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The words more intense live action completely removes any hope I had for redemption in this ride and I highly suspect it means they are sticking a maze on the end.
As for the advert stupid jump scares were never going to be approved and I'm amazed Thorpe even tried to get it aired.
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I'm calling the technology poor for this use. LSM for other launches where high speed and acceleration isnt the aim it does wonders but when it's being used to do very high speeds like this ride it doesn't perform as well as a winch would for rider experience.
Yeah it's cheaper to run but look at how small the trains are as a result.
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Well the fact it's using LSM instead of a hydraulic winch means it can't accelerate the train anywhere near the level of a winch. Presumably it is also to blame for the small trains seeing as the smaller trains will make it easier to launch.
This ride compared to its US equivalents is smaller, lower top speed and a slower acceleration despite being built 10 years later.
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1 minute ago, Mitchada04 said:
All I want is a well themed, good wooden coaster
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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Weeksy said:
In fairness to Nick and Merlin, the way they handled the Alton accident was textbook, took full responsibility and seemed to really care.
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.
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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.
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4 minutes ago, ChessingtonSam said:
Seriously annoyed by this. I didnt mind about Bubbleworks - but the Grufallo. Nobody wanted the Grufallo! We should boycott the ride. Get #GrufalloRideBoycott trending on Twitter.
You must be new to Merlin investments. Welcome to the first of many disappointments.
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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".
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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.
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Oh that's fair enough. No point getting a load of passes printed when they might not even need them.
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Probably ran out of coaster/maze passes and started giving out the standard coaster ones.
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2 minutes ago, adam_sparks1 said:
Yesterday was a nightmare for me... queued for a hour at 11 being told it was opening for them to turn us away as it was far from opening... Come back when it opened at 3 ish, queued for a hour before it broke down again. Stayed in the queue for another half hour before it started up again; just for half hour later to break down AGAIN! We left the queue and got on with the day and got some free return to Derren Later. At 8 we finally got on the ride just to get evacuated on the first train... and not to get on it again. And all we got was 2 fast tracks which we couldn't even use on the mazes. Fun!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Twitter account is just a joke. It's all basic stuff that happens at every park and trying to sell it to the public as "towers loving care" is insulting. I get they are trying to show they care but the very existence of this account proves that they don't and that it's all about brand image.