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Is the EU referendum not news? Go and enjoy your #ChanceofReign Ryan, you'll feel better for it...

They could barely fit a Sky Rocket in... Unless this is spiting one of the shot or drop towers, this is a strange choice... Huge though, surely as big as their Starflyer?

Who's being extreme? Like? What are you actually on about? People are quite rightly stating that Merlin, for all the customer number, second to Disney, etc. Stuff that they pull, there is very little actual quality to it all... The ride delays, ride closures and shabbiness is there for all to see, and any criticism levelled towards it all is pretty fair game... It's not extreme, it's accurate... Look what happened when Disney half arsed things, we got California Adventure and Walt Disney Studios... The extent Disney have had to go to in order to raise the quality shows what happens when you focus too much on instant returns and little consideration to the guest...

Quantity over Quality (3 in UK, 1 in Italy, 1 in Germany, several Legolands and then numerous Midway attractions)... It adds up to arguably the largest number of parks under any company bar Six Flags (and look how badly they do)... ANY company deserves heckling if they're not being particularly great at their job... What a daft thing to say...

Would it really be a surprise if the delay is down to mismanagement and poor project handling? Whether Archive knows or not on the actual issues doesn't matter when he's busy hitting the nail on the head on Merlin's way of running the parks... If innovation is a drop tower with actors in a scare corridor, or in this case a simulator with vr and a themed walkthrough with demonic puppet, breaking the industry barrier they are not... Chasing obscure worlds first (FULLY DEDICATED TO VR) is part of this problem...

People are bored of the doom n gloom from Remain? Like Brexit don't do that either? Today they're going on about how there's apparently thousands of foreign criminals on our streets (though why they're not in prison I don't know, surely if you cant deport them they go there?) Both sides have been guilty of scaremongering, just Brexit are able to play on the current fear of immigration... Michael Gove is simply dreadful, could never support anything he does after he destroyed the education system... There's a reason his name is met with anger in every school...

I hope they open it midweek just to watch all the schoolchild tears because they couldn't get first public ride...

Think our resident Baron will be jumping for joy...

Doesn't help with the poster is over critical and hypocritical though... Could've spent that money going to Towers going to a different park, especially after spending the start of the year being adamant that they wouldn't visit at all...

Dat 6 pod throughput <3

What's also disappointing a lot of people are the original plans/talks of this going in Forbidden Valley and being a RMC... It's a good thing, but just not got anything 'WOW' about it...

Getting around 800 to 1'000 an hour in the peak operation times is not what could be termed as rubbish throughput... It certainly gets more now than Galactica does I'd wager... Which would make it the 4th highest throughput coaster on park now I believe... Don't write opinions as facts...

Smiler is still the most popular ride at Towers though, even with the crash... It's anything but meh outside the enthusiast circles... Assume once Thorpe finalise a date (again), then they'll advertise it to all and sundry... There are no brakes on the hype train after all...

Has it been confirmed as a GCI? If not, then the inversion could mean a Gravity Group...

#gottento I'd rather this than the 950...

I dunno, it IS the Sun...

Unfortunately this is going to be the thing after Smiler's crash... Prior to that the only events that seemed to get into the media were celeb night failures, Rush throwing metal around and Chessie's power cuts... Any basic breakdown will be exaggerated via Twitter, it's actually amazing how quickly a story can be created out of one little thing seen in a particular way...

Sub Terra also had some H&S concerns to boot... It also opened in a finished state, it was just awful and needed tweaking... It was actually quite good until the scare corridor was added when they changed the order of things around... Poor design is not the same as opening unfinished... Not sure where that idea has come from...

Chessie as well has the what I'd like to call 'nostalgia factor', where all the people who experienced it in its hey day now have kids and want to take them there to give them the same experiences... Of course its very different now, but it would explain why it never seems to have a lull in attendance...

Billund doesn't exactly have the pull of being by London though... Plus most of the Danes probably visit the superior Djurs and Farup parks as well...

Not sure why the username matters when providing some criticism that is quite frankly deserved... Towers are only doing their stuff this year because the crash opened everyone's eyes to the place's flaws... Trying to fix them in an urgent manner overnight with this 'scheme' which is basically standard maintenance dressed up...

Needs more context, though Alvey probably deleted all the negative comments and banned everyone... Again...

As I don't have a MAP does that entitle me to be more annoyed than those who do? Klugheim can't be delayed because it never had an opening date, it's smart thinking after the massive Intamin cock up on Chiapas... The issue here is that we cannot visibly see what the problem is... You could with Smiler, you could with Chiapas (testing videos of the first drop), I assume Ferrari Land's delay is because Spain as well... Because we actually don't know the reasoning (some say Derren isn't happy with the final result, which reminds me of when Merlin annoyed Dreamworks with the proposed Shrek area for Towers), it allows WILD SPECULATION and the like... Especially as we don't know exactly how long the delay is... The main problem is that perhaps the attempt to insert lots of new tech hasn't been fully considered, because as we all know, new technology can be buggy and tempermental... I assume that's why Lightning Rod is delayed... I do like how everyone is finding as many delayed rides historically to support Thorpe, perhaps technologically biting off more than they can chew (likely reasoning for delay) or not being able to please the IP (not as likely reasoning) means that they need to plan their projects better... Which they really never have done Merlin wise, otherwise Thirteen's fences wouldn't have been painted on opening day...

Is the correct answer, its impossible to change the schedule at such a late stage...