Project LC

My results were less than expected but don't care as my university still accepted me

During a thunderstorm when I was there all rides ceased operations except X and angry birds which remained open. Oh and the dodgems may have remained open. They did make us have a very swift evac off nemesis inferno. Second the storm had passed they all got going again very quickly

So they selected random people in the park and one of them happened to be an enthusiast. Why would Thorpe park even risk that chance. Focus groups shouldn't be people at the park, they need to be diverse. I'm sorry but not buying it.

Adding a preshow so screams re-theme. I suspect they will repaint the ride and it will have some kind of sponsorship slapped on the side as a loose relation to the new theme. Just got to look for a new trademark to Merlin, in the next couple of months.

Never noticed a strobe, the UV lights I have seen although they are also often broken. Learn something new everyday.

There is a strobe light on saw?

Just give up on them if you all hate the park so much. Yes its reliability is shocking and there operations are also shocking but they will only listen with a drop in revenue. I have no intention of returning to the park at any point in the next few years. There is only so far they can go before you can no longer justify going. Clearly for a lot of you they haven't reached that point. Yet.

They have to be the best because more happy customers mean more positive reviews which means more people hear about the place which means more people go so more money. While Merlin still do have to do that they also have a safety net of massive advertisement budget. People know the name already and so go there. They forget about their bad experience a few years ago and go back. People think that what Merlin offers is the uks best because of the company's size and that's their money generation. To say they only care about the profits is true but in doing that they need to make sure people return. This ride isn't going to be a bunch of broken screen's in 2 years. They will try and keep it in good shape otherwise it will quickly become £x million down the drain. They need the ride to bring people in which means it needs to be good. Yes Merlin do a lot wrong but they do have some idea of what they are doing. They understand basic customer satisfaction and getting people to come back. After all I imagine a large portion of people here have an annual pass to get you to come back because it was a "good deal" and get you to spend because you didn't pay to get in. They are not idiots.

The leak said 8 seater with 3 rows. Won't be confirmed until next week though.

They look like they may just be supporting the roof. To stop pillars going through the middle of the ride. Leaves the room nice and open.

Well my pass has run out and I have no intention of returning. Good bye reserve and ride. I don't have to worry about you ruining my day again.

The name valravn is a bird that dives vertically for its prey. Hence the odd name. The ride looks great in my opinion. Has all the things I think a dive coaster should have. May have to arrange a return visit to the point.

Not just priority passes are given out. For you non annual pass holders they give out come back for £x each vouchers with priority passes bolted on the side. Opening at 9:30 is just not do-able. Aim for 10. Very few people will miss the 30 minutes of everything closed. RnR is causing horrific estimates on queue times again, as always. Another problem that should have been fixed in its 3 year trial. Most of the effects are broken all year round. I haven't seen the water splash by the fire engine for ages. I don't expect them to be fixed anytime soon either. Too busy spending time and money on samurai.

Supposedly the layout has been leaked and someone has made a version of it in no limits 2.

10/10 Choo Choo! *in very camp voice*

That answers that argument from before, I guess the blue circle was an eye.

Nice to see all the problems RnR had at the start have since been resolved, oh wait. Same old problems same old view point on it.

Whilst on the plans it looks like 5 entrances there is only 3 if you follow the dotted lines. There is a more detailed plan of the queue line somewhere which named each one.

The one at 1:05 I have seen in use multiple times. The others I have only ever seen once a long while ago and I was starting to question myself on if I just made it up when I was younger.

People don't like sitting next to other people so often you end up with a few sets of 4 with only 3 people or sometimes even a selfish 2 sit in the middle creating 2 empty seats. However they shouldn't add a single rider queue. I'm certain 98% of the time it slows down loading. Very few exceptions like samurai where it works.

Vortex always ends up with lots of single rider spaces.

Nick Varney said in a q&a that paramount park had design issues such as too many hotel rooms. I'll try and find it for you. I think it was nemesis @20

Hotel space is fine. Just not when they knock upcoming projects on lager amounts of hotel space when they themselves add more and more. The fact it costs a fortune and I would prefer the money be spent on the park so it actually has some flat rides.

More money grabbing hotel space. They have a go at paramount park for vast amounts of hotel rooms and ever since they have just been ramming in more and more places to stay every year. Nice to see some investment I guess.

So cedar point are going to announce Vulravn their brown/grey dive coaster with blue supports on the 18/08/15. Pictures of the track have already appeared and the name was registered a while back. It would seem the leak a while ago was correct. (Can't link the pictures due to being on mobile)