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I was here last week and there wasn't

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Scissor lift in the pit but no work going on as of yet. No testing.

On park now. 3 staff members pushing a cage with a big wooden crate in it to the smiler shop. Purely speculation but it looked like merchandise.

My avatar says it all... I learnt not to believe the media at a young age after the reporting of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989. Tabloids are the worst, but even the more "credible" papers are descending into gutter journalism as well.

Potentially yes. If that's the case they could still have a lot left to do investigating the events, meaning it won't be open any time soon.

Testing with different combinations of dummies now (various empty seats). Hate to say this but it came through the bat wing very slowly.

Possibly. Interestingly, the next train was at the top of the first lift hill for 5-10 minutes then. Assumed they were going to test the reverse on that but then it was sent round the track.

On park now. They've just been testing the reverse on the v lift. Operating again now.

That's a complete non entity of a story, based on supposition and nothing else.

My son and daughter (5 & 3) were singing the smiler theme tune while it was going round! :cool:

@spinba11 yes, about 12.30 on Monday. It was weird, my 5 year old lad asked to eat his sandwiches near the smiler so he could look if it would be back on. He noticed one of the trains was outside the station with someone working on it. Walking down the hill past the entrance we noticed two...

The only way the GP are going to perceive the ride as "safe" again is through a proven track record of operation - I think Merlin will want to get it open again as soon as possible now the media storm has settled. That is obviously assuming the prohibition notice has been lifted by the HSE. The...

I did take a video, but don't have a YouTube account. Couple of pictures for now:

Hi all, been lurking on here for a while now, but thought I'd sign up to answer a couple of questions I've seen on here recently. I was on park yesterday and Friday, and saw the ride working myself. When I was in X Sector, I saw it being run twice (one train operation both times). On Friday, I...