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2018: Wicker Man - General Discussion - SPOILERS! - Part One
imanautie
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Could it be one is a service spare in the maintenance shed and the mentioned are the ones in use?
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Matt N
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On a random note, can I ask a question to anyone who has inside info:
Anyway, glad to see the opening sort of confirmed as 17th March! I'm excited for when I head to Towers on the 18th March!
Does the pre-show contain live actors? I read somewhere that it does, but WickerManiac's description of the pre-show did not imply that there would be live actors.
Probably scheduled posts after all yesterday was meant to be press day but was cancelled due to the weather.
imanautie
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It's a liability thing isn't it? They really don't want to risk a repeat of the smilers opening. Even if it's seemingly unlikely it will be delayed.The article and video on their website have also been edited to say Spring now rather than March 17th. I'd imagine they received a swift phone call from Towers after revealing the opening date when they shouldn't have!
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Benjsh
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People book hotels and kick off when things don't open is pretty much why they don't announce dates anymore. The abuse they get on their official page and asking for refunds from nearby unrelated hotels is so funny. You book at your own risk as they say and you should always pay that little bit extra for cancellation option.
But the date of the 17th has got to of come from Alton Towers, ITV wouldn’t just pluck a date out of thin air and publish it.
MakoMania
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Unless they plucked it from Wikipedia, which some may argue is less accurate than thin air
I guess that page is being controlled by the other forumUnless they plucked it from Wikipedia, which some may argue is less accurate than thin air
Benjsh
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Or the researcher at itv clearly just checked when the parks re-opens and put two and two together
As a general rule of thumb you can assume a new ride will be open on the first day of the season.
When rides open at an alternative date it is conventional to announce several months in advance e.g. Rita, Charlie, The Smiler, CBeebies Land- which all opened at later date communicated in advance..like December.
When rides open at an alternative date it is conventional to announce several months in advance e.g. Rita, Charlie, The Smiler, CBeebies Land- which all opened at later date communicated in advance..like December.
John
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The lack of an official opening date is clearly just risk aversion, the attraction as a whole and the ride in particular have not been rushed in any way - a far cry from virtually every other major AT attraction in recent years.
There was a lot of criticsm of previous projects for not learning from the near-miss of Th13teen's opening (queue finished overnight, etc.), so it's positive that they've finally addressed the problem, though given how successfully they appear to have done so it's a shame they're not confident enough to shout about the opening date.
There was a lot of criticsm of previous projects for not learning from the near-miss of Th13teen's opening (queue finished overnight, etc.), so it's positive that they've finally addressed the problem, though given how successfully they appear to have done so it's a shame they're not confident enough to shout about the opening date.
DistortAMG
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This is nothing new though, they were still laying the brickwork paths around Oblivion on the morning of it's opening too.
Tim
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As above Th13teen gets a lot of stick for being finished the morning it opened but at least it did open. People seem to forget that The Smiler was officially announced to open with the park but it was so far behind schedule they revoked that statement at the very start of the year. That’s the real reason they no longer announce the official opening date.
Talking about Th13teen I seem to remember it was on schedule but an issue several weeks before park opening set the whole project back. Thankfully Wicker Man does not have a prototype track section to suddenly foul up.
Talking about Th13teen I seem to remember it was on schedule but an issue several weeks before park opening set the whole project back. Thankfully Wicker Man does not have a prototype track section to suddenly foul up.
That would be the part where you said most of the comments were coming from over 50's who believed everything they read in the papers, which in itself implies you consider everybody over 50 gullible, or stupid.
But I think you rather took my response a bit too seriously as I wasn't getting all antsy over ageism but rather just wishing to point out that stupidity or gullibility isn't something mutually exclusive to us old farts.
