Coaster Posted October 19, 2020 Report Share Posted October 19, 2020 I thought Tomb Blaster was meant to have had a refurb?! I rode it on Sunday and... - Axe alley was just pitch black, couldn't see anything - Boulder totally broken and not even spinning - Half the scenes just pitch dark - Voiced audio was overdone and inaudible for the most part The only improvement was uplighting in the very first scene and decent new lighting on the mummy scare at the end. Everything else just felt broken and disjointed. Ringo and SteveJ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Doyle Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 They are gonna be pushing it tight with getting Forbidden Tomb open!! *credit to theme park guide Ringo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringo Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 And still no teasers from the park 😕 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Doyle Posted December 5, 2020 Report Share Posted December 5, 2020 16 minutes ago, Ringo said: And still no teasers from the park 😕 Ah its all good. My source has told me its a done deal. He wishes to remain anonymous so he goes by the alias of "HP source" Ringo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeah Posted May 17, 2021 Report Share Posted May 17, 2021 In a truly shocking turn of events, Tomb Blaster is... exactly the same. https://twitter.com/ChessingtonBuzz/status/1394256497517993986?s=19 pluk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted Tuesday at 07:49 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 07:49 PM Rode Tomb Blaster today. It remains bloody dreadful. -Every train had at least one car not in use. One train had two cars not in use. -The 'story' is beyond dull, with the voiceover being one of the worst-sounding, boring and grating things I've ever heard on a theme park -The guns are rubbish -Pacing of the ride feels so off. Partially because of the story they shoehorned in, but also just because the ride system feels like it's on its last legs -Audio is either too quiet or too loud. -Most of the screens in the on ride photo viewpoint were broken (not necessarily turned off, but physically broken). Honestly, of everything that the park are doing, adding and changing, sorting out Tomb Blaster should really have been number 1 priority. Inferno, Jack29 and Matt N 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt N Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago The one thing that I'll admit baffles me about modern day Tomb Blaster, aside from everything @JoshC. mentioned, is the throughput. As a ride with multiple large trains and simple lap bar restraints, it seems like the sort of thing that should be doing well over 1,000pph on paper... yet in reality, it's capped at 500pph or so. Why is this? It did seem incredibly short-staffed when I last went to Chessington in 2023, with one poor man running the entire operation on his own, but I saw a post online somewhere stating that the target throughput was only 500pph even a few years back. For a ride with large trains and a simple restraint system, this seems bafflingly low! I do think it's a ride that has maybe had its day a bit and could do with a Curse-style revamp, though. It was fun last time I did it, but seems a bit dated nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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