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When it all comes down to it though a GREAT ride paces itself in such a manner to MAKE it great... Let's take Nemesis, a ride that hits it's stop speed after two inversions... That's amazing design and layout ideas through into one amazing ride...Adding launches is quite frankly, cheating... Especially when you have more than one involved... I can't imagine myself liking a ride with just launch after launch with some curvy bits in the middle... It means it will also slow down before the launches as well, dropping pace before picking it up again... This happens for Maverick's launch (which I liked, but as I also mentioned in my post, the restraints destroyed any hope of it being perfect), but once is enough slowing down... This will slow down TWICE before a launch... Maybe it's because it's Intamin, or maybe it's because I actually think this ride is just not brilliant... I really cannot get any form of excitement for it because of (1) That stupid figure 8, (2) It seems to go on FOREVER, and (3) Numerous launches in a ride also doesn't make it an instant BEST THING EVAR!111I can say something wasn't excellent because it slowed down at a point... Silver Star's trims absolutely RUIN, yes RUIN the ride... Slowing down to a crawl for the rest of the circuit was just boring... Lost a lot of possible airtime and was just generally disappointing because of it... A similar comparison can be made to Cheetah Hunt, because of the way Maverick slows down before it hits it's LSM launches (which are the SAME as on Cheetah Hunt, allowing a comparison to be made based on experience)...Soooo, long story short, restraints will ruin it, it'll keep slowing down just to speed up again, the figure 8 thing looks daft, I could imagine this ride lasting TOO long (another thing about a great ride is that it doesn't outstay it's welcome), and having multiple launches on your ride also doesn't make it amazing...

Oh ffs it's spread over here...Can someone bash some heads together please? SBT you stated something rather silly, people picked you up on it... You get over it...EB you replied in a rather ott manner, so you also get over it...Either that, or TPM needs a naughty step......... Marc?

Why? Thorpe and families don't mix... Wouldn't be suprised if RC was removed in the future...

Even when you're losing?

You mean launching into a figure 8 hexix 120ft into the air won't slow the ride down?An excellent ride shouldn't let up... If the start is rubbish you still have that in your mind come the end of it... So what if it has two other launches? That won't help save a poor beginning to a ride would it? Plus, it has corners, and THOSE Intamin restraints... Unless they've radically changed them after Maverick, it will still hurt when it corners and thus make it nowhere near as good as it would be...

^It's not singling out... It's just simple law...16 is generally regarded as the age when young'uns are able to behave (of course, this often is disproven on a regular basis), and it's generally the attractions covering themselves should anything bad happen due to unsupervised silly people...Had to enforce that policy on the Eye in summer... Quite simply because if he didn't have an adult of 18 with him in the case of an emergency we (the attraction AND staff) would be liable for any harm caused to him during commotion...So you shouldn't have been sold the Pass or let into the attraction... And it's occurrence isn't THAT often because not many non-supervised groups of kids come to the attractions, the rest is up to the staff member, who could easily be disciplined/sacked for it...So yeah, it's the attractions covering themselves for it... Dunno about the 18+ to buy the pass though...

There is space for greenery...We're not talking about gardens in the sense of Towers... Because that would never suit Thorpe... HOWEVER... More trees could be planted in queuelines, and STRATEGIC areas around the park... Called them "Rest Zones" or whatever, just give us some nice spaces in which to sit-down and watch rides or wait for people if that's what we want to do...It's too sparsely spread around the park in some cases... It's mainly just for shade purposes that people are probably suggesting this... Comparing having shaded areas to a garden centre was pretty daft... Because that's not what people were suggesting... Quite simple really when we stop and think about it all...Making Sunken Garden a bit more prominent wouldn't go amiss either... Just make sure no-one's doing anything like the map suggests they should...The handbags are well and truly out in the coaster communities right now aren't they?

Wild Asia probably wasn't the first Merlin (or indeed, Tussauds) project brought to life from an external company... Just because there's a different project leader doesn't automatically mean that an external company won't be used if it's easier...Candy's track record is... mixed... Thirteen's theming is however very good for the most part... Saw is meh... So it's very in the middle of how well this will go... Hard to tell without any actual finished ride theming in place... Think Heide has the odd pic of unfinished stuff on Facebook but it's not much to talk about until installed...Wait and see I think... We don't know what the budget is, there is a difference price range, different style surrounding this, different country... Waaaaay too many factors to base how well it will be themed using our parks as examples...

^Same here Mark, though I'm hoping it will be more akin to Oblivion than SheiKra/Griffon...Just hope they do theme it well... Heide doesn't have that great a history of ride themes, though the recent Mayan area is of good standard... Hopefully it'll be like that...

I really really really don't like that... I don't care if it's gonna be visually appealing, it looks bloody pointless and will just kill the pacing of the launch...However Yellow Floorless of Win!

Have some rep...That negative however also leads to the other two pre-shows unfortunately... So many inconsiderate people in the cinema...

Again though, I'd like to see them attempt to create a ride like something that didn't exist yet...Don't support him, he is an idiot...

Tbh, I'd be impressed if Thorpe were trying to recreate Hex as NWO was built 4 years before hand...Put this guy's stuff to bed please...

UP <3

I WANNA RIDE THE COLA COASTER!

I don't think we have to worry about him anymore...Now, the rotating free-fall experience of Slammer... Should it have 'the' in front of it or not?

Proof? Were you there watching them do it?

GATES! REOPEN THE GATES! GATES!

CURRENT CONNECTOR!

That bloody Peter and Jack Dann eh?

Edited for Accuracy (and aimed at Keith)

^Since you're having trouble, I'll post it here for you so people don't have to click... You're welcome...Also... Why move the elephants? They're happy where they are and could easily be rethemed (ok, maybe new designs would be required for MY plans), should Toytown actually get redone... And rapids... I'm sick to death of them being linked to Chessie... The only ones I'd want are River Quest ones... If not that, then sod them... Ours are CRAP!

You definitely deserve rep for that

What follows is the Best Tower Ride Ever...Mystery Castle at Phantasialand has:- An amazing fully theme queueline WITH actors (Sorry Saw, you're not the first)- An amazing throughput- An amazing amount of airtime- An amazing evil German voice yelling MYSTERY CASTLE at you- An amazing soundtrackAnd that's it... It's sheer bliss and full of WANT...

I could tell them a few things they could do with their money ready for Chessie...For those who want to guess, it's two words, starting with "SPEND" and ending it "IT"...If they want ideas of what to spend it on they should also come to me... I'm free of charge for spending the love for Chessie...