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  1. The Walking Dead - The Ride: SPOILERS

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    2 minutes ago, JoshuaA said:

    Unfortunately Merlin run their parks much different to how Six Flags run things. Six Flags love to use their DC and Looney Tunes rights left and right, with Merlin the IP's are kind of spotty, and nowhere near as widespread as lets say Six Flags.

     

    With X/X No Way Out at Thorpe Park, its really just a small family roller coaster in a pyramid. The ride never really had much theming, even less than lets say The Dark Knight Coasters at Great Adventure and Great America. The ride was in pitch black darkness, and the queue line was just black corridors. It is a shame because if they did theme it to how you said, it would of been amazing! But it was really just a family coaster in pitch black.

     

    I honestly don't see Merlin using a DC theme, Six Flags have already kind of milked that one lol.

    DC isn't really all that big here either too be honest, I think you folk are much more interested in DC than we are.

    Really? I thought everyone loved DC. In fact, I saw a Superman anti-smoking PSA that came from Britain.

  2. Fear on a Ride

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    It's the stomach drop sensation I don't like, thanks to freaking El Toro in the back row on my sophomore year school trip to Six Flags.

     

    Have yet to re-ride it and conquer the fear. I don't think I ever want to.

     

    I also do not want to try Nitro for that same reason. I know it's less steep than El Toro, but the height freaks me out. So I guess it's also heights?

  3. Your theme park merch

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    I used to own a cup we got from The Great Escape, but it's gone now.

     

    I have two Cyborg T-shirts I got from Six Flags (a blue one from Great Adventure and a black one from New England), as well as a Superman cape and a Green Lantern cape that I got at GAdv. My mom also got a Daffy Duck plush at GAdv, and I got a Marvin the Martian plush.

     

    There WAS a free refill Reese's branded cup we got at Hersheypark, but seems it went the way of the TGE cup.

     

    Oh, and an ORP of me and my brothers on the Wild Mouse at Hershey.

  5. Top 10 deceased attractions you wished to have experienced

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    X:/ No Way Out at Thorpe Park (mainly when they had the computer virus video)

    Body Wars at Epcot (because I have endosomatophilia, though you might be inside a woman - look closely at the subject you go inside at the end - and I DON'T LIKE THAT)

    Sonic Spinball at Alton Towers (Sonic was my CHILDHOOD, and I always wanted to go on this ride)

    Ride the Comix at DisneyQuest (I'm a huge fan of comics, and I would LOVE this.)

    Colossus at Six Flags Magic Mountain (it was in a Kidsongs video I stumbled across that was filmed at Magic Mountain, and I LOVED it)

    Tomb Raider The Ride at Kings Island (It's got that Jonny Quest vibe to it. I don't know if I would like the hangtime, though, but I do like Cyborg Cyber Spin)

    Alien Encounter at Magic Kingdom (I love a good sci-fi story, and I don't think it'd be THAT scary. Plus the robot is voiced by Tim Curry.)

    Viper at Six Flags Great Adventure (even if it hurt, the theming interests me)

    Rolling Thunder at Six Flags Great Adventure (I never got to go on it because I first went to GAdv in 2018)

    Great American Scream Machine at Six Flags Great Adventure (I remember reading about it when it was still there and I wanted to go to GAdv, but it's gone now. I also want to go on it because of a POV someone uploaded from 1999 or 2000 where a guy apparently lost his hat on the ride and was screaming about it the whole way.)

  6. Favourite Coaster Drops

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    On 8/31/2017 at 8:17 AM, Charlesberg said:

    One is back row El Toro because of just how intense it is. That drop feels like you're going to die, it is completely nuts and really does leave a mark on you.

    I went on that in June 2018 on my school's trip to Six Flags, and it scared the PISS out of me! I was in the back row too. I still don't want to go on it again!

     

    Anyway, Batman The Ride because of how free as a bird (or bat) you feel. It is the GREATEST ride ever.

