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When the standardised worldwide shipping container put huge, huge numbers of manual dock workers out of work worldwide as the work of many could be done by the few, or when the mechanical tractor put possibly more numbers out of jobs on the farms, people said the same, yes it put huge numbers...

I have to be honest. I have been listening to some AI generated music recently, specifically some reggae. I have to admit, some of it is extremely good. Some of it not so much but the fact some of it is brilliant is quite astonishing to me, as a lover of many a great artist across many...

Loosing money how exactly? The park already have your money as you paid upon entry. The trains can only be dispatched a set amount of times in a day, even when running them flat out, so they cannot loose it there by sending more trains. I would argue they actually save money, albeit a very very...

I would take an educated guess it is because they have a much bigger budget for engineering, so they can afford to do the necessary changes primarily to the train, to accommodate the wider range of temperatures, not only the changes to the train, but have the actual engineering staff to do this...

I am late to this party, for me pork, hands down. Although I do love all the choices, especially beef with some English mustard or horseradish. You get a nice bit of crackling with pork and plenty of meat juice to cook the roast potatoes in and have in the gravy, along side the relatively...

They have never once claimed they are second only to Disney in terms of quality. Context is key here. Merlin are (or were, I haven't checked recently) second only to Disney in terms of visitor numbers across the group only. This is all they have ever claimed to be second in when comparing...

The frogs themselves used to have jumping fountains coming out their mouths. No idea if they still do.

Taken from Alton Towers Facebook page...I assume these are the trains? Or part of them, such as the lead car on the front. I wonder if they will have truck like cars for the whole train or just the front one with a roof and whatnot. There was not much of a description with the photo, just...

More emphasis on the "is everyone okay to continue" show stopper is what is needed I think.

Nets and scaffolding, its all the rage these days!! I know there is an element of sarcasm in your post but I feel compelled to point out that the netting is not theming. It is designed to stop loose articles that fall from the ride, hitting people on the ground.

It seems like the routine winter maintenance has extended to the netting around Rita too. This may have been posted but I couldn't see it. For those who don't use Facebook, Coastal Nets Ltd posted the following. "Another big job completed in tough conditions. Not easy fitting this in freezing...

But why do the rides all need to be crammed together? Having rides that 'take you out' so to speak of the hustle and bustle of the park are great for escapism. This boat ride is great at and always has been great at doing exactly that. Besides, Alton Towers is massive, I get the fact that this...

To me, 'Hey passholder' reads exactly the same as, "Oi, moneybags, giz us yer dosh'. They do not care what your name is and are too lazy to even pretend to care by making the email personalised, all they are interested in is emptying your wallet, with the least amount of effort their end...

I am with you there, just screams laziness. Especially when something smaller than a single line of code could tailor that for each customer, of which names they already have on record with their email address' in that context it comes across as incredibly rude and lazy. These discounts, a...

I have seen a really good force vector design tool mod for PC2 also, I just cannot remember the name. It makes building coasters to the required forces at any given point, MUCH easier, this is what NL2 uses. It is great at building perfectly smooth coasters too, because you are literally...

Around these parts, the word bluey has always been slang for a five pound note, given it's colour. So every time I read this topic title, it reads in my head as "five pound coaster in CBeebies Land".

Totally agree, the Rideas days....wow that is going back, the logo with the coloured circles is still engrained into my memory! Given we know Alton / Tussauds / Merlin have planned something at least once in the now quite distance past and the fact it is the oldest area in the park now (I...

In one way, it is sort of a shame if this area was re developed, yes the hardware is aging, yes there are better things out there, but I think in one way, age has been kind to KC, it has allowed it, in some ways, to fulfil it's potential as an African village / Jungle. Last August, the place...

Some of the salaries appear to be pretty poor too, specifically for the leadership roles. Considering the location, you must really want to work at Alton Towers or, really make heavy use of a family or multiple Merlin passes of some description, to find some of those pay packages attractive.

The biggest thing the completely flawed online safety act has done, is funnel large amounts of cash into VPN companies with questionable ethics and moral standpoints. The number being funnelled into these companies will rise too over time. It is crazy to think, the biggest achievement of the...