pluk Posted March 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2015 Depends on who you know Lots of people know lots of things, it's still rumour until it's announced. It's only ever a plan until it's past the council, so Alton themselves don't know yet! Tom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 I was surprised to find when visiting Alton this year that this ride seems to have a height/age restriction? I rode it first thing at 9.30am without a problem with my friend, both aged early 20s, and then when trying to join the queue later in the day we were told that we were too tall/old to ride? There seemed to be some confusion here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Maybe it's because of the crap throughput, the ride is aimed at children as their first 'experience' of something like this, not really adults unless they're going on with their kid, we went on as a group but I suspected that had me or the wife tried to go on alone later in the day when the queue was 40 minutes, they wouldn't have been too pleased with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Maybe it's because of the crap throughput, the ride is aimed at children as their first 'experience' of something like this, not really adults unless they're going on with their kid, we went on as a group but I suspected that had me or the wife tried to go on alone later in the day when the queue was 40 minutes, they wouldn't have been too pleased with us. When we tried to ride the second time, the queue was 5 minutes, at most! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 That figures lol I guess some people just like having a bit of power, someone stopped my son at chessie last year saying he was too short to go on the ride, so he showed him the wristband, to be told he still wasn't going on, eventually the ride op poked his head out the booth and told the op to stop being stupid as 'he's been on this more times than I can remember today'. According to another member here there's a ride op on the Smiler who's quiet well known for their power trip attitude too, some people just do things the hard way because they can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Question, why would an adult want to ride a kids coaster more than once for the cred? Just curious... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Question, why would an adult want to ride a kids coaster more than once for the cred? Just curious... It had a 5 minute queue, it's on the way out of the park, and we enjoyed it the first time... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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