Fred

The idea behind it would be so you'd spend more time eating (lol, wheres the decent sitdown restaurants excluding bar 360), more time shopping (lol you have no shops and merchandise is limited) or entertainments (lol you removed all your entertainment, and to put a big show back in the arena would be lovely and costly). All of this bubbles down to way more cost with little added experience. It's just not worth it whatever, concentrate on directing people/influencing people to ride attractions with short queues, concentrate on maximising throughputs, concentrate on queue line experiences so queues don't feel like a bad part of the day. That's how to make things successful.

That'll be down to your cookies rather than the site itself - you'll realise it stays eventually. It sometimes does this on your browser, showing updated queue times before reverting back to whatever it used to show before it. It's a browser issue rather than the website!

I think what the area really needs is a chairswing.

If it is 850pph, it is the highest throughput on park. I think the realistic throughput was around 600 (come on skyway ops, remind me!) which'll put it on par with other attractions in Chessie.

Where's the space for it?

Yeah rides works like that, you don't have shift times (so you're not stuck to 4hrs or something). Other departments are more rigid. It's mainly car parks, rides, cleaning, sales which do the entire day.

Their return to their entrance music is as powerful as towers using their towers street music. It's just different, but that doesn't mean it's awful. It'll stick in peoples minds too. But yes something classical they can adapt like towers has with ITHOMK would be good. Steal Drayton's.

You'll be bloody paid for the time you spend working. And yes, if there's a queue at the end of the day you work it. And then you clean afterwards. and then you debrief, and then you go home. Thorpe park is (luckily) not mingo, you won't see ride staff walking home 5mins before ride closes.

You can just tell from it all that it'll be stress, confusion and lead to worst off satisfaction scores than if you just left it alone. The best option, and the only real options are: Build high throughput attractions Ensure high throughput attractions are getting the high throughputs Direct guests or persuade them to use the high throughput attractions (advertise heavily the short queues/have high fastrack and low pricing points to persuade guests) Have entertainment in the queuelines for attractions without high throughputs (if you can only allocate funds to certain queues that is). Done. You can never remove a queue.

I'd put that down to approximately half of all guests on Slammer having been stuck on it, and the others hearing about it through word of mouth. Plus, that god awful noise on that video! Christ that'd be enough to put me off too!

I personally think they need some more killer intamin attractions in the area.

It adds an interesting experience.. cos obviously not every guest who visits the theme park will get to ride The Swarm on the day, however with this booking system it'll make people want to (potentially every single person on park) meaning that the timeslots will automatically fill up. Still unsure how it pans out, do they "oversell" to compensate for those people who book and not turn up because it's in 3hrs time, or what? Everything sounds way more stress and aggro than what the system is actually designed to do, and I highly expect this to show through the trials (maybe just ending up as a fastrack system like disney's fastpass+ and a paid for system on top.. though this will be at the expense of a really really slow stand-by queue). ...and who told me this restaurant's name was different to how I call it? "Use your spare time to relax with lunch in Bar 360"

It's because it's Chessington. They look at what works well (Towers' ERT system in this case)... then wonder how to make it completely impractical and awful (getting wristbands, USING THE FASTRACK ENTRANCE, CONTINUING BEYOND 10AM!). They're a bunch of baffoons there. Don't have a clue how operations work whatsoever.

They've got a "queue experience host" online which will deal with Reserve and Ride.. however their job mainly seems to be updating queue boards around the theme park. It seems like a very gradual introduction, but their reserve and ride looks to be literally a QBot (http://accesso.com/loqueue-overview/q-bot/)

They look so French!..... ...best uniform is Tower, definitely.

It needs to do a Submission and randomly transform itself into a grassy area.

That's because noone ever rides it. It might look busy but it gets about 200pph (sends one ride every 10-15mins). Do they speak about it anywhere? Do they try to ride it again? Do you hear of people actually complaining slammer isn't open? No. Why? Because it's not popular and noone goes to ride it.

...whut.

Presume they meant a Tuesday at some point sometime? Slammer, from whatever viewpoint you try and take it from, is just not worth it. Even if it's the only ride ever to exist anywhere, if it's gonna work for one month before being closed for over a year it makes it completely pointless in having.

..you mark off on pencil, noone will go through and change your vote it'd be far too time consuming (plus the ballot box always has more than one person from various party backgrounds around it). Your vote doesn't always count? It goes towards the overall count, so if everyone who said that actually voted then it would make a huge difference.

That'll be why it had a queue then EC, because it opened so late.

Has the signage made a reappearance at the entrance?

Yes we've gone a long way from new attractions being a pathway (haunted hallow) or absolutely nothing (Cwoa)!

Or is it because they dispatch one every 15 minutes or so (and has a minimum rider limit) which makes it seem popular?

If we want to be pedant about it, Get Set Go is a programme on CBeebies which gets kids up and active and ready for the day (of watching tv programmes). So to have this talk about what to get up and active and ready for the day (of riding rides of the tv programmes) IS FITTING TO IT'S THEME PERFECTLY.