Project LC

They will defiantly feel slower. If its now 50% of the ride is for another queue then its moving more slowly as less of the ride is for the physical queue. Its like queuing for rush with only 1 swing. That always feels significantly slower.

Depression, misery and dissapointment. Nah I imagine it will benefit a fair few there on the day, however physical queues will feel very slow and the system will probally crash again. They still havent quite figured out that the number of people in the park corresponds to the number of people using RnR.

I'm assuming the 15 million is including everything. Not sure where else they could get that sort of figure from. It will be interesting to see the theme park side as they have been very vague about that part. Also a fair few people will visit the water park seeing as it will be the worlds largest (at least I think I remember reading that).

Ritas accumulators have been slowly dying and they are under instruction to not operate the ride at maximum throughput all day.

Oh ok, I thought you meant that you couldn't achieve more rides if you tried. Approximately How many trains did you have to wait?

Sounds busier than the earlier ones last year. 18 rides seems a bit low compared to what I managed last year of 33 in one night. Ill just hope that when I go its more "dead".

It is in a very good location. Good road, bus and train links and the railway line operating the eurostar they do have all of europe to attract. Not sure how they will achieve 15 million though.

I hope the never get pizza and pasta or buger kitchen. They are both horrible and to replace pizza hut and burger king with those would be a terrible decesion. Also I have no idea how much the price of the bbq is was just stating a bbq is good no matter what the price.

Best decision Thorpe have made all year. Nothing beats a BBQ, even if it has merlin pricing on it.

Wooo new information http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kent-business/county-news/paramount-team-construction-19946/ Its nice to see they are optimistic expecting 15 million people in year one. It will be very nice to see merlin's reaction if they achieve that.

In the summer they normally have a load of these stages around. It will be for performers and entertainment over the next 2 months.

A large amount of wasted time is filling the bays. Both consoles need someone on them so it is leaving no one to assign people bays. Also I have a feeling they may be under instruction to have slow operations to prolong the life span of it, a bit like what rita does.

My point was the maths behind it and keeping the number of people there the same. So if it was only 1 ride and 500 people were trapped there. So the 500 would still form a 30 minute queue but now it takes twice as long making it 60 minutes but they all get to ride twice. When this is open to more rides and people the same rules still apply. You still have X number of people in the park forming a set lenght of queue which is now twice as long but they all get to ride twice making it the same as it was before just in a different set up. RnR will cause the average number of rides to stay the same but the extremes to become closer. So great for the stupid people who just join the first queue they see but bad for people who can easily get above the average. However this system is able to sell more fastracks by turning a dial. Say fastrack sales are down, all they have to do is change the % of fastrack up so the wait becomes longer so more people will buy fastracks to fill the new created slots becuase the queue time has be artifically increased.

Very true. Tower of Terror is one amazing dark ride. I doubt merlin will ever get to that level becuase they cut corners everywhere and claim there the best.

I was more thinking the £150 million of Disney as a large budget. Compared to universal and Disney £20 million is nothing.

I do believe slammer was down this morning.

Is that including slammer? or is that for stealth only

I'm in favour of a dark ride. The current restrictions on the next coaster will end up making it rather bad. 20-30 million can still come a way with some decent theming. The ride itself wont cost that much so the rest is just themeing and marketing as they wont have to create and island.

In his defence merlin are not going be using tower of terror budgets.

I'm sure a BBC IP after the success of Alton would be seen as a safe move. I would also agree that if they spend time on it then they could easily pull it off.

I do believe the original plan was a mack/woodie but since the new aim they wanted a more family orientated ride because of this and the limited space they are no longer looking at the islands for a coaster as it would be a waste. Also I think that because the main complaint of Swarm was that it was too short they are waiting for the 900m track limit to be raised. Thorpe do have enough coasters for now so I would welcome a dark ride if done correctly and from what I have heard it will be intresting. The ride itself is meant to be quite new and unique to the UK and its not going to be another coaster in a box.

Oh that thing. If it opened yesterday for 15 minutes I dont see how that can be the cause.

the loading operations on slammer at the moment are terrible. They are barley managing 1 ride every 10 minutes.

Inferno incident?

Oh that makes sense, I thought it had been opened all day and rolled back randomly which called for a full evac. As it was the first train I'm assuming that the problem with stealth for the last few days lies in the launch part. Anyone know exactly whats wrong with it? if its the accumulators again its nice to know the fix lasted exactly a year.