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Broken Effects

I bet there is loads of stuff in Duel that is hidden away or just turned off. Would be so good if one day they got the original music back around the ride.
 
I didnt go to the Towers until 3years ago, and I thought it was fantastic. I'd only ever been to Flamingo Land before that as it was much closer, and until I visited the Towers I didnt realise why theme parks were called THEME parks. I was really impresed with the effects and raved to all my friends that had never been. Might sound great and like I'm full of praise...

Last year I finally visited Disneyland Paris.

I was back in the position I'd been in 3 years prior, looking back at Alton and being surprised at just how much they got away with. Plant a few unusal looking plants and call an area a jungle etc. I know Disney has a lot more visitors and therefore more money but the scale of the difference in quality was crazy. Even the staff picking up litter would be in a costume themed to their area. I'd heard the story about everything the customer could see was considered 'on stage' and therefore nothing should be seen to break the illusion but I expected that would be exaggerated. It really wasnt. Everything was themed. EVERYTHING.

I hope to go to Florida at some point in the next few years and Im expecting to be blown away in a similar way.

The Alton management need to look at the likes of Disney and Universal. I appreciate it wont ever be on that scale but they should atleast try. People will start going less if they dont, especially with the cost of flights becoming more and more reasonable with EasyJet etc. The price for Alton just keeps going up and the quality goes down.

Shape up Alton! You could be fantastic...
 
I think that the guns not working on duel (or any laser ride in a merlin park ;) )
And the queue line videos turned off is the most annoying. how hard can it be to have some tv's on?
 
The guns work on Duel (At least they did yesterday), It's the targets that don't.

Yesterday Duel's tunnel didn't work, but Rita's Smoke machine, The water jets on the flume did.
 
It seems that it's bigger news if Duel's tunnel works than if it doesn't these days!
 
Sometimes it doesn't shoot a dot, it shoots a wide rectangle shape. And a few times they don't work at all. This only normally happens on quieter days for some reason but the ones at chessington almost never work for me.
Tom.B said:
It seems that it's bigger news if Duel's tunnel works than if it doesn't these days!
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I have only seen the tunnel work once
 
Leah said:
Sometimes it doesn't shoot a dot, it shoots a wide rectangle shape. And a few times they don't work at all. This only normally happens on quieter days for some reason but the ones at chessington almost never work for me.

I have only seen the tunnel work once
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Well yesterday was quiet and it was a dot then.
 
In a thread of negatives, here is a positive!

It seems someone has filled up all the smoke machines on park, the nemesis gun and bus is working, same with the smoke on Rita and also on TH13TEENs break run.
 
djtruefitt said:
In a thread of negatives, here is a positive!

It seems someone has filled up all the smoke machines on park, the nemesis gun and bus is working, same with the smoke on Rita and also on TH13TEENs break run.
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And it's been like that consistently for a few weeks now!
 
djtruefitt said:
In a thread of negatives, here is a positive!

It seems someone has filled up all the smoke machines on park, the nemesis gun and bus is working, same with the smoke on Rita and also on TH13TEENs break run.
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Ah but I bet they forgot the one in Th13teen's crypt and tunnel?

Smoke machines in Duel ever work these days?

Mine train tunnel exit? Mine train theming/junk/boiler thingy?

I'm mighty impressed that both Nemesis ones are working though.
 
PeteB said:
Ah but I bet they forgot the one in Th13teen's crypt and tunnel?

Smoke machines in Duel ever work these days?

Mine train tunnel exit? Mine train theming/junk/boiler thingy?

I'm mighty impressed that both Nemesis ones are working though.
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The mine train exit usually works most of the time, as for the boiler thing, I haven't seen that working in a long time.

Duel was very smokey the other week, but then on my last ride it wasn't so smokey.

As for TH13TEEN the one on the break run was working at the weekend!
 
Whent yesterday. Rita launch smoke machine was working but nemesis gun and bus didn't work or the smoke machine on duel. Lots of the other effects on duel were working like the heat.
All of the smiler effects were working like the water and the projectors (but the actual ride broke down 3 times)
 
Ah, there's supposed to be smoke in the smiler's indoor section and also a fog curtain in the station. Those ever work?

Smoke. Smoke everywhere.
 
PeteB said:
Ah, there's supposed to be smoke in the smiler's indoor section and also a fog curtain in the station. Those ever work?

Smoke. Smoke everywhere.
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The indoor section smoke machine was removed because..... It sets the fire alarms off! (You know because they didn't learn from Th13teen). The mist curtain is intermittent.
 
The smoke in the station is a bit hit and miss, wasn't working last weekend but was the week before.

The inside hasn't worked since it opened, think they had issues with the fire alarm and has since been turned off.
 
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