parks...I don't really remember working there when it hit capacity, but my point is that if they CAN do it, then they can prove that the park is completely worth the investment of a Gerstlauer Launched and beyond...

Good for Chessie I say...Now they need to hit capacity during the actual season to show how popular and in need of higher investment it is...

Tall people should sit at the back...And I ain't acting like a shield for my girlfriend... Grow some man!

^Nemmie and Blivvy were both on it last year...And I'm sure Rita was... The one time I went for ERT based times it was (unsuprisingly) broken...The only main shock is lack of Spinball, but this will probs change somehow before opening...

Following Merlin is obviously very bad for my health, considering the amount of times they've caused me to head-desk due to a new addition...

If Sonic Spinball gets 750 an hour then I may as well just jump out my window right now...Just... No...And it's certainly not one of the best MS spinners around... And I'm not even counting Fury here...

I am fully aware of that game's existance, but it's one of the lesser known of Sonic's games is my point... How many kids will have even HEARD of the Mega Drive?Plus, Spinball (the ride) is just terrible... That's more what I was getting at, they're bringing in noises that really have more to do with the original 'theme' than it does with the current one...I hope they do move it in the future, down to Cloud Cuckoo Land and theme it accordingly...

Why are there pinball noises when it's themed to Sonic now?There's another bloody ride the park messed up...

MOD EDIT: No Benin, this is not a funny picture. You've let yourself down.EDIT - Pffft, this is awesome...

Evidently the need more money now

Just wait till you get to uni...NO half terms...

The building theming begins...

If you want it to be a perfect recreation with Rush, Saw and Colossus, let alone theming, it's not great...Still, could be interesting to see what you'd come up with without it...

There's a custom flat ride of a Screaming Swing milling about somewhere on the net... Try Atari's forums or Shyguy's World...There's a few Eurofighter's digging about as well...Tbh the hardest one to do will be Colossus in a recreation if you're going for track accuracy... Everything else with the right custom stuff is fine...