August 6, 20169 yr comment_239526 16 hours ago, Marc said: What ever the issues were seem to be resolved as X is runnung 3 trains But seemingly only 2 with people on?
August 6, 20169 yr comment_239537 1 hour ago, Marc said: All 3 were loaded last night. Not when I went on. It came into the station and stopped then the ride host pushed the bars down and dispatched it.
August 26, 20169 yr comment_240544 It seems they fill 2 then don't fill the 3rd, they were doing that last time I went.
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241207 Never seen this video before, memories of dat queueline <3 My favourite quote though: "Going for the longest, the tallest, the fastest is most parks answer for putting in a new attraction"
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241215 Never even knew X had a queue like that! Anyone know when that was removed and why?
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241216 8 minutes ago, ThorpeAddict said: Never even knew X had a queue like that! Anyone know when that was removed and why? Parts of the original queueline were repurposed for Fright Nights (Freakshow 3D, which later became Hellgate, and now Cabin in the Woods). The spinning tunnel you see in the video is the same one that is now the "static" tunnel in CITW.
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241218 I thought that while watching it, theres no way that would fit in the current queue line. Just knew nothing about it
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241223 43 minutes ago, ThorpeAddict said: I thought that while watching it, theres no way that would fit in the current queue line. Just knew nothing about it Maybe, there's no way out they could fit it even in seriousness, it's interesting to see what was then a highly influential ride at the park, which is now basically Liquid-The Ride.
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241234 Might have been removed due to health and safety, heard from one of the staff members that that's the reason most of the queue is done outside instead of inside now. Shame really, interactive queue lines don't really seem to exist anymore
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241235 That's what confuses me here in the UK queues are restricted so much by laws not allowing people in buildings, yet across all the rest of Europe, and even the whole world, some rides have fully indoor queues.
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241237 It's a weird one, the indoor queue did get dreadfully hot over times, and the lifts were probably more burdenous in modern times... Like most of the original design, it was a daft idea that never really worked as a concept...
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241239 Another point to note is that there's now a huge area of the old queueline unused, as (if I remember correctly) Hellgate used to use the entire rectangular section of the building, whereas CITW uses less than half of it.
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241241 Fire saftey and number of staff needed to evac the building meant the ride could originally queue indoors, other time the staff levels were cut back to the point D started to be run with bag room, onload and operator. X used to have lift operators, offload (now back in use), photo unit ect which meant more people were able to support clearing the ride/ building
September 11, 20168 yr comment_241274 Still annoying though how from experience, there are parks in Europe which have the same amount or less ops and are allowed a full indoor queue.
September 12, 20168 yr comment_241276 Is it an UK thing though? Hex, Duel and Laser Raiders all have indoor queues that are used on a regular basis (as in the outdoor extensions of Hex and Duel are never used)... Come to think of things there aren't that many rides that do have completely indoor queues...
September 12, 20168 yr comment_241277 But in all those cases, they have fairly short queues, with few people in them, bar laser raisers, so they are said as fine, and laser raiders from memory has a ridiculous amount of fire exits.
September 12, 20168 yr comment_241296 I think you have your answer with your last point - it has a lot more to do with building regs than anything else. A properly designed modern building can safety hold a lot more people than a 30 year old one which is made of wood partitioning with few fire doors and many obstructions, some caused by the internal fire doors themselves! X is safe as it is, but to safely hold more people an amount of work would need to be done which is not economicly viable.
September 15, 20168 yr comment_241371 There were lifts in X? I didn't know that EDIT: Oh they were fake, of course. I love the way it's referred to as X Colon Backslash No Way Out. CATCHY!
September 16, 20168 yr comment_241408 18 hours ago, MattyMoo said: There were lifts in X? I didn't know that EDIT: Oh they were fake, of course. I love the way it's referred to as X Colon Backslash No Way Out. CATCHY! There still are. The lifts are the hexagonal rooms you walk into just before the station, in fact the lift doors are still there!
September 18, 20168 yr comment_241462 On 9/16/2016 at 10:33 AM, KingNemesis said: There still are. The lifts are the hexagonal rooms you walk into just before the station, in fact the lift doors are still there! Ohhhhh that's what that is! I could never understand why that room was like that!
September 25, 20168 yr comment_241860 I was discussing with other members today, that I first attended Thorpe Park when X No Way Out opened, with my children - my goodness, that was twenty years ago, and my kids are older than I am now.
September 25, 20168 yr comment_241870 1 hour ago, planenut said: I was discussing with other members today, that I first attended Thorpe Park when X No Way Out opened, with my children - my goodness, that was twenty years ago, and my kids are older than I am now. Ahhh 1996 - the year I left school I remember winning 4 free tickets to the park that year and no bugger wanted to go with me! I never got to ride X:\NWO until a few years later and only went on the damn thing once - how I didn't vomit was a miracle My sister was sat in front of me so it would have gone all over her
September 25, 20168 yr comment_241877 47 minutes ago, Han30 said: Ahhh 1996 - the year I left school I remember winning 4 free tickets to the park that year and no bugger wanted to go with me! I never got to ride X:\NWO until a few years later and only went on the damn thing once - how I didn't vomit was a miracle My sister was sat in front of me so it would have gone all over her Wow, the things we reveal.
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