  7. The Walking Dead - The Ride: SPOILERS

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    On 5/5/2020 at 3:24 AM, JoshC. said:

    There's no simpler way to state this: Thorpe were not inspired by Swayzak.

     

    They had a tiny bit of money and did the easiest thing with it. There was no research about what would be good. There was no outside inspiration. It was just "we've got a bit of money to freshen up X:\No Way Out a tiny bit, let's make some videos for the queue line. Oh, because it has X:\ in it, let's make the video about a computer virus".

     

    It's nice there's a vague coincidental link between what Thorpe did and a TV show you like, but it is nothing more than a coincidence. 

    I know that. Maybe, if I do get the computer virus character I'm working on published (I intend to send him to DC, as they're my favorite), he could be the mascot of a DC retheme of the ride. (Like Six Flags, but in the UK.)

  9. What was X:/ No Way Out like pre-2007?

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    On 5/5/2020 at 5:44 AM, Hethetheth said:

    They were not inspired by that. Any resemblance you see is coincidence. There are hundreds and thousands of "virus" themed media and it's such a vague concept anyway. It wasn't inspired by this thing you like, plain and simple.

    I knew it, anyway. Like you said, there are lots of virus themed media, usually not getting it right when viruses are sentient (Barbie and Are You Afraid of the Dark come to mind...) The only media that got it right were Toonami, Scooby-Doo, this obscure Milton Bradley board game called The Omega Virus, and ReBoot. I'm creating my own computer virus character inspired by my favorite virus media (the ones mentioned above), and soon enough he'll be on the list.

  10. The Walking Dead - The Ride: SPOILERS

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    On 5/1/2020 at 10:04 AM, Han30 said:


    Have you ridden the coaster in any of its formats?  I’ve ridden it as XNWO just the once because - motion sickness and rode it as X and TWD many times.

    I live in the US, so no. I just found out that the computer virus theme was only for the revamp in the late 2000s, not from the very start. It was basically a ride that went "wrong" and the "X:/" thing was to look trendy. So yeah, Thorpe must've been inspired by Swayzak somehow when they revamped the ride...

  14. What was X:/ No Way Out like pre-2007?

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    Even though it's TWD now, I still want to have some X:/ No Way Out recognition. Maybe I could write a few stories set in the universe, I dunno.

     

    The original ride was about a computer virus. If you know me from my other posts, you know that I LOVE computer viruses, thanks to Swayzak from Toonami, a character from America (where I live.) I was intending to base the virus from X:/ after him, but not exactly.

     

    From what we gather in the ride, the virus has infected the Thorpe power supply. We should expand on why he did so, maybe it's for fun, maybe it's for a different reason. We should also expand on where he came from.

     

    I hope you agree with me on this. I love X:/.

  16. My ideal version of X:/ No Way Out if the Walking Dead license expires

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    On 5/4/2019 at 10:21 AM, JoshC. said:

    I'd love to see a ride about Victor the Virus, who is valiantly victorious versus vicious vacuous villains.

     

    They could call it V:\ No Vay Out

    No, and besides the name Victor reminds me of Cyborg.

     

    Make it about Swayzak the virus, who is EVIL, and I'll gladly go on it.

     

    Then again, they'll need to have their own Swayzak-like character instead of using him because they'd get sued. So why don't we think of another 2002 era futuristic name? Theorem? (Because Swayzak is the name of a techno group who has collaborated with a group named Theorem)

  17. What was X:/ No Way Out like pre-2007?

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    6 minutes ago, Hethetheth said:

    What's Swayzak, you've not mentioned it before?

     

    In seriousness though, it really just wasn't imbued with much more story or depth than the general nod towards computers and viruses.

    A sentient computer virus from Toonami's "Trapped in Hyperspace" and probably the most cheesiest villain ever. He's pretty cute.

