Theme Park bloke Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Oh - my - god.Seriously - where's Microsoft Word? I need to do a letter of complaint soon I think.Crazy.We've all seen these queue boards at Alton Towers:And Thorpe Park's:The difference? Well Alton's are actually very accurate and more informative. OK, so they're bigger and take up more room, and perhaps not as attractive, but I'd be in favour of seeing these put in at the 2 south parks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Thorpes can display all that information, it has the scrolling along the bottom and cycles through other pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan9 Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 Theme Park bloke said: Oh - my - god.Seriously - where's Microsoft Word? I need to do a letter of complaint soon I think.Crazy.We've all seen these queue boards at Alton Towers:And Thorpe Park's:The difference? Well Alton's are actually very accurate and more informative. OK, so they're bigger and take up more room, and perhaps not as attractive, but I'd be in favour of seeing these put in at the 2 south parks.It's nothing to do with what kind of electronic board it is, they both run in the same way, just with different designs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted September 17, 2009 Report Share Posted September 17, 2009 I much prefer the display board shown there at Thorpe anyway. It's much better themed, and the one at Alton shown there is just really ugly in my opinion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stealth888 Posted September 18, 2009 Report Share Posted September 18, 2009 I agree paul.anyway, when was that photo of thorpe's one taken?Samurai 20 mins but Saw only 5? That can't be right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted September 19, 2009 Report Share Posted September 19, 2009 By the way the queue boarding system is back to its old ways! ( in case it hasn't been said). It also failed at some point yesterday, every queue board was either blank or read zero, even the notice board was advertising all the rides at zero mins! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted September 20, 2009 Report Share Posted September 20, 2009 Good! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimR Posted September 20, 2009 Report Share Posted September 20, 2009 Ricky said: By the way the queue boarding system is back to its old ways! ( in case it hasn't been said). It also failed at some point yesterday, every queue board was either blank or read zero, even the notice board was advertising all the rides at zero mins!Thank god, thanks for the update Ricky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry.D.C Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 On 9/19/2009 at 11:56 PM, 'Ricky said: By the way the queue boarding system is back to its old ways! ( in case it hasn't been said). It also failed at some point yesterday, every queue board was either blank or read zero, even the notice board was advertising all the rides at zero mins!Thats good! I honestly don't know where Thorpe came up with that idea. Even if they did use that type of system, they could of structured it better! I am so bored in astronamy at the moment at school, at least the forum is not blocked! Poor old Miss Dunn thinking that I am researching hubble telescope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stealth888 Posted September 23, 2009 Report Share Posted September 23, 2009 lol thank f*** for that!I'm going on Sunday so it should be a blast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 On 9/17/2009 at 1:59 PM, 'Theme Park bloke said: And Thorpe Park's:The only wrong thing there is that Samurai has a longer queue then Saw and Stealth..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian96 Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Is Slammers Queue 1min or is it just broken? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themeparkmad Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 On 9/24/2009 at 9:17 PM, 'Sebastian96 said: Is Slammers Queue 1min or is it just broken?It is the new key system.See previous posts for more information. :blink:I don't know if this is true, but I have heard that the "Queue Key" (1, 2 and 3) have gone, and it is back to normal. :blink:All queue times go up in 5's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian96 Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 I knew about the new system and in that photo its not in operation as Samurai has a 20min queue. What I meant was Slammers Just says "MIN" with no number not even a zero like Stealth's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themeparkmad Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 On 9/24/2009 at 9:22 PM, 'Sebastian96 said: I knew about the new system and in that photo its not in operation as Samurai has a 20min queue. What I meant was Slammers Just says "MIN" with no number not even a zero like Stealth'sIt means that the ride or rides are unavailable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Min means shut/broken. 0min means walk-on unless they are lying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam P Posted September 27, 2009 Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 0 min queues are great glad to hear the queue times have changed back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Posted September 27, 2009 Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 After todays visit, I am afraid to say that the LED boards at the entrance still say quiet blah blah, however its altered slightly and 60+ is now very busy. I didn't get a chance to remember them all but its been altered slightly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 Just a quick question. Does anyone know how busy it will be on the 9th October? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 It will no doubt be pretty empty since its on a weekday and most people will be planning to go during Fright Nights season. (The week after) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam P Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 No but the queues should peak around a hour for Saw but flats are usually 30 mins max. Hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 cheers guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan9 Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 On 9/28/2009 at 8:09 PM, 'Sam P said: No but the queues should peak around a hour for Saw but flats are usually 30 mins max. Hope this helps Well I'd predict lower than that considering that those queue times are what we're getting on most weekends from the last few weeks. But then again it could be 3 hours for every ride, no one really knows for sure. But judging by patterns from the last few years then yes it should be pretty quiet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam P Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 Even better then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted September 29, 2009 Report Share Posted September 29, 2009 On 9/29/2009 at 3:02 PM, 'TPDan said: But then again it could be 3 hours for every ride, no one really knows for sure. But judging by patterns from the last few years then yes it should be pretty quiet.I know you're being hypothetical, but I'm in one of those correcting moods. It would NEVER happen that every ride would have a 3 hour queue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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