X

[yeah]

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?

[Marc]

All 3 were loaded last night.

[yeah]

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.

[Tom]

The magic of the passage of time

[ThemeParkLover]

It seems they fill 2 then don't fill the 3rd, they were doing that last time I went.

[MattyMoo]

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"  

[Cal]

Never even knew X had a queue like that! Anyone know when that was removed and why? 

[Coaster]

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.

[Cal]

I thought that while watching it, theres no way that would fit in the current queue line. Just knew nothing about it 

[Matt 236]

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.

[Matt A]

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

[Matt10]

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.

[Benin]

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...

[Coaster]

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.

[RobF]

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

[Matt10]

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.

[Benin]

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...

[Matt10]

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.

[pluk]

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. 

 

 

[MattyMoo]

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!

[KingNemesis]

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! 

[Matt A]

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!

[planenut]

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.

[Han30]

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

[planenut]

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.