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Enterprise Site

It's not my favourite ride I will be honest. I find it pretty dull and it makes me a bit sick also.

However it will be good to have all the capacity the park can muster next year as without Nemesis I really do feel like there's going to be some truly disastrous days capacity wise. God only knows what Scarefest will be like without Nemmy if this year is anything to go by. :(
 
This is very strange for a few reasons. Firstly, I was under the impression that Enterprise was gone; maybe with the need for capacity they have had a late change of heart and are seeing if it is possible to get it working again. Secondly, why now? But I suppose that could be so that they know early on whether or not they can keep it.

Maybe if they try running it and it just dies again, it will be replaced with another Retrosquad flat next year?
 
How long do safety certs last on flat rides? If it's a year, then I suppose there's no issue with getting the ride through its check earlier in the closed season then just 'keep it warm' through the winter with a run every couple of days? Actually, thinking about it so long as they were confident it'd still pass in March there'd be no reason to actually put it through its test until then unless they want it ready for a pre-season event (seems unlikely but not impossible).

We're so used to seeing the park leave everything until the last minute nowadays, I remember back in 03/04/05 with the hotel winter openings they'd open X-Sector + Hex one side of the of the closed season and Forbidden Valley + Duel the other, presumably that meant whichever side was open in Jan was being readied pre-Christmas for the season ahead?
 
Maybe they were just in the way for some winter work where they were then? What better place to dump them than back where they came from.

Some of the conclusion jumping on here recently is mental.
 
Maybe they were just in the way for some winter work where they were then? What better place to dump them than back where they came from.

Some of the conclusion jumping on here recently is mental.
There's so many other and easier to access areas you'd put them rather than in that small pen and in the way of cutting those trees for oblivion.
 
There's so many other and easier to access areas you'd put them rather than in that small pen and in the way of cutting those trees for oblivion.

Or maybe putting them back with the rest of the ride makes it easier when it is collected for removal all being in one place? Or maybe we have no idea what the closed season maintenance schedule is?

It's just an option, a consideration. A more sensible one that 'stuff has moved, it must be coming back'.

Not aimed at you, but this place is plagued at the moment with people making huge assumptions with absolute certainty based on the most innocuous little thing. It makes for very tiresome reading and is why so many threads at the moment are full of circular nonsense.
 
Not aimed at you, but this place is plagued at the moment with people making huge assumptions with absolute certainty based on the most innocuous little thing
I agree with your point, but I don't agree that parts of a ride absent for a year arriving back at the ride's site is an innocuous little thing. Those cars would now need to be moved out of the way in order to remove it.

This isn't a can of WD40 (which it turns out probably has lead to something anyway). This is more like Ripsaw turning up on the car park, which signalled the end for it.
 
Or maybe putting them back with the rest of the ride makes it easier when it is collected for removal all being in one place? Or maybe we have no idea what the closed season maintenance schedule is?

It's just an option, a consideration. A more sensible one that 'stuff has moved, it must be coming back'.

Not aimed at you, but this place is plagued at the moment with people making huge assumptions with absolute certainty based on the most innocuous little thing. It makes for very tiresome reading and is why so many threads at the moment are full of circular nonsense.
That's no less of an assumption than it's being rebuilt. It's actually less logical because you'd have to move those cars again to remove the ride. Not totally impossible but the fact they haven't deleted it off the website either is quite telling.

No one has said this ride is returning for certain but it looks more likely than it did a couple of months ago.
 
Or maybe putting them back with the rest of the ride makes it easier when it is collected for removal all being in one place? Or maybe we have no idea what the closed season maintenance schedule is?

It's just an option, a consideration. A more sensible one that 'stuff has moved, it must be coming back'.

Not aimed at you, but this place is plagued at the moment with people making huge assumptions with absolute certainty based on the most innocuous little thing. It makes for very tiresome reading and is why so many threads at the moment are full of circular nonsense.
Huge assumptions like the ride is being removed by any chance?

