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I can't see it ever happening personally. My parents live in a village one end of a heritage railway line and it took absolutely years to get the final 4 or 5 miles complete. The final few miles only happened as a bit of "rush job" due to an anonymous donor stumping up the cash. Some years...

Have Towers in-sourced the arcades & game stalls back from HB Leisure, or are they still with HBL? If they are still with HBL, then there must be good money to be made as the rent Towers will charge on the units will be very high. The reason McDonalds left Towers [& other Tussauds parks, as...

These queueline works adjacent to the carpark just show Alton repeating history again - ride not fully finished for opening day, but they were hell-bent on having it open on day 1 of season (& taking the associated downtime hit with the ride itself). Oblivion - X-Sector was nowhere near ready...

The rattle on row 3 & row 4 of one of the two trains has been well mentioned on various forums.

SheiKra blows Oblivion out of the water. Especially if you get an offload side edge seat. Also like the way Sheikra main drop is all above ground - on a breezy day you can feel the track wobbling slightly on the turnaround at the top as you enjoy a brief view of the Tampa skyline.

It's not just you - some of them smell awful. Smilers the worst in my opinion.

Reading this thread makes me want to say one thing - AVOID this Sunday (Easter Sunday). It will be total chaos & you won't be able to get a beer to take your mind off how bad things are. I do pity the staff in Guest Services - they must be getting a rough ride from guests through no fault of...

Don’t forget Merlin are “second only to Disney” - I have never heard a mouse laugh, until now!

Well you could argue that there is sort of dynamic pricing in place for even MAP holders, as we need a pre-book. No more deciding on the Friday evening that Saturday or Sunday look good weather-wise so just turn up & get in (assuming they are enforcing pre-book, like they are not RAP... but...

Certainly on "old Nemesis" if you looked at a lot of the green proximity switches on the track, they all had the RS [Radio Spares] logo on them, so these were not purchased from B&M or Consign AG who did the original control system. That said, RS is a very trusted supplier to many companies in...

When Air opened the sensors on the locking pins in the armrests of the seats were optical & the good old British weather (so rain) played havoc with them. They were changed pretty fast. It does seem odd that Galactica has so many issued with the sensors on each seat (admittedly there are 4...

You have no chance of seeing McD's back. There is a long list of other brands you are not allowed on-site if you are a Mc'D's franchisee, with the exception of "unless they were always established prior to the franchise agreement being signed". The list in the UK includes... Burger King...

I am 99% sure that when Nemesis originally opened 30yrs ago tomorrow it did not have a front row queue - it was added as an afterthought. Only reason I can be sure is I worked for the Ride Manager who said it was his idea to add the front row queue. Also on my first ride on Nemesis in about...

And in the top-left of that eye photo it looks suspiciously like the A-frame hoist they use to lower the waterfall pumps down into the pit via their manholes under the base of the lift. So we may see waterfalls return in some guise - it would be a shame if they didn't.

I totally agree - the "maggot wagon" moniker was made as a joke (although as you rightly say, in years gone by it was probably well justified in some cases). The street food scene has really exploded in the past decade (as has the Food Standards Agency "scores on the doors" inspections). In...

Aah, mobile caterer working from vans... some years ago such vans often picked up the moniker of being a "maggot wagon". Hold on, had better not give Aramark ideas on how to further lower the quality of the food! (Gloomy Wood excepted, which is good).

Who knows, but maybe Towers are looking really long-range? If Universal comes into fruition (with easy access right next to the M1) Towers are going to need some big-hitters and they don't happen overnight. I totally accept Universal is potentially the best part of 10ys off (based on the...

The only reason I can't see it going anywhere is the location. Right at the back of the theme park near David Walliams / Dungeon area. If it was indeed to include a hotel / accommodation, this would mean overnight guests being able to potentially wander round the theme park. At least with...

The original waterfall delivery pipes that went under the queueline got blocked. So they added the bypass ones that went over the queueline to reinstate the waterfalls. With over a years downtime there is no reason why the original pipes could not have been unblocked - or just continue to use...

I would sort of agree in places. Towers track record when they are hell-bent on a 1st day of season opening is not exactly good. Lastminute.com seem to provide the contractors. They effectively have 3 weeks before they will want the area to look ready for the TV releases / press. Yes, some...