May 26, 20169 yr comment_235477 ^ How do you want us to take the post? It's just a dig at Thorpe's reliability
May 26, 20169 yr comment_235485 It's a great Shame rides break down at Thorpe. After all it's the only park that has breakdowns anyway.
May 26, 20169 yr comment_235487 1 hour ago, Tom said: ^ How do you want us to take the post? It's just a dig at Thorpe's reliability "It's unfortunate timing when combined with the announcement of DBGT not opening soon, oh dear, etc. etc."
May 26, 20169 yr comment_235489 5 hours ago, ThorpeAddict said: Read the post above you My point was I was at thorpe today and whilst I didnt ride stealth I didnt see it listed as closed
May 26, 20169 yr comment_235491 Was intending to attend during next week, but a close friend just reminded me "it's half term"............oh catastrophe; as most of you will realize that means loads of you younger types there now until September on "study days", then holidays.
May 31, 20169 yr comment_235693 Is it viable for a park to purchase and store parts for a ride, meaning that they can have a system where they always have spare parts and order in a backup after the spare is used? Just wondering as rides seem to close a lot due to "waiting for a part", so this would solve that.
May 31, 20169 yr comment_235694 They will have general spare parts for items that regularly break or need replacing. It is not economically or practically viable to store spares for everything. Just be relived that stealth doesn't have the reliability of TTD or the operations of Kingda Ka. Launch coasters are very complex and lots can go wrong.
May 31, 20169 yr comment_235700 1 hour ago, Coaster Jamie said: Is it viable for a park to purchase and store parts for a ride, meaning that they can have a system where they always have spare parts and order in a backup after the spare is used? Just wondering as rides seem to close a lot due to "waiting for a part", so this would solve that. Indeed as ProjectLC said - the park, obviously have a stock of parts, but its not feasible for the park to store every single spare part what might break.
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235715 11 hours ago, Marc said: Indeed as ProjectLC said - the park, obviously have a stock of parts, but its not feasible for the park to store every single spare part what might break. Certainly due to most of the rides being one of maybe three, many parts have to be manufactured to order, rather than being made ready. That adds to their cost.
June 1, 20169 yr comment_235766 Quote Please note: Stealth is currently unavailable It's made it onto the website scroller! That's when you know it's gonna be a while and this is why I haven't been to Thorpe in nearly a month
June 2, 20169 yr comment_235846 Was told in was down for maintenance earlier so this is a nice surprise!
June 2, 20169 yr comment_235875 According to queue times site it hit a 60 minute queue quite quickly then was unavailable for a bit. Managed to get on using an exit pass after Inferno ceased operation as we were about to ride. Was great that they managed to get it open - same with X which was closed for most of the day
June 2, 20169 yr comment_235885 Wow, I was originally going over today, but with the weather doubtful, then finding Stealth was down, I decided not to. Must have been very cool today.
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235897 Lots of people on twitter claiming that Stealth has rolled back today! Seems the problems are still ongoing then, and Stealth has been shut since
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235898 11 minutes ago, ThorpeAddict said: Lots of people on twitter claiming that Stealth has rolled back today! Despite loads of people "willing" a rollback, I dread it as it would always be a loss of ride-time.
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235900 Saw someone post about the rollback on TPs FB page. I'm SO glad that didn't happen yesterday - I think I would freak out. Would love to see one though (in real life - seen plenty on YouTube).
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235917 I've got mates there today, shut for a few hours but it's been opeb for a couple of hours now
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235919 Do they still do the Stealth rollback t-shirts/medals/whatever they gave away back in the old days?
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235920 7 minutes ago, Celia Mae said: Do they still do the Stealth rollback t-shirts/medals/whatever they gave away back in the old days? To my knowledge there has never been shirts, medals or any merchandise or awards for people having rollbacks. A rollback is actually bad for the ride! That's why when it happens the ride is closed for a long period of time.
June 3, 20169 yr comment_235921 The ride just needs to be reset, it normally takes about 20-30 minutes to go through the process of clearance to go into manual reverse train in station to offload, and slowly roll the train back into the station. Off load reset and charge accumulators test hand over ect ...
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