KingNemesis

I have to say I now honestly get why the ride isnt officially open yet. We went on today for it to fail half way through reset back to start and the VR cut out for half the ride.  Whilst I get the whole idea of technical rehearsals there are allot of gliches in the system that need fixing as it meant we didnt get todo/ see half the ride today

Read between the lines guys! 
No Planned Technical Rehearsals today!
 
It must mean it's opening today! *Quietly laughs to myself*
 
*Puts on tin foil hat*
 

Read between the lines guys! 
No Planned Technical Rehearsals today!
 
It must mean it's opening today! *Quietly laughs to myself*
 
*Puts on tin foil hat*
 

But Thorpe's social media team LIED to honest paying guests... How do we know who to believe? Maybe that's the greatest trick of the ride? We don't know if it will ever be truly open?

Read between the lines guys! 
No Planned Technical Rehearsals today!
 
It must mean it's opening today! *Quietly laughs to myself*
 
*Puts on tin foil hat*
 

Wasn't there a B&M flier with a 12 hour queue on opening day I vaguely remember hearing about?

No idea. It seemed more like a well themed rollercoaster then one with a story.
 
It's a good ride by the way. Definitely better once its warmed up through the day, it has some of the best ejector air time I've ever encountered. Nice head choppers, lots of dizzying moments, the restraints are excellent. Dare I say it better then the Mack equivalent. Only thing that lets it down is there's only two or three outstanding moments. It's so pacy that a lot of it just becomes a blur instead of well defined. When the giant cattlemen isn't used the full queue holds about 35 minutes of queue.
 

 

 
I'm very glad rides like this exist though and that theme parks are no longer just reaching for the stars and just creating intricate, well crafted rollercoasters. It's one of Intamins better rides, thats for sure and just looks greats with trains zipping too and fro every few seconds.

But if there were safety concerns then how would hotel guests be allowed to ride? Surely no-one would?

Yeah, pretty sure no one would be riding it if it hasn't been signed off by HSE. Do HSE even sign it off or is it some other H&S thing? Either way, doubt it. 

I can imagine them aiming for MOS night now, With it only being three weeks away.
 
Either that or the week before to iron out all kinks rather than letting the drunk ravers vomit all over the VRness

The only thing perfected here is how badly scheduled this has been done here. 
 
Taron was never given an open date until it was almost complete and with Baron it was the same. 
 
If they had never given an opening date until it was almost ready the delays would be a lot more forgivable. 
 
 
 

The fact that this has been delayed by a lot of time does make me agree with the fact that perfection can't ever be rushed...hence why Baron 1898 didn't open until July last year.

It seems that as of today, Gorillaz have started reuploading to their YouTube channel the official videos to a few of their tracks. Some of them definitely sound remastered or enhanced in some way. Even the videos are now in HD! All I've seen so far is 19-2000, Clint Eastwood and Feel Good Inc. Might be a strange thing to say that this means we're getting closer to Phase 4...but hey for now it's close enough a jazz...
 

I don't think we will see any updates until it opens, as far as I'm aware the facade is complete

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"A great day for the UK!" they cried, independence bank holiday pencilled into the 2017 calendars...
 
Yet Scotland hold a referendum and leave, whilst both parts Ireland, due to the border issues unify once more...
 
Great Britain, led into the next world by Boris Johnson, with a privatised NHS system and further education cuts, is left with Wales and more social issues as the economy spirals down due to the uncertainty...
 
That is our future... That is what people voted for...

I think they mean:

Despicable Me announced to be replacing Back To The Future at Universal Studios Japan and an announcement at Universal Studios Hollywood at 7:30am there time (so in an hour or so) most likely to be Secret Lift of Pets.

Spitfire and Hurricane museum at Manston; Chatham Dock Yards. Yes, I've heard that Diggerland is good fun, and that's not far from the Dock Yards.

There have been a couple of deleted posts linking to information and pics about DBGT which should not yet be released, given by someone who has ridden it . As all riders so far have signed non-disclosure agreements this is clearly not right and not what the park intends from these previews, the links have therefore been deleted.
 
Please no more linking to it from here. 
 
Thanks!

Well as it turns out... I stopped in the hotel and have been on the Ghost Train...
 
I loved the bit where the [REDACTED]
 

Well as it turns out... I stopped in the hotel and have been on the Ghost Train...
 
I loved the bit where the [REDACTED]
 

May not have required an entire topic, next time a friendly PM will suffice!
 
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Thank god I wasn't the only one

I'm taking a group of students to the park tomorrow so will post if I see or hear anything new. We're also having a session on the science of rollercoasters in the 'thrills workshop' so if I see anything interesting there I'll try and get some photos.