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Banned for also being a girl.
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Oblivion (7)
Old Macdnalds Singing Barn (4)
Ripsaw (7)
Rita (5)
Riverbank Eye Spy (5)
Runaway Mine Train (5)
Twirling Toadstool (3)
The Blade (4)
The Flume (5)
The Gardens (5)
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Th13teen (5)
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Skyride (5)
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Ripsaw +1
Carousel -1
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Quantum (4)
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Stealth (5)
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The Swarm (5)
Tidal Wave (5)
Vortex (5)
X:/No Way Out (5)
Zodiac (5)
Inferno (+1 - God knows why!
)Samurai (-1)
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Yes - happens all the time on Oblivion and Nemesis, as mentioned by the ratchet system.
It'll have been inbetween clicks - either not fully in one originally when checked, or your brother might've just pulled it down without noticing before the drop element.
It's perfectly safe, and nothing to be worried about!
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Chief Rangers Carousel (4)
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Loggers Leap (5)
Mr Monkey's Banana Boat Ride (5)
Nemesis Inferno (5)
Neptune's Beach (5)
Quantum (6)
Rocky Express (5)
Rumba Rapids (5)
Rush (5)
Samurai (5)
Saw: The Ride (5)
Slammer (5)
Stealth (5)
Storm In A Teacup (5)
The Showcase (4)
The Swarm (5)
Tidal Wave (5)
Vortex (5)
X://No Way Out (5)
Zodiac (5)
Quantum +1
Carousel -1
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Air (6)
Battle Galleons (5)
Berry Bish Bash (5)
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (4)
Congo River Rapids (5)
Driving School (5)
Doodle Doo Derby (5)
Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back (6)
Enterprise (5)
Frog Hopper (4)
Galloper's Carousel (5)
Haunted Hollow (5)
Heave Ho! (5)
Hex - The Legend Of The Towers (6)
Ice Age The 4D Experience (5)
Marauders Mayhem (5)
Nemesis (6)
Nemesis Sub-Terra (5)
Oblivion (6)
Old Macdonalds Singing Barn (5)
Ripsaw (6)
Rita (5)
Riverbank Eye Spy (5)
Runaway Mine Train (5)
Twirling Toadstool (5)
The Blade (5)
The Flume (5)
The Gardens (5)
The Towers (5)
Th13teen (5)
Sonic Spinball (5)
Sharkbait Reef by SEA LIFE (5)
Skyride (5)
Squirrel Nutty Ride (5)
Wobble World (1)
Ripsaw +1
Wobble World -1
You had this coming to you Wobble World. Open 12-4 most days during the season, even during scarefest!!!
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Chief Rangers Carousel (5)
Colossus (6)
Depth charge (5)
Detonator (5)
Flying Fish (5)
Loggers Leap (4)
Mr Monkeys Banana Boat RIde (6)
Nemesis Inferno (7)
Neptunes Beach (3)
Quantum (5)
Rocky Express (5)
Rumba Rapid (5)
Rush (5)
Samurai (5)
Saw: The Ride (6)
Slammer (5)
Stealth (6)
Storm In A Teacup (5)
Storm Surge (1)
The Showcase (5)
The Swarm (6)
Tidal Wave (5)
Vortex (5)
X://No Way Out (5)
Zodiac (5)
Storm turd - (does look ugly and I don't use it)
Neptune beach + (does look nice but I might one day use it)
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Air (5)
Battle Galleons (5)
Berry Bish Bash (5)
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (5)
Congo River Rapids (5)
Driving School (5)
Doodle Doo Derby (5)
Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back (5)
Enterprise (5)
Frog Hopper (6)
Galloper's Carousel (5)
Haunted Hollow (5)
Heave Ho! (5)
Hex - The Legend Of The Towers (6)
Ice Age The 4D Experience (5)
Marauders Mayhem (5)
Nemesis (6)
Nemesis Sub-Terra (6)
Oblivion (6)
Old Macdonalds Singing Barn (5)
Ripsaw (7)
Rita (4)
Riverbank Eye Spy (5)
Runaway Mine Train (5)
Twirling Toadstool (5)
There's Something In The Dungheap (1)
The Blade (4)
The Flume (5)
The Gardens (5)
The Towers (5)
Th13teen (5)
Sonic Spinball (5)
Sharkbait Reef by SEA LIFE (5)
Skyride (4)
Squirrel Nutty Ride (5)
Wobble World (5)
Ripsaw +1
Dungheap -1
GO RIPSAW!!
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I'd never trust merlin when they say "never again" relating to suppliers. If the cost is right, they'll end up going back on it.
Examples: Every ABC ride installed in merlin was installed with wrong spec, or came in drastically late or over budget. Yet they continued with Sub Terra.
AAAV used and blamed for majority of sub terra issues, they have heavy involvement in SW7.
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Chief Rangers Carousel (5)
Colossus (5)
Depth Charge (5)
Detonator (5)
Flying Fish (5)
Loggers Leap (5)
Mr Monkeys Banana Ride (5)
Nemesis Inferno (5)
Neptune's Beach (5)
Quantum (5)
Rocky Express (5)
Rumba Rapids (5)
Rush (7)
Samurai (5)
Saw: The Ride (6)
Slammer (5)
Stealth (6)
Storm In A Teacup (5)
Storm Surge (3)
The Showcase (4)
The Swarm (5)
Tidal Wave (5)
Vortex (5)
Wet Wet Wet (4)
X://No Way Out (5)
Zodiac (5)
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Rush +
Storm Surge - (very obvious)
FU STORM SURGE!
