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Right, well the original post by James (I believe) said he wished there was single rider on other rides, not just Stealth and Saw, hence why I mentioned the fact that on other rides it creates stress and pressure and can hinder the ride more then help it.I'm not saying it's hard for the ride team at all because in theory it shouldn't be. But guests are notoriously difficult to work with. You'd think after queuing however long for a ride they would be all ready and speedy but no, they never are whether it's down to ignorance, fear or whatever.Working at a theme park isn't necessarily fun. It's a very repetitive job, it can be in very loud conditions, and if you are an operator you could be by yourself all day with no guest contact. Maybe you need to work at a theme park to really understand that it isn't all fun and games, tea-parties on the ceiling and riding rides all day long. It's long, physical work with very many guests never appreciative of the hard work the teams put in for up to 12 hours a day.

Don't be so naive and don't be so patronizing. Tell me, Stealth888, have you ever had to run a single rider queue line before? Chances are no. Thankfully, I am not just talking out of my backside as I frequently ran the single rider queue line at Dragons Fury and it was a complete nightmare trying to get single riders into the cars and keep the ride moving. Besides, you say it's sending people up stairs, no it's not. On Stealth, you have to batch onto the ride, Main queue and Fastrack. They have a 60 second window to do this and trying to get single riders onto the ride with the previous in mind can add a lot of stress onto what is already a very stressful position.When you are 16/18, I'd like to see you do a batch position that deals with a single rider queue line, and then tell me it's just sending people up some stairs.

Oh my god.. CAR ONE FROM FURY. I haven't seen that running for years, I had heard from the engineers that a car was being refurbed but I thought it was just car 2. ..I'm glad you had a good time on that day, sounds like you learnt a lot from the day.

Maybe not extra cost, but most definitely at extra stress and pressure for the staff member trying to run a ride and a single rider queue line....

Well it is confusing for guests, hence the reason the trial hasn't become a permanent addition at the park.

They trialled selected ride opening last year and it didn't work out as it just ends up confusing guests on what is actually available and what isn't.

Ooh definitely not! I'd say Chessington is the only park of the 3 old Tussauds where queues die massively, the only rides that keep their queues are Vampire and Dragons Fury. Many a time I operated Runaway Train from 3-6, between 3 and 5:30 the queue would be at 45 minutes, then after 5:30 the ride became walk on again. It happens at many rides at Chessie because the kids aren't able to keep themselves going for over 8 hours. You will see it at halloween this October, whereas Thorpe and Alton stay busy up till closing time, many rides at Chessington are walk on or at minimal queues. I spent many a time at Tiny Truckers waiting for anyone to ride between 5-8.

You want to help Rattlesnake (which is a very low throughput ride), by adding fastrack making the queue double what it already is. Rattlesnake isn't exactly as popular as Vampire and Fury and rarely ever gets 30 minute queues these days.

The only wrong thing there is that Samurai has a longer queue then Saw and Stealth.....

This is a Dragons Fury queue line announcement, at this time we are experiencing a technical problem with Dragons Fury and have ceased operation. Ride team leaders are on their way to the ride and we will hopefully be back in operation soon. If you do not wish to wait, please make your way back through the queue line. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause to your day.. thank you.

It can still injure people... It may be newer, but remember, Xceleator has been running for 4 more seasons then Stealth. Just wrong, many Intamin accelerators have some kind of loop or inversion. Kaneon, Storm Runner, the one linked. Yex, exactly, Inversions don't make rides better.

Oh where to start...Improved Signage around the parkGet rid of Tiny truckers and create a second entrance to Land of the DragonsRepaint key rides in the park (Vampire, Black Buccaneer, Rameses, Runaway Train, Rattlesnake)Refurbishment of all the toilet facilities in the park.LED Boards on all ridesComplete refurbishment of Safari Skyway and Runaway Train

It's never going to be as smooth as a B&M. It's designed totally differently and it is a Vekoma/Arrow hybrid... t

Voting people down won't matter, it's not as if anything will come off it. In fact, I hope everyone votes me down so I can become the most unpopular poster on TPM!

That's awesome. Beanoland, is an area that after every year just seemed to lose it's way. When it opened there was great promise in what it could achieve what with the shows and the plan of a rollercoaster near where the Madhouse currently is, it seemed Beanoland was the future you could say. Towards the end of its life, with the shows banned because of Health and Safety and the characters barely appearing, it was a waste of some potential. Hopefully the new area will hit the goals that beanoland never quite got to.

If you're playing with words, Saw technically has two cars on the.. erm... cars..

Nemesis isn't open for ERT, it's just Alton tend to just open rides when they are ready rather then wait for official opening time.As for its roar and it getting old, all B&M inverters make that noise, and to give Nemmy a bit off love.. it is 15 years old now, in coaster terms it's becoming ancient.

Wouldn't work as it doesn't take into account fastrack, exit riders or disabled riders.Phill.. I'm drinking to, I'm not posting rubbish so can it please.

That suggests otherwise..

But.. the old system was just estimates as well. All queue boards say "the queue time is approximately __ minutes. It was never an exact system. This new system only makes things more accurate because its way to vague. You could have 1 as 0-60 minutes and it would mean just as little as what they are trialling at the moment.

Right so say if we say 3.. then who is to say what queue time that is? an hour, 3 hours, 2 years? That's an immeasurable length of queue time and to be honest with you, is to vague.It needs some work and could work but I don't think there was anything wrong with the old system. Ok, it may have got complaints but only if the staff don't update it regularly.

(My friends gun was broken, hence the 1200 *)*And my unbeatable score

Well yeah.. although in a same sex relationship, the funny looks you get from the public makes me laugh really. I actually had some homophobic abuse the other week, I was on a train going to London from Dartford and I was just holding hands with the boyfriend when this group of.. I don't like the word Chav so we shall call them, cavemen, walk past, throw newspaper at us and then said "we don't want to be on a part of the train with the gays." They then walked off...It was probably the most surreal moment of my life.

I guess it depends on what you take. On my first attempt I was taking Geography, Psychology, Photography and Art and failed miserably, dropping out of Psychology and getting three U's.On my second attempt I chose Film Studies, Media Studies and English Language and Literature and got two B's and a C and found I enjoyed it much more.Anyway.. as a rant, I'm getting so pissed off with going on facebook whilst pissed. I sent a really random message last night. Luckily it arrived at the wrong person :|

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