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2016: The Smiler Reopening

Will you ride in 2016?

  • Yes

    Votes: 147 94.8%

  • No

    Votes: 8 5.2%
  • Total voters
    155
Dar said:
I wonder how sensitive it is? Could one gust knock it out for the rest of the day or for a specific amount of time? Or is the weather monitoring stuff purely a guide with no bearing on the actual operations of the ride?
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I'm sure it will be just a guide. They will do everything they can to avoid a stall. It would be catastrophic for the reputation of the ride
 
I still do not understand why they decided to scrap the word "corrected" from the ride for the time being (?). I mean that word surely does not have any resemblance to the crash in any way so what is the point of removing it from the audio clips?
 
william thomas said:
I still do not understand why they decided to scrap the word "corrected" from the ride for the time being (?). I mean that word surely does not have any resemblance to the crash in any way so what is the point of removing it from the audio clips?
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I thought this would be obvious considering the victims lost limbs and the ride process is about "correcting" the riders as people.
 
Ash123uk said:
I also don't get the link.
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What's not to get?

The ride experience concerns itself with "correcting" riders. When the incident happened, two people lost limbs. People now might hear/see the terms "correction", "correctional procedure" and "procedure complete" and see this still being there as poor taste due to the victims having lost limbs.
 
I don't really see it as bad taste though as it has always been there and it is hardly an explicit link most people would even notice. Plus people who are hearing / seeing these references are only those who have chosen to ride so probably wouldn't care that much anyway. I also don't find it that bad because if I said correction you wouldn't associate it with limb loss. I would understand it being away for the media in the first week or so but I would be very disappointed if it was gone any longer than that.
 
The media are just parasites that twist around what is actually happening to make it "profitable". I mean, the mirror just posted an article stating that the ride had "malfunction" because there was nobody on the ride...... It was just a test run to check if the ride was safe for the public............
 
AndrewH said:
I also don't find it that bad because if I said correction you wouldn't associate it with limb loss.
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No, I quite agree. But, in the context of what has happened it's easy to see why some people may think along these lines. Also, a lot of the terminology and wording is visible/audible from outside the ride area.

With the amount of negative press Towers have received over the previous months it's plain and easy to see why they've done it. Negative press is bad enough when it occurs, but any more after what has happened would be terrible for them. I don't begrudge them for doing it. I don't think anyone really should.
 
I cannot blame them for removing reference to correction, I fully expected it as it's the one aspect of the theme that the tabloids could jump all over if they wanted to. The last thing Towers want now is another PR nightmare.

I guess correction may come back in the future although I suspect it won't.

:)
 
LiamC said:
What's not to get?

The ride experience concerns itself with "correcting" riders. When the incident happened, two people lost limbs. People now might hear/see the terms "correction", "correctional procedure" and "procedure complete" and see this still being there as poor taste due to the victims having lost limbs.
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Get off your high horse. The connection is so banal.

I agree procedure should be gone but not corrected.
 
In light of an actual real life thing that happened, what is the first thing you think people are going to think of when they hear "get corrected"? "Oh, lets get corrected those other people did" fastforward 30 seconds and they're on the phone to the mirror complaining that Alton Towers are using the idea of correcting people to make the ride even scarier.
 
Ash123uk said:
Get off your high horse. The connection is so banal.

I agree procedure should be gone but not corrected.
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Please do not "tell me to get off my high horse" when you don't even know me as a person. I am merely making a comment as to how I see the situation, as everyone else is doing within this discussion.

Dar said:
In light of an actual real life thing that happened, what is the first thing you think people are going to think of when they hear "get corrected"? "Oh, lets get corrected those other people did" fastforward 30 seconds and they're on the phone to the mirror complaining that Alton Towers are using the idea of correcting people to make the ride even scarier.
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This is exactly the point I am trying to make. It doesn't take a lot for the GP to see an issue with something, regardless of how minor we may see it.
 
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I think it's fair to say there is clearly a spectrum of what people think could and could not be taken offensively after the incident. At one end, most would agree that the "Loss of limb" warning had to go. At the other, most would agree that "Join Us" should stay. Phrases such as "Get Corrected", "Marmaliser" and "Smile Always" fall somewhere in the middle, with some seeing the potential for offence and others not, and Alton Towers had to draw the line somewhere on the spectrum, and were bound to lean towards the "safe" end.
 
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