November 1, 201311 yr comment_171536 They can't keep on trying to fix this can they, I bet hundreds of thousands of pounds or maybe even more have been spent to keep this ride open for it to kill it self mid season twice! Its a great ride but I don't think there is much point keeping it much longer it would cost them as a park too much I guess.
November 1, 201311 yr comment_171541 It's like getting my old car through its MOT. Each fault that needs repairing is not enough individually to warrant scrapping it, but when you add up all those repairs over time you realise you could have bought a new car with what you've spent. Each small outlay makes the next one seem more of a good idea to stop the previous spends having been a waste.It is quite a predicament. I'm waiting for my car to have one single problem that costs £1000 to repair and I'll scrap it, but each time it develops a little £100 fault it seems right to fix it. I imagine that is exactly what is happening with Slammer, just with bigger numbers!
November 10, 201311 yr comment_171913 Marcus Stayte Are they ripping up Slammer and putting something new there or are they just fixing it? Like · Reply · 11 · 5 November at 20:04 THORPE PARK Official Slammer will be back for next year! Like · 14 hours ago Generally wary of taking too much from the facebook PR stuff, but this is a very direct and definite reply.
November 15, 201311 yr comment_172016 I'm going on the first open day I doubt slammer will be ready...
November 15, 201311 yr comment_172017 It's opened with the park for the past couple of seasons, so I think it could be a safe assumption to say that it'll be open. They'll probably want it to be working for AP Day as well (if it happens), which would be the Sunday before then probably. It's been down since July, so if it takes them more than 8 months to have decided to keep it, get the relevant parts, and then actually fix and test it, you do have to question if it really is worth the effort.
November 27, 201311 yr comment_172494 Good news on the home page; I didn't think the latter hold-up was the ride itself, more the H & S side of things.
January 4, 201411 yr comment_174109 I say just sell slammer and get a brand new Mondial Turbine! They have the same capacity as stealth and are super fun!
January 4, 201411 yr comment_174116 I say just sell slammer and get a brand new Mondial Turbine! They have the same capacity as stealth and are super fun! Good luck with that mission..
January 4, 201411 yr comment_174117 I say just sell slammer and get a brand new Mondial Turbine! They have the same capacity as stealth and are super fun! No! Slammer is unique, and I give full credit to Thorpe for keeping it running despite all it's problems.
January 4, 201411 yr comment_174122 Same capacity as Stealth? I'm a bit suspicious of that if I'm honest!
January 4, 201411 yr comment_174126 Same capacity as Stealth? I'm a bit suspicious of that if I'm honest!Stealth dispatches every 1-2mins with a car of 20pph and has a throughput of 1000pph. The mondial turbine does have the same capacity but the throughput is much lower as it takes longer to load/unload and the cycles would have to be longer as I'm sure a 20 second ride on a turbine would not be very enjoyable at thorpe and would be way too short after a very long queue. Considering samurai only takes 500pph(if that) with 30 seats I am almost certain the turbine would not make over that. This would result in a terrible throughput like vortex which now probably only does about 300pph because of the time it takes to start up and stop etc. I can remember at sunscream when vortex had a 90 minute queue for 1 top swing and it was just awful. And the queue length was literally the same length as the samurai queue which was only 30 minutes. If I'm perfectly honest I would much see slammer stay as the ride is so unique and the throughput is much higher. I just love slammer and love to freefall on it, the ride experience is so amazing, I just can't bear to see it go #emotionally attached
January 4, 201411 yr comment_174133 Throughput... That's the word.. I'm getting my nerdy words muddled up Thanks!
January 5, 201411 yr comment_174141 Oh, so this Turbine thing is just Mondial's version of a Fabbri Booster... How dull...
January 5, 201411 yr comment_174142 Slammer doesn't have a particularly high throughput remember. Sure, it can take 48 people per ride, but it's theoretical throughput is 500pph. Essentially, that means the ride goes from being loaded to being unloaded just under every 6 minutes. I'd bet it usually takes longer than that, and probably that the ride barely musters 400pph. Yet, a ride with such a low throughput has so little queue when it's open (I've never seen the queue above an hour, even on ridiculously busy days). I just don't see why the park should keep a ride which has terrible reliability, poor throughput and seems to not even be popular with guests...
March 14, 201411 yr comment_178274 TPG was on park today and posted a photo of Slammer, with the signage still not up and the bin blocking the entrance. Guessing I won't be riding my favourite flat on Sunday:'(
March 14, 201411 yr comment_178277 Just yesterday... http://forum.maniahub.com/topic/10537-how-is-slammer/ So I'm hoping they've just forgotten about the sign!
March 14, 201411 yr comment_178283 They said that it would be open for Open Day though, not the Passholder weekend so they've got 6 days to fix that. So it's not unlikely that it won't be running for the weekend. Still you never know with these parks
March 14, 201411 yr comment_178296 Slammer was being tested Yesterday, because a member of staff has posted a picture of it being tested on instagram. I have no idea what rides were open today but I have only seen pictures of coasters, so maybe only coasters were open today? Even if it was just coasters open today, they would still have signage up ready for the weekend so I doubt it will be open for the weekend.
March 14, 201411 yr comment_178321 All rides were open today apart from zodiac samurai slammer flying carpet and nemesis
March 14, 201411 yr comment_178323 That's promising then, more queues reduces the numbers in a specific queue, hurrah.
March 15, 201411 yr comment_178330 All rides were open today apart from zodiac samurai slammer flying carpet and nemesis Zodiac, meh. Samurai I've seen is having work. Slammer no surprise. Quantum nobody cares but Inferno?! Really? I have to admit I'm surprised. I've never (and maybe I'm lucky) been to Thorpe on a day when Inferno was off for an entire day. To my memory it only ever broke once when I worked on it, and that was for an hour at most...
March 15, 201411 yr comment_178334 All rides were open today apart from zodiac samurai slammer flying carpet and nemesis That's not all rides, that's a pretty solid part of the ride line-up!
March 15, 201411 yr comment_178353 That's not all rides, that's a pretty solid part of the ride line-up! Hence the word APART FROM
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