Mysterio Ka
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I really hope its just the british theme park enthusiast community who has to deal with this crap. It's so stupid and immature; are people unable to accept what's happened and simply look forward to the opening of this ride without nitpicking another bloody argument?
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Arrows latest prototype of the suspended coaster did however feature a corkscrew, so they were working on hardware versions of this theory to test it.
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IMAscore is great but they are quite samey.. You could get away with saying an awful lot of their soundtracks are all part of one big score, except from Helix and Smilers which are examples of fantastic iconic sounds. The rest are all quite similar in my opinion.
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I wish I had evidence to confirm it, but I have heard, from a lot of trustworthy sources that this will be a multi car (3 car) ride. Obviously my account is as good as the next person, but this is what I have listened to from multiple sources. I do question how the interior of the trains will be done, assuming you walk into a victorain train 'shell' but the interior would be of a modern one, or vice versa.
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When's it supposed to be opening?
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Real noodle of course!
Garage or House
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I have always seen both sides of the argument due to being a carer for my older, severely physically disabled brother. It's a tricky argument to deal with in terms of priority passes, but for fast track there is a much more simple resolution.
Fast track should not be sold. End of. A lot of us agree with that, however it's understandable that companies do it in a scheme to produce more money. The best ran theme parks in the world prove that you really don't need fast track to increase guest satisfaction and it severely damages just that in plenty of situations. Making a fast track free environment would massively decrease queue times, and even the potential to attract more guests due to shorter, more desirable queue lengths, which in turn could create more revenue then selling fast track. Fast track being used as compensation is also an understandable point. Being held on a ride for a long period of time, sometimes in an awkward position can be horrible for guests, and I have seen a lot of people get very angry with staff when they don't issue out fast track in this situation, and I can imagine it's difficult to come up with an alternative offering for this kind of situation, however, if I was some day appointed to run a theme park I'd make it very clear that the environment is for fun, and would be a fast track free area even during breakdowns.
With priority wrist bands, as I said, it is a tricky situation, however I believe that this is one of those 'tough luck' situations. Parks such as Europa make it very clear on the website that disabled guests are not allowed on certain rides due to their restrictions. If you can't make it through the queue line, you can't go on the ride. Simple as that. In the rare scenario of a break down, evacuations should take place as quickly and safely as possible. If a disability would even slightly effect this, I personally believe that this should stop a guest from riding. As I said, I;m talking from the view of someone who'd have to leave a party member behind when it came to rides because of their disability.
TL;DR I think ride wristbands should be scrapped, and so should fast track, as this would allow for better park operations entirely. However I do have a question for those who would agree with me. In the situation of a prolonged ride breakdown, what would you (if at all) offer as compensation?
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If you read into the plans it suggests they may finally do up 'Africa' (Concrete land with the ponds) and give it a jungle theme. That would see the removal/refurb of trucks, carousel, hoppers and toadies and see them replaced with the Juvelen concept coaster and potentially other attractions. That would be an immense step up.
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The LDP explicitly says 5-10 years. It could be within 5 years, and as with the likes of Towers and Thorpe planning permission here may not be required for smaller attractions (although it's been so long since they got a ride I can't even remember how it works).
I really wish people would put their chin up and be just a little more optimistic when long awaited material is given to them.
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Apart from a £300,000,000 property worth loss, a grade 2 listed building, and a huge slice of our political history?
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The word breakdowns is way over used. It could be anything. A guest may have undone their seat belt, a panic attack, someone might've climbed onto the platform, someone got a loose article out etc. All these are common occurrences which have nothing to do with the ride itself breaking down, just guest actions causing the ride to be stopped due to safety. Chances are you're right, at least a couple of them might be mechanical, but other then that who knows!
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Rameses is a lot older then it should be. Whilst Top Spins are my favourite flats, this one is a particular close one to heart, its just diabolical. The ride was only supposed to last a decade, and it's like watching a blind, deaf mute old man struggle up a flight of stairs, needing hip and ankle replacements upon every step.
