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  7. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

    in The Past

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    5 minutes ago, Martin.C said:

    After riding it again yesterday when it officially opened it seems that there have been some minor changes made to the attraction compared to the technical rehearsals the previous week:

    • The intro or pre-show with Derren Brown at the beginning has been shortened slightly and some parts of his speech have been cut out before he appears in front of you. I can only assume that this is to help speed up the groups going inside. As a result, when it skips this section, the rest of what he says afterwards doesn't fit together as well anymore.
    • As mentioned previously, when you reach up the flight of stairs into the warehouse with the train carriage you can hear an ambience track of people shouting against fracking which fits with the posters all around the ride.
    • Maybe I was lucky both times, but the in the second half of the VR experience the looped scene where the carriage is filled with smoke/dust only lasted about 10-15 seconds instead of the nearly 2 minutes as previously. Maybe it's because they were sending groups around the attraction much faster or used all three trains this time.

    However, it's been less than a week since it officially opened and already we are seeing issues visual and audio wise with the headsets. More were unavailable to use than before, both times I rode one of the stereo headphones was dead/broken, and the visuals kept on jumping around (literally) by forgetting which direction I was facing in. Thankfully, the visuals fixed themselves immediately.

    Another point of interest is I'm beginning to wonder if these 12 different experiences and 2 different endings that are supposedly offered by the attraction are actually being used. I've ridden this 6 times now and I've had the same first half with only 2 different people and the same ending every time. If you look at the behind the scenes footage broadcast by the BBC a few weeks ago, it showed more characters, different creatures and different speech to before. Have these been scrapped due to technical difficulties with the content during the 8 week delay period or are they not rolling it out just yet?

    Without them being used, it's literally the same thing every time you ride now, the only difference is you either get a woman or a man on the train with you in the first half of the VR experience.

     

    I'm gutted to hear that they've cut down on the pre-show as in my opinion it's one of the best parts of the attraction!

     

    In terms of the differences in the VR I've experienced on old lady, an old man and a young man give the intro speech and I've had an old woman and a little girl break into the train during the second half of the first VR bit and I've only been on 4 times!  As far as I know they are only using 1 ending currently and in terms of other VR content I have absolutely no idea.

     

    Apologies for content spoilers but it is in the thread title!

     

     

  8. Queue boredom-beater

    in Nonsense

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    On 08/07/2016 at 5:07 PM, ArtfulRaceHorse said:

    Does anyone have any tips for beating boredom in the queueline?

     

    A group of us made an in-queue game for 2 or more players: 

     

    One person in your group thinks of and states the name of a ride/attraction beginning with A. The next person repeats the first person's answer, adding their own answer for a ride/attraction beginning with B. The next person repeats the first two rides/attractions said by the first two people and gives an answer beginning with C and so on. It's even more fun if you think of a ride with the longest name possible! Haven't really figured out what happens if someone can't think of one of the answers/takes too long/gives a wrong answer!

     

    Enjoy!

    If anyone is interested in what our order ended up being.....

     

    Avalanche, Big Thunder Mountain, Colossus, Derren Brown's Ghost Train, Expedition Everest, Frozen Ever After, Galactica, Helix, Indiana Jones et Le Temple du Peril, Jaws, King Kong, Laser Raiders, Monkey Swinger, Nemesis : Sub-Terra, Oblivion, Postman Pat Parcel Post, Quantum, Rumba Rapids, Space Mountain : Mission 2, Twirling Toadstools, Ultimate, Vampire, Wet Wet Wet, X, Yeti Bounce, Zodiac. Then we went on for longer restarting! Apocalypse, Baron Acken Acken Akanen, Colossos, Duel, Enterprise, Flying Carpets over Agrabah and then we got on Stealth! :P

  22. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

    in The Past

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    Unless you have a good reason as to why to believe your friend would have insider info I don't see that being the truth. Probably some theory someone has made up after all of the bad press from The Smiler incident. There's been so many different theories and explanations I've given up on knowing the truth! (My favourite is that Derren requested it as he wanted to make some small changes for the ride to be perfect.)
    Regardless of the reason for the delay it's unlikely they'll ever explain why it happened especially if it was an incident like the one your friend claims, the last thing they need is people thinking a ride that isn't open yet has crashed/broken in some way after all that's happened!

  24. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

    in The Past

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    Derren Brown is on park today according to his Twitter/Facebook :) Unsurprising considering it's been said before that he had booked this week off for the opening date which has now been delayed. It can't be far from complete as I assume he is on park to try it out in its current state. Either way just thought I'd let people know!

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