Altitude

Yesterday I went on it before 7, so yes it opens early! The queue moves fast however a minute after I entered, there was an incident and we were asked to walk back to the start and wait to begin the attraction again! I have to say being sat in the cold for 20 minutes isn't fun!

Very sad, although I hear he had a pre-existing condition beforehand (which he knew about), so he really shouldn't have ridden it.

Park was very busy yesterday, 120 minutes for the main 5 coasters and mazes, however I was only interested in the mazes. We went to Swarm at 10:30 and it was only running one train all morning! Not sure if they added another later, but it's such a stupid move considering it's a popular event during half term! Me and my two friends did the Face it Alone experience in Cabin in the Woods last night. Very... Interesting haha

^ Or he's just very, very excited about the club music haha!

TPJames, he said he won't let them out unless they need to be let out due to psychological problems, as well as physical ones such as passing out etc. I guess psychological problem would be panic attacks or something, although I can't imagine he'd let them out for that. Surely there must be a safe word? If not, I'm pretty sure it's illegal even though they've signed something?

See I love scare attractions, and I love being scared, but only when it's entertaining. I don't get why anyone would put themselves through something like that. It's not funny or something you can laugh off, it's having wet cloths pushed into your mouth and your head held down under water. How is that entertainment? And why would the creator of this place want to do that to people? Ugh I dunno. Just seems like the guy has some gross hostage fantasy that he can't legally fulfil. Very odd. I think watching people scared in something you've created would be great if it's entertaining for the customer, and you can see them scream but also laugh and smile. But these people give up half way through which means they're obviously not enjoying it, so I do agree that this guy needs his head checked.

Ryan I'd image if you got there near opening you'd be fine!

I hear sexual assault and false-imprisonment is fashionable this season? Seriously though I don't know why you'd want to act or be the victim in this thing. Messed up.

Well that's not really true is it. All attractions should worry about it, because if an experience is awful, no new ride would be good enough to wipe away that bad experience. I completely get what you're saying about the marketing budget, but that's just another cog in the machine in my opinion.

The immelman is up! http://gardaland2015.it/en/webcam I love the badly edited webcam to hide the drop!

Going tomorrow definitely now. Dreading the queues.

Is there a way to move pre-booked tickets to the day afterwards? I was going to go tomorrow but it might be difficult! :L

Project LC, what you don't seem to understand is that the point of guest satisfaction is to make more money! Even if the guest satisfaction is great, it's obviously not good enough there to bring the crowds back time and time again. Therefore even though Merlin's customer satisfaction and guest experience isn't always great, they're still making tonnes more money which makes them a better business on paper.

When I went to Towers in May I queued 2 and a half hours for Smiler, and nothing else on both the saturday and sunday reached over 20 minutes! <3

Is SAW open?

I'm going on Tuesday and I'm dreading it. Is R&R being tested tonight?

I've used CoasterDude's as a template Theme Park: Magic Kingdom/Hollywood Studios Coaster: Stealth Country: England <3 #patriotic Band: Porter Robinson Song: Language by Porter Robinson Movie: Saving Mr Banks or Fargo TV Show: American Horror Story Book (by series): I don't have the attention span to read UK city: Edinburgh Restaurant: Wagamama Article(s) of Clothing: Anything from Hollister <3 (I'm a douchebag)

^ That would fit with the Calypso Quay/Volcano theme too!

Is there a way they can make the rapids on Rumba more intense by adding more poles under the water? Because not only is the ride dirty, it's actually really boring...

I completely agree. 100 percent. The layout was obviously missing inversions, it was when the silly "washing machine" idea came up that people began to realise the inversion record (in a completely incorrect way.) Ah, insulting the members and team of TPM will definitely make us like South Parks and believe their "news" even more! It's not as if South Parks don't have squabbles. Rant over

^ I hope you mean riding bicycles otherwise you're a very naughty boy

Good idea! Thought it would be nice, now we have a place for it!

^ Same Although I'll be in Amsterdam to start with, so hopefully there's trains to Efteling...

Well that's not a very realistic proposal... You forgot the 20 heartline rolls to all the dungeon attractions!

^ I would say the theme is still menacing though! Although I completely get your point, this theme is not as ridiculous as some of Merlin's. Hopefully in the queue, they'll be a smoky/misty room to help tell the story of the 'Witte Wieven' warning the main character. I'm so excited for this!