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Cant be done in 15 seconds. I know the ride host your on about because he was saying they were going to launch in 15 seconds with or without you. Swarm and loading isn't essential to be quick as the throughput is easy to achieve because of the dispatch interval is quite large.
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I dont think cedar fair is finished with there coaster announcements. I may be wrong but I dont think there has been an air coloured B&M announced yet. The pictures of the track at B&M certainly aren't fury and I cant think what other coaster it belongs to.
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I guess so, you would have to be trying to get out the seat though. I suppose you could use secret option 3 of have the bar normally.
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Sorry I phrased that wrong have it as tight as possible so you cant breath.
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The objective is to get the bar as loose as possible so you fly out of your seat. Its only fun if you get swing A, try and avoid swing B its far too boring.
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You are forgetting america is massive and takes forever to get anywhere. There may be lots of them already but they are far apart. The UK is tiny so you cant do that. However saying that a to order that many of giant loops is certainty questionable to say the least. Exact copys of major rides shouldn't be done, for example lex luthor drop of doom and zumanjaro drop of doom. However copying something small like a loop isnt that bad its like saying Alton cant have ripsaw because CWOA has rameses revenge.
Somehow I managed to miss 2 of their coaster announcements, Wicked cyclone looks pretty good but batman the ride and twisted Colossus are well. Lets say they both have there faults.
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sometimes cookie cutters are better than what we have its just they use them over and over. I understand america is massive but they could try and make each park different.
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To call it a coaster is as bad as cedar point calling pipe scream a coaster. I don't think it will be a good investment. They all have horrible throughputs and to me they don't look too thrilling. Glad merlin haven't done something similar.
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Blue streak is the roughest ride ive ever been on. You can feel the car flex as it goes through the track and by the end your lungs are just powder. If you think saw or even Colossus is bad ride blue streak at cedar point.
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Has saws 10 oclock break down returned? Last year every time I went saw would break down at 10 oclock exactly.
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I think its 16 but they get funny hours and restrictions ect. 18 is when you can have the "full on" job.
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They also do it on nemesis inferno as well because they run out of time. They should have got some time back in their schedule because they no longer need to get slammer working by 9:30 anymore. The engineers schedule is to have all rides open on full capacity by 10 (except slammer which is now 11) however as the park now opens at 9:15 they sometimes have to skip the 2nd train first time round.
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Its to do with the engineers schedule. More often than not they have to move on without the 2nd train loaded and return later to add it back on.
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I more meant swarm goes to waste on a normal day with or withour RnR. The queue always drops later on in the day by quite a lot which means the queue is no longer holding 1200 people so they go else where making the queues longer for the other coasters. I dont think anyday can be as busy to only get 3-5 coasters done. The only way that could happen is if everyone in the park queued for the coasters at the same time. Which thanks to RnR they now are. Its no longer around 8000 people divided up among the coasters its the full 15000. It makes all of the RnR queues longer than what a physical queue would be and because thorpe are unable to change the laws of time means you cant get as many coasters in. You can tell me what you like but that is a fact.
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An average guest which didn't start their day at swarm wouldn't be. Whats the point in making everyone have 4 or 5 when before a lot of people were getting over that. I highly doubt this system will ever solve their problems and I'm certain there are better solutions. One major problem they have is that once people ride swarm they never return, everyday I have been to Thorpe swarm always has short queues after lunch. So effectively you have 1200pph coaster going to waste because of its location. I honestly believe that 80% of the problems related to queuing could be solved by getting the tvs working and showing interesting stuff. Games, music, facts and useful tips. They could stick their own advertisement on it for annual passes or whatever. Getting some tvs installed/working must be a lot cheaper than all this RnR stuff and would improve the experience for guests so they are more likely to return. The simplest ideas are the best ideas. .
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I know Thorpe will try and deny that but I'm pretty sure that is what is already happening with the trails. Something I would like to know is if Thorpe looked at the spectacular failure of Disney's system, which one ruined the experience and two didn't solve anything. There really is so many things they should have tried before RnR. I guess my days of multiple rides on stealth are over and are instead being replaced with 4 or 5 coasters in a day and being forced to queue for a load of flats I don't want to ride. I am so glad I didn't buy a VIP pass as what a waste of money that would have been.
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We had around 80% of visitors in the Resort using the system over the weekend actually, and the system was the only way to ride Colossus and SAW - The Ride on Monday and Tuesday.
How many were using it the morning? I'm willing to put money on it that you only got 80% in the afternoon. Also whats the point in only trailing it fully on saw and Colossus if you dont have the rest set up in that way. You may see minor effects but your not going to see the full effects. Also saw has been at 2 hours or above throughout the trail with points on saturday being 3 hours 30 minutes. In what way is that better than before? That could limit the number of coasters you are able to go on to 3 in the space of 9 hours. Also a point which may have been considered but doubt it a lot is if you reserve a ride for 20 minutes and the shortest physical queue in the park is 40 minutes what do you do in that time. Its a theme park where people are to ride rides, they will not go shopping I'm pretty sure they will just wait outside which defeats the entire objective.
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Before buying a fastrack please do the maths behind it. There is no way a fastrack gold would ever be worth it.
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They could just improve the queue lines. If they got the TV's working then they could introduce games, show off a few facts about the rides and maybe play music videos. You would only need about a 6 hour cycle and I'm sure it would make guests happier. It certainly made the queues at cedar point fun. I think cedar point called it Fun TV and it made the whole experience far more enjoyable. Instead of repeating the same news story over and over for hours on end they could make the place interesting and distract the people in the park from the fact they are queuing. There is so many other things Thorpe could have and should have tried before investing in RnR.
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Personally I prefer zumanjaro, its got the force of detonator but lasts so much longer.
The Swarm
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I more meant in the terms that you don't need to be as quick as stealth with ride hosts running down the station. Yes they should be fast but they don't need to be running and trying to get 15 seconds.