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It will all look a little different with the gloom and grot of Tilbury looming over just across the river! Exciting stuff though.

I think anyone who even thinks about sticking backwards rows on any existing coaster should be subject to an immediate and severe amount of pain. Just no.

It is a standard 'off the shelf' model so it just comes like that, and is ideal for the park as the land there is no good for building on properly, what with it being practically in the sea.

Ooooooh, what happens now then?!

Just one more. ..

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While I can see this would be an interesting one off experience I don't think it is the best use of this type of technology and certainly shouldn't be a permanent feature of an existing coaster. Augmented reality has to be the way forward where things are added to the reality around you,rather than reality itself being replaced.

I've noticed some votes for me, I'd like to make it clear if my first post seemed a bit flippant I am a normal, I'm not mafia and have no powers. I even seem to have a flavour, which I don't understand. Not been involved much as today is wifeys birthday, see, family man too; good guy! #dontvotepluk

Whenever you renew the pass it will always include the closed season, it being annual, so is only ever good for 7 or so months with our shortish seasons. It might be bad psychologically to renew just before closed season, but in reality it makes no difference what so ever. If you definitely want the pass next year I'd just renew now, it's a bit of a risk waiting until the sale as we can never know for sure what they'll offer and you'd have to factor in the £30 odd you'd have to pay for this years 'out of pass' fright nights visit too.

Dueling plane themed b&m wing coaster called Dog Fight. Near misses on a dueling wing coaster could be incredible!

What's going on?! I'll pretend I know and see how I get on... I'm Br'er Rabbit, so obvs I'm a good guy. I mean, look at this face... I take it voting someone is a bad thing? Then screw you Alvey, there's no way you aren't evil here... ##vote tommy

Yet the whole idea is film based, so could not fit better with the Lionsgate tie in. I can't see the logic behind your negativity with the little that is known so far.

After ranting about De La Soul, it's only fair to say how bloody amazing Dizzee Rascal, The Feeling and Razorlight all were, as well many others not well known or known to me at all beforehand, especially The Milk, Bipolar Sunshine, Nothing But Thieves, James Gillespie, Youth Club, Stealing Signs and The Pylons. Check 'em out if you don't know them either. The Cuban Brothers and GLC were both brilliantly mental too, if not musically, err, gifted. Oh dear...

Not saying that is not correct (as I believe it is!), but best wait until the official announcement from Thorpe. This is brought to you by the washing machine team remember! If it does prove correct it could be good, and draw from a variety of Lionsgate property rather than being restricted to one specific narrative.

From TS facebook.... At least they can't do a Chessington and remove these rocks - they're real! Good job it happened over night! Can see alt queue being used for a while though, until the whole rock face is checked out.

De La Soul. Had been looking forward to them for ages, as a massive fan for 20 odd years how excited was I that they were playing a festival literally at the end of my road? Expectations not met. They've got such a massive catalog to pull tracks from but spent more time pissing about with trying to get sections of the crowd to be loudest and just generally being crap, with small bursts of musical brilliance in between. Such a shame.

The wood chips looked pretty good for a simple little bit of theming for a couple of years, but faded away as they obviously would. Why thay haven't bought a few sacks of each colour to top it up every couple of years I don't know. What would it cost? Couple of hundred quid tops.

Based on what? Or you just having a good old speculative moan, coz Merlin etc etc.

Mannings Waltzer today at the festival I'm at was an absolute beast. Love those things.

I think the point is the people who did it went over and above to make it as good as it was, if it will return as well implemented as before is the question.

Could be interesting, but Imagine it'll a long time before this is seen in action, if ever. The kit shrinking will be the key, no one wants someone elses sweaty helmet on their face. I'm old enough to remember the old VR headsets being hailed the future and being put in Pleasurewood Hills, they were not pleasant and a bit crap. No matter how good the tech gets people will always prefer a real experience over a virtual one, especially in the thrill market. I'm not too sure where they would end up going with this, I can see it being better in something like a museum environment, more than a theme park.

And still you continue. Why would a minor breakdown that costs nothing more than a small amount of engineer time to fix be a reason to get rid of it? Yes overall cost and reliability will a consideration for development planning, but they aren't going to throw in the towl because of one of these nothing incidents. I don't really know what more they could do to show their commitment to keeping Slammer going. This false drama is stupid.

NO. ​This happens all the time, always has done, and is perfectly normal. It is exactly what it is supposed to do when it detects something is not quite right. There is no suggestion anywhere that there is an issue with the restraints failing to release since they fixed it.

Just no. They didn't manually or automatically release them, it's a massive, incorrect and misleading leap to say they couldn't. The engineers were just going through the normal procedure in that situation and it worked like normal, nothing 'more serious' was averted and it could not have magically turned into Ramesis type problem.. The Ramesis incident was something else, but people are left in rides as a matter of course for a variety of reasons. I was stuck on Inferno for over half hour on my last visit, I was not waiting for a fireman to turn up with the jaws of life to free me, I was just waiting for the right (ie tall enough!) person to come and manual release me with the big magic key. I did not consider the person to have saved me from a Ramesis incident. As I understand it, Slammers manual release takes an age to work through all the seats, so it's generally quicker to wait for the engineers to do it 'en mass' than it is to start the individual release procedure.

That is still nothing, a few hours down time? I'll call the scrap yard in, eh?. There's no problem posting about the rides reliability, but the never ending melodramatic 'zomg closed 4 eva' nonsense each time (not necessarily aimed at you) just makes people look stupid and is pointless when nothing at all is known about the whats and whys of each non-incident.