September 8, 201311 yr comment_167979 Great little touch of improving the area of the ride. I remember similar boars around the deceased Jungle Coaster explaining statistics of the ride.
September 8, 201311 yr comment_167987 People want to have fun on the ride, not be told a lot of facts and made-up text... I thought? It depends what you want in a ride - some people just want to ride them without caring at all about the theming whereas other people (like me) like a little bit of background information displayed to add to the enjoyment of the ride/queuing experience. Personally I like these signs, they aren't doing any harm and those who want to read them can do so.
September 8, 201311 yr comment_168004 It's really not like that because these signs aren't "theming". These signs aren't entertaining anybody, are they? They're just there to promote the ride (unnecessarily, as I think the ride looks convincing enough without knowing what track length it has yawn) and cover up the ugly concrete/metal gaps that shouldn't really have been built like that anyway. What I mean is - a great theme ride experience is more exciting than signs with words on them. Surely? Apart from that - yes - who cares indeed?
September 8, 201311 yr comment_168006 If it means having to look at that lovely concept art then I approve
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168046 Smiler... currently closed... yada yada... EDIT: Maybe it's closed as they need to remove that extra "N" from "Innoculator"
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168047 Has anyone else noticed, it's getting rougher and rougher? Since I rode it back in June, I've ridden it at least once a month since, and my latest trip was 4 rides. None of them where comfortable, none of them where even moderately smooth!
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168048 I totally agree Ricky. At the start only 1 of the cars was rough, now all are rough and there are 3 noticable jolts not 2. The third one isnt as pronounced but is where the bolt fell from, I dont think they smoothed the rejoined bit out.
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168050 The main ones I noticed are, The Inverted Drop, entry to first Dive, Entry to Dive in Cobra Roll, and entry and exit of the first Inline Twist. However the ride itself is now much more noticeably rattly over the entire circuit.
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168051 A ride getting rougher as it gets older? SAY IT ISN'T SO! Wouldn't be surprised if the original one or two jolts around the Cobra Roll exit/Inverting drops are the cause of this... Be interesting to see how rough it's gotten...
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168052 My first ride on The Smiler was at the beginning of July and, although not smooth it was nowhere near as rough and jolty as what I experienced last week, although my second go on the same day (in July) was pretty rough but I think we had a bad car. The last ride out of 3 last week was REALLY painful - my head was so smashed about that it made the fact that I stupidly walked face first into a rock earlier that day seem like nothing (and THAT friggin hurt).
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168053 A ride getting rougher as it gets older? SAY IT ISN'T SO! Wouldn't be surprised if the original one or two jolts around the Cobra Roll exit/Inverting drops are the cause of this... Be interesting to see how rough it's gotten... Obviously it will get rough, but I think the reason some are mentioning it is because the ride has gotten considerably rough over a very short period of time - less than a half a season in fact.
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168055 Yeah, basically what Sidders said, you would expect a ride to age over years not weeks... When you consider Nemesis is 19 years old and is actually still rather smooth!
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168056 I hope Merlin sort this out because by the next roller coaster they have unless they do something Smiler will be unrideable (a la Goudurix) I just hope they sort this because its a great ride with great layout but it is let down by how rough it is. Speed (sorry to reference oakwood again) is smoother and that is 7 heck even Saw is smoother, Fix this Alton!
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168059 I didn't personally find it excessively rough back at the start of August mind, but I did realise the whole shock that it's not even been half a year... Whether or not it's up to the same levels of Saw, I cannot say yet... Saw was bearly rideable for me in it's first season, so it's all going into personal opinions here... Then again, with the heavy amount of work the cars have to go through on a daily basis, it can't be that big a surprise that they're wearing down a lot faster compared to other rides... Hell, it probably does a lot more work than Nemmie does... But that can't be compared since B&M actually think through their designs... It's a weird one how the two Merlin Gerstlauers are quite bad for roughness, as even Mystery Mine with it's set-square corners isn't awful...
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168071 When I rode it on 1/9/13 I didn't find it very rough at all, there were a couple of small jolts followed by the always horrible cobra roll jolts and there was a slight vibration in the train, but nothing seriously painful or anything that could ruin the ride. It wasn't B&M smooth by any means, but nowhere near as bad as some others have been saying.
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168072 Post and photo on TTF shows work being done on the vertical lift hill. Again. All I know is, when I go on 22nd October, I am heading straight for the Smiler queue with it's current track record
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168076 It's not very good to hear that it's getting noticeably rougher as well. I think that Alton Towers management need to get on the phone to Gerstlauer!
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168086 Ah this reminds me of saws first season sating how they must fix it and what not. They won't and it will just get worse
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168087 Ah this reminds me of saws first season sating how they must fix it and what not. They won't and it will just get worse I wonder if the 'will it get retrakced?' debate will crop up over closed season?
September 9, 201311 yr comment_168102 Towers Street have just posted a photo of a pump truck on site - reported drainage issues at the bottom of the lift hill. Facepalm.
September 10, 201311 yr comment_168120 Well that's a surprise when they had to put in mass amounts of concrete into the area because the earth survey people goofed up originally... As we all know, concrete is a natural drainage solution... I swear half of the issues with Smiler have been as a result of the surveyors getting it wrong...
September 10, 201311 yr comment_168124 as long as its rectified by 28/29th Sept I will be happy as I still never been on Smiler.
September 11, 201311 yr comment_168185 Alton Towers @altontowers20h The Smiler queue line will be open tomorrow from 9.30am, the queue will close at 12noon for planned maintenance.
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