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  1. The short of it is, everything in the book has been done over closed seasons to try and rectify this and it seems to be an on going experiment to try and replace whichever element of the ride is causing the poor performance of A.

    Oh its just that, that line confused me.

  2. Wait a second which one is swing A, I thought A was the swing closest to the operator room which is obviously performing better. The one closest the operator room gets to full height unlike the other swing which most of the time doesn't reach 90.

  3. That small piece of fabric does not act as a fail safe it is there so if a evac is required and the seats are released they do not all release at once. On B&M and intamin multiple rows get unlocked at the same time and so the belts are there to hold them so 1 row at a time is removed. Gertslauer have individually unlocking seats so they do not need seat belts. As for hydraulic seats are considered safe that is true but that doesn't explain why The Swarm has seat belts. The only purpose for belts is in the event of an evac, the ratchet system can not slip otherwise there is no way they would be allowed to have them. You can believe what you want but I am telling you they are there for evac only.

  4. Buckling the ride is really not important. The ride operation doesn't need the seat belts, they are just there so if they need to get people off not in the station all the seats don't release at the same time. The ride wont leave unless all the seats are locked and it only takes 5 seconds to type in 2 numbers.

  5. One problem with the system they use is that if it is based of wait time then they over allocate tickets as the estimated queue times are always too short. Not sure if they over estimate on purpose to encourage sales or its that every ride they work it out wrong.

  6. Does anyone know the actual percentage of the throughput of a ride which goes towards the main queue. More and more I visit the more and more I fastracks I think they sell. I would like to think that they only allocate a maximum of 10% to fastracks but something tells me its a lot more.

  7. I'm still very confused in how a shark made of junk relates to thorpe park. If its soley themed like that becuase of an island like no other then I'm slightly concerned. An island like no other is ok but could be so much more and so much less generic.

  8. Often they let the annual pass people in later than expected. Its meant to be 9:15 at weekends but rarely is. Weekends and holidays are when they open at 9:30, 10 is the rest of the time with a few exceptions of when they know it will be busy like school strikes and things like that.

  9. Thorpe would not get a Doctor Who themed ride. I doubt any merlin park would as that is the BBC's flagship. If you messed it up in the smallest detail then both BBC and merlin would come off looking bad. Personally I dont think its a risk that they are willing to take.

  10. They drain it when it rains. Too much water gets in the system and the water level rises. That means it flows into the surroundings and can prevent Nemesis from running as the clearance of the train and the water isn't big enough.

  11. CBeebies is literally to see if they can counteract the issue of long queues and kids stuck in them on night garden (if successful I imagine get set go and postman pat too).

    I'm just hoping that its not really successful and is introduced to the smiler.

  12. well they need to base it on the real queue and that is really hard to work out when the real queue is influenced by the reserve and ride queue. I guess what they have done it allocate a certain throughput to RnR and another set to the real queue. so if that amount of people don't turn up or the throughput changes then it will go wrong.

    On another note its spreading! They have a paper based system developing at cbeebies land.

  13. if the real queue is only 30 minutes then it sounds like it isn't really being tested as its meant to reduce queues on very busy days.. The problems will arise when the queues should be 90 minutes long. That is when we will see if this system actually works. However at the moment it does seem to be a working system which can eventually lead to people loosing their jobs as fastracks can be sold online. I'm quite sure that is the true aim. Cut jobs and on the system have a big fastrack sign to encourage sales.

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