Project LC

Looking into it more saw does have 8, I was being lied to by another forum. A common delay with the smiler is them switching over a train which means 4 train op is pretty standard. They do use 5 trains but no where near as much as your making it out to be. Also my point still stands, there should always be a train waiting to replace it if they own more than needed. If they employed the right amount of people then strip down should only occur over the winter.

5 trains were used twice. Opening week and the first scarefest, since then it has run 4 trains using the 5th as a spare. 5 trains has no effect to the operation of the smiler and results in stacking on the brake run. There is also many other rides which have spare trains. Oblivion has 7 and saw has 9. Not sure if saw operates the same as stealth but I know TTD has 6 and uses 5 with 1 always waiting incase one breaks.

But it should never happen in the first place. Train 3 should always be avalible to use throughout the season like tussauds intended. Many other coasters always have their spare train ready to go, the smiler has train 5 avalible at all times so why cant stealth have train 3.

Why does The vampire only operate 2 trains now, what stopped them operating 3?

They got stormsurge so throughput isnt an issue, clearly.

Yes it is thorpes fault. 3 trains exist so 2 will always be avalible. However becuase of recent year mantanice scheduals that is no longer the case.

Still that is 30 minute waits, some above some below. For offpeak with 2 trains that could have gone upto 4+ rides an hour.

Saw is hard to achieve full capacity when very little people are there. If they wait to fill the seats then stacking occurs and the ride needs to be "reset" so to speak. 1 train op will encourage more fastracksales. If the park is at 0 minutes queues with 2 trains no one will buy one. Put it on 1 train and it goes up to 20 minutes people may start considering it. If it was at 15 minutes 2 trains then still very little people will be buying, however if that goes to 45 minutes with 1 train many more will buy fastrack. It may be less sales than the weekend but it is more sales compared to the same day on 2 trains.

13 rides for a day? I would be furious if I went and got that. That is worse than my trip in the height of summer. Looks like 1 train op made the queues rather large.

Or maybe they are saving costs and encouraging more fastrack sales... I would prefer a 15 minutes stop to make the queues shorter for the rest of the day. However it should be on full trains from the start. There is only 1 ride I will let off and that is saw. The problems that can have with stacking on the break run can slow operations so I will excuse saw. The rest have no excuse ever.

The potential dark ride is currently designated for the arena. Also some of those trees cant be removed as they are there to hide the park from the other side of the lake. Also if you look on the mtdp it shows that the land behind the old railway tracks they dont own. So achiving planning permission for a large building there would be hard.

Suspended top spin if it has good operations can achieve 900pph (people per hour). That is pretty good on Thorpe park scale so it would reduce the queues. However to do that maybe it shouldn't have water so on cold days people still go on it.

The freeflyer has a better capacity however that or a zac spin I don't think would add much. All it would achieve is long queues and a let down. Top spin may work at Thorpe but it would need to be different to ripsaw. A suspended top spin may work with a few water and fire effects themed around the nemesis volcano going off, or the aftermath. However it wouldn't bring in a load of guests as they are still pretty generic.

S&s 4d freeflyer.

1 train op should never happen. 0-5minute queues are better than 15-20minutes. If you had 0 queues people would spend more times in shops so more money and people wont be robbed for fastrack. They will be more likely to return and guest experince will be improved. Alton very rarley do 1 train, I'm sure europa never do 1 train, nor disney or cedar point. If they want to be good then 1 train op with 45 min queues need to stop.

Or you could be let down with a top spin Anyway there is no room there for a dark ride, the boundary of the land boarder is very close.

The way they phrased it seemed like they were pretty sure. Anyway ill just go back to worrying of the idea of a call of duty or fifa experience on park.

Southparks confirmed yesterday that neptunes beach is getting work done which includes a more permanent double flowrider.

It seems to be that Neptune's beach is getting some heavy work done to it over the closed season, hence the closure of the flying fish. So maybe we will a new children's flat opposite the fish like on the mtdp.

1 train op strikes again. A multimillion pound company should not be running rides on half capacity at any time. Give the guests a better experience and make the queues non existent. For a park focusing on improving guest experience this is not the way forward, and if this is down to them thinking reserve and ride will solve the problem they have another thing coming.

Its not the same as the stealth situation is it with 3 trains?

4 per group member with £10 return each despite being annual pass holders.

Yeah you do, I already tried that saying that they were just paying me to go away, so they just "paid" me more.

Yes

No matter how much I don't want to I think I have to agree with that. The day of nice pizza appears to becoming to and end.