  20. What was X:/ No Way Out like pre-2007?

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    9 hours ago, Wumbamillio said:

    It looked like a video shot on a £10 budget by some ride staff over winter. It was there for only a couple months in 2007. There was no 'virus' seen in the video, just some random clips with voiceover

    That's why it failed. It was low budget, like the original video for Moloko's "Fun for Me," before the party version made for the US (where I'm from.) 

     

    But didn't in the 2007 video say something about the computer going wrong? This was 2005 when the virus video was around.

     

    If they had shown the virus, and he looked like Swayzak (the character on my avatar for all you uneducated Brits), people would be drawn to X:/. A computer virus causing the ride to go backwards is an innovative concept, and I'm ashamed they never did anything with that. Computer viruses were a thing in the '90s, why not have that storyline as early as 1996? And it's definitely not going to be outdated at all. As long as there are computers, there will still be computer viruses.

  21. My ideal version of X:/ No Way Out if the Walking Dead license expires

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    13 hours ago, Hethetheth said:

    I would suggest that retheming the ride to a 16+ year old  TV show that I've never heard of might age the ride considerably more than the original X:/.

     

     

    Toonami is an integral part of the anime boom in the United States, where I live. It still airs today. 

    This retheme is an attempt to get Swayzak in the UK, where he was only seen online. He was in the tie-in game for Trapped in Hyperspace, which was on the UK Cartoon Network site. But none remember him, so I decided to attach him to a well-known ride about a computer virus and have people get to know him this way.

  22. What was X:/ No Way Out like pre-2007?

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    On 4/14/2019 at 6:45 AM, Wumbamillio said:

    There was a video about a computer virus added for one season only in 2005, nearly 10 years after the ride opened and after most the original design had been removed. There was never supposed to be a story to the ride

    I thought that video had been there since 1996.

    What did the virus look like? ANYTHING like my avatar?

  23. My ideal version of X:/ No Way Out if the Walking Dead license expires

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    I want something with the computer virus. If they HAD to not go back to X:/, I'd suggest a ride that's like X, but plays Moloko songs in the dark. Stuff from their Do You Like My Tight Sweater? album. Something like Rock 'n Roller Coaster, but with Moloko. But there'd be a reference to X:/ by having the computer virus be one of the guests at Moloko's concert in the queue line video.

     

    Otherwise, I'd simply put Moloko as the queue line music for the Swayzak version of X:/. Look. Computer viruses are timeless. People still get them. They could go back to the 1996 theme but with my idea and nobody would claim it's "outdated." Zing zang zoom, everyone.

  25. What was X:/ No Way Out like pre-2007?

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    On 2/19/2019 at 3:54 PM, Wumbamillio said:

     

    X NWO was an interesting ride. Really not much left by the time it changed to X. Even then X was just a very minimal change but with a new fun factor having some audio and lighting in the coaster area.

    There were no animatronics, the robots were static. The light you mention was UV which always makes white glow such as teeth.

    XNWO was a pretty convoluted concept which never quite worked as intended, but there was originally a lot more to it than the totally empty, bad experience it was in the 2000s. A whole lot more audio and the pre-ride walkaround. I always liked the 'theme' for a coaster, something different. Could have almost been the 'industrial zone' from the Crystal Maze but just never had the money for it.

    It was never a classic ride but a fun experiment, more of a children's coaster. If I remember hearing it was originally 1.2m? Might be wrong on that but it was definitely not supposed to be a hardcore thrill coaster or really that "scary", just disorientating and strange.

    There was no story, the theme was nothing to do with a computer either (other than the name, which was just a 'current' name for the day). Had it been done a bit better it might have been great fun and lasted longer.

    Lots of misinformation was spread about it online in the 2000s I remember, that there was orignally some kind of "plot" about an evil computer. In 2007 some TVs were added with a cheaply made video telling about the "X super computer" going wrong, it was funny but pointless and removed within a year.

    The plot was about a computer virus and I don't think it was misinformation. 2005 map refers to a computer in the ride. But my plans for it have to be the best cuz Swayzak

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