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Nemesis Reborn: General Discussion
Steve74
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No I believe he's British. Tempted to reply asking if he thinks the earth is flat!
I mean I know companies worldwide do waste money on unnecessary projects, but knowing Merlin would they really waste about £14m (the rumoured cost) on this project just because original Nemesis wasn't one of their installations? He mentions in previous replies that he saw test results online and that Nemesis was not as bad as they made out and was perfectly safe. To a degree he was right, because it wasn't due to be closed for safety reasons but Merlin cut their losses with it and decided to rebuild it.
By the way, this was all in response to a post someone put on Facebook where they said the ride experience wasn't the same and implies the "persistent vibration" doesn't help. Many replies saying what does the poster expect? It's an identical ride; nothing has changed layout-wise. Others saying it's much smoother and the fact there is no headbanging as you enter various elements means its a much better experience and they can put up with - in the grand scheme of things - seemingly random vibrations/rattles here and there. And I tend to agree.
AT86
TS Member
No I believe he's British. Tempted to reply asking if he thinks the earth is flat!
I mean I know companies worldwide do waste money on unnecessary projects, but knowing Merlin would they really waste about £14m (the rumoured cost) on this project just because original Nemesis wasn't one of their installations? He mentions in previous replies that he saw test results online and that Nemesis was not as bad as they made out and was perfectly safe. To a degree he was right, because it wasn't due to be closed for safety reasons but Merlin cut their losses with it and decided to rebuild it.
By the way, this was all in response to a post someone put on Facebook where they said the ride experience wasn't the same and implies the "persistent vibration" doesn't help. Many replies saying what does the poster expect? It's an identical ride; nothing has changed layout-wise. Others saying it's much smoother and the fact there is no headbanging as you enter various elements means its a much better experience and they can put up with - in the grand scheme of things - seemingly random vibrations/rattles here and there. And I tend to agree.
Matt N
TS Member
If I’m remembering correctly, I think the person you’re referring to may well be a member on here… as I seem to remember someone talking on here about having seen positive structural test results for Nemesis and telling people to do their research on steel about a year back…
Er...come on.
Haven't you got better things to be doing!?
Steve74
TS Member
Thing is, it probably wasn't just the structural side of things but other factors that played a part. Other bits of equipment would've been wearing out, or simply couldn't be updated and needed replacing so there was no one thing that made Merlin make a decision but a combination of everything.
QTXAdsy
TS Member
Well...they did waste more than £14 million I believe on a certain DBGT which is still IMO the most colossal waste of money I've seen Merlin throw away on.
Jb85
TS Member
Yes very true - but that was a totally new ride - as in not a retrack. I find it hard to believe they would do this for a retrack
Poisson
TS Member
Most of the concerns I believe were around the footers for the loop area on the side of the rockface. It was also getting more unreliable, with 3 obvious faults in the final season having to be reset constantly (maybe didn't fix as it was confirmed to be going?)
I don't think a ride getting 3.5Gs worth of stress on certain pieces every minute for 8 hours a day, 9.5 months a year, 28 years in a row in a damp pit is suprising to be beginning to reach EoL.
I don't think a ride getting 3.5Gs worth of stress on certain pieces every minute for 8 hours a day, 9.5 months a year, 28 years in a row in a damp pit is suprising to be beginning to reach EoL.
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djtruefitt
TS Team
Having done Nemesis a few times now, train two is definitely louder and rougher than train one, it’s got a really noticeable roar compared to train one. However train one definitely still has a bit of a rattle to it as well.
flyingguitar
TS Member
I agree, after riding it again I think that the rattle at the end is caused by the covers and I sat one time on train 2 row 6, I think one of the wheels are not right, leaving and entering the station there was a noticeable vibration, not constant but repetitive, then it got stronger throughout the layout, it was quite uncomfortable
djtruefitt
TS Team
on train two you definitely notice the train vibrating which I’m sure it never did previously, and that’s the old track so it must be a train issue.
Connor98
TS Member
Did anyone tie the balloon down last night?
From: https://x.com/bgatesisapyscho/status/1789743978738262196?s=46
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From: https://x.com/bgatesisapyscho/status/1789743978738262196?s=46
FYI I do not follow or have any affiliation with this account
So, I am at Towers today and have managed 5 rides on Nemesis already! I’m in the queue for number 6.
I must agree with what people are saying - it’s absolutely flying round. I’ve managed the front, row four and the back row with the back row definitely causing some rattle.
it’s definitely feeling like Nemesis pre-closure
I must agree with what people are saying - it’s absolutely flying round. I’ve managed the front, row four and the back row with the back row definitely causing some rattle.
it’s definitely feeling like Nemesis pre-closure
Shaggy_Dog_
TS Member
I had my first rides on this at the weekend and I was really impressed by the retheme, it looks absolutely stunning.
However I was a bit surprised by the length of the queue line. Whilst it’s not exactly Zadra it does seem like quite a long walk round, especially when the ride is on a quite short wait time later in the day. How does the queue length now compare to the original one and was Reborn’s queue line made a bit longer than it needed to be because they wanted to add lots of theming items to walk around?
However I was a bit surprised by the length of the queue line. Whilst it’s not exactly Zadra it does seem like quite a long walk round, especially when the ride is on a quite short wait time later in the day. How does the queue length now compare to the original one and was Reborn’s queue line made a bit longer than it needed to be because they wanted to add lots of theming items to walk around?
If I’m correct they’ve basically used what was the previous ‘extended’ queue line. I wonder if they open parts of it on very quiet days to prevent people having to walk the full way round?