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So do I. I am still of the opinion that fastrack is paid queue jumping, and to have it slow down the main queue really hacks me off. I'll just reiterate the way that BPB do it. They sell 200 a day at a premium price, you reserve the ride, wait for the amount of time that the queueline is and then ride. People in the main queue are not constantly slowed down, instead they might have to wait one train if the "speedy pass" people choose their row. Annoying? Yes. But downright ridiculous? No. The whole queue is not being impeded, it just affects you once or twice max throughout a day. By the sounds of it, Oakwood are running the system in the worst possible way, selling it to as many people people as possible on park and then completely stuffing up the main queue so that more people buy it. Why not charge a high price and sell a few? Same amount of money, and much less aggravation (and I will be complaining if it is really as bad as people are saying).

I usually ride with my arms up. A couple of bruises after re-riding a coaster several times is a good thing IMO (Not bruises on the head, although to be honest I don't find Colossus that head - bangy).

But it's smoother than usual at the moment!

Nope, none of them are rough. Then again, I don't find Colossus rough.

I have no issue with paying £23, but not if there is going to be a three hour wait for the best ride!

It was definitely £21 on the gate last year, and it's £23 now (was increased at the end of May).

It is, it's ridiculous. I also object to having to push past fastpass people just to leave a ride! If they must run a fastpass system, then charge a high price (£60 all day), and limit it to a very small number of people. (It's what BPB does and it works fine). Selling them for as cheap as £20 in a park with low throughput rides that are run on even lower throughputs than they can achieve is just stupid! To be honest, a ride with 3000 people per hour wouldn't be able to cope with a 3:1 ratio!

Brilliant. On well, guess I'll have to go on Waterfall this year then if I want to get on anything! I've always thought the park was badly run but this just takes the p!ss!

And, worse still, a park that doesn't flipping need it! It's all money money money these days in the UK theme park industry, and at the expense of guest enjoyment! I'm sorry but £20 for unlimited is just a way of forcing everyone to buy them, as once enough people have bought them the poor old sods stuck in the main queues will be forced to buy them in order to have a good day. What with that, and an unjustified ticket price increase (which I wouldn't mind if they hadn't introduced fastpass), it unfortunately seems that Oakwood are going the way of Merlin. I really hope that they don't run the system on Drenched, as that thing only runs on a throughput of about 100pph anyway!

WHY make it £20 for unlimited?!!! It should be £40 at least! £20 is an absoloutely stupid price. Last year I spent the final hour on Megafobia, as there was no queue. If everyone buys this stupid fastpass, there will be a huge build up of queue throughout the day which won't disperse. Not looking forward to my visit now, and if it completely ruins the day then boy will they be hearing about it! And, at the end of all this it doesn't surprise me that the park that gave them the idea is Towers!

When did they have it last year? I visited on a Wednesday (After Dark) before the firework ones and they weren't trialing it then.

Ffs, one of the reasons I usually enjoy Oakwood is because it's an escape from the fastrack money making scheme of Merlin parks! Not impressed, nor will I be if it has a negative impact on my day(s).

It it true that Oakwood have introduced a fastpass system now? I've just read on Tripadvisor that Megafobia had a 3 hour queue and they were filling three fastpass trains > one normal train ratio. Deep joy...

Escape from Gringotts looks good, but again it relies on screens rather than actual effects on most of it (judging from a POV).

Ah, I go on the first Wednesday of the summer holidays (after dark). Last year it was dead by 8!

I used to ride it when I was younger but on the past three visits I haven't had the guts

I am going to Oakwood in less than two weeks and am trying to build up the courage to go on Waterfall! (The one ride that scares me!)

I really like G Force. I find that holding the lapbar up until you have got onto the lifthill helps to stop it pinning. Also, major hangtime!

Kind of ruins the effect as you see all the screens before the door closes.

It definitely runs better than it did back in 2012. Quite forceful in places now.

I went on it twice at 10pm with no queue

To be fair it didn't have a queue, it's the waiting around at the end that takes ages!

Summer Nights was so good today! The park was virtually dead meaning that we didn't have to wait longer than one train, usually walking straight on the coasters. RIDECOUNT: Stealth x6 Nemesis Inferno x6 The Swarm x5 Saw x4 Colossus x2 X x2 Tidal Wave x2 Storm Surge x1 TOTAL: 28 For three hours in the park I consider that a very impressive ride count!

*cough* Wild Mouse! I envy anyone who has ridden Boulder Dash, it looks amazing!

I'm sure Summer Nights ended at half past 10 last year?