Fred
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Apparently camelots were wild because they just had no sort of resistence - so, like legolands spinning spider, you'll be able to spin them literally as fast as you can physically turn them.
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It's very towersy. Very very towersy.
Which is all good, cos towers advert and sort of branding is great. Buuut, some sort of individual identity would be nice.
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Excuses excuses excuses. It'd take a whole couple of minutes to test them.
It'd be open on time regardless of if they had to check them or not.
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Hmm.. doesn't exactly spell exciting, sounds like a corporate inhouse video "This is what we've been achieving this year" style.
Where's any talking or making people err.. wanna visit?
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Considering the rest of the rides say "if you're under 140cm you can not ride" it's obvious they just forgot to add the not in.
Closed season creating a page of discussion, that's impressive!
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You can have emergency lighting which doesn't have a constant green light shining.
They just chose to have that system without much thought process. Tbf, it's not like it makes a huge difference to the experience now does it?
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Don't think space was as much an issue back then either. You don't wanna make a queueline where there could potentially be a new attraction etc. Nemmy is fine cos it's miles away, same with Air and to an extent thirteen. Shame thirteen doesn't interact with the ride but that was slightly the point of it.
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Area three can't be connected individually, it has to be connected with area two, and would only be open if the queue went out the entrance which is extremely rare so yeah, not used as you say.
That access road queue you can see the remains of the posts in the concrete, if you look opposite the nemmy entrance you see a bin and the queueline, followed by a gate onto that path. The road itself was used as a queueline, rather than an access road at the time.
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Area 3s only not used because the queue never warrants it being used! Nothing to do with staff or access, it's well easy to access from multiple points for staff.
Interestingly, very little of the original route has been demolished - sure, the fencing is missing, the rest is there, particularly in the woodland up by the carpark!
Weirdly interesting looking at old queue routes, never see this happening for Rita will you?
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I queued 40mins for Crush's on all the times I went on it on a midweek visit in November.
I imagine it'd be around the same during this off season?
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How would they go about fast track if that were to happen though, as I'm presuming its the reason why its no longer in use...
The reason it's not in use is because air was built. That first drop is directly above the old queueline (next time on the ride, look to the left as leaving lifthill you'll see some bricks which just end up on grass.. that's the queue).
Fastrack will remain the same. If that entire area is full from station to merge point, it's 10mins. With the extended queue open it'd be 15mins. You'd still be queueing longer with fastrack on other rides, like air.
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Yeah, that queueline has always been intended to reopen, for those days when it's not quite busy enough to open the full area 2 (the queue to the left of the entrance). They've just never really gotten round to it.
The main issue is that the queueline literally goes up and then opens straight into air's ride area, they need a couple of fence panels and level out the ground to reconnect both sides. Maybe one day they'll do it, or remove it. However, removing it would cost money and they're not prepared to do that yet.
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I think they've done huge differences to the perception of the zoo, and infact is the only part of the park to progress properly in the past 5 yrs or so.
It used to be a right run down ****hole at one point, now it's comfortable, colourful and informative. They seem to put care into majority of it (creepy caves still feels 00s era though) and it's featured heavily in adverts since 06 or so.
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Park building rides gains attendance boost shocker.
I love this park though, needs a few more attractions to make the place truly worthwhile to visit. Currently, only worth visiting on after dark due to length of journey time to get decent hours worth there.
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Atmosphere - Whilst a bigger building could of given us more fire exits meaning more people being allowed into the building, it would of just looked hideous with fire exit signs dotted every few meters, ruining the 'atmosphere'.
Not particularly, every dark ride and scary things have fire exit signs, you can make them fit in. Who's to say scary buildings don't have fire exits? They do, all buildings do. It's a part of realism which is fine to exist.
This is ironic as Towers don't turn their audio off during shut down's, I seem to remember a lot of people saying that The Smiler was 'laughing' at them whilst the ride/area was evacuate
HA HA HA, HA HA HA.... bad taste, real bad 
I was backing up Thorpe there, didn't say it was a bad thing at all apart from explaining the confusion (Note: Thirteen doesn't say breakdown, yet smiler does clearly explain a delay. Why? Because not saying it causes confusion and anger). You wouldn't just turn off an entire areas audio because it'd kill all atmosphere and make a bad situation worse, I'm not saying thorpe should turn theirs off either.
Sometimes you're a penis and should read before responding.
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I managed to do Disney paris for 3 days for £193. It can be cheap (well, compared to what you'd probably expect). But all depends on time of year.
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Soarin' is ****e. Not worth anyones time.
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Can't get angry at Chessie anymore, it's purely expected. All my anger for the place was expelled about this time last year.
Only thing they've seemingly managed to do over winter is reroof something and burn something else down. Literally sounds just like normal for that place.
Also, hello TraX. I love winter purely to see your informative posts again!
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Fantastic opening hours, let's hope they stay that way.
Good to see them building them back up again. Opening hours are key to any park, so the longer the better!
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They won't strip out a large and integral restaurant to replace a ride - a restuarant of that size and throughput would need replacing like for like.
It'll probably go in a vacant building or in replacement of the games units.
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1) Visit more theme parks
2) Somehow automatically gain a good career without having an interview. That'd be really, really good. And in the right industry, I'd be confident from the offset.
3) Bigger willy. Why not? I mean, it's okay now but it's like girls and boobs or bums or anything to do with themselves.
2014 Season
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Honestly? I don't think it'll ever be properly introduced. A phase, like the original virtual queue systems about 14yrs ago.