Matt A
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What was it originally out of curiosity?
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The Blue Barnacle (Previously Black Buccaneer)
Matt A replied to themeparkmad's topic in Chessington World of Adventures
My assumption would be that the support beams holding the ride in place had cracks in which weren't repairable. When I worked at Chessington in 2018 it was a problem, hence the repaint to be grey (makes the cracks easier to see), but the ride didn't need to be closed yet. -
Looks like Containment, Creek Freak, Platform 15, and Screamplexx Cinema at least from what is listed on their website (I imagine others existed too but have since been removed)
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A few photos of the refurbished flume pieces from the company doing the overhaul in case anyone is interested (doesn't show much): https://www.garmendale.co.uk/blog/log-flume-refurbishment/
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Stuff that "Triggers You as"/"Makes You Cringe at" an Enthusiast
Matt A replied to Charlesberg's topic in General Discussion
Could you explain this for the uninitiated? Never knew it was planned for use elsewhere. -
It doesn't help that's it's not near any train stations, so getting there isn't easy if you don't have a car, or if you want to drink at an event (which I'd imagine most would).
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Do they generally pay any better at swimming pools/other locations? At least Merlin give you the free tickets and some other perks. Didn't even realise there were staff on Amity Beach before, just assumed it was unsupervised.
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Just to add clarification to that, the signing is only to prove that the staff member has done the necessary training to work on the ride, rather than keep track of where the documents are. If there's not enough copies or they go missing, they just print more.
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So this probably doesn't mean much but I noticed recently on Google Earth that land next to Swarm is clearly being worked on, with all the vegetation being cleared recently. May 2018: June 2019: (the yellow lines indicate where a likely link would be with the current theme park) This could be for a future development or it could just be nothing, the land might just need maintaining.
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He was joking. Also the health and safety manual contains no secretive information, simply how to operate the ride. They're not signed out/in, and they don't give you the magic ability to operate the ride, you still need the key.
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From my experience while working with the seat belts on Vampire, they are used to indicate if a larger guest can get the restraint on properly, if it won't clip in, they can't go on. But the seatbelts remain a purely cosmetic thing, the ride will function fine without them. For someone's restraint to come undone the locking system would have to have completely eroded and broken inside, and the seatbelt probably wouldn't save you anyway. The policy now is that you can send an empty train with no seatbelts done or all of them done, (although we pretty much always did them up since they swing around and damage the train if undone). All belts must be done up if guests are on the train.
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Merlin do love to spoil us!
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Are you trying to tell me the I'm a Celeb maze wasn't a world class attraction bringing in people form all over Europe? 😮
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I'm not saying it ok or right, I'm just saying that's why it happens
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The staff are paid minimum wage to do a job which is quite tiring. The reason they don't do anything about the phones is simply that they don't care, it's not worth their effort to deal with, especially with the reaction the customer will give, which just then delays the dispatch.
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In case anyone on the forum who hasn't been to a meet before is considering coming to this one and is a bit nervous, I was in exactly your position last year, the 2018 Christmas meet was my first ever TPM meet, and I don't regret it for a second. Within minutes I felt a part of the group and had a wonderful day! So much so I've been to plenty of meets since then! If you're considering coming, just go for it!
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Except for the Disneyland's and Universal parks, every non-enthusiast person I've spoken to have never heard of any or the parks outside of the UK. Thorpe is a decent park for most people and makes for a good day out, which is what they are looking for.
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If the railway was still used I'm sure it would have had a rebrand to something 'Merlin' by now... World's first Walking Dead Ghost Train on a train!
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An update from the Drayton Manor case: the death was ruled an accident https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50375840
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Never thought this would get published, thanks for posting it! Wish it was still an option to use on the ride, thought they'd done a suburb job of it.
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There's a glitching effect at the end of the most recent video posted on Thorpe's Facebook page, followed by 'Initialising 2020'. Could it be a hint at the next thing to come? (probably not but who doesn't love a bit of speculation!?)
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Doesn't the trespass injunction make it a crime though? https://www.thorpepark.com/trespass-injunction
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But the staff told me it's happening next year! 🙄
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Thorpe's is also 10 mins between refills but I'm fairly sure the staff explain that when you purchase the cup. To really sue over something like that is crazy...
