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Love the branding. Love love love love love it.

I think everyone would be interested in that!

Hmmm interesting. I'd be happy to grab myself an easter egg!

Nemesis has the drain hose. It's just really unsuccessful when going up the lifthills.

Nah, all this means is water in the actual lake system. So if you jumped into rumbas water, it's not treated. Best of luck, it might be awful. Water pumped through the features will be from tap water though. Unless they have a filtered system, of which I highly doubt they do considering they're all hose pipes. So taps for that. Water into lakewise, it's a man made lake so doesn't matter. But the water they chuck on you I highly doubt is chlorinated anyway (other than chlorine in the local mains) but either way it wouldn't matter.

It's rust from the oxidation of steel from when the trains aren't running. When it rains it washing off.. straight onto people as B&M drip trays aren't great.

You're forgetting that we can compare rides almost like for like. One Colossus ride vs Thunder Mountain which has something like 6 trains. They'll have very comparable maintenance costs (and I expect Disney has higher costs). The difference between disney and merlin is that disney have massive maintenance budgets and almost anything is acceptable, Merlin you have to capex it and therefore less is likely to be permitted. So, it is merlin really.

New legislation came in around 96 - all the water they pour on people from Rumba will more than likely be straight from tap. None of the water features on rumba are straight from the lake, so you've been misinformed here.

Gaffa tape and all. Bloody love it. What on earth are they intending with this?!

The point of the advert is to bring the families in, not the thrillseekers which spend sod all on park and make the place feel like a ****hole. And with that point in mind, it's a good advert.

I don't understand where all these ride reliability has come from? Smiler was fine until around 4pm on saturday and then been it's usual self since. Thirteen had ridiculous queues due to reduced capacity.. that was about it in terms of reliability?! Sure, everyone hones into the whole smiler down all the time thing cos of last year so a 2min shutdown would be advertised to the world.. but I can't see it being any better or worse than ever before, apart from the fact people are looking for these issues.

Meh. At least they've moved on from reusing old alton towers and thorpe adverts.

They might still have the absolutely ridiculous rules in place from last year which prevented them from having any sort of throughput ever. Let's hope they don't though, as the moron who put those in place has left.

It's the same as zufari trucks going around empty at the beginning.. you want them to be comfortable with their environment. If the animals were distressed then it's easier to just stop running than close the attraction (also, people are noisy gits so can affect it further)

This bag drop thing is so confusing. The original is actually a tiny place next to where the photos used to be. Then they built one at the entrance. Then they moved back encorporating the photos. Now they're... back at the entrance?

They changed mexicana menus two years ago. They used to be absolutely amazing, and then they became rubbish.

Interesting, Ripsaw has had no changes to their rules whatsoever even though it's exactly the same ride and should have the same fail safes.

Now that sounds quite plausible from Chessington. Either way, at least they have three trains to allow consistent 2 train use throughout the year.

Running the ride efficiently or not would not affect the safety of the riders. It'd affect the experience, but not the safety.

I do wonder how long Sub Terra will have though, if it's popularity dropped off a cliff last year and was only busy during scarefest. Shows that as much as market research says it wants it.. scare attractions don't really work all year round.

No issues there for me with any of those. Why? Cos literally sod all people go on any of those before 11am. It's not like last time when it was coasters..

About £20-25 quid each way.

Far better than previous year of something like 14k!

Seems like they've lost the old station track when changing the audio system for Vampire then. As long as they sort out the loop it'd be grand (chessington, the place which had messed up fairground scene audio for years, so this won't happen)

Yeah, if 2 cycles are running then that's the maintenance suggestion out the window. Ripsaw has a cycle longer, more intense and involves all of what Rameses includes and is in almost constant use, so I never understand this Ripsaw bashing. Having ridden both, countless times, I know my favourite.