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It's really dislike that they don't let you choose the rows, I mean fair enough if there's some free and they want to fill them but why force people who want to sit at the back in row 3 and then people who might prefer nearer the front sit at the back?
It's a nightmare. On Troy they actually encourage people to sit at the back with a seperate queueing space!
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No chance!
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1 hour ago, Glitch said:
Until they lose the Peppa Pig IP for UK to Merlin....
Again though that just shows how poor Merlin are. Capitalising off the work a family park put into securing an IP years ago and copy-pasting it across their UK (and overseas) parks puts them further behind.
They're supposed to be ahead of the curve yet they're copying something a small family park pulled off years ago, it's laughable.
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1 hour ago, Glitch said:
Bloody hell are there any positive members on this forum anymore? What do you all want for TP to be sold and made into a shopping village?
If we're lucky maybe we'll get some trampolines to go with the bouncy castle next year! Whoopee!!
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2 hours ago, PJ. said:
End live bit is good too isn’t it?
No, the floor is broken.
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Those photos make me sad. Fright Nights used to be such an incredible event, what happened?
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Number 4 was the name of a Goosebumps book I think... Goosebumps maze confirmed.
The situation with Big Top is ridiculous, it was the crowd pleaser in the same way that Asylum used to be - ludicrous really that the park can't (or won't) deliver what everyone wants.
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The retheming of some attractions is at least some investment, but the nature of the rethemes has taken the park further from its roots IMO.
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Why can't we just have Big Top?
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Saw was in an awful state on Sunday; gun sound effect not working, queue TV's too quiet, swinging axes still not illuminated (broken since start of the season!) and water spray not red. Lots of smaller effects were also broken.
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Quantum is down today.
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5 hours ago, Mark9 said:
^ My write up on SV last September
Just throwing it out there that on my first ride of Magnum, I found the restraints really painful particularly on the smaller air time hills. It was only when I went back on that I got 'how' to ride it. Now the question is should I have had to go back on to understand the best riding position or should it have been the first try. I'm not well versed on Arrow hypers.
I maintain that the RMC restraints favour certain body types over others. And I wonder if its to do with the death on New Texas Giant. Whilst they were Gerstlauer trains, I wonder when RMC did their own that they thought the leg guard was a necessary evil.
Magnum's restraints had new padding this year so were very comfortable, that said I've always found The Big One's restraints comfy to the point where you don't really notice them on ride.
I think it's because it's such a small bar rather than overly-padded and bulkier like most modern lapbar restrains systems.
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I will get round to this in my Steel Vengeance review but I also felt that the restraints ruined the ride massively.
It just isn't comfortable having your lower legs restricted like that and when you have a 30 year old hypercoaster with much more comfortable restraints than something that's brand new it's a bit of a joke really.
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A maze featuring chainsaws in Loggers' old station seems like it could work.
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39 minutes ago, TPGG said:
Reckon tomorrow is gonna be unbearably busy at the park? I've never been in summer!
It'll be fairly busy as they have a 10pm close on, a few tips;
Although the park will be busy, if you arrive early enough the first few hours will be quieter due to most people still queueing at the ticket centre to get in. Bear in mind you'll have to arrive much earlier than 10am to take advantage of this rather than being stuck in the ludicrous queue that builds later on.
If you manage to be in the park by just after 10, I would recommend getting some of the lower capacity rides (which will have crazy queues later on) done in the first 90 minutes.
We usually start our day in the following order;
- Ice Blast (if there's already a queue we skip it)
- Alice Ride (as above)
- Nickelodeon Streak
- Avatar Airbender
- Avalanche (opens at 10:30, we aim to get there 10 minutes before. This ride gets a ludicrous queue later on due to running less trains than it used to and Speedy Pass slowing ths operations down massively).
- Revolution
- Steeplechase
- Skyforce (if walk on, otherwise skip)
- Icon
- The Big One (If both trains are open we'll do this before Icon, but it seems to take longer to open with both trains full these days than it used to)
So many people wait for Icon to open first thing but (despite looking long) its queue is usually one of the shortest by 11/12 ish because most other rides at PB have low capacity whereas Icon shifts the queue well. It also crawls round first thing in the morning.
Big Dipper is a queue shifter, you'll probably have to queue longer for Grand National/Valhalla/Infusion but at least it's a longer day.
Another thing to mention is that although the park is open until 10, lots of rides (such as PMBO and Icon) close their queues at 9 due to the fireworks. Also don't trust the 9pm sign as I've seen them close the PMBO queue at half past 7 on one of these events before.
Hope this is somewhat helpful!
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Just reopen Slammer, reopen Loggers and bring back Asylum.
Problem solved... I think.
Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon
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Maybe for next year they'll refurbish it to Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise Of The Sneeze?!