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2018: General Discussion

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TheAverageNerd said:
Actually, today’s operations were pretty damn good. I left the park at 4 and managed to do 13 rides, all of them being major coasters so I’m pretty impressed. The park was dead towards the end of the day.


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Wait a minute do you mean you got to do the ride 13?

Good to hear they are getting better must be hard when they can’t keep staff to get them up to speed when most of their knowledge comes from having to do it with a busy park.


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Brad97 said:
Seems to be called Wasteland Bash rather than stomp, but not much else. It's clearly still in a testing phase, with no official show times yet.
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This is the thing where Ripsaw used to be?

There were dancers there yesterday, which was funny as nobody could see the guy doing the breakdancing because of a block of concrete in the way.
 
Ben James said:
April fools? Or are the towers actually on fire?
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If it's an April Fools then they are, kind of slightly missing the point of April Fools.

April Fools is cling filming the toilet, replacing sugar with salt or sellotaping down the receiver switch on old style phones, it's not telling the world your most iconic building is on fire.
 
Just when you think the park can move forward, a story is released about merlin and alton towers asking for a tax return review after the affects of the smiler crash. They have to bring it all up again just when things were moving on and a new ride opens.

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themeparkfan said:
Just when you think the park can move forward, a story is released about merlin and alton towers asking for a tax return review after the affects of the smiler crash. They have to bring it all up again just when things were moving on and a new ride opens.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ts-slump-Smiler-crash-Staffordshire-2015.html

I thought it was an April fools but you could actually see Merlin doing it.

Blood money! Alton Towers asks for TAX CUT due to profits slump after Smiler rollercoaster horror crash that saw passengers lose limbs

Alton Towers has risked a public backlash by asking for a tax cut because the horrific Smiler rollercoaster crash hit the firm’s takings.

The theme park’s owners blamed a slump in trade on the catastrophe three years ago which left several passengers with life-changing injuries.

It urged the Government to review its £4 million business rates bill – the annual tax it pays on the park – because visitors had been put off thrill rides. But a tribunal in London revealed two weeks ago it had dismissed the request.

Merlin – which admitted breaching the Health and Safety Act – was fined £5 million. The crash occurred after an engineer restarted the ride while a stationary carriage was still on the track.

Merlin chief Nick Varney said after the court hearing in 2016 that the firm had ‘let people down with devastating consequences.’ At a tribunal in London to hear the case for a tax cut, Merlin said its annual business rates payments should be cut because the public had been put off rollercoasters.
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It's a good day to bury questionable news because people don't know whether it's an April Fool or not, and by the time they work out it isn't, nobody cares because they're completely fedup with all the lame arse April Fool jokes from Corporate UK trying to be down with the cool kids.
 
I had a thought over bag rooms. Wickerman has one running. Smiler, thirteen have theirs mothballed.

Would it be an idea to part time rooms. On days where they know they are going to have very high guest number. They open them.

Or at least the smilers as that the second largest queue time most days after wickerman.

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delta79 said:
I had a thought over bag rooms. Wickerman has one running. Smiler, thirteen have theirs mothballed.

Would it be an idea to part time rooms. On days where they know they are going to have very high guest number. They open them.

Or at least the smilers as that the second largest queue time most days after wickerman.

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That would also help with the Smilers atrocious rap queue, shame merlin are too cheap even for part time bag stores.

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Before the start of the season, I'd assumed that without a merge host, fastrack and RAP would share the left side of the queue with main on the right. Tickets/return times could either be checked by an entrance host or otherwise the merge host would be responsible for everything.

The current situation is just bonkers though - they're expecting main queue people who've waited however long to give way to the RAP guests. Good luck with that. I'd hate to be in the position of trying to merge in the main queue at that point, you'd just get abuse from everyone else. It clearly won't work on fireworks day - last year RAP and fastrack queues were out the building most of the day, and that's before they slashed capacity on the ride by closing the bag room.
 
John said:
Before the start of the season, I'd assumed that without a merge host, fastrack and RAP would share the left side of the queue with main on the right. Tickets/return times could either be checked by an entrance host or otherwise the merge host would be responsible for everything.

The current situation is just bonkers though - they're expecting main queue people who've waited however long to give way to the RAP guests. Good luck with that. I'd hate to be in the position of trying to merge in the main queue at that point, you'd just get abuse from everyone else. It clearly won't work on fireworks day - last year RAP and fastrack queues were out the building most of the day, and that's before they slashed capacity on the ride by closing the bag room.
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I can't imagine rap getting long queues with such a merge system, almost enough for me to buy others in my group single shot fastracks for the smiler Just so I don't have to struggle with it!

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