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I mean, the park do currently run other rides where clean water is a must. Filtering the water really is not that difficult of a thing to do, even the most un trained of people would struggle to get it wrong in this specific setting. On the flip side, getting those fountains that they have, to...

I agree, but in this setting, around a forested area with the potential for lots of flotsam and foreign objects going into the water from all the trees, the chosen fountain type was probably not the best design choice for reliability and ease of maintenance. Besides, the ride causes a fair bit...

The metal work has an even longer service life than the wood, decades not years. While these works do not indicate the ride is staying forever, it does in my view, indicate that they have no plans in the immediate future to remove the ride, as the works being carried out are fairly substantial...

Just a quick note in regards to the fountains, as I saw Towers Street posted on Facebook in regards to if they would be working or not this season. From an engineering perspective, why oh why did they over complicate the whole thing completely, by installing individual pump fountains? Each one...

I think they take them off purposely to inspect the guide carriage and wheel assembly's on the tower.

John B was a creative lead anyway, that is a very different role than being 'the head of creative'.

They are replacing the lift hill wooden slats, these can last anywhere between 5 and 10 years depending on a few factors if I remember correctly. They are made of very durable timber and the work that appears to be going on, is not the type of work that is done every single closed season. These...

Seeing as CRR is having pretty substantial work to it's lift and station this closed season, the work currently on going on suggests they do plan to keep the ride for the immediate future. You would not spent huge sums on two of the three most crucial bits of infrastructure the ride has, if you...

Going back to the 'potential' 1993 Splash Canyon accident, I am pretty certain this never happened. There was also zero mentions of this accident in the HSE reports following the 2017 fatality, something that almost certainly would be mentioned, had it been true. This evidence (or lack of) in...

Interesting about the train accident, I will read up about this later, thanks for finding this information as the information is indeed scarce. I am unsure about the reasons Python crashed. To answer your question about where I get the information, I live local to the park to this day, within a...

I went through the details of why Python was replaced here, I think the upgrade to G-force was more so the ride looked good on paper and I would assume they got a good deal given it was a new coaster type. The park were in a phase of upgrading hardware and moving away from travelling versions of...

With a lack of any residue signs of ultra sonic testing taking place for more advanced metal fatigue over the winter, I think it can safely be said they are very sure yes. The highest stress parts of that ride are well supported by the tunnel base, so if there has been testing on this part, we...

Forbidden Valley and the surrounding areas would need huge investments in infrastructure to accept the huge incoming and outgoing of guests each day if it were to become a main entrance. Towers Street works so well because wide, large paths lead off from the entrance in all directions to...

I still consider the place is positioned more Premium than cheap, when you consider that the cost of the day is not just limited to the price of the cheap pass. This is just for on site costs too, you need to park with that cheap pass and need some sort of food (assuming you are not bringing...

Well I almost pulled the trigger on 6 Platinum passes for me and the family recently, a first ever purchase. I was waiting to see what state Alton Towers opened in before pulling the trigger. For now, seeing the state Alton Towers opened in, staggered openings and what not, I'll spend the money...

There are currently no enforceable CAA (Civil aviation authority) or NOTAMs (Notice to air missions) in the area supporting what Universal are trying to say here. People can still legally fly over the site while following the stanrdard and well established flight rules. They are just trying...

Quite unremarkable in a park like Alton Towers yes, also unremarkable when the ride itself is named after said theme. But the ride model itself, could stand on its own quite well in the right setting and park with minimal to no theming, as these models probably do already. That is not to say...

Applauding them for what we consider to be the very bare basics of attending a theme park? I do not think that is something to applaud as if they have done something right, that is the very lowest of the low in expectations that you would expect when visiting a theme park. It is that low of an...

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...