Project LC

I'm not sure about summer nights but on previous experience I haven't seen the buses running that late.

True but the station becoming empty is very rare. I go to Thorpe very often and I have not seen the station on X become empty despite a queue. Also my statement I said more as a general thing rather than X specific, a wait to put a bag away will not have a massive effect on the peoples opinion if the trains are still full.

I more meant the common thing to happen in the swarms baggage area where the 2 people in there will for no reason just stop and chat despite people waiting to collect bags. Its happened many a time whilst ive been there, so dont go saying its a stupid reason.

Many people will be willing to pay that. You only need 1 person in a group to say I can do that easy and Thorpe instantly have £100. Its a money spinner which I can see doing very well.

I dont think there is much of a problem with the baggage area when there is 2 people. Its if they stop to have a chat every now and then which causes delays. if there is only 1 person then maybe they need to reallocate some staff.

In thorpes mind it is cheaper to hire less staff and have the bags suffer. Yes its annoying but to the general public they care more about the ride and will be excited to get on the ride so they wont care if it takes a minute or 2 to put the bags away. Just becuase it took slightly longer than usual to get a bag will not prevent them from coming back. So it works out to be more efficient and cost effective.

They don't understaff, they just try and use the minimum. They don't want to employ excess people as they would have to pay them. If you ran a park you would try and save costs everywhere to ensure maximum efficiency and maximum profit to keep those share holders happy.

Having the baggage at the front was causing massive problems in the morning causing massive queues to form at the entrance. Also it required 2 people to operate otherwise the people leaving would start forming a queue.

Cant have been too much of a fault. It has been very temperamental the last few days having the odd 20 minutes down every now and then. I'm assuming they were fixing what ever was causing that.

Give it time, it will get watered down and slowly become less and less VIP but for a higher price.

I am almost certain they will find 1000 people willing to part with £500 for unlimited fastracks. In fact I'm willing to bet in a few months time a reveal that the number of passes has gone up to 5000.

They have put a lot of time in this system. There going to stick with it, all they need to do know is work on the percentage of queue to RnR. However I still think the queue should favour the actual queue rather than RnR. A good place to start I think would be a 60:40 split.

Mad from a guests point of view, amazing from thorpes view. That way they can maxamise sales and make more money. Also I find it very hard to believe that the smiler has a 10% allocation. When there are no fastracks that queue moves almost twice as fast, not saying its a 50% allocation just that it seems an incredible amount more than 10%. Also locking systems use 2 or 3 ratchets, if you somehow manage to get all 3 to fail then the seat belt will act as a fail safe, however as that is so unlikely the purpose of a seat belt is to prevent all seats being released at the same time. They are not their as a 4th fail safe.

The only downside of the ride is that the gate opens the wrong way.

At least there is only 1000 of the totally unlimited people, compared to the 9 million normal fastrackers on a singular day.

Of course its only a quick fix if they have the parts to fix it.

In the summer it often ends up on 2 or 3 train operation whilst the rest of the year it is on 1. So it is working a lot harder, also when its hotter more stuff is likely to go wrong as components are working out of the conditions they have been in for the other 10 months of the year. Its a relatively simple ride in design so it shouldn't take too long to fix.

I would have to agree that, that would be a hideous idea, and then you have the weeks and weeks of bad press afterwards. What Thorpe should do with fastracks is limit them to a very low percentage and up the price. Have it so there is only 1 or 2 types of passes and put an amazingly high price on them. Although the only way there going to manage that depends on the price elasticity of demand of fastracks. I imagine that they are quite inelastic with price as a lot of people will buy it regardless of price as they only visit once in a while.

£25 for an hour is pretty good considering it comes with a wet suit.

That list contains too many songs for a 50 minute playlist. I spend most my day at stealth and some of those songs ive never heard of before.

New dates, guess what days I wont be visiting the park.

They do have some priority parking near where the crash pad people can park. Not sure if that's open to VIP passes though.

They will be busy but not the worst days in the world. Often people who have upcoming school trips wont go so you wont have as many teenagers around as normal. Avoid the latter ones if possible.

£25!!! twenty five whole pounds!!! they expect £25 on top of £50 to get in plus £3-70 on fastracks. I was expecting £6 max not £25. That is extortionate. I'm struggling to come to terms with that price it is so much. How long is it becuase if its until you fall off that is stupid. Even 5 minutes that is a stupid price.

What I don't get is how they allow people who cant walk on some of the coasters. If someone who cant walk needs a vertical evac on saw how on earth do you get them off. Also I find it hard to believe that there is enough disabled people to fill the back row of every train on nemesis and an entire car on Colossus. Ill look at the positives though at least there are not fastracks which allow use of the exits.