May 18, 201510 yr comment_209281 I heard from someone who works at the park that it was testing today........
May 18, 201510 yr comment_209283 If it was testing today or not is not a justification. The park has been open for 2 months and it still hasn't opened and its not even a rare occasion. Its done it every year since they got it. Unless I'm mistaken I don't think its managed a full year of operation without 2 consecutive weeks of downtime.
May 18, 201510 yr comment_209284 it's not a justification, but at least it's a hopeful sign of it opening soon... it is a great unique experience, it is a real shame how it's always had problems; was good to see it back open last year and pretty reliable as well, and thought it was a sign of things to come, and then for it to still not to be open yet is such a disappointment; I hope there's money coming from S&S towards the continued work on this ride; as it seems crazy for thorpe to keep trying and when it's open not even emphasising the fact it's world first/only - as good as it is, right from the beginning of these severe problems the last few years and the same with samurai they probably should have given up and saved the money to get a new flat ride to replace it, would have been a win situation really as a new ride to actually advertise.
May 18, 201510 yr comment_209292 S&S have disowned it, so doubt they'll put in anything towards it...
May 19, 201510 yr comment_209319 It would be nice if they replaced it with something like Falcons Fury (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay) I feel as if detanator is to small, he's its in the angry birds land and based around family's but they have to think of the bigger picture.
May 19, 201510 yr comment_209320 Even though Detonator is (loosely) in Angry Birds Land, it still is a great thrill ride and really does pack a punch. The drop on it is very good; I found it better than Apocalypse at Drayton, which is almost twice as tall. Whilst taller drop towers have the intimidation factor, Detonator has the edge of being able to provide a better ride experience. There's also the problem that Thorpe at restricted in how tall they can go, which would make a ride like Falcon's Fury more difficult to achieve.
May 19, 201510 yr comment_209321 Det is a more intense drop tower than many other taller variants, purely because of the lack of only letting gravity do all the work... Long live Det!
May 19, 201510 yr comment_209325 This is why I dislike detty^ 3 intense 5 me Back to the point, there is very very little chance the ride would be testing seeing the state it was in at the weekend. There were no cables or lift mechanisms on the two towers (they looked very stripped) and there were alot of big parts waiting to the side in a gated area by slammer. There were engineers looking at the seating area on slammer, and a couple of funny noises, but there was no movement. S&S have completely stopped the supply of the sky swat parts, apart from seats, as they are the same model used on several of their other rides such as the screamin swing.
May 19, 201510 yr comment_209336 Detty is a great drop ride despite it's low'ish throughput and for me only second to Tower Of Terror ( but then that's another league there). Slammer though we're almost 4 months in to the season and there's still no life in here (which is a shame as its 10 this year). If I see nothing by June/July time we could safely say the ride is gone and SBNO this year.
May 19, 201510 yr comment_209341 That's why S&S have made a lot of new stuff for slammer Thorpe have spent over £400,000 on it.
May 19, 201510 yr comment_209348 Thorpe have to go to external companies for most of the parts needed for Slammer. That's why it often takes ridiculously long for the parts to arrive as they are being made from scratch with little to no design of the original part as it's not S&S producing it. Slammer is essentially Thorpe's engineers toy that they hate having to fix. It's probably almost made entirely from in house/external company parts with little resemblance to the original S&S that sat there failing in 2005.
May 19, 201510 yr comment_209357 Hi guys, was on site sunday afternoon and Monday. Slammer was going Monday and they were working on it. Three workmen on it, one on each side and one in the controls. It did do full rotations be it very very slow yet it spent most of its time up in the air horizontal. Later on it was upside down yet horizontal. I have a pic yet do not know how to load on ?
May 19, 201510 yr comment_209358 I have a pic yet do not know how to load on ? Quite an easy way is to upload it to Photobucket, then copy the IMG code onto a post on the forum.
May 20, 201510 yr comment_209363 It would be nice if slammer was open next Thursday, I'm going then xD
May 20, 201510 yr comment_209366 Wonder what's wrong with it, Thorpe just keep saying technical issues or some stupid excuse, I genuinely want to k ow why it
May 20, 201510 yr comment_209376 Wonder what's wrong with it, Thorpe just keep saying technical issues or some stupid excuse, I genuinely want to k ow why it Is down so much It's such a flawed ride design that S&S (the company who manufactured it) have told Thorpe they don't want anything to do with it, meaning that Thorpe have to deal with all problems and source the parts themselves, which is proving difficult for them. That's what I've been told anyway, it may not be 100% accurate.
May 20, 201510 yr comment_209377 I wonder why Thorpe never bought the other one from Six Flags when they discontinued it, would be a good source for spare parts.
May 20, 201510 yr comment_209378 I wonder why Thorpe never bought the other one from Six Flags when they discontinued it, would be a good source for spare parts. I think there pretty different to be fair, from what I remember slammer had many significant design changes.
May 20, 201510 yr comment_209383 Really? I went on catapault and it seemed the same - Maybe the supports were tighter on the waist...
May 22, 201510 yr comment_209420 Was it actually testing yesterday???? Please tell me it's nearly ready???
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