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2018: General Discussion

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DW_0505 said:
How busy is Alton Towers generally on opening day? Do people think the queues for rides other than Wicker Man will be significantly larger than normal?

Never been to an opening day before, would love to experience it.
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A lot longer the. Last year if they are actually removing single rider queues.

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New ride openings generally make parks much busier on opening day, but the queues for the other rides tend to be very short, as virtually everyone on the park is either in the ride queue, or waiting for somebody on the ride.
The other queues will pick up a little as the day goes on, but shouldn't get too busy at all.
 
If single rider is gone for most rides, what do you think the best ride order will be? I can only guess WM, Smiler, Oblivion, 13, Rita, Galatica and Nemesis.
 
That would depend on when you arrive, if you don't have ERT then doing Wicker Man first is probably a bad idea as it will already have a long queue.
 
TPC said:
If single rider is gone for most rides, what do you think the best ride order will be? I can only guess WM, Smiler, Oblivion, 13, Rita, Galatica and Nemesis.
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If you are on park for ERT, the staggard opening times will dictate the order of which ride ;) Also take in consideration the removal of the SRQ. Enjoy a day of endless queuing o_O
 
ihaveaspergers said:
A lot longer the. Last year if they are actually removing single rider queues.

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Removal of single rider queues will not have a noticeable impact on main queue lengths.

Opening day will seem busier than it really is I imagine. I don't think it will be too bad but you never know.

:)
 
People may have put off planning days out etc a bit this year as the weather has been so awful up until now. I'm hoping that a lot of people may have left it too late to organise a trip to Towers and that it may be slightly less busy due to this, as opening day may have come and gone before they get chance to look into things and sort travel etc. Could be wrong.
 
BarryZola said:
People may have put off planning days out etc a bit this year as the weather has been so awful up until now. I'm hoping that a lot of people may have left it too late to organise a trip to Towers and that it may be slightly less busy due to this, as opening day may have come and gone before they get chance to look into things and sort travel etc. Could be wrong.
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They also released opening times too late for some people to plan so there's every hope that it's just the entirety of the enthusiast community

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ihaveaspergers said:
They also released opening times too late for some people to plan so there's every hope that it's just the entirety of the enthusiast community

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The impact of that will be insignificant and not at all noticeable.

:)
 
From keeping tabs on ridetimes.co.uk this morning, it appears that these are the staggered opening times for the 2018 season:

ERT on selected rides from 9:30am

10:00am:

CBeebies Land
Wicker Man
Heave Ho!
Marauder's Mayhem
Runaway Minetrain
Duel
Spinball Whizzer
The Smiler
Enterprise
Oblivion

10:30am:

Rita
Th13teen
Hex
Driving School
Gallopers Carousel
Frog Hopper

11:00am:

Nemesis
Galactica
The Blade
Battle Galleons
Congo River Rapids
Skyride
 
MakoMania said:
From keeping tabs on ridetimes.co.uk this morning, it appears that these are the staggered opening times for the 2018 season:

ERT on selected rides from 9:30am

10:00am:

CBeebies Land
Wicker Man
Heave Ho!
Marauder's Mayhem
Runaway Minetrain
Duel
Spinball Whizzer
The Smiler
Enterprise
Oblivion

10:30am:

Rita
Th13teen
Hex
Driving School
Gallopers Carousel
Frog Hopper

11:00am:

Nemesis
Galactica
The Blade
Battle Galleons
Congo River Rapids
Skyride
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Is Wicker Man still part of ERT?
 
MakoMania said:
Yes, although there was no ERT today. According to ridetimes Wicker Man is not yet open but I just slapped it in the 10am section because we know that it will be open for ERT from 9:30 :)
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Wickerman showed up as open 09:30.

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MakoMania said:
From keeping tabs on ridetimes.co.uk this morning, it appears that these are the staggered opening times for the 2018 season:

ERT on selected rides from 9:30am

10:00am:

CBeebies Land
Wicker Man
Heave Ho!
Marauder's Mayhem
Runaway Minetrain
Duel
Spinball Whizzer
The Smiler
Enterprise
Oblivion

10:30am:

Rita
Th13teen
Hex
Driving School
Gallopers Carousel
Frog Hopper

11:00am:

Nemesis
Galactica
The Blade
Battle Galleons
Congo River Rapids
Skyride
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It said that nemesis and Galactica were due to open at 10 as well as the blade. Other than that you are correct
 
WallisDan said:
It said that nemesis and Galactica were due to open at 10 as well as the blade. Other than that you are correct
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I hope you are right, Nemesis & Galactica are still showing as unavailable and The Blade & Hex have dissapeared entirely!

Wicker Man, The Blade, Hex, Rapids & Battle Galleons have all made a swift exit from ridetimes :p

As of 11:15am, The Smiler, Th13teen, Nemesis, Galactica, Hex and the Rapids are all down :-/
 
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