Fred
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Oh dear lord.
Whyyyyyyy.
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Love how Bounce has been fixed.. almost 2 years after it broke.
Their maintenance budgets are impressive.
- TPJames, Coaster and StealthRider
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They're missing a couple of items. Other than that, they're pretty much complete.
These were meant to be entry level (so cheaper than Splash) when planned so don't expect the earth - but in my personal view they're better than Splash!
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SAW gives me a headache on first ride, especially if I sit on the back row.
The Smiler makes me feel sick if I re-ride after quick succession, but has never given me a headache.
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Did they go back to 10pm last year?
It's nice to see that any cuts in Halloween budgets have pretty much been reversed and all the opening times have remained (Apart from Chessie's offpeak days, but at least the event exists during that time now!)
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Maybe it's margin of error programmed in is too tight - if they gave it a larger margin of error then the ride wouldn't want to try and correct itself so quickly and therefore not end up an unsynced (and broken) mess?
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Glad I haven't been this year. I was gonna make my yearly trip however TripAdvisor reviews have completely put me off going - no point when nothings working.
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Silverglade is Business Support - so admin services, call centre, merlin annual pass, finance
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Finally! Been thinking Hocus Pocus has needed a new name since 08ish.
Return to 8pms are excellent too. New marketing director eh? The place seems to finally be going somewhere!!
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I miss throughput challenge days.. the ones which were difficult to beat
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No because the park closes at 7.
Highly doubt the queues for the coasters will be anything more than 15-20mins at the end of the day anyway.. if they had a queue at all!
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It's a good way of advertising how to stay on park for longer - 7pm comes and only people with wristbands can join the queues.
Magic Kingdom did this for their Mickeys Not-So-Scary Halloween when I visited. Park closed for normal visitors, all attractions available wristband only with stations selling the evening event around the park.
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Don't think they do 2 for x amount anymore to be honest.
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Probably not even operational. Mainly financial and financial alone.
Which kinda goes towards the addition of mirrors. If someone didn't think they had to put them in ridiculously cheaply using no budget whatsoever then they'd likely have had decent quality mirrors which wouldn't need removing now!
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£10 per photo, 4 for £25!
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Sorry was thinking Alton Towers. You can add Swarm in (though that might be quicker as they really do love to sell their Fastrack there
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Air is the only ride where you go slower after merge points - crafts are sent every 3 minutes from one station if they're on 3 trains (that's time waiting for the craft to arrive, plus time waiting for the craft ahead to leave lifthill). Obviously before merge you have both stations, so you have 2 crafts every 3 minutes. Obviously Fastrack can slow it down, however it shouldn't do so too much (Fastrack for Air is 20% of capacity, and rarely sells out nowadays).
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Their average is 48 crafts per hour at the moment - due to better staffing and the fact the ride likes to actually work nowadays.
That's 1344pph. Pretty good!
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They're very slow. These were raised over a month ago.
It's actually cheaper to buy a Thorpe Season Pass than a full price day ticket - the season pass is £48 (or annual pass for £58!)
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Smiler has been opening as early as possible for ages now. Most guests are still coming mainly for the smiler, so if the queue time is short enough it'll be guaranteed they'll re-ride this before heading off. They do it a lot when the queue is 5mins, so they'll do it a lot during ERT!
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Woaaaahhh there.
Nice that they've been kept to Alton's information board style and not adapted for Chessington (and that they're both black rather than the multitudes of colours that Alton has!)
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Trust me...most normal people...normal guests visit ONCE a year IF that, so they are not going to re ride, they are going to try and get on as many rides as possible.
They definitely do re-ride The Smiler - it's the queue time which puts it off.
It's a good idea to add it onto ERT (loads just join the queue and wait currently anyway). They need to add some middle ground rides, really need to add those.. but otherwise it's a pretty good line-up, finally they've put the most popular and most busiest attractions onto ERT which means it's worthwhile having it.
They say it's a trial, it's not a trial at all it's staying this way.. it says trial incase of negative feedback
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I never brace myself on Colossus and always have a smooth enjoyable ride. I find it more seat dependant, then brace yourself at certain moments dependant.
I find "rough" coaster more comfortable slouched anyway. Colossus has this weird thing in that it rides perfectly if you dont hold on and have your arms up or out or whatever. If I decide to hold on for some mad reason it becomes uncomfortable.
The Smiler
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Yes they should. Maybe one day they will....