Project LC

I understand where Jamie is coming from as I used to be in that mind set but I just stopped visiting as much. What was once 15-20 times a year is now 2 or 3. Get yourself out to one of the better parks and then you will see what Thorpe is. Then just visit less and save to go see more of the better ones. It may seem odd and something you don't want to do. You still get an adrenaline fix and don't have to put up with Merlin.

Still short of a few hundred pounds if you want to go for more than 1 day which presumably you would.

You can buy on the gate, but there is a risk it's sold out.

I'm sure more would pay for dinner than breakfast. They should be open for both really. They need to focus on guest satisfaction and they are not going to achieve that with 9:30 to 6:00 people don't like getting there for opening. That can be seen from the queue times. People are more likely to stay late than arrive early.

Could be worse, I know someone who went today on a school trip, paid £35 and did a grand total of 1 ride in the space of 4 hours.

They were always going to open at 9:30 anyway. Disappointing move from the park.

Anyone know how long samurai has been closed for this time round?

Oh I meant I had the paid version. No idea if its on the free one or not. Had the paid one for so many years...

Paid version of fraps for me.

It all comes down to how paramount park is done. It certainly has very good chance to blow the Merlin bunch out the water but if it does or not is yet to be seen. No new attractions and rising gate figures isn't exactly an insensitive to build more.

Cheap to build, cheap to run, good demand and can charge a fortune for it. Why would they not be interested in it.

They need 12 coasters all with a 1000+ throughput, that would really get through the crowds. However never going to happen, just like a few small scale dark rides and the train coming back. I reckon an airtime thing would suit the park best however that could be hard to sell with Thorpe's terrible marketing team. They can't even sell a concert of some popular musicians to 2000 people.

Ahahaha that sonic fence is just funny.

The ride does have 2 levels. Both of which are above ground. (Could have more but the lack of space means only really a max of 3 floors) The pit they are digging is also stated on the plans for the sole use of maintenance. This ride starts on the 2nd level as on the plans stairs are indicated on the way to the station.

Is the only way to ride Colossus today via RnR? It's closed on queue times but open on RnR with a lengthy 1hr 40min queue.

Swarms fire has been working for a long time. Throughput for a ride is irrelevant? If people wait 2 hours for saw because it looks good they get off and its a let down then the person will be quite dissatisfied. If saw had a throughput of 1700pph then the ride would struggle to ever reach a 2 hour queue so only waiting an hour for a let down the customer wouldn't be as disappointed so would be happier and more willing to spend money in shops. If all rides had a higher throughput then all queues would be shorter people would be happier and again people spend more.

The energy to evaporate that much water would be incredible. They would treat it some other way. Just think how much energy a kettle uses to boil about 1 litre of water then think how much water they would have.

Shame no one will ever hear the samurai 2007 theme with the ride being closed all the time.

I think all the aging rides with not the same level of up keep as the bigger places may have something to do with it as well. Long term maintenance issues and now budget cuts to the engineering team is causing more issues than it otherwise should have. Then of course you have the problem of throughput with the rides in the first place. When a ride is left on 1 train the rest of the park does not have the capacity to deal with it. When Colossus was on 1 train presumably saw got most of those people. A ride which can barely deal with the number of people it normally gets anyway. If the coasters could deal with 1300-1100 people per hour I'm sure queues would be much more bearable. Instead most coasters are in the 1100-900 area. If they all just had 100pph more then that's like a whole new flat ride. So as a result when a ride was stuck on 1 train the park would have queues on the same level as a normal day now.

Well done Merlin, you have impressed me with the handling of the situation and reopening saw far quicker than expected. Give your self a shiny.

When I was there last time I rode slammer multiple times. The first 2 times the ride was being batched by a staff member while the ride was in motion so loading and offloading was done very quickly. However in the afternoon the batcher was gone and was left to the standard set up I saw last year. I do believe in the morning the ride had 4 people working on it, the 2 operators one on the exit side and one batcher however later in the day it seemed there was only 3 people. The 2 operators and person on exit side. So when the ride had stopped the person on the exit side would come over and batch people. This makes me think the slow loading could just be down to not enough staff. However saying that slow loading isn't a problem as the queue never really exceeds 1 or 2 cycles anyway.

I have a feeling it would go down a bit like the Sky news interview with Nick Varney but with a bit more aggression.

It always closes just before 3pm for its daily inspection.

It was working fine all day Sunday. Bit slow on loading as usual but was running fine.