May 28, 20169 yr comment_235539 11 hours ago, Ian-S said: No but I'm afraid some people have tight knickers and don't see the funny side of things. Just a different humour. As others have pointed out, the joke has just run it's course, it's at the end of the line you might say.
May 28, 20169 yr comment_235541 2 hours ago, MattyMoo said: I predict that "SUSPENDED" on the queue time sign will now be in lower case, that will really get the forums buzzing. Well it changed back to UNAVAILABLE if that's worthy of knowing
May 28, 20169 yr comment_235549 Nothing's really happening today. Staff were training in the shop today and fire doors are open around the building but nothing is visible. Photos aren't very interesting, but they're here anyway I don't think we have long to wait now; just a few weeks I'd say!
May 28, 20169 yr comment_235559 4 hours ago, Tom said: Just a different humour. As others have pointed out, the joke has just run it's course, it's at the end of the line you might say. Your knickers are perfectly fastened, "end of the line"
May 28, 20169 yr comment_235562 I'm going to have to come up with a list of jokes about a ride about trains being late. But those pictures look great! Hopefully its just the interior that needs most of the work done to it, and that it won't be delayed for long.
May 29, 20169 yr comment_235592 They're an interesting size - maybe they're for some forced perspective trickery.
May 31, 20169 yr Author comment_235704 Hey You may notice a few posts have gone missing from today / yesterday - this is due to a server error - we recovered what we could. Sorry about that! Thanks to Jon for fixing! Marc
May 31, 20169 yr comment_235706 Well I did order the ride open a while back, but that didn't happen then. Oh well, SW8 should be exciting.
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235712 Conveniently all of the ones about Fastrack have gone #conspiracy Haha! Only joking! But seriously, Back to DBGT chat, I think Thorpe have seriously missed there chance on this being a huge huge hit. The delays have meant that the hype has died massively and quite a few people have lost interest (myself included) I may not even ride it this year as I don't know if I can be bothered to trek down south when there is a much better park about an hour away...
June 1, 20169 yr Author comment_235713 I think its natural hype will die down - the biggest problem with this than say Smiler's delay is that when you visited the park you would see Smiler going around testing, you could see the progress. Where as with DBGT the building looks largely the same as it did when the park opened, of course progress will be being made but unfortunately we cant see any of it from outside!
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235714 22 minutes ago, Marc said: I think its natural hype will die down - the biggest problem with this than say Smiler's delay is that when you visited the park you would see Smiler going around testing, you could see the progress. Where as with DBGT the building looks largely the same as it did when the park opened, of course progress will be being made but unfortunately we cant see any of it from outside! Yes, hype will die down, again look at Smiler... First couple of months it was the next coaster coming of christ, now it's... Meh. The problem is hype is extremely good for visitor numbers, "Oooh that looks epic let's go on that" You have to make the most of hype as indeed it is a fleeting thing... I think if it opened when it should, Gate numbers would have been much greater. I think it will still be popular, but not as much as it would have been.
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235716 Smiler is still the most popular ride at Towers though, even with the crash... It's anything but meh outside the enthusiast circles... Assume once Thorpe finalise a date (again), then they'll advertise it to all and sundry... There are no brakes on the hype train after all...
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235719 I think once this eventually opens, word of mouth will play a massive part in getting people in. Once a date is set, the social media push will come again and that will hype up enough people to get the initial jump in gate figure for the first few days/weeks. Word of mouth will then spread and - assuming it is well received - people will hear "You've got to go there and do it", which will just continue and improve numbers all the more.
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235722 9 minutes ago, Benin said: Smiler is still the most popular ride at Towers though, even with the crash... It's anything but meh outside the enthusiast circles... Assume once Thorpe finalise a date (again), then they'll advertise it to all and sundry... There are no brakes on the hype train after all... Most Popular and Rubbish Throughput are two very different things There may be no brakes but I think it's missed its stop!
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235727 I agree it's slowed down and even I have lost interest also. It's been a slow enough construction topic and now with everyone pouring over SW8, Alton Towers have nabbed the limelight a little. Sure this will be popular and I'll ride it, but it's getting close to that time of year, where I won't bother visiting. Too bad they can't reveal something to reignite peoples interest, as right now their secrecey is killing it.
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235729 1 hour ago, KingNemesis said: Most Popular and Rubbish Throughput are two very different things There may be no brakes but I think it's missed its stop! Getting around 800 to 1'000 an hour in the peak operation times is not what could be termed as rubbish throughput... It certainly gets more now than Galactica does I'd wager... Which would make it the 4th highest throughput coaster on park now I believe... Don't write opinions as facts...
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235734 2 hours ago, Benin said: Getting around 800 to 1'000 an hour in the peak operation times is not what could be termed as rubbish throughput... It certainly gets more now than Galactica does I'd wager... Which would make it the 4th highest throughput coaster on park now I believe... Don't write opinions as facts... Galactica does about 28 per hour I think. I timed it once and got about that number
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235737 It's not just that the hype has died down between us enthusiasts, it's as is it is being actively suppressed by Thorpe. Like they want us to forget it exists at all, no teasing been going on for a while now. I'm supprised they've not used those mirrors on the outside to make it appear the building isn't even there. Move along, nothing to see here. This does not fill me with confidence that the opening is anything like imminent.
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235741 The resort have stopped advertising full stop, not just with Ghost Train. While I see your point the resort has begun posting on social media channels again, and with the photo frames I'd like to hope the ride will be opening soon-ish. Then again, I'm not really expecting anything in the next few days...
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235744 1 minute ago, imindetonator said: Someone please change the topic name to "New for 2017" Wow... Someone's being presumptuous... Please, Change it to "New for ????"
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