Project LC

Surely they can strip down more than 1 at a time. Rides like maverick have 6 trains and TTD has 5 trains that need stripping down at a time. Surely Thorpe can do 3 at a time.

I think Thorpe needs to be designed so that someone with an IQ of 5 can use it. In all fairness its not the easiest entrance to a ride to use. Often there is someone confused in which queue to join.

I understand where you and Thorpe are coming from. Thorpe will cater towards the masses as that's where the money is but as usual they have overlooked things of which something swill be impossible to fix. This system will create 5000 people just wandering and they wont shop or eat at restaurants they will go to ride rides as that is what they do at theme parks. I have yet to come across a person who has gone to a theme park for its shops. All this system will do is move queues and prevent me from doing what I want to do. I know that Thorpe park read this and I doubt they will take on board what I have to say but its worth a try. Surely someone at the park must have seen disney tried a similar system and that failed for many different reasons. If Thorpe have set out to improve that system and make it work then the best of luck with that but I highly doubt that Thorpe have the resources and the knowhow to do it. Uk theme parks are years behind the US ( in a certain sense, they sort of are and aren't but maybe that belongs in a different thread) so my question is that if this is so revolutionary why isn't there any other park doing this?

I was there on one of their trails and it really was that bad that I have taken up this absolute no stance against them. It turned what should have been a good day into a waste of 9 hours. I know they value the people who go there as a one off more as there more likely to spend meanwhile people which go there 5-20 times a year get pushed to the side and expected to spend huge amounts of money on each visit. I for one wont stand for that and I would like to think that when I go there I can re-ride the rides that I want to rather than book for rides and be expected to go shopping or ride their useless flats. I go there for stealth and swarm and that's it. I'm not running between the dome and those 2 rides each time I want to ride one. This entire reseve and ride has made me really quite angry knowing that the fun I used to have there may no longer be allowed by this stupid decision which Disney tried and failed at. If Disney failed I can sure dam tell that merlin will fail.

Clearly something happened on park today as reserve and ride seemed to stop at around 3 and the park stayed open an extra hour. Also in reply to an early comment the smiler has a through put of 1300 and storm surge barely ever reaches 400. The reason I didn't say the cinema because it was already there and the dodgems throughput will vary depending on who is riding. Throughput doesn't really depend on length of a ride either just look at oblivion with a maximum throughput of 1900.

Wow I didnt even know they still had tickets go give out. Ive been 5 times this year and haven't seen them in use once.

Clearly at some point they got rid of them which meant that people queueing can go where ever irrelevant of where they queued. For example on sunday backwards was walk on and forwards was 20 mins so people walked down the backwards queue and jumped on going forwards.

Another solution would be to build a ride with a higher throughput. They were fully aware queues were too long when they built the swarm but they still decided to go with an average 1200pph. If an american park were to build a major ride with a throughput of 1200 or even Alton towers did that they would see non stop moaning. All thorpe need to do is start adding new higher capacity rides. There hasn't been a major flat in the park since 2005. Storm surge and the dodgems do not count as high capacity. A new flat with a throughput of 500 would help. Have 2 or 3 of those plus a 1500 coaster and queues would become a bearable level. Instead Thorpe have gone down the cheaper option which will ultimately end up as a waste of money.

I would let them off for stealth being on 1 train but then I remembered that reserve and ride exists so I now want to find as many reasons as possible to blame them for something. Which now means stealth is in my firing line. I understand that getting it to working condition is hard but ill have to wait and see in how long it takes to fix this problem.

Something ive just seen is Saw The ride front. How on earth do you manage that one and why on earth do you have a second queue for it. There is only 2 rows so how and why would you make 2 queues. Another thing is that the number of dates has plummeted what was about 7 dates is now 4. Also I hope this system is taking into account that stealth is on half capacity. All I can say Thorpe is that you have truly lost it and this entire thing is insanity.

It strikes me as mad. I would instantly stop maintenance to a train and divert the crew to the broken one. In the overall scheme of things trains are a pretty simple piece of kit and the things that can go wrong with them are limited. They should just switch the components around and get it back up and running as quickly as possible. If I remember correctly stealth had another issue this time last year which put it on 1 train operation.

No idea whats going on with it but they expect it to be fixed soon as they keep allocating full staff towards it, which results in 3 people standing at the entrance saying its closed.

Ticket? they haven't used tickets in about a year. People misuse the queue all the time. It seems to be pick the shortest queue out of the 2 and choose in the station.

The virtual queue replaces standard queueing. So you can not queue by standing in line. Instead you reserve a place via your smart phone and when that time slot arrives you may enter the queue line. This means the queue you join is only about 15 minutes long.

Did stealth ever used to run all 3 trains at the same time or has the 3rd always been there as a back up. Although its not doing very well as a back up at the moment now is it.

Maybe they should add another 40 inversions and have a formula rossa launch at half way.

I guess stealth wasn't helped on Sunday by the fact the ride crew were useless and that they were putting up ride times as if it were on 2 trains. Ill just hope that it gets well soon.

I would agree on that. Using this as a fastrack system and for fright night scare mazes would probably be beneficial. using this for everyday use on everything or just coasters is a terrible move and will make the situation worse. As ive said before I experienced reserve and ride once and all I can say is never again. Normally I will ride swarm a good 5 to 30 times a day with the reserve and ride that was reduced to 1 ride. I know what the other rides are like so I go for my favourites not the same rides I can find else where.

They no longer have the 3rd train. Well they have the parts for the 3rd train but in no way is it usable its more scattered across the maintenance shed.

The more problems it has the better. I'm one of the very few people left in this world with out a smart phone and I don't want to spend my time running back and forth between the dome and stealth. I want my ability to get off stealth in the morning and get straight back on 4 or 5 times. then work my way round the coasters. Running between the dome and each coaster is stupid. I'm not spending my time in the increased waits for the flat rides, I go to Thorpe park for the coasters and apart from rush and slammer I can find the other rides else where. I don't go to Thorpe park for the other reasons they seem to believe people go there like shopping and "fine dinning". If this does become permanent I wont be coming back until this stupid system is gone. So if anyone knows if this is becoming permanent please let me know and you can save me some money from buying my next annual pass.

Unfortunately on Sunday swarm went back to multiple queues. It was stupid forward had a 20 minute queue while backwards was going round empty.

Anyone know if stealth is still on one train. It was on Sunday apparently because there was something wrong with train 2.

So how are we doing bets on when it breaks down again. Hopefully it will make it all year but something tells me it will give up sometime this summer.

I havent had to use a fastrack since 2009. The only time I think its needed it to fastrack a new coaster if you havent been on it yet. Apart from that I see no reason why it is needed.

I dont think they changed the soundtrack. It was literally just a sign change and a bird added to the console room.