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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Supposedly the layout has been leaked and someone has made a version of it in no limits 2.
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10/10 Choo Choo! *in very camp voice*
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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The frame could go up in just a few days if they are speedy. It doesn't take long for a simple steel structure like this should be.
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Unique flat rides are not really a thing that exists unless it's a dismal failure like the skyswat. Flat rides are not meant to be world firsts. The best flat rides are the refined models not the brand new ones. Swap out samurai for a flat ride and the park is fine.
They kept slammer working so they will get a good few years out of the rest of them. Samurai however has no reason to be kept and lots of reasons to be removed. Its time has come to be removed. However weather it will be removed is a completely different question.
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Well the developers changed again since that trailer. So this game has had 3 developers so far. However this bunch seems to want to stay. I have very low expectations for this game.
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Presumably they take them off so they can carry out sufficient maintenance on them so that the engineers only have 1 train to do at 10 rather than 2.
Also the fact 2 trains often needs more staff so to save on staff 1 train is used.
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If it is a coaster of some kind I expect footers and track before the building is done so we will find out some details at some point. There is no notable footer locations on the current concrete then again they could just be added later despite it being non conventional.
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You can use it to compare to itself of which both have a downwards trend. While the parks are normally quite at the beginning of summer they are never this quite.
I went to Thorpe on Sunday and longest queue I waited in was one cycle on slammer and that was because the airgates were closed. There was no one at all. The weather was a factor but it still should have had more people. 30-40 minute queues is what they should be getting but instead it's 15-30 minutes. It's the same story at Alton. Attendance is down significantly and while I expect it to pick up it won't hit the normal summer levels.
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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.