Project LC

You say that but September/October/November I think are the worst times for ride reliability. The best time in theory should be march however it would seem merlin has failed on that one. Alton should have their rides ready as they seem to have some sort of management in their engineering department. Then again you never know.

Great start CWOA. It has somehow beaten Thorpe. There must have been budget cuts. The chances that both parks do pretty much the same thing is just too low. I can't wait to see what it's like during the summer.

I dont like the sound of that I would much prefer some sort of broken screen or broken effect put on the lovely wooden fence.

Was on the front row of The first train of The Swarm of 2015

Is putting his head back and enjoying a relaxing breeze.

Engineering is there to minimise the need for resources. If it is designed well enough a spare would not be needed. Also as accumulators are expensive a spare would be an unwise investment. The chances of one being completly destroyed beyond repair is small.

Seems to make up 90% of posts in this thread.

What a lovely looking investment. The first kiddie coaster I've seen in a while where I am actually impressed with what they have done.

Personally I would say that Nemesis sub terra was never good and a waste of the money they spent on it. Rides with actors are so not the way forward. They are so expensive to run and as a result end up with a short life span.

Nemesis and air are on early ride time.

It could always be a response to the many health and safety failings they were picked up on.

Both of those end up in the park loosing money. A fastrack doesn't cost the park anything and encourages them back to spend more.

Well there isn't much else they can give a park full of annual pass holders.

It would seem Thorpe park have withdrawn their earlier tweets of 90% of rides are open. They do seem to still be getting a fair amount of complaints.

I take it merlin has cut budgets across the board. Hence why a lot of rides seem to not have finished winter maintenance. I understand they are trying to maximise returns for shareholders but I don't think that cutting budgets so much that rides have to close and park hour are reduced to stupid times is the right way forward. Alton is in the middle of no where. If the park isn't open for very long then people just wont go.

Some very concerning responses on their twitter. Some how a 90 minute queue did not classify as high enough demand for a 2nd train. Along with some shocking maths of 90% of rides open. I hope they learn and go with full trains as a default at weekends from now on. Quite frankly 1 train operation on a saturday is just a joke.

1 train operations? Colossus is on 90 minutes for crying out loud. Stealth on 45 minutes. What should be a quiet day with the park at its best seems to just be shambles.

3m guests means very little, if they all got in for free it would be useless. Its how much is spent per guest that merlin cares about. They want maximum profit, so as many people spending as much as possible while they spend very little themselves.

Yes I have ridden another Screamin swing. Skyhawk was a million times better. However I meant my statement in a mechanical term rather than ride experience.

Staggered openings? That doesn't sound good, nor does a ride not even being open because of budgets. If profits are falling because of a lack of guests reducing the experience on offer isn't going to help. The idea is to drive people towards the park, not away from it.

Rush isn't exactly the best S&S swing, being the first its understandable however I think for it to perform as well as something like skyhawk would cost a lot of time and money. I don't know why it was performing poorly last year but I got the impression that it was a fairly large issue.

It a because they are old. Samurai isn't meant to work the hours it does, it's old and as a result it's dying. Saw is just a pile of junk, slammer is a poor design. Rumba is really old and tidal wave needed some work done.

A chain snap would be impressive. That chain is very strong and for it to snap would take quite some force. It would need to suffer fatigue which should be picked up in routine maintenance. Saying that its not unheard of I would just be very surprised if a chain snap was the case for its downtime.

They open at the time they do because that's the time when they are confident they will get more income than what they spend to open. Alton being in the middle of no where have decided that that point is a few weeks later. 1 and a half weeks isn't going to make that much difference, yeah it would help but overall the same/similar problems would still be around. This just seems to be the result of a load of ageing rides all needing some major work done at the same time. Can't really be avoided.

Regret to inform you but it isn't the only 1:1 recreation. My park is also 1:1 just rather unfinished and old. There are also other Servers that are working on Thorpe.