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I think there are a couple of points to take away from this, however, I do see that that day was quite poor on Chessington's half.
Unfortunately (and it's the same at a lot of parks) engineering time slots means that rides will sometimes open late. If more problems then expected occur, it can lead to more then 1 or 2 rides being open late.
Vampire and Bubbleworks are 2 very popular rides, due to their strategic positioning being close to the main entrance and catering for everyone. Hotel guests tend to be able to get there a little early, and seeing as that particular Saturday was the first peak day of the year, you should've really expected long queues all day.
Dragon Falls can have long periods of down time. I've seen people try to climb out of boats before which I think leads to the whole ride being evaced; mind you the teams tend to do this fairly quickly, but you can only do these procedures so quickly.
Because it was the parks first peak day, a lot of new staff could be seen. I spotted 3 or 4 people shadowing at Vampire, so queues and throughputs may have been a lot longer/slower then usual because new people need to train at some point. This may be similar with bubbleworks, people will have a clue what their doing, its just sometimes especially for new comers it can be nerve wracking to deal with a breakdown (you can see it on their faces). Normally a higher member of staff can be seen helping people out of boats at bubbles (I've been stuck under the fountains before) and they try to move people through the fountains as quickly as possible to avoid getting them soaked. Effects like I assume the fountains are out of control of the operators, and so theres very little they can do to turn them off. I'm sorry to hear that the staff weren't very sympathetic for you though.
As for staff immaturity, you'll see a similar age in staff across Legoland and Chessington. Whilst they might be low in age, they are all trained and tested before they're allowed to work on rides, so unless they were completely abandoning procedures then I don't think that's a fair comment to make.
Finally, the queue time boards can take up to 20 minutes or so to change. Last year I had to wait outside of vampire for my friends who had gone through and someone standing at the main gate told me that they had asked for the queue time to be changed but it sometimes takes a while to go through, and different systems do it quicker (so the queue time boards, ride queue times and the app may be a bit out of sync, all be it they shouldn't be too far from eachother).
I'm really sorry to hear you had a bad day, as Chessington is one of my favourite parks, however it isn't the best ran, especially considering the state of the things it has to run.
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Both companies say they don't make models of ride types unless someone asks them to. Wasted energy and resources. If a park approached B&M asking for a family coaster (see happy valley) They'll cater for that. If a park asks for B&M to do a launch coaster (Holiday Park), They'll cater for that. B&Ms are a lot more expensive then intamins, and have become renowned for being extremely intricate and fantastic huge rides, not so much for smaller coasters. I do agree, I'd love to see more launch rides from B&M, but they won't happen unless parks ask for them. As with intamin, they have spread themselves out a fair bit further then most other ride companies, so they tend to be beaten in different markets by companies who are more renwoned for creating a specific ride (inverts, Vekoma & B&M, Spinners, Maurer & Mack etc.)
The reason we aren't seeing more of these slightly obscure rides from producers is they aren't asked for. If something works well, it'll have a higher demand, especially if it's a bit different to everything else. It gives them a USP for the GP.
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Had Nitrogenie at towers last year. For what it was, I did think it was a fair bit over priced, (£4 something for a small ice cream...?). I was the only one in my party to get one because all the others would rather go to a B&J hut to get ice cream there then at NG.
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What day did you visit? I'm just wondering if this matches with my experience (on Friday & Saturday).
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Ripsaw returns in a dual top spin.
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I don't agree with RAPs entirely. At locations such as Europa, there is no RAP queues. Everyone is treated the same, and if, for whatever reason, you find it mentally or physically impossible to bare the queue, tough. I know a lot of staff members feel the same, particularly with the continual rise of guests who seem to be using the system in this way. I do think everyone should have a chance to ride, however I think for some more then others the RAP is abused, rather then needed as a use.
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