Mitchada04
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Legoland on a bank holiday weekend with the opening of a new ride... sure, should be a laugh ?
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I will just throw this out there, not that it bothers me but it does bother some people. The weather in September can be pretty crazy, even for Florida standards, as it is peak hurricane season. All this actually means is regular thunder storms almost at set times that obviously close any outdoor ride/attraction or entire water parks
But yeah September is good, if not, first two weeks of December! In between Thanksgiving and the crazy Christmas crowds, weather is more sensible and you get the Christmas stuff.
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How are the public finding it though? Is it a ride it once and that's it type thing. It has been walk on from about 3 everyday this week and while you could argue that's because it's being reliable, well so are the B&M's and Saw on these days and they have queues all day. Purely because reriding roller coasters is fun. You ride Ghost Train, yeah it gets you once, but that's it. It doesn't change, and it isn't thrilling enough to warrant you wanting to go again. The ending catches you off guard once and that's it.
It's another investment where they haven't thought long term. It's expensive to staff and I highly doubt it's going to hold up popularity wise over time. The ride still does nothing and you are sitting still watching a screen most of the time, it's not even like a motion simulator. Yes it's better than last year, but it is not built around the demographic Thorpe get or even want to get. I see it like a midway they've cut in half and plonked in the middle of an amusement park.
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Regarding lifts, I'll be able to confirm soon spaces I'll have for this trip.
As for from the hotel to towers, there is usually a spare seat or 2 lying around for that journey.
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Oh yeah, I have to put up with you at Liseberg. Woo.
Also going to Bagatelle, Plopsa Coo and Movie Park as new parks alongside Plopsaland, Phantasialand and Efteling including the opening day of Symbolica (more luck than anything as it's been booked for a while!)
More interestingly for me, I'm finally going to see an F1 race in person at the stunning Spa circuit in Belgium in August
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There is no such thing as a bad B&M. A 'bad' B&M is simply bland or lacking. It will still be more enjoyable than 90% of other coasters.
B&M, yeah. Without them, Thorpe wouldn't have any working rides
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And it's going in that dead corner of the park where the old clyesdale barns used to be back when it was Anheiser Busch, yes! Hopefully with this, and Blackstone being out and a new Chinese firm taking their stake we might finally see some improvements to gate figures!
Look forward to what these new features are, it's a competitive market the rapids one in Orlando, competing with Popeye is quite something!
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Do you mean 20th May?
Cos my last exam is the 23rd and I'm pretty sure that ain't a Sunday... but yeah, I should be around that weekend as I only have one exam left by that point. Maybe from me!
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The sign out front of it actually says Easter, not the Easter holidays, so as long as it's open by Sunday they're correct!
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12 minutes ago, MattyMoo said:
@Mitchada04 and I have no part to play in Stealth's downtime this time around.
It misses us, that's why! It's awaiting our return
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Their naming department is incredible. First Big One cos you know, it's big and now Icon.
Amanda said; "Icon is going to be one of the most talked about, iconic rollercoasters of the future. The name speaks for itself as it will be one of the most iconic rides on the planet."
I mean, there's only like a fair few of these Mack rides already out there and Helix looks better in my eyes as a layout and positioning (haven't ridden it yet so allowed to judge them the same way) but I'm sure it'll be a good ride and something different for the UK.
The logo is very Asian, kinda like Ninja samurai, don't get why as I doubt it'll have any theming but hey ho.
Icon, a name that I think would work better with a The in front.
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The problem with Thorpe is days like this happen far too regularly. Okay rarely to this level of bad and calling capacity when the park is on less the 10k people, but the underlying issues never go away. Towers may have bad operating hours and ride closures, but they can operate their park near flawlessly. If you look back at Towers when it was busy, they never had fastrack issues, reliability issues or anything major. Thorpe has it regularly. Fastrack is always an issue and never resolved, engineering is stretched often meaning minimal capacity or late openings in the morning.
