Fred
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Good way to boost the gate figures, however another sign to show they're struggling this year!
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It's begun, the first school trips have started flocking to our nations attractions. It's queue season till September in my books.
It's queue season until the first week or two of the summer holidays.
Then it's as quiet as an offpeak day, like september. Oh, I just cannot wait to be visiting.
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I used to have it direct from soundcard.
Not very useful, as I no longer have it anymore. Someone may have uploaded it though?
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They won't lose any money - Oblivion's just there now so it doesn't affect too many people if it's open or not. People won't go out of their way just to ride it anymore.
However, rumour is beginning of this week. Let's hope so!
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Really glad you added Rita to the poll, I would've kicked up a big fuss otherwise.
Voted Nemesis though. Smiler is good, really really good on front row.. but Nemesis beats it.
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So apparently all you need to take down a ride are some ladders and blocks of wood?
My degree taught me nothing...
Apparently so.
See, I looked at those photos and thought.. Ooh scaffolding. Scaffolding coming off from the burnt stub mansion I presume. Which it's in the right location for.
Otherwise it'd be the same as parking a truck at tomb blaster to do routine maintenance to Vampire.
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The manual extraction of riders, as you put it, more than likely would've worked. However, the ride was not in the position for them to allow them to do it.
I'd much rather cut through each harness, than have all 40 open (rather slowly albeit) and people potentially putting themselves in danger due to position of the ride.
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Doesn't make sense.
But it's good. Don't complain. Have enough rides having rising height restrictions, the lower the better.
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I imagine it'll be covered over, like it is during it's winter maintenance.
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I'm kind of bored of trying to defend the park (which shouldn't need defending - it's obvious there's someone not doing their job properly here).
Rides teams are not linked financially to fastrack. They receive sod all revenue from it, they don't sell it themselves and the staff will more than likely hate the fastrack system.
Then again, it's down to them to ensure they're relaying accurate queue times to control, who in turn should relay accurate queue times to the boards and over the radio. They might have an issue with the connections (they always used to fail to update on the system at Chessington due to lack of signal anyway). The best way would be having the ride entrance queue times linked to the rides themselves to update, as towers has on the ride entrances that have queue boards.
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It's interesting what might've happened to Rameses - interesting to see that they didn't pump the harnesses open manually. Interesting that they couldn't manually move it down.
Not being able to move it suggests an issue with backup/manual method. The ride seems to have locked itself so power was on.
All speculation of course, either way it'll be a while til it's open as they'll need to get themselves quite a few restraints!
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It seems to be the issue of being completely unable to lower the ride down to ground position which is the issue - usually you can plug in a backup battery supply and move it down. The harnesses would've been able to open as you can then manually winch them open. However, they couldn't possibly have done this mid air.
Shame really, that pretty much guarantees Rameses down for months, if not all season or forever. It'll be mighty expensive purchasing new harnesses and T-Bars for 40 seats.
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1) Open
2) 90mins
3) ....4 trains.
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Sonic runs maximum 3 adults per car in wet weather operation.
Sounds like Chessie was running on "offpeak" mode, ie.. lowest capacity they can possibly get away with. Bit irritating. Slightly. Majorly.
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The lift chain did not snap. The gearbox went.
It'll probably be open tomorrow, as all their efforts were on opening smiler whilst awaiting the part.
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Aww that's fun though.
About that poster, what did it say about Lord of the Darkness again? Be interesting to re-read it!
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I believe the Dark Forest needs less trees.
There's being forest in a theme park.. and then there's just ridiculous.
Ban the trees.
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The break in the middle is definitely very needed. Felt very ill after the first section, that was just enough time to feel good. End of ride, I felt fine!
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I'd like the site to launch within a reasonable timeframe, and not a few years/continuously never.
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Smiler is still beating Thirteen and Air in their first 2 weeks of operation.
What a fun fact that is. Least it's only stalling, not destroying its drop section or railing.
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I've heard a lot of people say ''It gets incredibly annoying and unbearable when you've been waiting 3 hours".
Last few posts are pretty much a "told ya"
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I am really looking forward to going on park, getting in that shop and buying some merch.
I really want a t-shirt or two, some designs are well good!
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I've heard a lot of people say ''It gets incredibly annoying and unbearable when you've been waiting 3 hours". These people obviously haven't had to work with Storm Surge music all day
For every person who says it gets unbearable, there's more who say its actually fantastic.
I listened to it up close for 3hrs last week, and now I'm obsessed with it. It works in different ways to people, depending on how pessimistic they take life
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The ha ha ha bits fill the area with such a joy and atmosphere which really isn't found at towers.
It's incredibly uplifting, everyone gets in the mood by it!
- Cornflakes, Tom, Sidders and 1 other
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The Banning Game
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Banned for being able to watch Despicable Me 2 yesterday. Not jealous, in any shape or form.