April 29, 201312 yr comment_157896 Credit to TPG. Some theming work has been going on at the base of the vertical lift; looks good. I'm also surprised at the seemingly high accuracy of the game thus far!
April 29, 201312 yr comment_157904 this has to be photo of the year to be honest: credited to TowersTimes
April 29, 201312 yr comment_157913 Haha, the amount of problems with this ride already! And it hasn't even opened yet
April 29, 201312 yr comment_157922 I do love a good bodge job... At least it's not sinking into the ground though...
April 30, 201312 yr comment_157992 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yXqtZjHcrs4 Those needles look fab
April 30, 201312 yr comment_157998 That was what I thought, but maybe if they set it to inject just before the train gets there, then you get the spray without the pain?
April 30, 201312 yr comment_158000 DEM NEEDLES the giggler was less powerful then I was expecting it 2 be, maybe it will be more powerful in testing cos it looks abit mundane there.
April 30, 201312 yr comment_158003 Can't see the video . Says the user closed their account, can anyone post a link to a working version?
April 30, 201312 yr comment_158007 https://www.facebook.com/towerstimes?fref=ts Both videos are on here
May 1, 201312 yr comment_158021 And for those who may be thinking that that's some random image Ricky's made, we have this... So, we have a guy called Miles Cedars (which so happens to be an anagram of 'Smile Scared') who likes to make people smile, who has been interviewed by a couple of university students; here are their Twitter pages: https://twitter.com/Danny_Holden90 https://twitter.com/Trisha__White The book referenced in the video was apparently avaliable off Amazon, but was taken of by the 26th April. A screenshot from Trisha's Twitter. Trisha also set an alarm for '5:14am', which seems to hint back to the 'Camera 5/14 active' thing sent in the marketing email in December. The Twitter accounts are fairly recent, but have only just started posted things which could directly relate to Smiler. The past few days they've been posting things relating to smiling and stuff, and following a select few people. And, who remembers the leaked potential video a couple of months back, which I believe was a proposal idea from one of the potential companies that could produce the videos for Smiler? Comparison picture made by TST member 'Cheese'. Don't these two look rather similar (if you ignore the stark contrast in facial expressions)? So, the big question of everyone's lips - real or fake? Personally, I think this is real. It's elaborately thought out (as a whole, with the Twitter tweets and hints they make their), the video seems quite well made and seems to have had too much effort put in for a fan-made video. And, a point which I read on TST which was really good, it isn't trying to convince you it's related to Smiler. There's no links to Dr Kelman, The Ministry of Joy, marmalisation, etc. Surely if an enthusiast wanted to make fake marketing videos, they'd want to try and make it scream 'REAL' to other enthusiasts by adding in such hints? YAY, speculation!
May 1, 201312 yr comment_158022 Clever stuff, love it whoever has done it (pretty sure this is Towers produced). 5:14, thats the 5 marmalisation steps and 14 inversion is it?
May 1, 201312 yr comment_158027 There's no links to Dr Kelman, The Ministry of Joy, marmalisation, etc. If you remember in the sanctuary, with dr kelmans shpeil at the beginning, he said they shut his project down because his methods werent working and they thought he was mad. So possibly as the new experiement to ce from the ministry of joy, their trying to hide dr kelman up? Its weird but could be a possibility. You know what real life companies can be like. They make a big mistake so they hide it up and act like nothings happened so they dont get the back side bitten off.
May 1, 201312 yr comment_158041 Official or not that is brilliant and has seriously hyped me up for this ride when I go in July
May 1, 201312 yr comment_158045 Loving this marketing, really, really, clever. I was quite impressed with the people's acting in that YouTube video until the end.
May 1, 201312 yr comment_158049 Like Michael said above, it needs to be rolled out more. Would it be plausible to play short Smiler videos in places like Waterloo Station or ? Kinda like they did with the smiley faces?
May 1, 201312 yr comment_158070 Because it's going to be left like that isn't it? There were already pics of an extended support in the same style of the unconnected one... Unsurprisingly with construction, not everything gets done 100% correctly all the time (for various reasons, mostly seen in this project), and as such solutions to problems that cannot be experienced until the thing is put together in real life are done... You can test calculations 100s of times on a computer, then when you try and build it in real life it won't work, that's engineering for you...
May 1, 201312 yr comment_158071 I guess one of the many troubles of having the delay with groundworks and site issues is that any problems / testing faults are in plain view of the public and, more critically, the enthusiast community. Imagine if this ride was on schedule. We likely wouldn't have known about the support-which-doesn't-support-yet-support, the one screen of The Marmaliser not working first time, one of The Tickler's brushes not spinning at full speed first time, etc. I'd hate to think what would happen if a car was to stall during one of the first test runs or something like that. Has been interesting, though, seeing a UK project (especially one of such size thematically) be completed, as we normally wouldn't see the final 2-3 months of any project like this. Just a shame that some enthusiasts worry, panic and/or slate every time something goes wrong.
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