Altitude
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Luckily Stealth doesn't have the supports to hold one!
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^ Or have guests fight to the death for a Saw fastpass?
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Just like Zodiac
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Dead Silence and Slender both rely on audio...
With a Dead Silence attraction, I don't know how they'd get some scenes completely silent, because you'd hear people talking from other parts of the tour. As with Slender, you'd need the same thing.
Plus both films rely on suspense rather than actual scares (most of the time), and I doubt they could pull that off.
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Megafobia is rows of two, as is the Treetop coaster thing!
Megafobia slays though <3
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I love how the family claim the "traumatising ordeal" lasted for 15 minutes, but it actually lasted for less than 3!
She obviously just wanted compo.
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I really hope the ride lives up to the concept art.
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If Saw's IP was that bad, then I really don't see why they would go on to add Saw Alive and an entire event using Lionsgate IPs.
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^ Saw isn't a good ride in your opinion though.
It is a good IP. It made money. Doesn't matter whether you (one person on the internet) likes it or not. It did it's job. IPs are used to make money.
As for your poor music comment, again, it's your opinion. Music is a form of entertainment, and if a song reaches #1, it means people are being entertained and buying the song. And because it's making money, it's a "good song", even if it isn't to everyone's taste. Why do you think most artists even create music? It's passion, and money.
You might like metal music, I don't. That means for you, metal music is "good" because it entertains you. Whereas I hate it because it doesn't entertain me.
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The fluidity and general roughness is the main part that makes it poor, along with the horrific IP. Had they actually gone with an original idea, they would've got more for their buck considering a lot of the budget was probably acquiring it in the first place. The general layout isn't that bad and is probably the best part about the ride itself, but that's not saying much.
You said earlier the layout was "uninspired", but now you're saying it's not a complete pile of ****e? I'm not really sure what you're getting at.
The IP isn't horrific. It's worked. Like I said it still pulls the longest queues, even though there hasn't been a SAW film in years. People still come to ride the coaster, how is that a "horrific IP"?
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It's not just the fact that's it 'rough', it's just a very boring uninspired layout and frankly a pile of ****e with a dead IP attached to it
Whilst I agree about the dead IP, I have to disagree with your comment on the layout.
Obviously it's just your opinion anyway so it's not fact, but I really don't think it's that awful.
It has a mix of inversions, plus a mix of dark ride, small drops and a roller coaster. It has an interesting, unusual drop (and whether you like the drop or not doesn't matter, it's still unusual for a coaster), and it has a mix of fast-snappy elements with longer ones too.
If Saw's layout is uninspiring, then so is Stealth's, but pretty much everyone loves that coaster.
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The USA is great for theme parks, but it's not everything.
I agree with you that it's rough, but it's done the park wonders. It still draws the biggest queues in the park half a decade on, and it's become famous simply because of it's name! Yes, some of us might hate it (I quite like it), but you can't disagree that is was a good investment, business wise.
The woodie looked good, but it really didn't look outstanding. Lack of airtime, short... etc. Plus wooden coasters have moved on so much since 2009, it would seem a little outdated!
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^ Perhaps, or maybe there just isn't enough images to fill up the width of the page?
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^ Sorry but you do realise somebody already mentioned that like... A week ago? We don't know if it's just them doing work on the trees.
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^ CityWalk then?
If Thorpe Park got a CityWalk style area, I would seriously cream my pants. -
See ironically I think the Air Show would be fantastic for a promotional point of view. Just for instance they have the Red Arrows (of course this would never happen, or highly unlikely to happen), but can you imagine the Marketing/Video advertisement Thorpe Park Resort could do as they fly over spraying the Red, White and Blue across the park! (Watch a Silverstone F1 Highlights to see what I mean). However yeah, exactly ride heights are a major problem, however it could be done across the lake once again, at a distance from the actual rides.
The same to be said for Alton, I always felt a Classics Car gathering would suit the Grounds of Alton Towers...a miniature Goodwood if you will, however those ideas are a little far fetched to be honest with you, even me the omniscient can see that one (Yes guys, I actually am admitting error in my ways).
Another problem... Other planes? Heathrow is next door. And yes, planes coming into Heathrow are still very high, but it would never happen.
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^ Well from what I've seen from Paramount Park in Spain over the past months, it would be fantastic!
I really think something like that would work in the UK, too. The Spanish park will have, for example, a rapids ride and a Vekoma Mine Train. We could have them! And the artwork that I've seen that depicts those two rides is fantastic.
Hopefully if this park goes ahead, we'll get something like that. I wish they'd look at Universal Orlando, and see that IOA, Universal Studios and CityWalk together work well.
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Double post but a different topic...
On the Alton Towers and Thorpe Park twitter pages, they're pushing a #MerlinRules tag. I know it's just fun marketing, but do you think maybe they're subtly reminding people about how "great" their rides will always be over any other business?
Seems a tad early.
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^ But then Hex and Sub Terra don't have the queues that The Smiler and Nemesis do. And Hex is a solid attraction.
Thing is, while I like dark rides, I bet if you asked 1000 people whether they'd be interested in a 'theme park' with no roller coasters, most people would say no in this country. And I know people would visit Paramount for other types of entertainment, but the words 'theme park' mean 'roller coasters' to most people, so you're setting them up for sadness when they arrive and there's only simulators and dark rides in (possibly) well themed sheds.
But I guess we don't know what this park will have, if it even happens at all.
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^ Exactly! I really don't see why Flipper doesn't get this.
Coasters are the king of theme parks. They're the things you see when you pull up in the car. It would be silly to not include coasters, especially in the UK in my opinion.
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^ ... I don't get it :L