All parks have the odd bad day, but at Thorpe it is a major recurring issue that needs to be sorted. Why does it run so differently and poorly to other Merlin parks? That's what they need to be asking.
As for Stealth, its catch car related issues. 2 trains offers more issues and nearly the same throughput as one atm due to these issues so it makes more sense to run just the one as it's less likely to break it.
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I believe that's so they can work on the electrics under the boat easier. It isn't testing as the barrier is up on the side, that if testing the ride would have smashed down. It's just wedged like that.
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If so it's probably this new contraption they're working on in Holland.
The idea being the train is facing sideways, it'll then leave the station and twist into the flying position and in doing so also spin so it isn't going sideways.
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I'll be there I guess.
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20 billion dollars. That can't be right. That's 2 billion a year. No way
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Firstly I'm not a fanof VR based attractions. I find it a cop out basically. I like Alpenexpress VR as an extra choice, and 1/10 Times I'll use the VR on Galactica. A whole attraction seems and is to me, too much.
First part is unchanged basically, fine there were no major issues there.
Second VR sequence is much better with in built buffers instead of a loop so if they're slow at loading You aren't watching a green mist loop. But, the new VR goes away from the sub core story or is very little tie in. Yeah.
New ending is good though and it feels a lot more in Derren's styling. So yeah it's at least complete now and all flows.
BUT. I feel it's pretty unreridable for me at least as its only VR and doesn't change so it isn't jumpy after one go. And the story isn't strong enough for you to just sit And enjoy in my eyes, especially as the train hardly moves so it's just like watching tv on your phone on the underground.
Also, great it's better but this should have been version one, the last year debacle should never have been green lit so I find it hard to overly applaud them for improving something that was so bad to begin with. It's better yes, but that wasn't hard.
Oh and it's still far too complex mechanically for what it does and I believe it will be unreliable as ever. It broke at least 4 times tonight, but they do seem to be able to start it up better now.
Yeah, maybe queue10 mins for it but I fear itwill get repetitive very fast and is gonna cost a bomb to run so may struggle in the long term, especially if it's popularity dwindles.
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Or to cater for both markets, a large GCI woodie on the back island much like the one planned 10 years ago, slap on a 1.2 height restriction and you now have an excellent family thrill coaster. That's what Thorpe need, not a family orientated coaster and not a thrill coaster, but one for both.
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If it is only the one that they've got then it's 2 mazes with that one new IP
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Key word is plans for multiple IPs. There are two plans, one for if they get both the IPs they're going for, one for just the one IP. They're not linked/owned or whatever by the same company unlike the Lionsgate set. It is much more like Universal's Horror Nights in the concept of having multiple IPs from different brands, as we'll still have Saw too so could potentially have 3 well known horror franchises on park.
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It didn't open on preview days but can you blame them, opening it is hassle!
It's on the map so it's intended to run this season. Slammer just keeps us on our toes.
And timber tug boat ride isn't on the website yet so you know, maybe they're merging the two rides into one awesome experience!
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The volcano itself is stunning and once fully settled the landscaping will too. But they've rushed to the finish line. Parts of the park round by Turkey Lake Road are still being built as they bumped opening up by a week to get the Memorial Day weekend crowds this weekend.
TapuTapu has on the whole worked well with only a few glitches (not bad for its first real use with a park nearing capacity on the first day). The ride queues are odd. So the slides right by the entrance got 200 minute waits earlier, now you can't tap another ride whilst waiting for one but you can ride one if it's in a 'Ride Now' stage as in it's just walk on. And because of the flow of people in a theme park, you aren't just limited to the wave pool and rivers after tapping that first ride as so many people are tapped on that ride that the others don't get busy. And this just moves around the park. And the pools aren't crowded so that's not a concern. The only issue they seem to be having is queues on the stairs of rides being quite large once its your turn to ride, probably not helped by express pass going straight on. Who knows, but for first day it doesn't seem awful other than the visisble construction.
And a 5 acre expansion is planned and may start in a few weeks, which with the current predictions for gate figures, probably will.