EC! Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Also posted: The fate of Carnival of Screams however, remains to be seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 I never liked carnival of screams, not sure why! Love terror of the towers, easily the best maze I've been in... Which only extends from Thorpe to Alton! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Why did they bother deconstructing The Sanctuary? The Towers are barely open so it was a bit pointless. I'll be saving my money anyway - I went in it both last Scarefest and at Easter. Still, great maze! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Why did they bother deconstructing The Sanctuary? The Towers are barely open so it was a bit pointless. I think it's more a case of The Towers need to be open as ruins, due to local council agreements or something, regardless of the popularity and longevity of the opening. Happy to see Sanctuary return, though I do hope TotT gets a major revamp this season, really didn't do anything for me last season. Would like to see CoS return, as I enjoyed it, but at the same time, it would be nice to get a completely new maze, and I can't see another maze added to the line up. My personal preference would be to see CoS stay one more season, and have this season be a complete reva,p of TotT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastercameron98 Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 Since when did chains snap? That doesn't sound like theme park "logic" to me. Must be more complex than that. Oblivion was out of action for a while last year as well, also because of a lift hill problem... Just to further prove it can happen an example was last season the chain on the Vampire at Chessington snapped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 I think it's more a case of The Towers need to be open as ruins, due to local council agreements or something, regardless of the popularity and longevity of the opening. Happy to see Sanctuary return, though I do hope TotT gets a major revamp this season, really didn't do anything for me last season. Would like to see CoS return, as I enjoyed it, but at the same time, it would be nice to get a completely new maze, and I can't see another maze added to the line up. My personal preference would be to see CoS stay one more season, and have this season be a complete reva,p of TotT. Ok fair enough. I would like to see Terror of the Towers receive a revamp - although I quite enjoyed it last year, probably because I hadn't done it before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 How would you improve it? Other than slight lulls/inconsistency between goes (which is largely unavoidable in a live action maze type attraction) I can't think of much that could be better. Love that maze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coaster Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 How would you improve it? Other than slight lulls/inconsistency between goes (which is largely unavoidable in a live action maze type attraction) I can't think of much that could be better. Love that maze. As with most Merlin mazes, I think that it would really benefit from a few triggered effects (such as hanging bodies moving or something of the sort) because they are, in some ways, scarier than actors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted June 20, 2013 Report Share Posted June 20, 2013 How would you improve it? Other than slight lulls/inconsistency between goes (which is largely unavoidable in a live action maze type attraction) I can't think of much that could be better. Love that maze. I don't know if I caught it at a bad time (and I did visit during the Preview Weekend last season; thought that shouldn't be an excuse), but I found it a bit boring at times (especially at the beginning), with long sections of nothing happening and a few story line inconsistencies. And, most importantly, the scares weren't anything special. Carnival and Sanctuary are a lot better, and I'd happily say Se7en and Experiment 10 (well, in 2011) were more enjoyable and scary as well. The trouble I have with criticizing it is I can't answer the question of how to improve it. Nothing in the maze feels unnecessary; it is obviously well thought out and is executed pretty well. But, to me, it just doesn't 'do' anything for me. Maybe the actors need re-positioning a bit and just the odd tweak here and there may improve it massively to me? Maybe I just caught it at the wrong time and the problems I had were ironed away? So yeah, would love to see it revamped, but would also love to try it again, and see if I was just unlucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFarmerDean Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 Can't find a topic for Enterprise... but was there today and maintenance staff were removing the carriage/carts off the enterprise wheel - doesn't look good! I have pictures but not sure how to put them on here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 Can't find a topic for Enterprise... but was there today and maintenance staff were removing the carriage/carts off the enterprise wheel - doesn't look good! I have pictures but not sure how to put them on here? At the top of where you write your posts, there's a button that looks like a painting (just underneath the smily face), which should say 'Image' when you hover over it. Click it an copy the image url of your photos (add them to Photobucket or Flickr or something if you haven't done that!) into the box that pops up and that's it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFarmerDean Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 urmmm gimme a while, never used flickr or that before... shall sign up in a min EDIT: wouldn't let me add flcikr extension pictures? just signing up to photobucket now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFarmerDean Posted June 26, 2013 Report Share Posted June 26, 2013 http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/DeanGaryCox/media/enterprise2_zps3e2a7cbc.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1 http://s1290.photobucket.com/user/DeanGaryCox/media/enterprise1_zps288e204a.