Mark9
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Agreed with this, at Alton it generally takes quite a while for queues to really start to grow but at Thorpe, the size really works against it so if one ride starts to spill over into another it happens very very fast.See, I'm not sure on this one. Eee uses to comparison to Bolt, well are you going as slowly as a tortoise then because, having been to Alton very few times, arriving at 10:30 at the monorail entrance, waiting for non AP holders to buy tickets, walking slowly off to Oblivion and off to Forbidden Valley without the aid of the Skyride I can still easily get 10 or so rides in without speeding round like Speedy Gonzales. It's not like I'm buying fastrack or using single rider, I'm just taking my time ambling around the park, taking each ride as it comes.Thorpe is the opposite to me. From running out of food on the Ap day at the beginning of this season to having Stealth, Loggers, Slammer and Rumba (With Saw joing them) closed all day on '09 open day, Thorpe has given me enough bad experiences to make me not want to visit again.
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First pain, death and torture and now war with pain, even more death and torture.Should be fun watching the press on this one.
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Gay marriage in New YorkA very proud day to be a gay/lesbian in New York. Psst, Gloria, there's no such thing as a normal person.
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I saw Cars 2 yesterday and now I'm reviewing it. lol wtf.I have always adored and appreciated Pixar films. Every time a Pixar film is released in the cinemas I will make that extra effort to go see it. When they are released on DVD I will always own it in it’s first week. They are able to capture what it so beautiful about films, stunning cinematography, sparkling dialogue and stories that grab the emotions and make you laugh and cry. It’s with this in mind that you come to the Cars franchise. When I saw Cars for the very first time, it bored me to tears. The two previous Pixar films (Finding Nemo and The Incredibles)had been excellent and well worth the admission fee. So Cars with its non humanoid characters didn’t grab me. It took several re-watchings to realise the beauty of the story. The car that comes to realise whats important in life, the beautiful scenery of route 66. It’s wonderful.Cars 2 abandons all that, sidelines all the great characters and shines the spotlight solely on Mater the tow-truck. Lightening McQueen essentially plays a guest role in his own movie this time round. I have a problem with Mater as a main character. In the first film he was comic relief. In Cars 2 hes comic relief ramped up to eleven but hes also the emotional drive of the story. It doesn’t work because his antics throughout the film are incredibly irritating. From eating to much wassabi to screwing up McQueen’s first race, each time you just want to crush him into a cube. Pixar have attempted to mix up the racing antics of Cars 1 with the spy action of a James Bond film. it slightly works on its own but when the two elements are combined, such as the London race finale, it comes across like a Heston recipe for a Haddock trifle. When the film focuses on the rivalry between McQueen and Frencessco the F1 car, the film works for me and with the three locations used it looks fantasic. Italy, Tokyo and London look excellent and at times I couldn’t tell if I was watching CGI or characters super-imposed. But it doesn’t really work when you flip back to flying jet cars firing machine guns at the queen car or at helicopter pidgeons.So on an emotional level this film doesn’t work in the slightest. It doesn’t have the maturity of Up or Wall.E and it has nowhere the effect of Toy Story 3. But one has to remember that Cars isn’t about being played with or a man flying his house in memory of his deceased wife. It’s about colours, drag racing and excitement and it is here that Cars 2 is strong. The races are a barrel load of fun. When the film focuses on the enormous Italian crash it’s enjoyable for all the wrong reasons as a viewer. It’s very exciting because if you watch F1 you can just magine the pain cars go through. The cities are expressed incredibly well and realistically such as the Fiat 500′s driving around Italy or old routemasters donning the streets of London.I have to admit Cars 2 rather shocked me and it’s where characters are killed rather violently. Luckily it only occurs twice but on each occasion it’s stretches my acceptability of what can be shown to children. The first instance shows a spy car who has been captured. He’s not just dead, he has been crushed into a cube. The second one is another car being tortured and then exploded by a radiation beam. Pushing its luck now.Cars 2 is one of the worst Pixar films but that is in no way a put down. When you’re competing with Up, Ratatouille and Wall.E there’s always going to be the stinkers. Cars and Cars 2 are those stinkers. Still fun but just not up to those three giants. Fun is the most important word here though.6/10
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Oh all the time. And the worst part is I used to have the door closed a lot at Runaway, so why they thought a queueline would go through a closed door is beyond me. Then again once guests thought Fury's lift hill stairs were the exit from the ride platform.
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Thats actually quite a concerning viewpoint, you're welcome to have it but it's rather scary all the same.In my opinion, both are sad stories and both show the dangerous extremes of modern day life.
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You know when you were 4 years out and you did dot to dot books, but instead of making something look smooth and natural it just looked horribly disjointed because you made each connection with really straight lines. My other thought was it looks like a really big helicopter has just attacked Rita. But anyway, it's good that people like it.
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Of course everyone becomes legal at 17 in.... the twilight zone.
Or go through Runaway trains fire exit, turn right and go all the way up through the queueline, over the bridge and out the entrance. That was always good comedy value as an operator.
Does anyone remember when Corkscrew and Rita's queuelines ran right next to each other, people would jump over Rita's fences to try and skip the walk only to come out of Corkscrew's entrance. Those were the days.
FOUR INVERSIONS
I made that post two years ago, I doubt he even works there anymore. I don't even remember the person I made that post about
I'd suggest you look at the date that this poll was started.
Benin trying not to look to geeky on a games forum"Don't care about the rest of it, but that blue coaster looks ridiculously amazing..."YOU KNOW ITS NAME AND RIDE TYPE BENIN, DONT LIE.
The graphic Alton are using for the promotion. Fantastic stuff. It's been said a few times but I'm repeating it anyway. This is the kind of marketing the park should play on, it really is sublime and get's people talking about what Alton Towers is all about. The rides.
The way they've treated you Paul, I wouldn't give them the time of day...
I hear you brother. I adore Fury but it really doesn't deserve to be at Chessington anymore. 300 throughput in the rain for a rollercoaster that appeals to every park visitor, it's a recipe for disaster. Why they don't do something about it is even worse. Why have a ride that can't run properly is ridiculous, idiotic and stupid.
Some excellent replies guys, Sheepie as always has made me think more about how we define rides, why we put them into particular categories such as thrill, family, kiddy, water, dark, coaster, flat when surely there so many exceptions to this rule that trying to shoehorn a ride into a category is pointless and defeates the point of rides.Pluk bought up my favourite point actually, how can we live without the other. Parks need all types of rides to satisfy all audiences. They need their high and fast thrill rides, they need the interactive dark ride, their log flume and rapids ride to satisfy every visitor. And there's no reason why rides like Loggers and Monkey Swinger can't be more enjoyable then Rita and Rameses Revenge.
Anyone watching Torchwood: Miracle Day? Nasty stuff, I'm firmly pro death after watching some of the effects in that episode.
Ironically, when you say our "pathetic, small little lives", thats probably what these people thought or felt before they decided to commit suicide. I think differently. The action of one person taking their lives in such dramatic ways effects more people then just the driver who had to live through that moment or the people at stations who saw it.What about the tens of thousands people stuck all around Surrey and the South of England because of what to me is a selfish act. All those people have somewhere they need to be, could be something trivial like getting home from work or it could be a mother and father getting to a hospital to say goodbye to a dying family member. The ripple effect of one person taking their own lifes in such a way, for whatever reason, hurts so many others.
