Fred

£20 for 4 photos, no discounts anymore. It's the same merlin wide apparently.

Nah it was turned off. Been mentioned many times on this forum that it does work, but turned off and the reason why. Think it was something to do with safety as people would stand or rock boat to move out of way of it.

From the scaffolding layout, I imagine motor replacement. Ripsaw has it's fair share of downtime. 2010 it was closed for a good 3 weeks or so in total purely down to motor replacement. It's just never reported as noones interested in the ride. It and rameses probably is down about the same.

I've done a group of 4 a couple of weeks ago after waiting 10mins for the group to two to join us! It was literally amazing. Literally. Girlfriend shat it. Which was a shame, as I just wanted to re-ride and re-ride. No chance now, thing closes on Sunday and not available before then

On food offerings, mine goes like this: Woodcutters (that minute steak is absolutely gorgeous!) FCC Pizza Pasta Mexicana BBQ Anything else Burger Kitchen.

She had balls, had the biggest influence in changing the countries landscape and economic ability since peacetime. She's as iconic as Churchill, and as important to britain as him.

Yeah, they work for Picsolve. Just like games are HB leisure. However, they wear the chessington uniform so guests presume they're Merlin staff and therefore any bad picsolve staff puts a bad light on the park itself.

It shares similarities to Bar360, but that's it. Actually, the website has menus. Here you go, lazy boy : http://www.altontowers.com/uploadedFiles/Page_Content/Events_and_Info/Food,_Shopping_and_Photos/Woodcutters-main-menu.pdf#PremiumDining

Actually there has been. And you can batch properly. I worked on vampire for 3 years, and the issues relating to the previous way of doing things were: People all queued up in the same lanes or near each other, leading to them either trying to push through and fill a train, having to go on seperate rides, or having a queueing time way more than some other rows. Rows would become empty, as people wished to wait for their friends in other rows to align up with them Back rows would be empty if disabled riders weren't there, and noone was willing to fill them There was no good estimate of queue time. It could be 0mins, it could be 20mins in that station. It looked a mess, was claustrophic and did not set a good example of what Chessington could achieve Batching should eliminate those problems - people will ride on same train, people will not be trying to get into each others seats, people will all have an equal queueing time from merge point. Batching works on every other sodding coaster and ride in the world, it's only Chessington which manages to cock it up so much that people believe the old system worked when it plainly didn't. When I worked there, you would get 750pph on 2 trains (thats a train dispatched just under every 2mins), and we were hitting 1100pph on 3 if we had an efficient team. It's awful that they don't even strive to achieve anywhere near that now. Bet fastrack allowances haven't been changed to accomodate that either.

Picsolve have other motives, and her motives would be to gain as many photos as possible so that they achieve a higher sale rate and maybe linked to an incentive for her. Rides are different. They don't have targets, apart from achieving customer service and throughputs. Obviously at this park, throughputs have gone out of the window and they're concentrating purely on one thing, which is having a detrimental affect on both. That still hasn't changed. Who knows why they're doing it. I've asked a couple of the guys in the management team, to no response. Perhaps they're literally all new, perhaps they're having no encouragement by management, perhaps they're all useless. It's not to sell fastrack and make money, as rides are not a money making dept and have never, ever, been linked in such a way.

True. It's impressive they've swapped a rubbish tunnel with a worse one. Don't think anyone was expecting that

Though if we make this more realistic: Fury - 400. Falls - 800. Bubble - 600. Zufari - ??. Vampire - Probably about 400 also. Either way, still utterly shocking.

No. I imagine they've brought in new rules which they're interpretting wrongly, or their staff are just ****. As I always say, noone intentionally builds a queue. Noone. For rides staff, the more fastrack = more stressful work is. So everyone tries to avoid that. I know, I've been there. As for this whole "merlin must want queues" bollocks - Thorpe are on full capacity more often than not, and towers have had mentions of good teams with extremely good dispatching on Nemesis over the forums so obviously it's not the mentality of all.

I love thorpes temporary stuff. Looks ace. Surely the restrictions (bar the height) is exactly the same anyway, so could've just been left.. not like that height board is being any use whatsoever anyway. Just the type of place it is obviously.. towers changes restrictions, so gets an external company to layer over it temporarily whilst a new sign is created.. thorpe does laminated paper. As for metal, he's probably thinking towers - X Sector and the valley love metal, but that's about it.

Mobile version is rather **** - I have to refresh the page quite often when just browsing the forum.

I miss the Vampire music playing outside it's entrance - last heard it in 08. Bring it baaaaack!

Must be the same reason why saw hasn't been open at Thorpe. Lifthill gearbox operating temperatures etc apparently.

It costs them over a grand a day to run. That's more expensive than running the entire forbidden valley. Its understandable.

You follow da signs. Leave station - turn right.. end of road, turn left... walk.. chessington appear infront of your VERY EYES. Takes 10mins, literally. But it's effort, get a bus and become fat like me.

Everyone will be getting train to Chessie south. Sod the walk, I might bus it . Best attended Chessie meet potentially? Lets do it!

Correct boyo.

A-kid got it exactly right, and that's why it's so uncomfortable there. Colossus, Inferno and Nemesis loops are perfecto.

Well no. Because the only way to make it sync was by having 3 trains. It'll never be on 3 trains again.

Which suggests something doesn't it? Thirteen started from the end of 08 season. Black Hole tent was starting to be dismantled around June?

To add: Spose you'd have to add Big one really. Don't queue major for it, it's not worth that much of a queue. There's far better rides in the park!