Fred
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I believe they did. But, admittedly I can't remember the exact date; a new legislation has come into force stating that anything that 'wets' a rider more than a spray and is added after a certain has to be chlorinated water. Rumba and Loggers get used to it due to their age, but for example if a new water feature was added, or a new water ride for that matter it would have to use chlorinated water, or so I've been told.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Meh.
At least they've moved on from reusing old alton towers and thorpe adverts.
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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.
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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)
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^ The new bag drop is actually the old bag drop! The original!
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?
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They changed mexicana menus two years ago. They used to be absolutely amazing, and then they became rubbish.
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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.
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Now that sounds quite plausible from Chessington. Either way, at least they have three trains to allow consistent 2 train use throughout the year.
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The operations for the ride would need to improve massively for them to actually be allowed to run all three. It's part of Merlin's new safety policy.
Running the ride efficiently or not would not affect the safety of the riders. It'd affect the experience, but not the safety.
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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.
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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..
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About £20-25 quid each way.
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Far better than previous year of something like 14k!
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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)
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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.
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32a from Hanley Bus station.
Every bus going from the train station side of the road goes to the bus station, there's one every 5mins or so apart from Sundays when they're less frequent. If you get on a First bus they're £5 for unlimited travel that day.
It's just timings for the 32a you need to worry about. First do an X39 over summer and hopefully other holidays this year also though.
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Samurai is to do with weighting as you say - 15 people allow it to move under it's own weight to the platform to allow evac should there be complete failure.
Rameses is completely different. It had absolutely nothing to do with weight or ride running, I've got many years experience working with top spins, so know it's not to do with that.
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I thought it was a case that it had cracked.. that they'd repaired this but they don't want it ever happening again?
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Wonder how much a couple of new trains would cost. If a decentish price might be worth it as it'd be quite marketable!
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The Imperial Leather Sponsorship ended several years ago, but they seemed to just peel off the Imperial Leather logos and leave the rest of the ride alone!
I think he was pointing out that more Imperial Leather branding has gone. The ride was still literally littered with it last year (no matter how much fanboys somehow claim it wasn't - it was.)
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Have to say, Market Square and some other improvements actually look incredibly bloody good.
Want to see these in person, I bet there's a great atmosphere there now particularly on a good summers day!
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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.