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To me it implies a lack of competition in the market. You want to go to a theme park of medium thrill in the south east. Due to there being very little competition they have the choice of CWOA or pretty much nothing. The other competitors (of which there are not many in the first place) are too small and as a result cant advertise like COWA can. The same can be said for Thorpe apart from that literally has no competitors which offers a place of big thrills. What should be happening is Thorpe, CWOA and Legoland should all be competing against each other. But they are owned by the Merlin monopoly so the market doesn't work. As a result merlin can do almost anything they like and they will still get customers.
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The main factor in battery life, which isn't down to how you use it, is how far away from a mast you are. The further away you are the more power the phone needs. So if you live in a place with bad signal your phones battery dies quicker. Most battery's only have around 1000 full recharges before it no longer works. The lithium ions no longer get moved back to the other half cell so what generates the power no longer works. So older the phone the quicker the battery dies. The most power consuming part of the phone is the CPU. Millions of transistors all being used to run a game drains power very fast. So if you want to maximise the time between charges avoid CPU heavy tasks. Closing background apps does help but for facebook, twitter, ect it doesn't do much. When not in use they use very little of the cpu and ram so have little effect. Just wait until super capacitors are ready and small enough for your phone. They claim it will be 5-20 years but they charge in seconds, last the same as a normal battery and will last pretty much forever. I'm sure the human race can find something wrong with those as well when they come out. Nothing is ever fast enough.
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The park still opens at half 9 the annual pass building opens at 10. If you are lucky they may open earlier, but it wont be anything before 9:30.
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Its fully constructed and just sitting there. No staff of any form were over by it so I can only assume they are waiting on a part.
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It is impossible for the track not to move when the train passes over it. Providing the train has mass the track must move downwards otherwise the track would have infinite energy. (Physics lesson over) my point being all track moves when a train goes over it, its perfectly normal.
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I gave Thorpe a hard time with the swarm being 1200 rather than what they needed of 1700. I'm glad I don't take much interest in chessington. If a park has problems with queues no new addition should even be considered if it has a throughput lower than 600pph. I know the skyway is old but it needs updating so it actually goes round the zoo, they may as well just get a completely new ride to replace it. Would solve the downtime, would improve the throughput and would allow them to install a proper fastrack queue.
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10 til midnight in the summer on Saturdays. Its a dream which I feel I will never see become reality.
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Now I may be one of the most merlin hating people out there but even I think that bashing merlin on that one is a little harsh.
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A 50% allocation!? surely it's not that much.
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Oh I assumed it was open as I kept seeing it go round. I don't normally ride it so I don't take notice of its existence much.
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I would recommend Sunday as the better day. As for the 4th ride closed there wasn't one. A lot of rides suffered downtime (stealth, saw, rush, storm surge, tidal wave) but I don't believe there was a 4th closed all day.
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Sunday will be a lot less busy. Last day of Easter holidays and its a Sunday. It will have queues but nothing on what Saturday will have. Unless the weather wants to come in and ruin my predictions.
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3 of them are almost guaranteed to be closed on Saturday. So don't get your hopes up for vortex, detonator or slammer. It's also likely X and Colossus will still be on reduced capacity.
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A crane as working on vortex today. Along with a load of scaffolding in the centre. No idea what it means but strikes me as a little more than restraint trouble.
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Very busy. All coasters 60+ and flats around 40+.
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Now horrible histories would be perfect. I'm not sure how you could get it working as a ride which you would want to do over and over but it would be one great ride the first time round.
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I will be amazed if they fit an sfx coaster in that building. The building just doesn't work with it at all. If it turns out to be an SFX coaster then I don't have much hope on it being very good.
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Paramount park has an incredible amount of investment going into it. It was stated somewhere that medium term investment year would be around £30million. Its location is far better, it will be home to some very large IP's and will attract people from all over Europe, which means its competing with Disney. Regardless of if it is better than Disney and Europa or not it will have to be of similar standard. No one invests billions in something they don't think will succeed. Varney may have said that the PP people have little experience but I think he has forgotten the amount they are investing. If things start to go wrong then PP will just head hunt for someone who does have experience. The project is already at a stage where its about to apply for planning permission.
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I would like it not to be an IP. At this current moment in time the buildings are too generic to really tell what the the theme/IP could be. I can see Jack the ripper being a good theme that would attract guests but is that really the market they are after and is it not a bit to obvious.
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Would it not make more sense if WC stood for 2 words rather than 1. Something tells me Whitechapel isnt the IP they have gone for. The last series only got 4 million viewers, not exactly the people puller they want.
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Locals moan about traffic, legoland offers a solution so a new group moans. They tried changing the traffic light priority so it favoured the park which improved traffic flow but it meant the locals journey was slightly longer. So of course they all moaned about that. ThEy could offer to build a new road but I'm sure the same thing will occur of "you have ruined the country side". The locals have a right to complain by all means but they need to remember the jobs it offers and the money it brings in.
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Maybe have it so it only texts you the coasters queue times.
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Would be better off buying new lap bar trains. That way it would become rideable. A repaint while they are at it as well. Oh and an update to the themeing.
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Its better than that, for reasons only known to them they concluded that the busiest weekend they have had so far wouldn't be that bad so they opened on one train.
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£30 million orginal creative idea that is a major risk or £30 million dark ride with an IP which will much more likely get a return. I think that thorpe will struggle to convince the market that a dark ride is just as good if not better than a coaster. The swarm may have failed for many reasons but I am quite sure the current market that goes to thorpe would prefer a hyper coaster than a dark ride. I'm sure that opinion would change for many afterwards but they need to be able to convince people to go.