March 31, 201411 yr comment_179755 That's true, I imagine they've tried to get it to stop upside down multiple times since though, pretty sure they put in some new safety feature. At least it didn't try and lower itself upside down or anything. We can take that as a bonus.
April 5, 201411 yr comment_180336 Still no life out of Slammer, I doubt I will ever get to ride it again
April 5, 201411 yr comment_180340 Still no life out of Slammer, I doubt I will ever get to ride it again It's been testing all week?
April 6, 201411 yr comment_180357 I have decided to return and why is slammer not opening? Is it due to technical problems?
April 6, 201411 yr comment_180359 It's cos they cant be bothered. Yes, it's cos of technical difficulties.
April 6, 201411 yr comment_180362 I dread to think how much money they spent on slammer trying to fix it. Can they not scrap it I know it's the only one but surely it would be better to have a working ride that is common than one that barely works and is the only one around?
April 6, 201411 yr comment_180363 I highly doubt they would just plow money senselessly into a ride which they do not believe is providing any sort of return for them. Clearly whatever amount of money they have spent on it, they have deemed it still profitable. The minute they deem it to be a total loss, no doubt it will head for the scrap heap.
April 6, 201411 yr comment_180366 They've been senselessly ploughing money in it for 9 odd years, why stop now?
April 6, 201411 yr comment_180370 Because, hopefully, Merlin's wallet will eventually have a bigger say than their fetish for wanting world firsts / world onlys. (Now there's a sentence I didn't think I'd ever say!)
April 6, 201411 yr comment_180380 Aside from the 'worlds only' tag it has now got; it has the potential, when run with a fair staffing, to be a capacity dream for a flat ride (in theory). It also is relatively popular, in the form of, it's daunting and people seem to desire to go on it due to its horrific appearance.
April 6, 201411 yr comment_180384 Aside from the 'worlds only' tag it has now got; it has the potential, when run with a fair staffing, to be a capacity dream for a flat ride (in theory). It also is relatively popular, in the form of, it's daunting and people seem to desire to go on it due to its horrific appearance. What would you class as a 'capacity dream' for a flat ride, just outta interest? Given how long the ride cycle takes (especially the going up and down), I doubt that it's maximum theoretical throughput can reach above 600. I wouldn't call that a capacity dream for a flat ride. I wouldn't call it THAT popular either. I think I've only ever seen Slammer have a queue of over an hour once or twice since it opened. Considering it was probably barely reaching 500pph, it's not exactly the most popular ride out there from that perspective.
April 6, 201411 yr comment_180387 The issue with the ride is that you'd literally need about 400 staff members like it had originally to get any sort of decent throughput. The 200 or so it got an hour in the last few years are likely to be what it'll forever remain with.
April 6, 201411 yr comment_180404 I respect and understand your points guys, but I think Fred hit the nail on the head. If it ran like it used to, with at least one bar checker on each end; and two individual batchers; and two individual operators, the ride cycles can be increased significantly - I'd say almost doubled to what they currently are. Yes the cycles are slow, but if it was staffed up again, the loading process time could be significantly reduced in my opinion. When I say capacity dream, I mean in reflection to rides like Samurai; Quantum; Vortex - from my understanding Slammer can achieve much higher. With regards to popularity, I think it's hard to tell. No, it doesn't always attract huge queues but then, at 48-per cycle; and it does frequently run relatively full on a busy day; I think its a queue line that's hard to judge. It just never really gets a chance to build much more than 15 minutes nowadays. But maybe it's just my views on it. I could be completely wrong.
April 7, 201411 yr comment_180409 Aside from the 'worlds only' tag it has now got; it has the potential, when run with a fair staffing, to be a capacity dream for a flat ride (in theory). It also is relatively popular, in the form of, it's daunting and people seem to desire to go on it due to its horrific appearance. It's daunting yes, it looks horrific yes - hence why I DON'T want to go on it
April 7, 201411 yr comment_180412 Slammer may be popular but you will never get me on it. If it had proper full over the head restraints then maybe. Is the ride cycles on a program like a lot of flat rides or is it manual and the operator lets it go round for as long as they are allowed?
April 7, 201411 yr comment_180413 Slammer may be popular but you will never get me on it. If it had proper full over the head restraints then maybe. Is the ride cycles on a program like a lot of flat rides or is it manual and the operator lets it go round for as long as they are allowed? It has programs, it either spins 2 times each way or 3 (usually 3) Its restraint system is fine and perfectly safe! You are just as secure as you would be if it had full over the head restraints!
April 7, 201411 yr comment_180414 I've been going thorpe for 6 years, and I've neevr been on slammer. I probably should though, because then I can go to America and go to six flags and be like 'Have you ridden a sky swat... have you? What about you.... Nah ah, didn't think so.'
April 7, 201411 yr comment_180415 Never knew it had two different programs! Always seen it do 3 cycles both ways; never 2. Well, at least Thorpe pretty much always run it on the longer cycle. [/ThinkingPositive]
April 7, 201411 yr comment_180422 I like the fact that Thorpe wants to keep this ride despite the problems that it suffers. As others as said its one of those rides that sorts out the more extreme riders from the more general lower level ones. Not only that given the space it takes up I can't see a better ride being put there in its place to be honest. If this was lost it would leave Canada Creek looking even more desolate than it does already. I feel they really need to put some new stuff there, leaving the old CCR station just empty seems such a waste as well.
April 7, 201411 yr comment_180423 I was under the belief jack that it is opening later this moneth , fingers crossed thats the case.
April 7, 201411 yr comment_180425 I've been going thorpe for 6 years, and I've neevr been on slammer. I probably should though, because then I can go to America and go to six flags and be like 'Have you ridden a sky swat... have you? What about you.... Nah ah, didn't think so.' Don't go to New England, cos people will say that they have... It makes me think that if the park haven't opened it yet after tonnes of testing if they have any confidence in the ride at all... If this is the case, why haven't they given up on it yet?
April 7, 201411 yr comment_180427 Rush is also a s&s ride and to my knowledge that has not had as much downtime as slammer has. Why is that?
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