2023: General Discussion

[Skyscraper]

Happy first day of the season all! Hope those that are going have a great day at Towers today!

 

[Kraken27]

Happy first day of the season all! Hope those that are going have a great day at Towers today!

I just hope all the vloggers don't converge on Gloomy Wood (they will) and spoil the experience for non-enthusiast guests. Gloomy Wood is not that large an area & you can guarantee the vloggers will want the backdrop of Alton Manor for their filming.

 

[Skyscraper]

Looks like only Spinball is closed today (waiting for a part apparently), Twistatron is on the app now!

 

[Ethan]

Interesting that Twiststron is under thrills but Spinjam isn't

 

[Danscott22]

Interesting that Twiststron is under thrills but Spinjam isn't

It is

 

[Zeock]

I am struggling to believe that Alton Towers is open again! It has been a long closed season.

 

[Loui Richards]

seems spinball will open next month!

 

[Mattie boy]

Funk and fly closed. Really? Lol

 

[Rick]

Interestingly, (harking back to a conversation earlier in the week), they are currently cycling Smiler empty with (I think) three trains.

One has dummies in the back two rows, the others are completely empty.

 

[Ethan]

Interestingly, (harking back to a conversation earlier in the week), they are currently cycling Smiler empty with (I think) three trains.

One has dummies in the back two rows, the others are completely empty.

How are operations today in general? Have some queues felt like they're moving much quicker than others

 

[BigShadowtinytree]

Thirteens queue is moving very slowly at the moment, at least a couple of trains worth of people in front of us have given up and left the queue.

Wickerman’s queue was moving fairly fast earlier.

 

[Rick]

How are operations today in general? Have some queues felt like they're moving much quicker than others

Haven't been on any coasters.

Retrosquad run relatively inefficiently vs. how they would be on the circuit.

 

[Rick]

Just felt the first splodge of rain, interested to see what happens to Th13teen.

 

[BigShadowtinytree]

Thirteen has closed because of rain, I’m currently in the queue. Ridiculous that this is still an issue.

 

[Danscott22]

Thirteen has closed because of rain, I’m currently in the queue. Ridiculous that this is still an issue.

Doesn’t bode well for the season at all then

 

[BigShadowtinytree]

It’s open now, they’ve just filled a whole train with rap. Great operations!

 

[Ethan]

It’s open now, they’ve just filled a whole train with rap. Great operations!

The rap queue always seems to get stupidly long on thirteen

 

[Kraken27]

It’s open now, they’ve just filled a whole train with rap. Great operations!

That is a joke - make them wait! In my days on Nemesis it was only ever 4 RAP riders (back row) per train.

 

[Skyscraper]

The rap queue always seems to get stupidly long on thirteen

That's probably why they bent the rules and filled the whole train. Last Scarefest I waited ages in Thireen's RAP queue only for it to break down just as we were at the gate. Should have done it in the dark instead, but missed out because of that. Lesson learnt, though! Didn't help that Rita went down just before we joined Thirteen's RAP queue, as we had planned to do that first.

 

[BigShadowtinytree]

The 13 rap queue was really long, can’t be pleasant for those who genuinely struggle with queueing.

Also not nice for those of us in the stand by line who are left hanging around with the queue not moving for ages either!