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I dont think shortening the track will make the ride queue quicker, they will still have to dispatch cars at the same interval, meaning they will arrive back at the same time. I would assume it will now operate with less vehicles due to being shorter.

Pirate Adventure used small fan like pumps under the water, to create a flow. You can see one here in Pirate Adventure, the cylinder in the channel. These were placed along the whole ride and pretty much are the only pumps the ride uses. If you look closely you can see another further up, on the...

I mean, they have quite literally re routed the ride to remove it from whst was always, the rides signature and most iconic set piece. I am not sure there is any other word than ruining it? Winstons is not a good comparison, because that ride is hallariously short, especially the time you can...

No. 3 out of 4 pumps in the ride are in operation at all times. The ride doesnt run with 2 and it doesnt run with 4. The pumps are rotated in usage however, to give even ware and tare. They do have a 5th pump that isn't in use or physically on the ride, which is what is pictured here, this is...

That pump is a river rapids pump, looks like a freshly refurbished one, I know they have spares as they rotate the refurbishment. Those pumps sit inside these steel tubes as seen below on River Rapids. They are designed to push water up vertically. The very top of that blue pump, where the...

Good point, I guess so yeah.

I dont understand, what is that going to stop? They are not blades that can cut you or anything. Do we know this as fact or just hearsay? The reason I question it is because logic would dictate (especially with safety) the same sort of feature would be on the shark that spins in the lake next...

The thickness of the power cables you can clearly see going to the linear motors in that POV would suggest otherwise. You are not going to use extra thick, very expensive copper cable if you dont need to. Not to mention, the increased resistance would lower efficiency. Those cables are thick...

A safety feature preventing what? Someone slowly getting moved around?

We've managed fine as humans for centuries with door handles and what not. It is only post covid there has been such a focus on these things.

That would completely defeat the ride system they are going for though I think. You can't have sharp turns and twists with drive belts, it just wouldn't be possible. I find it interesting how the Mack presentation makes no mentions what so ever of linear motors, however, that POV has LOADS...

Power consumption on this must be astronomical. Power hungry LSMs for most of the circuit, plus power hungry water pumps for the rapid parts. You can see the extremely chunky power cables for the LSMs throughout many parts of the ride. I will happily be proven wrong as the ride system looks...

Using kiosks too, increases the average customer spend, according to many studies. So it is no surprise Amarark and all the big fast food chains have moved to using them. I know for a fact I spend more, as I get tempted by things I see, so usually end up buying more. This combined with less...

I am waiting for these chairs to be used as a 'perk' for the scandelous £25 non rider ticket. "More seating options than ever! Brand new for 2025, undercover seating! All included in your £25, non rider admission fee. BOOK TODAY!" I mean, they can't even put some seating in there properly, it...

Thanks for clarifying, because as I mentioned earlier, any H&S change like that would make little to no sense of existing, not when we have hot food kept under hot counters for even longer than the bins at fast food joints, in buffets up and down the country right now.

I was in a Wimpy the other week and the burger kitchen at a themepark. Both were holding food in the bins, exactly like McDonalds used to?? Edit: it is also nearly identical to how buffets up and down the country serve and hold hot food, I am curious to see what the exact wording is on the H&S...

Or...... it could be, as I said a few weeks ago in the Rita page, there is nothing quite like the shear power of the hydraulic launches, absolute nuts.

Telling customers they were not making ice creams, or there was a 20 minute wait, would send customers away, potentually not to purchase an ice cream elsewhere. It is much more cost effective (for them) to guarantee the sale when they can, then re make some if they have to. As the customer is...

That is pretty much, exactly the same as saying, that having a light switched on, is the opposite of having it switched off. In my opinion, the over reaction from the media came from the 'horror, fear, death, danger,' headlines that literally popped up weekly, for years in the aftermath. Mostly...

I doubt it is anywhere near the break fins, there is no way for them to touch, they are not that close to eatch other relatively speaking. My guess would be perhaps the catch car is not rolling on it's wheel assembly correctly.