February 29, 20169 yr comment_228769 They went quick! Wonder if the Derren Brown Ghost Train preview will be during the day or an evening event?EDIT: Probably during the day going by the above Tweet.
February 29, 20169 yr comment_228770 ^It'll more than likely be an evening event, since the park is open during the day on the 5th to all guests. I'd guess it'd work similar to I'm a Celeb's AP preview, with a selected ride line up and you being given a time slot to join the DBGT queue.
February 29, 20169 yr comment_228773 Was it just me who missed the pass day on the 13 th It was sent out in an email by them and advertised on their Facebook/Twitter.
February 29, 20169 yr comment_228774 It was sent out in an email by them and advertised on their Facebook/Twitter.Didn't get an email
February 29, 20169 yr comment_228777 Something interesting I've noticed, is that especially with the Vives extortionate price tag, a lot of gamers have said this ride will likely be their best chance of ever getting to experience VR. It seems like the buzz from gaming and tech enthusiasts alone could draw in big crowds.
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228778 The gaming crowd are really not hyped enough to go to Thorpe just to try out the vive. A few will but the majority will not travel and pay to get in then wait 1-3 hours to experience a few minutes of a headset. This will draw crowds on the entire appeal of its new and big with Derrens name slapped on the side. The struggle this ride will have in drawing the crowds is that it is not a coaster. It's Thorpe's job to convince the public it's worth while.
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228787 Some small spoilers from Paul Moreton, Group Creative Director, on the Ghost Train, during the recent Investor Relations presentation: Trust me, it's going to be really scary, it's going to mess with your head, and you're not going to know what's real and what's not real. We're building a massive warehouse... in the middle of the warehouse will be a hanging Victorian train carriage, hanging by wires, nothing below, nothing behind, nothing at the sides.You then enter the Victorian train carriage and you soon realise you're no longer in a Victorian train carriage, you're now in a London Underground train....You put on your "contamination goggles" and for the next 10 minutes your world turns completely upside down. Will be interesting to see how they manage the transition from Victorian train to London Underground train. And can we read that the VR element ("contamination goggles") takes up a good 10 mins of the attraction's 13 mins running time? If so, what does that mean for throughputs? It's been revealed that the attraction contains "60 seats per train"... if these 60 people are spending 10 minutes with their goggles on, does that mean (60 x 6 =) 360 riders per hour? Or is there more than one train...? Hoping we don't have another "I'm a Celebrity" on our hands, throughput-wise...
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228788 Interesting find! I'm pretty certain there's more than one train, as during the Periscope Q&A on reveal day, it was mentioned that there'd be "over 200 people in the building at any one time". Assuming they meant over 200 on the ride, then that would me 4 groups on the go, bringing the throughput closer to 1100pph, in theory. But who knows! The VR thing worries me a bit. It was stressed that VR was only a small part of the experience in the press release, but 10 minutes is not a small part. Hopefully it was more meant you put the VR goggles on after you board the carriage, and take them off at some point during the next, crazy, 10 minutes. But then it risks creating a disjointed experience..
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228790 It's certainlly the most interesting of Merlins recent projects, although I wonder how much of the GP will know what it's all about? Ghost Trains are a very well known ride type and I wonder how much confusion this will create.
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228791 The more tid-bits of information that come out, the more I'm starting to worry this isn't going to be much good (or at least, my cup of tea)... but I continue to hope I'll be proven wrong! How do you get in the carriage then if there's nothing around it to get you in it? Is it just a pointless prop? I really hope Merlin manage to pull this off.
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228792 Didn't one of the now removed photos from MMM show a gantrie style walkway leading straight into the raised carrage?
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228793 The more tid-bits of information that come out, the more I'm starting to worry this isn't going to be much good (or at least, my cup of tea)... but I continue to hope I'll be proven wrong! How do you get in the carriage then if there's nothing around it to get you in it? Is it just a pointless prop? I really hope Merlin manage to pull this off. There's a bridge that takes you across to the carriage.
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228797 So there's something by one of the sides then! Well obviously we can't fly into it there will just be one narrow bridge that goes into one end of the train, nothing else around it.
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228798 Awww I was hoping it would be a world's first teleportation experience!
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228801 There's a bridge that takes you across to the carriage. Indeed - which could well be the suspected "Load" and "Offload" walkways I sketched out many months ago... This being the case, the above diagram suggests there is just the one suspended train carriage... ...but what on earth happens in the rest of the warehouse is anyone's guess!
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228803 I may be being dumb, but in that diagram there is a massive empty space in the building, what would go there? Also, I'm sure I read somewhere that you get into other vehicles after the Victorian Train bit?
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228804 A maze for FN obviously. They aren't using that space for anything other than a purpose built space for FN. Definitely not lots of things that we still are in the dark about for this attraction. Like the transportation system etc.
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228807 A maze for FN obviously. They aren't using that space for anything other than a purpose built space for FN. Definitely not lots of things that we still are in the dark about for this attraction. Like the transportation system etc. That's the point I was trying to make, there's a lot more to this than people think
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228808 Didn't one of the now removed photos from MMM show a gantrie style walkway leading straight into the raised carrage? There's a bridge that takes you across to the carriage. Thank you.
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228812 A maze for FN obviously. They aren't using that space for anything other than a purpose built space for FN.Bit of a waste of building space to just have it sit there and only be accessible for less than 3 weeks of the year.
March 1, 20169 yr comment_228813 Bit of a waste of building space to just have it sit there and only be accessible for less than 3 weeks of the year. Come on people, use common sense!
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