Project LC

A pinch of salt is needed with every percentage given, ever. Management will see it as good but really it isn't. A large rise can be put down to people willing to spend more as consumer confidence is up. And they cant forget the 10% decrease in 2012.

The 2nd train can move as on sunday we saw it roll out of the shed for a bit for it to return back to the shed.

Even if they do pull it off it still prevents the way I want to go round the park. Even if I got a smartphone with perfect internet access it would still be annyoing. I play the system they have and will get 20 rides on very busy days. However this will force me to wait longer times as many more people will see when queues get shorter and all queues will be about the same waiting time.

you can make a queueless park if you let about 500 people in. Something tells me Thorpe wont be doing that though with the exception of summer nights. Although saying that the last summer night still managed to get 15-20 minute queues.

On other sites its just become a list of hate. So at least here we have 2 sides to an argument.

Very true, although Thorpe lost a out a weeks worth of visitors around Easter because it was so dam cold. twice I went around easter to find, rush, Colossus and saw closed, one one occasion it was so cold they closed at 12 as nothing would work.

There's lies, dam lies and statistics. Something I feel Thorpe park will turn to, to justify reserve and ride.

clearly I'm failing to get my point across so I'm going to give up.

I would say that the shift in marketing came late in the season, around mid august. So to have that huge change in people is a bit odd. Look at CWOA, they also did very little and they increased by 15%. However I feel we are going a bit off topic.

swarm backwards and x were only minor, when you look at how the smiler increased AT gate figures by 4.2% I would say that what Thorpe did was next to nothing.

It was more said as a joke, although them doing nothing last year did increase gate figures by 11.1%

Maybe they should learn from their gate figures and do nothing to make them increase, that way they wont have to introduce the system I have come to despise.

I say 3 hours because in the trails for the swarm last year on multiple occasions the swarm wait time was 4 hours.

I guess it belongs here but looks like Thorpe did rather well last year for attendance figures. They had a rise of 11.1% bringing their numbers to 2 million. Alton didn't do so well despite the smiler they only rose by 4.2%.

Well you say that but those guests in the park would have wasted time by riding flats (or if they are mad and do what Thorpe said, shopping) while they thought they were queuing virtually to find that they hadn't been queuing and have just wasted an hour of their day. I know that this trail it was called off pretty quickly and the park stayed open longer but if this happened in late July and you thought you were queuing for 3 hours virtually then the park isn't going to staying open an extra 3 hours because of their mishap.

I like to think that "changes" is someone at management smashing their head against a table crying. There is just so many things I dislike about this I want it gone.

so the Monday one went so well Tuesdays was cancelled. I'm assuming that the problem was a tec side fault.

Has anyone been to the recent trials yet, it would be good to hear what actaully happened at them especially considering if on the Monday they stopped by 11am.

That is rather similar site apart from TP is much harder to navigate and illogically arranged, so well done Blackpool.

I know that merlin wont be guiding the park to the letter but I'm sure that if they wanted to they could.

Your telling me that the company that owns and operates the park have no say in how the park operates. That sounds stupid and yet highly plausible.

That is a good point. Have Thorpe considered break downs in this stupid system. There is just so much in this system that can go wrong and will go wrong it would take years and millions of pounds to solve.

well any 9 digit number sounds like a good system. Also the smiler can and did run 5 trains for a bit which is why its theoretical throughput was just under 1300, however under normal operations its theoretical is around 1000. Thats only a theoretical value so the real value must be much lower.

Well 1 whole day is pretty good.

Fair enough if the cost included groundwork as I'm quite sure making an island isnt cheap. Does anyone know the cost of whatever this dive machine is called.