I don’t think anyone has said for certain it’s coming back. But if you look at all the clues logically it would at least appear as though it’s coming back rather than going.

Is this not the whole point of a forum/discussion group anyway? To speculate?
 
Watching the recent TPWW video on Enterprise, even they think it is only being rebuilt to be shown off to a possible buyer to sale it off.

That said, I have some doubts about that if they can find a buyer as would anyone want to buy something that is old and hasn't worked for a whole season or more? Sure there are some you might say but given it's age, I have questions about that. At least when Ripsaw left it was a Spring chicken in comparison and didn't have long to wait until it was off.

Towers knows that they really can't afford more flat ride losses, even if Enterprise hasn't worked all season, so having Enterprise work in some way no matter what it's condition might be would be very welcomed to the line up.
 
Watching the recent TPWW video on Enterprise, even they think it is only being rebuilt to be shown off to a possible buyer to sale it off.

That said, I have some doubts about that if they can find a buyer as would anyone want to buy something that is old and hasn't worked for a whole season or more? Sure there are some you might say but given it's age, I have questions about that. At least when Ripsaw left it was a Spring chicken in comparison and didn't have long to wait until it was off.

Towers knows that they really can't afford more flat ride losses, even if Enterprise hasn't worked all season, so having Enterprise work in some way no matter what it's condition might be would be very welcomed to the line up.
They have no other pictures of Enterprise they can use? So they'll pay someone to put it back together, take the photos then pay for someone to take it all apart again?

Possible given it's Merlin :tearsofjoy:
 
If it hasn't run all year, there's nothing to stop them putting it together now, surely. It's been in bits, if they put it together now or in February, who cares.

What am I missing ?
 
Thing is though at the age it is, you don't see many second hand purchases these days. Look no further than Apocalypse at Drayton; up for sale for so long yet no one came forward to buy it and that was in working condition, a far cry to the state Enterprise was in.

Towers, if not controlled by Merlin, would have gotten a replacement for Enterprise at least two or three years ago and likely would have the flat ride situation sorted and given the current flat ride crises on the park, it might be easy just to get Enterprise running again, even if it's past its prime, rather than flogging it off and hoping for the best.

Strange things have happened though so honestly given the changes going round the park and possible return of certain rides, Enterprise might not be a bad shout.
 
Thing is though at the age is, you don't see many second hand purchases these days. Look no further than Apocalypse at Drayton; up for sale for so long yet no one came forward to buy it and that was in working condition, a far cry to the state Enterprise was in.

Towers, if not controlled by Merlin, would have gotten a replacement for Enterprise at least two or three years ago and likely would have the flat ride situation sorted and given the current flat ride crises on the park, it might be easy just to get Enterprise running again, even if it's past its prime, rather than flogging it off and hoping for the best.

Strange things have happened though so honestly given the changes going round the park and possible return of certain rides, Enterprise might not be a bad shout.
There has been a Huss Enterprise for sale for some time on one of the second hand rides for sale website and it looks in far better condition than that of the one at Towers. Black Hole is still on there also. Apocolypse is well documented now to have not been sold and now scrapped.

The first point of recycle is to reuse. Every part on that ride is serviceable or replaceable. Do they still make them new?

The cheapest way to get a ride operational in that area is to rent another fairground attraction or repair Enterprise.
 
Huss still do Enterprise models though there is the modern version which can do multiple things much more than the original design.

Correct me if I'm wrong but when Smiler opened, X-Sector received an overhaul with Enterprise getting a fairly decent one itself and possibly the last big overhaul it had.

Ideally I'd love for them go use the Huss MK2 version in its place, maybe even given the centre wheel a theming job in which many years ago on here during the Smiler construction that someone had a cool idea of putting the Smiler sprial on in, though in Enterprise colours, which in action the ride would have looked impressive and quite literally hypnotic for guests watching it and could have fitted into the theme of the area of being some giant hypnotising machine.
 
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