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The energy cost is an interesting one. I would still bet that a ride like Pirate Adventure is far cheaper to run than say River Rapids. For comparison, Pirate Adventure and Mack free flow rides use pumps submerged to push the water in the channel and lake, approximately 30 pumps in Pirate...

In honesty, the whole ride and all scenery was shot when it was open, it all needs to go, all ripping out and starting again. Even sceney such as the queue line is mostly VERY dated looking now, it was the early 1990's after all. The whole thing would need re modeling from top to bottom, queue...

I do not think so. As I said previously, and I keep telling people, look at the facts, their two dark rides in the brand spanking new area, are in the worst state of dis repair they have been in for years. There is no chance they can build and then maintain a dark ride of that scale, when...

I would assume that listing refers to the buildings within the garden, I dont think you can list plants and flower beds, hence why they have declined.

The thing is, so many people are banging this Pirate Adventure drum, every single piece of "evidence" is circumstantial at best. @Themeparksandy1981, I want them to do something with this building just as much as anyone else, do you have a single piece of objective evidence, not...

7 large TOCs however, are due to be re nationalised in 2027, that is not too far off.

The one thing I slate Drayton Manor for is their shockingly bad customer service, while the park has improved since Loopings took over, customer service has took a massive nose dive. Want to contact the park before or after a visit? Good luck. They very rarely if ever, reply via their guest...

I am not defending the practice here, but it is a tactic used quite alot by many companies. While not a great look, it is not overly terrible compared to some tactics used.

In regards to a pub firm wanting to buy the Sealife centers, it is not really unusual. You have to remember there is a company who's primary business was and is producing educational publishing materials, such as books, test papers, revision material and that sort of thing. They were the...

Fair enough. 🙂 I still agree with you though mate, there reliability is crap.

Yeah I dont think it can be called a design flaw as others have suggested, as the thing worked fine last season, its only since something has been adjusted that the issues seem to have arisen. I mean in fairness to Intamin, if they went ahead and built a fairly basic single lift hill coaster...

Exactly, which leads me to think they have changed something which has started causing issues.

There is a huge car park and railway behind the building, you can see very clearly at the back. Done in secret maybe, but you will still see a huge fleet of trades vehicles from people working on the ride. We have seen nothing because there is nothing as of yet. I hope the ride comes back as...

These things have a lap bar?!!

Not that we know no, there have been rumours about Pirate Adventure being brought back, but they are just that at this point. Rumours. There isnt even any construction going on, you would expect a project of that size would be well under construction now, it is indoors yes, but you expect to...

Its a pretty good name, I like it.

Fair point. Although still poor as the ride was in the park. But I understand and appreciate what you mean.

I mean, it literally opened at the very end of last season after spending almost the whole season and the season before that, closed. It also did not open for the first month or so into this current season. On what planet is that excellent uptime?! 😅 Do you mean, it is far cooler to forget the...

I was going to say, an i9 and an RTX 3080, isnt exactly cutting edge or efficient for running large and detailed simulations. Not with clould and AWS being so prominent. As someone said earlier. Renting cloud compute is ridiculously cheap. Technology that companies such as Mack, would have...

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