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Ride Availability/Operations 2022-25

Danscott22 said:
Add Runaway Mine Train to the list I posted the other day of rides that have been closed for at least a day. I'm not buying into this "it's early season, it's expected" stuff either, the park is closed for 4 months and we are nearly 2 months into the season, it shouldn't still be happening
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As others have said, I don’t think on and off closures are necessarily unheard of at any park, and factors such as the import of parts being made harder by Brexit is likely making things like part replacement more difficult.

The key thing that was an issue last season and in 2023 wasn’t so much whole day ride closures for me; it was more the fact that the tech services team seemed to be playing whack-a-mole with breakdowns and there was almost a sort of domino effect in terms of short closures throughout the day, with things repeatedly going up and down. From what I can see, this doesn’t seem to be nearly as bad this season; opening things up in the morning in a timely manner appears to be being achieved more frequently, and once things are open, they generally seem a lot better at staying open.
 
Danscott22 said:
Add Runaway Mine Train to the list I posted the other day of rides that have been closed for at least a day. I'm not buying into this "it's early season, it's expected" stuff either, the park is closed for 4 months and we are nearly 2 months into the season, it shouldn't still be happening
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Unless your on park you can't know all the factors or reasons why they are closed Th13teen for example has been mostly power issues
 
Danscott22 said:
Add Runaway Mine Train to the list I posted the other day of rides that have been closed for at least a day. I'm not buying into this "it's early season, it's expected" stuff either, the park is closed for 4 months and we are nearly 2 months into the season, it shouldn't still be happening
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I wonder how many unplanned daily closures Paultons have had so far this season…
 
Bowser said:
I wonder how many unplanned daily closures Paultons have had so far this season…
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To be fair, Paultons has a generally much newer crop of rides than Alton does, and also a crop of rides that are probably a fair amount less complex than some of the most complicated rides at Alton.

I’m not saying Paultons doesn’t have excellent uptime or that Alton has perfect uptime, but I don’t think it’s an entirely fair comparison given the vastly differing nature of the parks’ ride lineups.
 
Matt N said:
To be fair, Paultons has a generally much newer crop of rides than Alton does, and also a crop of rides that are probably a fair amount less complex than some of the most complicated rides at Alton.

I’m not saying Paultons doesn’t have excellent uptime or that Alton has perfect uptime, but I don’t think it’s an entirely fair comparison given the vastly differing nature of the parks’ ride lineups.
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Sure but from a customer point of view those things don’t matter if you’re buying a ticket. It’s a parks responsibility to maintain their attractions regardless of age and complexity.
 
Bowser said:
Sure but from a customer point of view those things don’t matter if you’re buying a ticket. It’s a parks responsibility to maintain their attractions regardless of age and complexity.
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They have there reasons why their shut this is the problem Towers has because you have had a decade of limited investment in new rides and the older rides remaining there gonna become more problematic
 
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