Project LC

Well looking at the lack lustre layout I can already tell you that isn't going to happen. The layout is uninspiring and if the IP is the wickerman then I can safely write this coaster off as a missed opportunity already.

Oakwood x1 Thorpe x1 portaventura x5 (Only 1 day where we spent the whole day there, the other days were the water park or just a few hours in the evening. Its a terribly run park and I would probably never return.)

Is 11 weeks of testing the norm for a new coaster? It seems like quite a lot to me for what is really a quite simple coaster.

Mac's don't have the CPU/GPU power needed to run planet coaster well. As a result frontier decided not to develop the game for it.

The booster is often taken down for maintenance.

"Most Disappointing Merlin Moment 2016" My god that is difficult.

The problem with a refurb is it doesn't bring in new people and so doesn't make any money in the short term. As a result Merlin were never going to spend the money and so it got to a state where it was run down its popularity dropped and now it's closed. Merlin is so focused on the short term that I am certain this is just the next ride to suffer this fate in a long list which will form over the next few years.

Yet failed to call the emergency services for 20 minutes. I wouldn't call that textbook. Taking responsibility was really they only thing they could do. If they blamed Gerst then they would have had a lawsuit on there hands for defamation.

At least a little more accurate than when LadBible reported on it which stated afterwards she went on rush where the same thing happened. I do like the way both articles make it sound like she walked passed the queue to get off and not use the exit. If she was truly humiliated she wouldn't have gone to the press.

You must be new to Merlin investments. Welcome to the first of many disappointments.

Well SW8 is for 2018. It won't take that long to remove a flume. The amount of closed rides is excessive and really puts me off from visiting. They already had a great lack of flat rides and closing more was never going to help. Merlin went about the wrong way to fix it after the smiler issue. They chose the money saving solution rather than convince the people back solution resulting in a loss of "magic".

Is there much that can go wrong with 2 lights on a pole? It seems a pretty simple thing. I suspect it's more the engineers have far more important things to be working on. Which was a concern from the start. The only concern about the attraction that has not yet come true is the disappearance of actors which I'm sure is just a few years away.

Oh that's fair enough. No point getting a load of passes printed when they might not even need them.

Probably ran out of coaster/maze passes and started giving out the standard coaster ones.

I would send an email to guest services. If Merlin want to "push the boundaries" with new technology then when it goes wrong they need to pick up the pieces. To queue up 3 times and waste a huge amount of time to not even get on it once is a joke. 2 fastracks that can't even be used on the mazes is a bit insulting in my eyes.

Is anyone really surprised it's in this state. Nearly every issue it has is standard Merlin problems. Failing to maintain and overlooking details in planning. Their obsession for it being easy to advertise always hinders them. The need for new technology and worlds firsts never seems to pay off. It always plagues their attractions with problems and the only people to blame are themselves. If the marketing team stopped spurting out utter nonsense and understood what they are trying to sell then maybe Merlin would consider a decent ride rather than a stupid gimmick. Sw8 will have some stupid gimmick strapline and so will thorpes next project. The fact people are surprised and have hope that the ride will become perfect next year need to wake up. The problems are with the initial design and ones that can't be fixed easily.

May did say that they can't have another referendum and with the fall in oil prices Scotland's economic plan (if the same as last time) is abysmal. Even if Scotland went independent there is still no garuntee they will be allowed to join the EU.

Nice to see the SNP wanting a second referendum because they didn't get the response they wanted the first time. Very odd Nicola doesn't want laws imposed by Westminster but perfectly happy to have laws imposed by Brussels. Strange that her arguments for leaving the UK are the same reasons to stay in the EU.

Well this is the next major investment thread... With the roaring success of the problem free ghost train (sarcasm) I doubt they are planning a 2nd.

Unless he is referring to old plans such as the woody or the flyer.

See it as a rectangle just like others have said. You get on at the bottom right corner (Victorian shell). This moves to the bottom left corner (tube station) and you get off. While you experience the live actors the train moves to the top left corner. You now get back on the train and it moves to the top right corner where the majority of vr 2 takes place. Then right at the end it quickly moves back to slightly left of the bottom right corner, let's you off then moves backwards to the bottom right corner/Victorian train shell. (Unless you get let off in the Victorian train shell - to be honest I honestly can't remember which really says a lot about the change of locations and the fact I spent a lot of time convincing the people I rode with the train actually moved) All this happens while 2 other trains are doing the exact same thing just a section/ corner ahead. It's not possible to run 4 trains as they would effectively be grid locked.

With Derren Brown on a lot of tweets about the ghost train are going around. A lot of negative ones to be honest...

Well the train has to get to the 2nd section so it wouldn't be possible to get straight back on. As for the headsets playing up it sounds like one of the sensors which tracks where the headset is might be faulty.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/thorpe-park-thrill-seekers-fright-after-saw-ride-jams-leaving-them-hanging-upside-down-for-90-minutes/ar-BBxdgKl?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=mailsignout I don't even know where to start with this...

That is what I'm trying to say (I did word that horrifically). I meant the maths in the system as the probabilities of what they do when not waiting for a major ride and so you are forcing all those people to other smaller rides which would make a bigger queue. So an hour queue on stealth is the equivalent number of people of a 2 hour queue on rush (roughly).