2017: General Discussion

[imanautie]

Wasn't today but I was on park Friday - on queue boards around the park it was briefly showing galactica as open and with a 0 minute queue but when I got there it was not open, maybe a mistake today?

According to altons twitter it has reopened still without VR

 

[bluesonichd]

Inaccurate queue times are noticeable on Oblivion, Seems they just pick a multiple of 5 out of thin air.

In related news at 10:28:01 Galactica was updated to show it as open, anyone on park to confirm or deny?

I'm on park but to tired to treck all that way to find out. Galactica /air either way it's not worth the leg power

 

[imanautie]

I'm on park but to tired to treck all that way to find out. Galactica /air either way it's not worth the leg power

Cant a vip get a lift...

 

[Jonathan]

Or just...y'know...use the Skyride?

 

[IanSR]

Your site is good did u create this yourself??

Thanks and yes, just a little proof of concept project I made.

 

[Poisson]

Or just...y'know...use the Skyride?

The VIP gondola is off for refurb atm, so no

 

[Jonathan]

The VIP gondola is off for refurb atm, so no

Oh yeah, I forgot they were putting luxury leather sofas and a fully-stocked bar in one of the gondolas.

 

[IanSR]

Didn't they have those blue Segway type things for VIP's?

 

[Poisson]

Didn't they have those blue Segway type things for VIP's?

Blue? Yeah, they had these

 

[Rick]

The Skyride has a VIP gondola? i didn't know that if it does!

It is invisible, unless you are a VIP.

 

[Bert2theSpark]

I don't have any photos but the dirt effect on Rita's trains have been reapplied...

 

[AstroDan]

I was on park yesterday, and the trains hadn't changed from opening day?

They are still "distressed" but look a lot cleaner than they did last year.

 

[ChristmasPud]

The distress effect has either been redone in the last couple days or soon-to-be redone I believe

 

[John]

Seriously? They look(ed) so much less depressing than they did last year. OK they're not quite so "on theme", but the current theme of the entire area is just terrible!

 

[Poisson]

current theme

An oxymoron if I ever saw one

 

[djtruefitt]

The Rita trains were both re painted during closed season.

They do still have a dirt look to them, but probably look less dirty than before as they were probably covered in actual dirt for the past few years

 

[Spike]

I'm just going to leave this here lol

 

[RoyJess]

I'm just going to leave this here lol

I never knew that Tidal wave was located at Alton Towers

 

[Spike]

They're just opening themselves up for snide comments about The Smiler in the comments section, I've seen one already

 

[Skyscraper]

Great video. They should have done that ages ago! They ought to do one about why rides have to be evac'd and how it's done safely.