QTXAdsy
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TBH given the state of Colossus as it is in now, it seems no matter how many staff Merlin would have at Towers, presentation would still be an issue across all Merlin parks. It's really a rock and hard place for Towers management; you other sacrifice the budget for general ride maintenance to put forward for presentation but you are more likely for more rides failing and depleting capacity further in which at this moment in time, all the coasters are pretty much carrying the park on their backs or the other option is that you use more of the money on the maintenance of the ride yet sacrifice the presentation budget (if there was one that is to begin with) to keep the rides going. Had they had a good number of filler rides across the park then it would have eased pressure of the coasters and maybe wouldn't need as much maintenance spent on them and who knows what that saved money could go to?Probably don't have the resources to maintain rides and areas like other parks do. Towers don't have enough man power for such a big park. They have less staff than Thorpe and yet Towers is 4 times bigger. They don't even have enough staff to run Galactica properly let alone clean it regularly. The lack of staff has been noticeable for a number of years now
I have no clue if this is how things are but it might be plausible in which Towers management seem to have their hands tied behind their backs on this as I have no doubt they were given the money to sort out the presentation or at least for the basics to make a start, they would have bitten your hand off for that and would get started ASAP but sadly they can't do anything as upper management won't give them the required funds needed. Likely the same is true with both Thorpe and Chessington which is just terrible business move IMO, maybe the jacked up prices are not really a Merlin thing but maybe a park management choice in which any money made from that not matter how big or small can be ringfenced for an unlikely presentation budget?
Just guessing this ofc but it does have some plausibility about it of trying to make the best out of bad situation that they know they are in, far from perfect, terrible in fact, but in some ways I could kind of see their thinking behind this if this is the only way to help presentation if upper management won't lift a finger for those at the bottom.