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Ride Availability/Operations 2022-25
Mattie boy
TS Member
Gotta say Nemesis operations are diabolical atm. Advertised 70 minute queue is more getting into two hours.
May as well be one train in the way they’re sending them round, huge gaps been dispatching them. Whoever is in merge is doing an awful job tbh, letting far too many people though in one go at a 3:1 ratio.
In my mind fastrack means a shorter wait, not no wait at all.
May as well be one train in the way they’re sending them round, huge gaps been dispatching them. Whoever is in merge is doing an awful job tbh, letting far too many people though in one go at a 3:1 ratio.
In my mind fastrack means a shorter wait, not no wait at all.
Dave
TS Founding Member
Strange, it was running quite well when we queued for it yesterday.
Not today, woeful. Also the amount of children who were clearly under the height limit that weren’t being checked…
George W
TS Member
Not saying you're lying but that's a serious allegation that could land the park in serious bother if true.
Also the ops seemed good on Friday although I wasn't timing anything I rode it 10 times and they were sending the trains out at an acceptable pace maybe just a couple seconds at most on the brake run each time, can't speak for the last 2 days though.
David Allen
TS Member
Can't see it happening tbh they more than likely had the wristbands on to say they have been checked
. Sorry end of the season!I’m 100% not lying and I know you’re not saying I am but working rides previously there’s children that imo were borderline the height limit and check worthy at least, a couple imo were under.
Operations were below par for me this evening, like I said minutes before trains leaving the station, merge was very very fast track heavy.
Didn’t have wristbands, I know so because I was sat next to one.
John
TS Member
Seems it would be very difficult to for the platform staff to judge the height of someone sat in the seat. OK they could open the restraints to check them but you really don't want to have it get to that stage as it a means a lengthy delay, far better for it to be handled by the merge host.
One of the Nemesis ops over the last couple of days has been making repeated announcements to the queue line to try and speed up boarding but even with that it's some way short of what the ride used to manage pre-refurb. It seems restraint rechecks are now very common and the new programming means achieving high throughput is now more difficult. Over the past few years Inferno has been the more efficiently operated of the two UK inverts in my experience.
One of the Nemesis ops over the last couple of days has been making repeated announcements to the queue line to try and speed up boarding but even with that it's some way short of what the ride used to manage pre-refurb. It seems restraint rechecks are now very common and the new programming means achieving high throughput is now more difficult. Over the past few years Inferno has been the more efficiently operated of the two UK inverts in my experience.
Bowser
TS Member
My son is 1.31m as measured in hospital a few weeks ago and I’ve always found UK parks to be rigorous in their enforcement of height checks. He still gets checked for 1.2m rides quite often too!
Whereas my experience of some European parks is quite the opposite as they seem happy to put the responsibility on the passengers, who duly ignore them
Matt N
TS Member
It’s weird how Nemesis seems to have been inefficient for some in the last couple of years.
For me in July, it was honestly operating as efficiently as I’ve ever seen the ride operate, pre or post-revamp! But on my visits in July last year and March last year, there were times where it seemed quite slow.
I do think inconsistency in operations has perhaps become an issue since the retrack. My experience in July would suggest they can still operate it well, but the experiences of others would imply that they don’t operate it as consistently as they could.
For me in July, it was honestly operating as efficiently as I’ve ever seen the ride operate, pre or post-revamp! But on my visits in July last year and March last year, there were times where it seemed quite slow.
I do think inconsistency in operations has perhaps become an issue since the retrack. My experience in July would suggest they can still operate it well, but the experiences of others would imply that they don’t operate it as consistently as they could.
They made repeated announcements over the tannoy last night that there was no front row queue, sounded like some people were slowing down operations at times and arguing with staff judging by way the operator was saying.
Also a fair few seats were left empty when going round, shame there’s not a single riders queue. I can’t remember if there was someone telling people which bays to go in either or whether you were just left to fill the bays yourselves.
If people are left to their own devices it’s probably best to have someone there telling people where to go as that would have stopped what seemed like multiple groups of people holding up the queue line because they were waiting for the front row.
But tbh my biggest annoyance was the merge queue, just the vast amounts of people being let, when the main queue had a wait time of 70 minutes (was far longer) those with fast track should be waiting at least 10/15 minutes imo. I’d let 2/3 train loads from the normal queue go through before I’d let a train load of fastrack in but it was the opposite way round.
Dave
TS Founding Member
In older adults yes, children don’t have quite the same height loss as the day progresses. An adult (30 year old) male loses about 1.6cm during a full day so a child isn’t going to lose 2cm.
There isn’t much research on children but I would be surprised if they lost more than 0.5cm so not really a factor.
RIPCorky
TS Member
Not accusing the Staff or the park of anything sinister but pretty much every time I go to AT, and when the park opens late and I want a night ride on Nemesis it breaks down. Sunday was going smoothly, got on straight after the fireworks and the train was dispatched, only for it to stop at the bottom of the lift hill and for us to be evacuated from it. Did eventually get back on it entering through the exit and it's still by some way the best ride in the park.
But if there is one ride in the park that needed a front row queue (Rita aside) it was Nemesis, and quite why they thought it was a good idea to sacrifice that for theming is a bit odd. Yes theming makes people happy but it should never be traded for the practicality of the ride.This goes for the ridiculous length of the main queue line now.
Was speaking to a guy who works there and they pretty much said it has issues with some of the restraints being confirmed as locked.
But if there is one ride in the park that needed a front row queue (Rita aside) it was Nemesis, and quite why they thought it was a good idea to sacrifice that for theming is a bit odd. Yes theming makes people happy but it should never be traded for the practicality of the ride.This goes for the ridiculous length of the main queue line now.
Was speaking to a guy who works there and they pretty much said it has issues with some of the restraints being confirmed as locked.
Poisson
TS Member
They swapped a load of restraint sensors when it was first reopened due to issues with them.
If you want practical operations, you want 1 queue in the station and a batcher on the go. Not sure it's an issue FRQ has gone, the station is now much better.
If you want practical operations, you want 1 queue in the station and a batcher on the go. Not sure it's an issue FRQ has gone, the station is now much better.