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Posts posted by Fred
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I wonder if it struggles so much without any guests on it.
There are some rides where no matter how much testing you do with nobody on it, the secon weight gets added to the equasion it dies.
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This track just reminds me when I was stuck in the station in 07 whilst they took 15 minutes to clean up the tiniest bit of sick ever. Fifteen bloody minutes of this.
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Are you sure, As the post from Thorpe Park in the questions topic suggests otherwise.
http://forum.maniahub.com/topic/9800-lost-city-soundtrack/#entry141916
I wouldn't mind betting we start to see this played in even more places around the park seeing as it seems they are turning it into more of a radio station with the announcements/voiceovers. Shame if that is the case as Thorpe have always been one of the best in the UK when it came to themed Park music.
Listening to answers of a PR person (who will only ever put thorpe in a good light) isn't the best example. Pretty obvious from the complete lack of responding to the actual question.
Was hoping that this would be sorted, as they've spent a lot of money on a new Project Link.. might not be totally finished yet!
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It'd work in their favour if they do everything they possibly can to reduce noise for their neighbours.
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"I saw slammer open. Lol"
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The zone isn't meant to be playing chart music on Vortex/Lost City area.. it's just still broken it seems. As far as I'm aware, the operators have to start announcements to play music.. so I presume Vortex op was just ignoring the PA system unless it was messed.
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http://www.tussaudsmedia.co.uk/teaser/audio/alton/ug%20land/UG%20Land%20Loop.mp3
Found it for you.
(http://www.tussaudsmedia.co.uk/teaser/audio/alton/ug%20land/UG%20Land%20Loop) put .mp3 on the end
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Investigating the possibility of fastrack backwards doesn't mean they'll actually sell backwards fastrack.
Though this is thorpe, I suppose..
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Thorpe makes millions in profit every year. Millions.
I don't buy this whole not-caring-about-experience-merlin-thing otherwise we wouldn't get **** like Swarm, Smiler.. and wouldn't get inferno budgets would we?
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Inferno love is a surprise. And a very good surprise as well.
A new station announcement? Ahh, that should stop those bloody ops talking over the PA during dispatch theme, and prevent threats of being punched eh Ian?
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Whats it look like towards vampire entrance? Exactly the same as McDonalds?
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http://www.adips.co.uk/about/regulatoryinformation.html
This helps a bit. It's a self-regulated certifying scheme. You do not need to be part of it.
As I mentioned before, two of the merlin parks don't use it. Lightwater Valley doesn't use it. Dunno if the other merlin sites have stopped using it yet.
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Shame really. Can't imagine many people coming.. for an Adventure Park. The entrance fees have risen too sharply for what they actually have on offer also.
Plus Angry Birds just feels like it's on it's way out.. not many people play it anymore, so that area will feel ridiculously outdated soon enough, surely way before the 1m investment is returned.
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BAs for CCR, it depends if it has a valid ADIPS certificate if it can be re-opened for not. They are tax-disc size and are found on most ride opperators boxes but every ride requires on to open. They are re-issued every 12 month, which leads me to believe CCR if it hasn't cycled since it closed will NOT have one and as such will not be allowed to open until such time as its re-tested.
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Not entirely correct there - ADIPS is a voluntary body which comes to ensure you're doing correct periodical maintenance and you're following procedures. They then provide a lovely sticker to put on to prove that you're doing it correctly.
It costs a bomb, no guests knows what it stands for, you don't need it. Towers stopped being with ADIPS last year, lego stopped in 2009.
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http://old.towerstimes.co.uk/downloads/ugland.mp3
Boom.This forum is stupid. It turned it into an audio vice. It's on towers times under media. OH, and it's not the full version. Sorry. God knows where that's gone to then
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The parks will naturally make a far higher amount from running the units themselves than having franchises.. and merlin themselves are obviously very confident in running the places themselves again (otherwise they would not have been removed from towers - naturally the busiest outlets are there).
Merlin will get rid of eventually. It'll be a natural thing for them to do.
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No. They were pre-dominantly a thrill-seeking style park late 90s.
They've gone pretty much the same route as Drayton. Drayton does not need more thrill rides.
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Agreed with Marc - beastie was kept at towers (though relatively hidden behind a fence) for an entire two seasons until it was removed from park.. yesterday!
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Does it need one though? It's not like they're actively removing the thrill rides.. they're still there, all working (apart from black revolver but that was nothing special).
I personally think their balance is perfect now. Just invest in more decent family attractions to remove the older ones, and refresh the thrill selection by painting them up and making them look new.
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So Imperial Leather, Tussauds and Chessington are all morons.
Think that's what everyone was getting at. It wasn't done for the satisfaction for the guests, none of it was. It was done to provide a sponsor to a park to get money for DIC to be happy with.
Literally it.
Thank god those times are seemingly behind us now.
The Poll of retirement
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I have done two. I feel like a failure.