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  1. Dragon Falls

    in Chessington World of Adventures

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    13 hours ago, Wumbamillio said:

    I'm sure the water has always been a closed filtered system. It certainly was dyed green/turquoise originally as I have pictures of its opening day where the water is practically glowing blue! And heard from someone the reason it stopped being used was because it ruined the filters after some years, but not sure how accurate that is.

    It was closed in so far as it wasn't part of a body of water like Loggers Leap and Rumba Rapids at Thorpe Park, but the filtration system definitely wasn't there. You can see the filtration system to the left of the small drop near the start (Bing Maps birds eye view shows this best). I remember ever since this was installed the ride has had clear, chlorine-smelling water. Before then it was murky and lacked the chlorine smell, and the area contained derelict portacabins..

  3. Dragon Falls

    in Chessington World of Adventures

    Posted

    Originally the ride didn't have a filtration system meaning in the summer the water was a disgusting opaque green from the algae. I believe the filtration system was added at some point in the 2000s. Of course, for truly disgusting ride water you need Storm Force 10 at Drayton Manor which is a reddish-brown colour and forms huge clumps of scummy foam and smells fishy (probably duck poo).

  5. Services Day

    in The Future

    Posted

    On 04/09/2016 at 11:04 PM, Ryan said:

     

    Think you're thinking of Towers, Thorpe don't do fireworks anymore.

    There will be an 8pm firework display for the John Lewis Partnership event on 4 November. 

  6. Rumba Rapids

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 21/09/2016 at 8:26 PM, Coaster Jamie said:

    I noticed that the rockwork around the first half of the ride has been removed.  It did look rather tired, so let's hope it is replaced this winter!

     

    Actually, it would be great to see Rumba get a refurbishment.  The name and music are fine, but it would definitely benefit from a spruce up IMO.

     

    In my experience a lot of the fake rocks were removed by the boats themselves! Until it was fully removed it was quite common for the boat to catch on the rocks and rip chunks off.

  9. Closed Rides

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    On 10 June 2016 at 1:36 PM, Matt Creek said:

    Not a good on the reliability front today sadly.

     

    Vortex shut

     

    Quantum shut

     

    Colossus Shut

     

    Stealth is shut  

     

    Saw now shut and  may have opened late

     

    oh and DBGT says hi. 

     

    Saw was open at 9.30. 

     

    Lots of shutdowns through the day and Slammer was being very unreliable. You know it's a bad day when they're giving out free tickets to return! As I was in the DBGT queue when it shut down I've got an extra one.

  13. The Chessington Adventure Tree

    in Chessington World of Adventures

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    I'm hopeful for 2017, but not optimistic! It is rapidly dropping down the list of top UK themeparks.

    They need to do something or Paultons especially will overtake them.

     

     

    IMHO Paultons already has.

     

    People I know with kids of the ideal age for Chessington and Paultons all tell me how much better a day out Paultons is. A good part of that is that the place is clean and tidy, not falling apart and with no blanket penny-pinching.

  21. Chessington General Discussion

    in Chessington World of Adventures

    Posted

    It's also ironic that Chessington is the only park they own the freehold of, you'd think that as they owned the place outright, they'd put the effort in, or perhaps that is the issue, no freeholder dictating maintance / upkeep terms to them, so they just ignore it.

    Yes Josh that is what happened, it was a few days after Smiler that Rattlesnake and Fury closed for the now infamous 'new safety protocols' to the implemented. Personally I think because Rattlesnake is so old (I first rode that when it was at Littlehampton nearly 40 years ago iirc!) and from what I remember riding it, there is no way for them to stop the cars while they're going round, there are brake runs but they're barely long enough to slow the cars let alone stop them (I could be wrong) so I think they looked at it and thought sh*t we got to do something about that, it's probably taken them this long to design a shutdown system and build some evac platforms.

    Rattlesnake is not 40 years old! It was brand new when it was installed for the 1998 season. The cars can stop perfectly well on the block brakes however it did have an incident some years ago where a car on one of the block brakes somehow came free and slammed into the back of another stopped car, causing whiplash.

  22. Nemesis Inferno

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Depending what system it is it'll continuously need topping up so will stop now and then, I guess it depends whether an engineer is off fixing Stealth or Swarm as to how quickly the thing get's topped up if it runs out.

    There's a place round here that has a 'smoke machine' and they are always forgetting to top the tank up in the morning and my mate often get's a call during his lunch hour to go refill the thing,

    It's just water so will be permanently plumbed in - here's the company that supplied the system: http://www.back-stage.com/gallery/480-2/ (in good company there, doing stuff for Disney and Universal)

     

    And looking at their UK site they've done loads of stuff with Merlin

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