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Sounds pretty awesome to me, but I can understand it if you weren't quite so keen! Having not been on one, what do the wings do 'at rest', what is their default position? If they just flop to the side it's easy to see how with the right (or wrong!) wind conditions they could stay on the slant and cause excess spinning. If they are horizontal at rest and have to be pushed against a spring mechanism to tilt and cause the spinning it should be much harder to have that problem.

A few bits... - LIVERPOOL - 2 children hospitalised when part of a lighting rig came down on them while riding a Twister. Quite a substantial section came down... - An update on a previous Twister incident, an operator has been fined for failing to secure riders and running the ride at excess speed injuring two in 2012. I'm surprised it's even possible to run it that much faster than intended, but apparently it is. - BARMOUTH, WALES, man hospitalised after being hit by by Caterpillar coaster train. Of all the ways for an adult to be injured at the fair this has to be of the most embarrassing. - LAFAYETTE - 4 children injured when seating falls from kidde roundabout. Investigators confirm this was because someone forgot to bolt them on to the ride before it opened... - NASHVILLE - a novelty trainload of OAP's injured when the man driving a lawnmower dressed as a train looses control of it and flips it over. I should not find this hilarious. - INDIA - man seriously hurt colliding with another on a waterslide. Nothing unusual, but he had to be taken to hospital on a rickshaw due to a lack of ambulances!

Really?! For the love of god, why? Why over complicate things? It could be so simple. Surely they wouldn't have come up with one virtual queuing system that wasn't compatible with another queuing system, which both require very tightly controlled numbers to not descend into chaos, and then try to use them at the same time...

You can not tease us in this way! TELL TELL TELL!

It ain't Samurai then!

In summery; 'experience'.

It absolutely isn't. It was, but not now.

No real need for the facetiousness, peoples misgivings about this aren't just plucked out of the air and are based on real problems with both the concept and execution if R&R. I don't think it's about anyone wanting to see the system fail, it's about them using the system with a bit of sense and control so that it is a help rather than a hindrance to peoples day. On previous trials there have been numerous occurrences of people having significant waits in a real line when they return for their ride having virtually waited a significant period, if they can't manage such a basic aspect of it they really shouldn't bother. If they can find a way to stop that then great! How could that possibly work? There needs to be a buffer of people to account for the variances in throughput which are entirely inevitable and the range of times the guests arrive during their allocation. How could they ever give an exact enough time to have both no queues and no empty seats? They can't! The important bit is how they calculate and display the standby queue time so people are suitably discouraged from joining a stupidly long (time wise) queue. On the other and, when it comes to fright nights I can see the mazes working very well with R&R only. But only if they fully close that loophole. Fingeres crossed they actually have worked that one out now.

Your acts of clairvoyance just keep coming...

If CCR was to return it would be an ideal fright nights attraction in itself, a real ghost train with a massive throughput compared to the mazes. I wonder if we'll know next years new ride theme by then, and if so a maze based around that as a bit of a tease.?

Are you really complaining that some one is complaining about a park that is happy to take tens of thousands of people's money every day but is barely functioning? Of course a shutdown is not the end of the world in isolation, but taken with the state of the rest of the place it's something else in the 'not good enough' list.

What a sight. I vote for more of this, everywhere.

Hyperdrive looks sooooo bad. What were they thinking?

Nasty, and quite fortunate not to be worse injuries. I know it looks like it's made of Meccano, I didn't realise it actually was!

Probably just a normal ride shut down, but as The Swarm is the only thing in the area they just shut the area to stop hundreds of people walking there and back for a closed ride?

I really like the look of the actual ride, and what they have done with it with the Red Arrows theme. Good work Blackpool!

Rage and over the hill sometimes get 20 to 30 min queues, especially towards the end of the day. Other than that you're usually looking at waiting for one or two ride cycles for most things. Occasionally they'll have a really busy one but that's rare. Amazing what pay per ride does for operations, isn't it!

So riding a breakdance standing up is an acceptable thing in Germany?! I did not know this.

I think the beginning of the end of The Simpsons is a ship that has long since sailed. I don't think it will make too much difference if he goes, rather than kill off about a quarter of the characters they'll just get an impressionist in to cover the voices I'd imagine Quite why they'd want Shearer to suddenly sign a contract preventing him from taking on other work outside of The Simpsons I do not know, I suspect there's more to this somewhere along the line. There have been pay related grumblings from the cast reported for many years.

I think more what the county were saying is that the alternative are not a viable or trusted choice for running this country, mostly from a financial point of view, not that they actually agree with the Conservatives ways. A bankrupt country is not a place you want to be, however nice the government are! Conservatives did not win this election, Labour lost it.

Great little video about the parks past and future. Not long now!