Fred

Most top scans have them - fairground ones seemingly click down and they wobble too!

What? No way. Bubbleworks is looking the best it's EVER looked thanks to corporate sponsorship 8 years ago.

CBeebies is literally to see if they can counteract the issue of long queues and kids stuck in them on night garden (if successful I imagine get set go and postman pat too).

...Well that's the point of it. You don't reserve your ride, and then queue when you arrive as that'd completely defeat the object. This is becoming a more elaborate test for a mobile qbot system though. One which doesn't require additional staff members and one which pays its way!

To be fair, The Smiler isn't all that bad.... ...It could do with some sort of sponsorship though. Imperial Leather anyone?

Mm that'll be a fun day for guests using the main queues. With both fastrack and reserve going ahead of them, which means any queue board will be highly inaccurate. Don't get me wrong, it's very good that they're allowing people to queue. Very good. Just wouldn't enjoy being in normal queues myself when you've got no limit on those using reserve and ride at the moment!

Again towers suffers from the middle of nowhere effect. When they used to be open until 7pm in the summer, apart from literally the last week the place would be completely deserted by 5pm. Even the 6pms over May Half Term the park was empty by 6.40 on a couple of those days which suggests people are not making use of the full opening times.

Nah what I meant is those figures are nowhere near accurate.

Maybe it's shy and needs encouragement, rather than angry cyberbullying you've all been giving it on here.

Pinch of salt on those figures. Real massive pinch of salt.

There's a solution - ensure it can never drain into the rivers (it's a pump drain, so break it?) If you need to pump it out, use the vehicles like they did beforehand.. though you can remove dye by chlorinating the water and then counterbalancing it afterwards (and if it can't drain into the rivers it wont matter about high concentrations of chlorine either). That'd be quite a cheap way of doing things (compared to pumping out and taking to a storage site or whatever). However you'd need someone who wants to accept that risk or just leave it as it is.

The thing that Reserve and Ride would work really well for.. are attractions with ridiculously low throughputs which stay roughly the same. Scare mazes. That'd be nice, instead of having to wait 3hrs in a non-moving queue. I'd much rather queue 3hrs for a coaster as you're usually moving still.

The 50 euro pass is for the entire duration of your holiday stay. Whether you're there for 2 days or 4 weeks, it'd be 50 euro

I'd take that report with a bucket of salt as it's never accurate.

Don't know why they still bother splitting queues. Run them like a front row queue in the station like they managed beforehand. There's still nothing stopping you joining the backwards queue, getting a ticket, pocketing the ticket and going forwards. Surely they get complaints about this, but then again thorpe like to argue against complaints rather than take anything on board or try to resolve things, as judged by their quite frankly awful social media responses.

Not sure how it can have a theoretical throughput of 1300 when the absolute maximum you can push it to (sending it the second it's ready, with no guests on to delay) is 68 dispatches = 1088 if full. Therefore theoretical is 1088. And as they have managed it a couple of times, is actual too.

Stealth.. has three trains... so decides to run rotating maintenance so only 2 are ever available. Other coasters.. have two trains... so do maintenance of both trains over winter. Tell me what the point in having 3 trains on Stealth is? Cos they've obviously completely lost the plot here (then again, this is the park which loves to run one train until they absolutely need to run two on everything anyway).

Btw, you can put any random 9 digit number in and it works . Smiler doesn't get more than 1000, infact that's it's absolute maximum. Hence it's constant queues.

To be fair to the parks, since Fastrack was introduced the amount of queuejumping as diminished. Not because people are politer, but because those likely to queue jump just purchase fastrack instead.

I have no problems with them running it as long as they've thought about it logically, which they have not. Do an ERT like towers, one hour for select rides (even if it's just trans) using the main queue. Then end it, boom no issues. They had issues, and loads of issues, when they used to do free fastrack for annual passes back in the old days. They'll have issues again, and more issues once the time has ended (because people are idiots, at least with the main queue using all they can do is join whatevers there)

Yeah, hopefully they're putting in basics here.. and then setting a theme. It's easier to start from scratch with neutral than jumping from one brand to the next.

How can they be great when you haven't used one? The best way to fastrack is literally timeslotting fastracks. You know how many roughly per hour you get on ride, so allocate 10% to fastrack. Sell those out, done. The thing with QBot is that they offer VIP experiences, so someone could literally go "hmm, fancy this ride now..." book, and have it instantly accessible to them. There's no limit either, so in theory 100 guests with VIP qbot could all turn up at once and all have the same timeslot. It's a horrible way of managing guest flow, plus I hate the idea of the basic ones where you pay to queue anyway.

Jason's a nice bloke, he's very active on Twitter too and up for chatting to people (and reads this forum - hello if you see this Jason!). Definitely better than what they had before, and he can push them in the right direction.. and is really. I dislike Angry Birds Land in how it's appeared however I do enjoy everything else the park has been doing since he's come on board and destroyed the Thrill W@nker Capital stuff.

You're completely wrong on these. I'm going to use throughputs from what I remember from the good old days (ie, the days when they pushed throughputs to their very maximum) Falls is 800, Tomb is 800. Bubbles is 700 Scorpion will be around 600 Zufari (this is the one I don't know but shall hazard a guess at 450, there is no possible chance of 1000 and I'd love to see how you came to that) Fury is 600ish, Rattlesnake was 550? Vamps highest we ever got was 1100 and that was a push. Two trains were 700/750.

What happened to your 2nd blog post? From the sounds of it, California really isn't worth bothering going to? Does it have anything stand out to make you wish to visit instead of going to WDW?