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Galactica's Future

What would you like to see happen to Galactica?

  • Keep the Galactica Theme

    Votes: 3 1.2%
  • An improved version of air

    Votes: 92 37.4%
  • A new theme to tie in with Nemesis and The Phalanx

    Votes: 133 54.1%
  • Something else

    Votes: 18 7.3%

  • Total voters
    246
Spinball Whizzer regains a single rider queues, when are all of the other coasters getting single rider?

Mandrill Mayhem operates a virtual queue for a year, we need virtual queues everywhere!
But just to show I am paying attention, more SRQ were established, and, in my opinion, virtual queues are a good thing that should be rolled out further. We found the mandrill virtual queue easy to use and saved getting stuck in that horrible cattle pen, and using the virtual queue at Liseberg was good - better when you have 3 people in your group.
 
virtual queue easy to use and saved getting stuck in that horrible cattle pen, and using the virtual queue at Liseberg was good
I find it very limiting, and only works for people who get to the park early as by 12 all the slots are booked up because most people won't care about waiting 5 hours to get one ride in as they can do anything else, and it leads to many people not being able to ride it, and people comming early being able to ride it multiple times.
 
Not in my experience - slots are released during the day so you can book later if you miss the original drop.

Anyway, Galactica eh. I reckon it needs VR and blasters. What a ride that would be.
 
Off the shelf that iirc was going to another UK park but they pulled out so Towers got it cheap(er)

That was geek rumour and seems unlikely seen as its design (including supports) is adapted for getting around Corkscrew (hence the weird supports on the last bunny hop into the brakes).

Whether it was a prelim design Intamin had already created prior to Towers buying it or not is unclear, but regardless it needed adapting and at the time of purchase it was the OG. DR at Heide was a few years later which did clone Rita.
 
That was geek rumour and seems unlikely seen as its design (including supports) is adapted for getting around Corkscrew (hence the weird supports on the last bunny hop into the brakes).

Whether it was a prelim design Intamin had already created prior to Towers buying it or not is unclear, but regardless it needed adapting and at the time of purchase it was the OG. DR at Heide was a few years later which did clone Rita.

Which bizarrely has a modified turn at the end but still has the Corkscrew avoiding support.
 
Exactly, Galactica does not need retracking, neither does Oblivion.

What Galactica does need would be new trains and upgrade of ride controls and such.
To be clear - that's still a multi-million £ investment.

That was geek rumour and seems unlikely seen as its design (including supports) is adapted for getting around Corkscrew (hence the weird supports on the last bunny hop into the brakes).

Whether it was a prelim design Intamin had already created prior to Towers buying it or not is unclear, but regardless it needed adapting and at the time of purchase it was the OG. DR at Heide was a few years later which did clone Rita.
It seems to have changed with time. The one I saw back in the day (on ATA, them's being the days) was that a park cancelled a project and that created capacity for Intamin to do something (cheaply) but it had to be designed and agreed very quickly.

They were already working with Tussauds on Stealth, and they saw an opportunity to re-use a lot of what they had planned for that.

The suns and moons aligned to ruin Ug Land forever.
 
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To be clear - that's still a multi-million £ investment.


It seems to have changed with time. The one I saw back in the day (on ATA, them's being the days) was that a park cancelled a project and that created capacity for Intamin to do something (cheaply) but it had to be designed and agreed very quickly.

They were already working with Tussauds on Stealth, and they saw an opportunity to re-use a lot of what they had planned for that.

The suns and moons aligned to ruin Ug Land forever.
Ah yes Rita. A classic example of what happens when you try and cobble something in at the last minute. Oh what could have been for UG land and the area if some sensible, long term planning had gone into it. Alas, we have a launch and nowt else that completely bisects and overpowers what could be an amazing part of the park. Thirteen had to be forced into the corky footprint and is visually hobbled by the monstrosity that even has an awful name.

As for Galactica, it would be nice to see it kept, but a nice new big coaster interacting with it and using space in the car park beyond and a new area emerging with a few more flats. There is loads of space really!
 
I find it very limiting, and only works for people who get to the park early as by 12 all the slots are booked up because most people won't care about waiting 5 hours to get one ride in as they can do anything else, and it leads to many people not being able to ride it, and people comming early being able to ride it multiple times.

That’s an issue when a ride operates exclusively as virtual queuing but not if you combine options as seen at the likes of Efteling and Europa.
 
To me, virtual queueing is a waste of time, and only makes your time at theme parks all that more stressful, so I don't bother. I'm not exactly an early bird either, so having to book each ride at silly o' clock in the morning isn't my cuppa 🤣

Anyway, Galactica
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To me, virtual queueing is a waste of time, and only makes your time at theme parks all that more stressful, so I don't bother.

Anyway, Galactic
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Merlin be like:
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It's had cuts since 2002 so its really a more cursed ride than perhaps Smiler in a way. Had a thought that world's first rides are better off in a amusement park when you don't need to worry about budgets for theming in which proved to be Air's problem in which I have always felt that had Air been say the second of its kind in the world (maybe a European first like what Nemesis was) then they would never have had the issues of those hidden costs of paying for new technology and that would have meant that they would have been able to finish the theming off as planned and we would have never had tunnel jokes. Many hindsight moments when you think about it.
 
Honestly? I doubt by new Merlin are planning any retheming for Air/Galactica, as with how much coverage the new flat ride is getting, we'd know if anything was happening to Air/Galactica by now. To me, I think when it comes time for the ride to be removed/'reborn'. They'd try and retheme it to match the 'Phalanx' take over of the area.

Although wish what's happening at Merlin right now, we can only wait and see what happens.
 
Honestly? I doubt by new Merlin are planning any retheming for Air/Galactica, as with how much coverage the new flat ride is getting, we'd know if anything was happening to Air/Galactica by now. To me, I think when it comes time for the ride to be removed/'reborn'. They'd try and retheme it to match the 'Phalanx' take over of the area.

Although wish what's happening at Merlin right now, we can only wait and see what happens.
I think if anything, it'll be very subtle changes purely to fit it into the surrounding area. I'm not sure it's as drastic as it's been speculated to be.
 
I think with galactica they’d only pour money into it if they want to keep it at the park in the long term.

Because I guess there’s no point sprucing a ride up if it’s only got like 5 years left, verses if it has 10-15 years left
 
Galactica has got longer than 5 years left though, there’s nowhere near the amount of stress on the track or supports that was the issue with Nemesis.

Galactica was supposed to receive a retheme this winter, but it was scrapped due to budgetary reasons. It was initially supposed to close in late September to start work early if my sources are correct (they usually are)
 
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