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2016: The Smiler Reopening
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BarryZola
TS Member
I'm trying my best here not to make any smart ass awful 'jokes'.....
Rob
TS Team
- Favourite Ride
- Steel Vengeance
One would assume so. Although Towers do seem to be phasing out single rider queues generally (Nemesis, Rita and now Air's have all gone) the one for The Smiler worked well.
Poisson
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- Favourite Ride
- The Giant Squid
One would assume so. Although Towers do seem to be phasing out single rider queues generally (Nemesis, Rita and now Air's have all gone) the one for The Smiler worked well.
Nemesis suffered as it loads SRQ the wrong side, Air's and Rita's never worked. For Nemesis it would require the SRQ to load at Fasttrack merge to work properly, Air would need it at queue merge and I have no idea for Rita
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I miss SRQ for Nemesis.
TheMan
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- Favourite Ride
- NemiLerVion
The SRQ on Rita I never found moved much quicker unless it was empty!
Shame it's gone on Nemmy though.
Removing Smiler's SRQ would be ridiculous. That works really well, I'd say it's essential, even more so as it's likely to be working on reduced capacity for a while - either due to trains, or quadruple checks.
When a good team was on the ride, it worked really well, when a not so good team was on it... omg.
LiamT
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- Favourite Ride
- The Smiler
I feel like the theme will be watered down alot, the key focus of The Smiler will be the worlds first element.
I can see alot of the things (including merchandise) replaced with references to the inversions instead of the correction theme.
It'll be disappointing if they do, and I hope I'm wrong but it feels like the logically thing to do when you theme screams 'correction of the body & mind'.
It'll be also interesting to see if the TLC programme will move onto The Smiler after this year has passed, I hope so because the ride looks like a mess at the moment, with Nemesis recent re-paint, a 22 year old ride will look better than a 3 year old ride!
I can see alot of the things (including merchandise) replaced with references to the inversions instead of the correction theme.
It'll be disappointing if they do, and I hope I'm wrong but it feels like the logically thing to do when you theme screams 'correction of the body & mind'.
It'll be also interesting to see if the TLC programme will move onto The Smiler after this year has passed, I hope so because the ride looks like a mess at the moment, with Nemesis recent re-paint, a 22 year old ride will look better than a 3 year old ride!
Rob
TS Team
- Favourite Ride
- Steel Vengeance
Ta daaaaaaa:
Source: Theme Park Photography
It's not the best quality photo but it looks like much of the concrete has been jet washed.
Looks like they still need to put all of the signs back up. Also I noticed last season that one of the circular symbols on the Hypnotiser leg of the Marmaliser had gone missed (I assume it fell off at some point). Notice that it is still missing in that photo, hopefully it also makes a return.
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If it doesn't say "Half Way Corrected" in the posh voice, I will not be happy.
I was less than pleased when "Don't Look Down" got axed.
I was less than pleased when "Don't Look Down" got axed.
ASturge21
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- Anything but Thirteen
Still better than fanta sponsorship.
djtruefitt
TS Team
Ta daaaaaaa:
Source: Theme Park Photography
It's not the best quality photo but it looks like much of the concrete has been jet washed.
Looks like they still need to put all of the signs back up. Also I noticed last season that one of the circular symbols on the Hypnotiser leg of the Marmaliser had gone missed (I assume it fell off at some point). Notice that it is still missing in that photo, hopefully it also makes a return.
The round sign that fell off was on the floor near one of the marmaliser legs, hopefully someone will notice and stick it back up!
Martin.C
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- Favourite Ride
- Shambhala
I contacted Alton a couple of days ago enquiring about whether the hotel rooms for the ride would be back as well as asking if anything for the ride would change theming wise. Here's the response I got back:
Sounds like it will be operating again in its original form.
Sounds like it will be operating again in its original form.