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0 won't let me attach the images for some reason... the pics are on those links Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EC! Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 Towers Street have confirmed on their website that the Early ride time line up has changed here is what they wrote: Early Ride Time; where hotel guests, annual pass holders and pre-booked tickets get an extra hour on selected rides from 9am until 10am, has been a staple of the resorts line-up for many years, and has gone through many changes. Today Alton Towers have announced a new set of changes to the line-up, removing Th13teen and Hex and replacing them with Duel and Blade. Th13teen has long suffered during ERT due to the fact it requires 18 riders before it can be dispatched, often resulting in long waits to ride using up guests time in the ERT window. The new line-up moves all of the ERT offering to the left side of the park, and it is at this time un-clear whether non-ERT guests will be allowed into this section of the park until 10am. If the area is restricted to ERT guests only, this would alleviate the problem of non-ERT guests being sometimes allowed on the operating rides before 10am, something that has been noted at times in the current system. Along with these changes, the Woodland Walk from the hotels to the theme park will be opening from 8:30 every morning. This will encourage guests to use it for ERT as it enters the park in Forbidden Valley. Previously the walk did not open until 10am and thus could not be used for ERT. The new ERT line-up is as follows and will begin running sometime in August we understand: Nemesis Runaway Mine Train Sharkbait Reef Duel Blade Heave Ho Marauders Mayhem (Note: ERT does not operate during the Scarefest and Fireworks events) Inferno 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 Air needs to be on that list, having Nemesis as the only coaster on ERT sucks big time. Other than that this is a hugely sensible decision, to put all ERT in one place and near the hotels with the woodland walk open. Pretty much exactly as it was about 10 years ago and shouldn't have been messed with. BigBobJones, OldFarmerDean and Inferno 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 10 years ago you only had Air on ERT... Or Nemesis if you were really lucky... And you got a themed guide pick everyone up from the hotel lobby (Back when it was Nemesis and my first visit to Towers in 2001, a bloke in hard hat and hi-vis would run into the lobby screaming and promoting the story of Nemesis <3)... Sigh... I guess that having Air and Nemesis would be extremely unlikely to be both open and ready for 9am, especially with staff requirements... Sub Terra would be a definite candidate off the list just for staffing alone since it needs 60 people to run it... They might look into Air opening as well, but for now, let's settle for whoring Runaway Train still <3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 Most certainly had both on a good few of my visits back in the day, around Airs first few seasons. In the space of one season lose 2 major coasters (and Hex) and replace them with a poor pirate ship (for my money the worst 'big' ride in the park. I don't know how they managed to make blade so forceless, it's actually quite an achievement) and a haunted house that last saw a queue in about 1998 is not much of a fair deal. BigBobJones 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchada04 Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 This is all Intamin's fault. Had Rita's cable not snapped we wouldn't have got 13 as a replacement. Had 13 not had a stupid rule about the number of riders and being down the last few days it would have been a good replacement. Wretched Intamin! Fingers crossed they return Oblivion to the list for next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inferno Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 It makes a lot more sense to keep all the ERT rides in one area. I agree though that there should be more than one big coaster. They managed to open 2 major coasters at a time before, so there's no reason Air shouldn't be on the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBobJones Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 Duel and the Blade should be removed and Air added, OldFarmerDean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Posted July 29, 2013 Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 Makes sense. Removing two family rides on a family event to satisfy a thrillseeker. Kerfuffle and Dan9 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan9 Posted July 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2013 Duel is great though; that, Nemesis and Runaway are more than enough to keep me occupied! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted July 30, 2013 Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 This is all Intamin's fault. Had Rita's cable not snapped we wouldn't have got 13 as a replacement. Had 13 not had a stupid rule about the number of riders and being down the last few days it would have been a good replacement. Wretched Intamin! Fingers crossed they return Oblivion to the list for next year. Love how we blame Intamin.. There are plenty of Launch coasters out there which cables havent snapped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted July 30, 2013 Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 TH13TEEN better be open again in time for this weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFarmerDean Posted July 30, 2013 Report Share Posted July 30, 2013 I do agree another main ride needs to be included in the ERT lineup, unless they really are going to only give the benefit to hotel guests, as with the lineup being aimed more at families and the walkway to forbidden valley from the hotels being reopened, and keeping all of it in one side of the park, I can understand - although if people who have booked online get ERT as well which I guess a lot of people do then it's only fair they include another major ride like air! I find it amusing how alton towers still have the oblivion image on their ERT page! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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