November 3, 200816 yr comment_38177 Those stairs seem to fit nicely :)I didnt realise the indoor section was soo huge!
November 3, 200816 yr comment_38216 I like the idea of the maintenance shed within the station bit.Do you think it will be a clever bit of theming, with jigsaw taking you on a detour?
November 5, 200816 yr comment_38420 A live actor, you mean?Nah, I just recken it'll be those classic old fashioned SAW TVs
November 5, 200816 yr comment_38421 A live actor, you mean?Nah, I just recken it'll be those classic old fashioned SAW TVsNo, I mean light on the maintenance shed track, the nyou being *taken* on a detour and I don't think hte SAW tv's possibly just the audio
November 5, 200816 yr comment_38431 I don't think that area is accessible at the moment with construction happening there.
November 5, 200816 yr comment_38445 do u think thorpe will ever take pics of the back of the ride, cos u can only see it four a second on sammy,Riding loggers gives a good veiw of it
November 7, 200816 yr comment_38531 Does anoyone know if Thorpe are going to put a single rider queue in place? Surely it would seem pointless as it would double the length of the main queue.
November 7, 200816 yr comment_38534 Well I dont think they are but if they do it will seem pointless as you say because of the amount of people there will be. And does anyone have any good pictures of the site at the moment. Thanks
November 7, 200816 yr comment_38536 They probably will because the only reason rides don't have SRQ's is because they don't have purpose built SRQ's, because this is a new attraction, it probably will have one.And single rider in no way affects the length of the normal queue because its simply putting a person in an empty seat.
November 7, 200816 yr comment_38580 They'll want to be constantly keeping the queue moving due to the high capacity and amount of trains, so there won't be an SRQ simply to save on dispatch times. Only really works on Stealth because they can preallocate the places, however it would have worked as it does on oblivion, where people take advantage of it and re ride quickly with no attendant.
November 8, 200816 yr comment_38595 I just wonder why nemmie inferno doesnt have one...There is no room for it.
November 8, 200816 yr comment_38598 Guys at one point pretty much all rides had SRQs. Then it became a H+S issue because there were too many people at the ride exit. Remember you've got exit passes, disabled guests and on some rides fastrack was included at the exit. Inferno was awful for it.... you know how narrow that exit is, and it probably came up as some health and safety issue that it blocked exit routes or whatever.
November 8, 200816 yr comment_38613 Having seen the latest update of the station construction, I'm now confused. Is the station going to be raised, like Nemesis Inferno, or on the ground? Because if it is going to be raised, will the queueline go under the station in that huge trench they dug out for the station?
November 8, 200816 yr comment_38617 The station is raised yep, the trench was for a smaller vertical drop, which has been in place for a while now. The trains will go in the direction towards the car park, then round a corner, down the small vertical drop into the trench, into a helix, through the inline twist and out round to the lift hill. This video is the nearest recreation I've seen. Clicky
November 8, 200816 yr comment_38632 And the queueline won't be inside the station area, it will be beside it. It's all in the plans, just look at the mini site. (the tpm one).
November 9, 200816 yr comment_38706 Front Seat Queue? Speed doesn't have one, there's not much point of it really, since half of it is the front anyway so 50% chance of you being on the front.
November 9, 200816 yr comment_38716 A bit. It's not much different, Eurofighters are the same wherever you sit.
November 10, 200816 yr comment_38749 THORPE PARK has an update on their blog section on the mini site. Seems like as well as ride photos, they're installing an on ride DVD . They have invested £13.5 million on this project That is a lot of money to spend on one ride. See for yourself Click Here.
November 10, 200816 yr comment_38750 Interesting!We finally have an answer to the question of what is going on with CCR. Over the weekend of 25th/26th, we finalised the concreting and grouting of all the ride columns as well as finishing construction of the bridge for Canada Creek Railway (CCR)…it’s not only SAW – The Ride that we’re working on! The base for CCR’s track has now been prepared and is ready for the track installation to commence - which we will also be doing.I'm very pleased about the on-ride videos, they were great on Oblivion!
November 10, 200816 yr comment_38756 How does the system actually work? Do you get to see a part of the video on screens in the style of the current on-ride photos?
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