Fred
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You'd save an entire one member of staff. Probably considered unsafe nowadays.
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I remember the days of capers never closing. The area has permenant floodlights.
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JoshC does. But, by christ, those photoshop skills are impressive.
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Wouldn't fit in subs space.
Why can't you just scrap the ride rather than give it to another park? We're not in the tussauds era anymore!
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The park won't be open 2-3hrs after that at all. Vampire will close with a half hour queue somedays, the park will be empty by 8pm.
Bring back the days when you could actually ride rides in the dark, the point of visiting during october half term. All those poor children are missing out on incredible memories (everyone remembers the parks when they're dark!).
- Glitch and dragon2000
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I'm not going to compare it to Universal, however I'll say that that compares to the "worst" theming we find in the UK independent parks. First impressions do obviously count.
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Read the terms of the vouchers, if it doesn't state you cannot use it (or the voucher is in date) then you can use it.
Mazes can be bought on the day at any Sales & Information point.
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True, I was comparing the young ones rides though - not rides which require you to be 1m or 1.2m.
On that scale actually, legolands Jolly Rocker is god awful, and we all know how utter crap Jungle Coaster was..
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£9, 3rd edition, presume you can get discount on top of that?!
Balls!
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Whats with these enthusiasts not liking those queueline tvs which actually relate to a story and give you something to look at for ages?
You bastards. You're ruining it for the rest of us.
Go to america and suffer all their queueline talking tvs in every queue (ala Universal). Then moan about swarmy.
- Benin, MattyMoo, coastercameron98 and 4 others
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I'm impressed that this hasn't really gained any sort of attention. Rides, regardless of what rides, are closing earlier and earlier every year.
Brilliant.
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- 8-9pm – select rides close depending on demand
Fright Night open hours.
Waaaaaaaaaait. Is this a typo, or are rides closing an hour earlier than originally (I swear it was 9pm ride close, 10pm if busy?)
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Yes Speed has only broken down once this year from a 90min powercut that stopped the ride for 2 hours that's it for speed this year and I have heard that rage is doing well too maybe it's the prototypey nature of the 2 merlin gersts
Yeah that's bollocks, it was down the entire day when I visited on an after dark event 2nd week in August.
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Never understood that argument - Legoland and Chessie tame their rides right down to suit families.
Towers have exactly the same style rides with the same height restrictions, yet are insane fun. Heave ho compared to Longboat Invader, for example.
Plus, everyone has to try out Frog Hopper. It's incredibly thrilling, far far more than you're expecting particularly if you're used to Berry Bouncers/Scarab Bouncers.
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Maintenance budgets aren't unlimited - we know this looking throughout entire of Chessington.
Chances are, if it was like it was 4yrs ago, it'll be down to one guy maintaining the entire water systems at the park. So he needs to do daily checks on those first then fixing effects come as a last resort.
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They used to run with 5 platform staff during the days of 3 train operation.
It could be relatively easily done to ensure smooth operation of 3 trains on that ride - it'd require investment - properly aligning airgates, a decent exit system which allows guests to be safe and get off the platform quickly, and perhaps a baggage operation or just decent staff.
Unfortunately, investment would never happen, so we're stuck with whatever pressures the management put on their staff to do their jobs efficiently, which judging by this thread is non-existant.
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All they need to do is use those BIG and VISABLE queue boards stating obviously "Ride is UNAVAILABLE, try other rides and return later" and that would be sufficient enough.
- BigBobJones and pluk
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That'd be internal H&S - not external, just to point out.
External H&S won't give a crap, the ride system tells you if bars are open, and as they're hydraulic it'd be rather obvious if they failed. A simple tap to ensure it's not releasing is sufficient enough to please HSE if they ever were interested (never would be).
Everything the park does could be resolved, somethings will be more difficult than others, but ultimately this'll probably bubble down to money. Just because it makes money or brings in money doesn't mean it's diverted into a maintenance budget big enough to run properly.
- BigBobJones and pluk
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Fastrack is a problem, which the park may identify as a problem. It just needs to do something about it.
Towers, last year, had a problem with fastrack, people mentioning that it had consistently big slow queues, devaluing fastrack, and particularly over scarefest creating stupidly huge main queues.
As a result, they listened. Upped fastrack prices, reduced allocation, or more noticably removed free fastrack for hotel guests which'll help the issue incredibly.
Guest Services used to issue priority passes, nowadays they issue complimentary fastrack, which comes out of a quota system. This would mean in theory that they'll run out of fastrack to issue - or at worst highlight the issue with giving complimentary fastrack as they're now all accounted for having come out of the fastrack system rather than paper as before.
Perhaps, based on how the change works at towers, and seeing if it affects the revenue streams, thorpe may well adapt this approach in future to reduce those complaints, increase value for money for fastrack as there's less people using it, and reduce main queue times as they're moving far more smoothly.
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Ripsaw is exactly the same model, built a year after.. it's all down to maintenance and staff knowing what they're doing.
Rameses won't need any changing, it just needs harnesses.. though it'd be nice if they ramped up the speed and got in Huss to reprogramme the thing!
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5min queues when the ride can only get about 300pph? That's not popular.