Mark9

It's right there on the BBC website. The picture of her up a ladder isn't very helpful though, Smiler has vertical ladders, not ones that are sloped. Also, Facebook posts as stories.

How often do you think that works LC?

You've never been to PortAventura then.

It's been a few years since I've ridden this and through the comments of how rough it had become or how the perception of the ride has changed since the incident, I must admit my appreciation for the Smiler had gone down of late. So I'm happy to report (on a personal level) that I love this ride. I think once the shadow of reliability and the incident starts to disappear, it will be regarded as a brave and daring ride for the Towers. I was particularly impressed by the pacing of the attraction, it really doesn't let up and I particularly like the speed towards the corkscrew and the finale in which the train just seems to go up a coupe of notches and flings you through the final inversions. Didn't feel the reported roughness at all, this in spite of one ride in a rain shower. After Nemesis, this is my number 2 coaster at Towers.

To tell you the truth..... as a rollercoaster aside from the launch it's as generic B&M as they come. That being said the new ride may be a lot better but that would be pure conjecture on my part.

This 'slow down' has been happening for the last ten years.

Is it? As each season goes its getting slower and slower. It's now struggling to do the tiniest of hills. That bend into the tunnel used to be full of force and now it's just really forceless.

What a killjoy.

I wish we'd got that. Toby is beyond cool.

I thought this was a wasted opportunity. Ironically enough, in spite of all the stories of massive queues that I had heard of previously, it seemed to run a flawless three train operation and so the queue remained at 10 minutes all day. I only had one go on 'Galatica' and I didn't think much of it all. Too brief and too rushed it doesn't have a long enough ride to create a story so it just rushes you through locations and then ends. I'd say I was disappointed but I wasn't. IF they had to have had VR it should have been on rides like Runaway Mine Train as then they could have created a story and have the ride length to justify it. On Air, it just makes a short ride feel even shorter which is quite a feat.

Without context as to why the fastrack queue is so long at that point, there are no issues raised that need addressing. Maybe for instance, this is a one off moment and for the rest of the day the fastrack queue has been negligible. Maybe there's an incompetent member of staff who is prioritising the main queue which has caused that fastrack build up. There's many scenarios that could explain that picture without anything needing addressing.

http://rcdb.com/3621.htm

It's not even trying to be Baron Oh man, I love Tatsu (looks like it supposed to be there) and I love Scream: The Car park coaster. What do I win?

You mean like how Slammer and Saw have re-opened and how Samurai has already been shown to be moving today. So looks to me like they adding a container and getting rides open, who'd have thought it.

I would have raved about it but it wasn't necessary. I liked it though, Spiderman, Ant-Man and Black Panther are awesome. I could watch a film with just those three in.

Shambles/10

Saw Alive then dropped like a stone. Nemesis Sub Terra was dropped faster then an F1 car and that included a ride section. Is that because it just sits there, on a pathway doing nothing for 6 months of a year. If it wasn't there, would any guests ask for a scare maze to do outside of the Halloween season. I don't know anything about Containment, I only know what it is know because of this forum. Would any guest be able to tell the difference between a scare maze and an escape room attraction realistically.

Seconded. They've tried twice to do the horror maze thing all season round and its never gone well. Why would this be any different.

Unacceptable.

Whenever I go down South from where I live, I can't believe people still wear track suits. I thought they went out with burberry shirts and caps but no apparently not.

Marc asked politely for this to stop. So take the hint.

Because it's not so much the information we are getting, its the use of the word shambles or unacceptable. Using Samurai and Loggers on the list of closed rides is to persue an agenda, to back up his viewpoint of the park being a shambles. He can have that opinion, but it's not like the facts of the situation are going to be important when someone just wants to be negative. It doesn't provide relevance because we know Loggers is out all season and we know the intention that Samurai will open later in the year.

We'll just have to beg to differ then. I'm more sympathetic to Thorpe because the last thing they want is to annoy people.

It is acceptable. It's in the terms and conditions which you agree to each time you walk through the front gates.