Project LC

Often the live Webcam's get turned around to face gatekeeper and the carpark for a while for no reason according to cedar point. However the reason is most likely to be the ride testing.

Mantis was a horrible creation and even though I found it enjoyable I can still see how bad the ride could be if you get the restraint wrong.

That is a considerable amount of cable. [insert speculation here].

Disney has a new film coming out of James and the Giant Peach. It will be well known.

Speak for yourself. Ill visit when they sort themselves out. If I knew before getting there that coasters were going to be on 1 train I just wouldn't go. They can have my money when they start getting things right and the issues they have are solved. Until that point they are not getting a penny. It must be said that currently Thorpe are doing the best out of the Merlin group in my eyes and that some issues I have had with them in the past seem to have been fixed but then there are the major recurring ones. Fastrack on reduced capacity, terrible reliability...

Half assed ideas are what they do best and so I am not visiting any Merlin park this year. I'm not travelling half the country to experience a half closed park and a coaster where I have to wear a clunky headset which makes a multi-million pound coaster into a jumped up simulator.

Atari isn't really Atari anymore. They are a different company under the same name. Frontier wanted to do it there way. They didn't want to answer to a large publisher focusing on fast turn arounds to maximise profit. RCTW has had 3 developers so far and is shambles just like Atari. RTC4 we do not speak about. It's best left forgotten in the world of mobile games.

I imagine the queue time was a mistake.

I'm sure there is something left to ruin. Not sure what but there must be something.

Ooo err what is this new fangled electricity you speak of. It's crazy that Alton are investing so much in electricity which is unproven. It would be far better to stick to steam until electricity has proven itself.

If the last train or bus left early you would be pretty annoyed. If you say something will happen at a certain time and it's in high demand you don't release it early without telling people.

The point they are all making is the fact it went live at 9:5x. Servers are highly accurate in time keeping and don't just release it early. It would have been set up to release early either by accident or on purpose. Releasing it early is not fair. However I'm sure complaints would have happened even if it went live at 10.

You can never escape Thorpe Park Mania.

The thing is this sale was never a sale in Merlin's eyes. It's a publicity stunt and releasing the tickets early has made the stunt even more successful. Most read story on BBC news for hours mentioning DBGT throughout the article. They couldn't have got better advertising if they tried. For once I think Thorpe have done pretty well. Oh and the shop is looking pretty damn good.

Currently the game runs amazingly well. My laptop is well below the minimum requirements and its handling it at a steady 30fps.

I wasn't having a dig at Alton Towers, I was just saying why they were cut instead of other departments. I couldn't care less about some entertainers wandering round the park.

And for those who cant be asked to read about the alpha there is useful video summing it up. https://youtu.be/QGptxcdvQHE

It would not surprise me if those jobs were all cut, as to merlin they are a waste of money as they are not needed nor do they bring in money.

The smiler and Colossus both suffer a lot from temperature when it comes to speed and smoothness. Ride the smiler again when its warmer and I'm sure it will be more enjoyable.

Well it clearly wasn't a last minute choice where engineers came in one day and decided to turn them around. Thorpe could have at least removed a fence, I know merlin were trying to put up as many fences as possible this year but taking down some cant have been too hard. Not removing it from the queue time board is an amazingly simple job and would have consisted of changing a single setting. How can a park not get something so simple right.

They use points in the queue line to work out the time. However at the beginning of the season the rides are not getting the throughput for the points to be correct. As they staff become more experienced they will become more accurate.

Or perhaps the world's first ride designed by (insert itv/channel 4 celebrity here)

World's first physco VR log flume with live actors.

A dark ride started out with an idea with potential to make a lot of money. A high investment log flume in the UK where rain is the main weather is just a bad idea from the start.

A decent multi launch hugging the ground a bit like maverick would make for an amazing ride and one that would benefit Alton's line up greatly. However I doubt this ride will be that. I feel this is going to be a family friendly world's first gimmick. I don't think SW8 will be a flume replacement. I feel Merlin have enough sense to know a high investment long flume would not bring a very big return.