jon81uk
TS Member
IanB said:With Ripsaw, you have the ride running, and like I said, getting peoples attention, so instead of been sat bored while they are waiting, they are kept entertained.
With Nemesis Sub Terra, you can slow the batching down, have staff interact with guest walking past,again, adding something extra to the day.
When you see rides closed, or rides opening late, it just takes a little of the magic away for me and ruins the atmosphere that you are somewhere magical.
Maybe instead of cutting things, Towers should be promoting the fact that their is shorter queues in the morning, maybe they should be having a promotion on breakfast deals, or free bus transfer that get you to the park for 9.50 so you can be on park at 10am.
I know its a strange concept, but I am sure if they did not try to cut corners, and tried to be positive, they would generate more profit. If they keep cutting things, less people will arrive at 10am, meaning shorter queues on other rides, so you might as well just open the park at 11am like I said in my initial post.
Ian
Alton Towers have 20 years of guest data to work with, they know by now that a lot of guests don't arrive until 10am so they won't be getting onto rides until 10:30.
They are also a business, they know how to make a profit and what you think of as cost-cutting is profit generation, rides use a lot of staff and electricity to run cutting 1 hour off the less popular rides will save a lot of money!
As EnterValhalla said Sub-terra with only 5 people in it would be rubbish, its better to encourage people to ride Air & Nemesis first (which will be open for ERT first) then come back to sub-terra once it is busier and everyone gets a better experience.
Also you use ripsaw as an example for people to watch the ride, maybe it should be replaced with a show then? But more seriously I have seen it empty even on busy days, that is wasting a lot of electricity if you could wait an hour then run it for 20 guests instead of 5 there is a huge cost and environmental impact saving.
I would rather have Nemesis running with two trains all day than have sub-terra with a poor experiance first thing in the morning.