A little portable train thing in Basingstoke. Thought I might as well...

Colossus

Stealth

Slammer My second baby

Rush My real baby

I want to go into the stealth control room so badly!

I Nearly cried with happiness when I saw these, thanks Neil! Except Slammer these are my 3 main rides that I want to operate someday.

Rush and Slammer are very interesting to Operate.

cant see it blocked, just it provide any new functionality or what? is it easier to use?

For Fury, it is block sectioned, if that's what you're asking?Starts with the station drive (each one a different block and can hold one car) - Drive 1/2/3 being directly after break run, Drive 4 is Transfer track, Drive 5 is station entrance, Drive 6/7/8 move cars along in station from bars release to bars lock, Drive 9 being Dispatch Drive, stopping and starting according to controls. Drive 10 being outside of the station and going to lift, then Lift 1/Drive 11.Block Section 1 between about 9/10ths of way up the lift, and Brake 1 (over Sea Dragons), Block Section 2 between Brake 1 and Brake 2 (over Canopy Capers), Block Section 3 being between Brake 2 and Brake 3 (Over Griffins Galleon), Block Section 3 being between Brake 3 and lower half of Lift 2, Block Section 4 being between top half of Lift 2 and Brake 4 (Over Toadies' Crazy Cars), and Block Section 5 between Brake 4 and Final Trim Run.Which does mean Fury can have two cars on a lift at the same time, if timed correctly!

It's actually impossible for it to happen in practice though. The cars are never close enough for it to happen.

Well... If a car stops on drive 9 (The dispatch drives) the cars behind it stack up behind it. You send out the car on 9 but the other cars won't start moving again automatically, the operator presses the two buttons along with the platformer and woolah, the cars in the station will move again.

Looking at thorpes control panels really do make me want to operate them, but then I remember its thorpe.Alton is where its at

*Bump*Fire Academy (L)

Flipping heck you've given me nightmares. I was hoping never to see that control panel again (especially seeing as pretty much the entire panel means nothing!)

G'Sengte Sau. It's a bad picture I know but its there woo. It's weird that in this country you have to do like five hours training to operate a Carousel, whilst in Germany you don't even have to read a manual and they let you opertae thier coasters.

Speedwave - Flamingo Park______Hershey Park B&M?______Top Thrill Dragster - Cedar Point

It's weird that in this country you have to do like five hours training to operate a Carousel, whilst in Germany you don't even have to read a manual and they let you opertae thier coasters.

Someone we know has an amazing story of how they were plonked onto operating corkscrew in a yorkshire park with no training. Epic!I doubt its much to do with H&S regulations, its more to show the competance of the park and their operators should something go wrong. There's very little training on some rides at a theme park I know as well.

It's the one you've all been waiting for! It's Saw: The Ride Audio System!! *Credits to Ewan MacGregor for snapping these!

It's the one you've all been waiting for! It's Saw: The Ride Audio System!!

Dudee, you could credit the person who took these pics [cough] Ewan!

Woahh, those Saw ones where good. I wish there was more pics of the CCTV from inside the building.

great picture all but I'm shocked with all the money intermin have they choose windows over mac osx leopard ten this is why stealth never runs as it should its windows crashing \(plz press ctrl +alt+delete to continue "oh no better call an engineer for this one" wat a joke )

^ Facepalm.I'm not sure it's worth even starting on that one.Nice topic guys, I've never seen some of the more obscure ones before!

Could someone provide a guide or some sort of training manual for these things?

^ I would assume that's slightly harder to get casual photos of

Online simulators give a rough guide on how to operate, I would like to know how to operate some flat rides.

^Rush My real babyStealing Neilfever's pictures, but, quick guide to Rush...Ok, you can ignore the big panel with lots of blue buttons to the left of the picture, that's just audio (announcements etc), you just press the button for the announcement you want.So. You sit in the console, people are off the ride, and there are guests waiting to board. You first press the green button just above the 'e' in fever to open the gates, people board, your hosts close the restraints (using the restrain lock buttons on the swings), then your hosts go to the exit gate/batching area. Then press the red button just to the left of the green one to close the gates, flick the harness release switch (the middle switch in the cluster of 3 at the far right of the panel), and the lock exit gate switch (hiding neatly above the audio box). The screen in the middle of the panel provides air pressure information, provided the pressure is right, the ride area is clear and the attendants are giving the thumbs up/pressing the button by the exit gate, you press both big green buttons simultaneously to begin the ride cycle (bottom of the panel, at either side). Rush does it's thing, when it stops, exit gate is released, and when the air pressure is correct, you flick the harness release, and hey presto, your back to where you started.

So if we put Stealths control panel onto the keyboard it would be like this:Right Hand Side __1 _______2 _________3 _________ 4 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Emergency StopLaunch ___Load______Offload______Waiting_________________________________________________________________________________________________Backspace__________W _________E _________ R _________Load______Offload______Waiting _______________ Open Attendant Gates _____________________________________ Automatic Ride Start____Station Restart____________________________________________________________T______________________________________________________P___________________ #__________S _________D __________F_________Load______Offload______Waiting _________________Gates Closed__________________________________________ Automatic Ride Stop______ Station Stop___________________________________________________________G_______________________________________________________L___________________Enter______Dispatch ______________Open Load SB________ Open Gates _____ Close Gates________ Open Unload SB ________ Dispatch_______ Shift ____________________ X _________________ V ______________ B _________________ M ________________Shift1-2-3-4 = Block Resets ( Blue Buttons )W-E-R = Jog Forward ( Yellow Buttons )S-D-F = Jog Backwards ( Yellow Buttons )Left Hand SideTrouble Light _________ Lamptest____Q _________________ WReset Button ____________________________________________Hydraulic Pumps On____A_________________________________________________________P_______________________________________________________Hydaulic Pumps Off______________________________________________________________LRide On Ind. ________Mnual Ind. ______ Automatic Ride Ind. ______ Pumps On Ind.___Shift ______________ V ________________ B __________________Shift__Ride on ________ Auto/Manual ____________________________ Pumps On/Off ___________Train Settings__ Switch___________Switch __________________________________Switch__________________ 1/2___Ctrl______________Alt_____________________________________Alt Gr __________________ Ctrl

Going back to this topic again... Here's a video of a KMG XXL's control booth, Love the way he taps away at the buttons like he knows them off by heart There's only 4 of these things in the world, would love to see one in the UK sometime!