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Fish and X are older than Colossus though... Plus the throughput isn't great either, facts are fun!

Add noise cancelling headphones, then add a bit on the VR that says "Please remove your goggles now!", its pretty simple...

There are a lot of similarities in ride and number of staff required between Ghost Train and Terry (also to be noted, the closure last year had a certain incident making any other problems ride might suffer cause extreme caution as part of the reasoning)... In two years Thorpe will have to foot the bill for the high number of staff required to run the ride... It does feel like Merlin never learn that heavy staffing levels do cause problems later down the line...

That Josh has come up with this somewhat baffling piece of storytelling/explanation for events shows some of the flaws of it... Trying to be too clever for its own good usually ends in a mess in other media, theme parks are no different...

That hashtag is amazing... Paging Mark9 to the thread...

Tis the magic of opinions!

Staff reaction to any incident is important, at the bare minimum you must show concern to the customer and do anything you can assist... Should've been straight down to the first aid point and await paramedics if required after initial assessment, with lots of free drink and food whilst waiting...

Avatar land is a worse decision, purely as it's not using an IP of any interest to anyone... This is bad though, short termism at its worst...

Kinda goes all against the whole "Don't share the experience" concept doesn't it?

GotG retheme was confirmed from SDCC yesterday... Unsurprisingly, stuff is hitting the fan...

Please let us know of all the illusions then (I've got a list below so just add onto it): Pepper's Ghost, a few mirrors and chains for the levitating Victorian train shell, the VR with staff touching your knees and the train crash element on top of the changing interior?

Scariness is of course a factor that cannot be directly measured, but it seems to be the one part of the ride that is being panned across the board... Confusing finales never help dark rides... Even Hex suffers from that if you take the reaction of guests straight afterwards...

Would've probably been better if the Victorian theme was kept throughout, and the second vr section didn't exist...

Isn't it ancient? Probably needs scrapping like a lot of Zierer Tivolis have been recently...

People always forget that reverting back to the original is never as good as it was... Especially without the creative minds behind it, it would just feel so forced... LOOK, IT'S NOSTALGIC AND THEREFORE GOOD!

Coar, imagine the wage you must get to come up with the illusion of the interior being different to the exterior... I want that job!

I think most of us said goodbye to it back in 2005... Wonder what IP will be used... Probably Hotel Transylvania...

Who are Thorpe/Merlin aiming to compete with these days? Just curious is all...

To be fair, anyone can rent out the park...

Did Blackfish close the park though? This is nothing compared to it either... Lots of parks in local areas have noise problems, even Europa, they will deal with it in some way...

It was probably cheaper to film it as a modern day adventure rather than set up the whole thing as Victorian... Which is a shame, Victorian era could produce a great immersive theme... It's just an over the top juxtaposition to confuse people at the end of the day...

As if it would ever come to it being shut down, they bring so much to the local area (the lawyers telling locals to moan are being typical lawyers drumming up business), and any application will be rushed through very quickly... Have some sense and logic about this guys...

But would it be really that worthwhile to the park? People aren't going to come back in the future for a new VR experience on the same ride... Plus if you really want to change the story, unless you retheme the walkthrough portion, it will always go underground...