(thorpe is full of SSSSSS's)
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I imagine they'll put a facade on it so it at least looks nice - or a decent colourscheme
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The thing I liked about the arches was that it felt like you were underground.. in a dungeon. Bare brick walls adding to the feel to it all - trains rumbling up ahead like they would if you had dungeons over a trainline..
Being in a room kinda destroys all that.
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The best memories of Space Mountain in Paris was the queueline - I was incredibly pissed off when I saw that white walls had replaced the cool windows.
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Air (5)
Battle Galleons (5)
Berry Bish Bash (5)
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (5)
Congo River Rapids (5)
Driving School (5)
Doodle Doo Derby (5)
Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back (5)
Enterprise (5)
Frog Hopper (5)
Galloper's Carousel (5)
Haunted Hollow (5)
Heave Ho! (5)
Hex - The Legend Of The Towers (5)
Ice Age The 4D Experience (5)
Marauders Mayhem (5)
Nemesis (5)
Nemesis Sub-Terra (5)
Oblivion (5)
Old Macdonalds Singing Barn (5)
Ripsaw (6)
Rita (4)
Riverbank Eye Spy (5)
Runaway Mine Train (5)
Twirling Toadstool (5)
There's Something In The Dungheap (5)
The Blade (5)
The Flume (5)
The Gardens (5)
The Towers (5)
Th13teen (5)
Sonic Spinball (5)
Sharkbait Reef by SEA LIFE (5)
Skyride (5)
Squirrel Nutty Ride (5)
Wobble World (5)
Ripsaw +1
Rita -1
GO RIPSAW! (FU RITA!)
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I imagine it'd be free too - the 1st November had pretty much free mazes, and the park was busier then than most Feb half term days still.
Towers did a poll end of year, and apparently the fair majority responded saying they'd like a permenant scare maze. Ha, they did the same at thorpe and look what happens. Ask guests in march, not during scarefest!
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Hello!
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Bloody pin this to every moderating board ever, so people know to vote!!!!!!!!
I'll do it in a bit.
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Air (5)
Battle Galleons (5)
Berry Bish Bash (4)
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (5)
Congo River Rapids (5)
Driving School (5)
Doodle Doo Derby (5)
Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back (6)
Enterprise (5)
Frog Hopper (5)
Galloper's Carousel (5)
Haunted Hollow (5)
Heave Ho! (5)
Hex - The Legend Of The Towers (5)
Ice Age The 4D Experience (5)
Marauders Mayhem (5)
Nemesis (7)
Nemesis Sub-Terra (5)
Oblivion (7)
Old Macdonalds Singing Barn (5)
Ripsaw (6)
Rita (4)
Riverbank Eye Spy (5)
Runaway Mine Train (5)
Twirling Toadstool (5)
There's Something In The Dungheap (1)
The Blade (5)
The Flume (5)
The Gardens (6)
The Towers (5)
Th13teen (6)
Sonic Spinball (4)
Sharkbait Reef by SEA LIFE (6)
Skyride (5)
Squirrel Nutty Ride (5)
Submission (4)
Wobble World (4)
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Ripsaw +
Sub Terra -
GO RIPSAW!
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Prefer top loading actually. It builds as much atmosphere - and infact has a bigger shock factor as some people just purely won't be expecting it.
Who, being hanged, ended up being lifted first before hung? They stood (sat in this case) on a platform which drops from beneath them. Far more accurate
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Hugely valid reasons as to why those two have entrance hosts as well, and why the rest of the park should adopt to it! However, they never have more than one entrance host. Only thing which makes me think that is during a long breakdown, between break rotas, or it's another department (Guest Experience) having a chat. They have more staff than thorpe, arguably require more (higher throughputs), but the budgets are still tight.Good post on the previous page, although three staff on a ride entrance at Alton Towers? Not sure what's going on there. The park lacks budget these days, and this is why Enterprise only runs on 1 member of staff (compared to 2 or 3 on Zodiac), and Submission only runs 1 operator and 1 host, thus meaning both arms cannot run. Rita and Th13teen no longer have an entrance host as a matter of course, and neither does Oblivion. Air and Nemesis do, however.
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Only ride worth riding time and time again at thorpe is swarm. It's reridability is immense - you don't see people running around stealths queue to try different seats or sides!
With Rita: Was the queue genuinely 5mins, or was it after the incident so the queue has to be away from launch track - making the main queue seem 5mins to anyone using the fastrack queue?
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Alton Towers takes ticket tout to court, and he got something like 6 weeks in prison.
Flamingoland owner assaults ticket tout, and gets charged.
Interesting way of doing things.
Logger's Leap
in The Past
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Wow. Difference between enthusiast and ride staff really do stick out badly here.
Just because it can function without a tunnel, doesn't mean it shouldn't be in a tunnel. Just because it's had to be removed due to lack of maintenance, doesn't mean it's "H&S", it'll be entirely down to lack of budget or unwillingness to maintain it. Just because the ride hasn't been rethemed, doesn't mean it won't get money to maintain itself.
This is the reason why thorpe, and to a lesser extent other merlin parks, fail compared to other parks which actually care.