Channel 4 2018 Alton Towers Documentary

[Plastic Person]

Interesting how Alton will now just casually refer to The Smiler crash on their own Twitter feed. Gotta own it, I suppose.

 

[Error]

Definitely, and good on them. No point hiding.

 

[Steve74]

Well it's listed now on VM's Tivo guide

and there's me thinking the text continues with "...wooden rollercoaster in the UK in over 20 years. But no, how could I have been so silly thinking that?

Spoiler

 

[GaryH]

...nice rug

 

[Matt N]

Sorry to bump the thread, but my Mum was telling me that promo adverts for this are now being shown in the evenings on Channel 4!

 

[JB1985]

...nice rug

Ikea I think

 

[Themeparksandy1981]

It’s on Thursday 9pm
Looks like it could put faith back into the normal general public going to Alton Towers again.

 

[Steve74]

Ikea I think

Haha nope, it was bought years ago from a market!

 

[Rick]

Looks like it could put faith back into the normal general public going to Alton Towers again.

If you've stood in a two hour line this year for a ride that you walked on in 2015... I'd put it to you that that battle is won.

 

[MaxPower]

Either that or the throughputs are now apalling due to staff cuts and lack of support rides.

 

[Sm1lingAdvocate]

I've queued an hour and a half from the top left corner of the queue where the lift hill is.. that used to take half an hour with no breakdowns. with a full queue pen I don't even know how long it would be.

 

[Rick]

Either that or the throughputs are now apalling due to staff cuts and lack of support rides.

You're suggesting there aren't significantly more people in the park?

 

[MaxPower]

You're suggesting there aren't significantly more people in the park?

I'm not doubting there is more people on park, I'm simply suggesting the queue times have been inflated primarily due to the way things are being run due to Merlins penny pinching.

 

[Matt N]

I wouldn't personally have said that queues were too bad yesterday. We only waited an hour for Wicker Man, and the queue was constantly moving! It seemed to be the same on Oblivion (5 minute queue), Spinball Whizzer (35 minute queue) and Nemesis (25 minute queue) once we had passed the section where they were holding everyone.

Anyway, on the topic of the documentary, I'm so excited! It's only 4 days away, and I'm wondering what sort of stance it will take. I'm hoping for something like The Magic Factory, personally; a brilliant theme park documentary, in my opinion!

 

[Sporech]

I was gonna give it a watch this Thursday. Before I do, I just want to know, what's the focus of the documentary? What aspects do they go into?
Also do they go on about the Smiler incident? That would be tiresome at this point.

 

[Burbs]

I was gonna give it a watch this Thursday. Before I do, I just want to know, what's the focus of the documentary? What aspects do they go into?

I believe it's mostly Wicker Man focussed, though I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong anyway, would be nice to see what they say about the whole park, certainly!

 

[MakoMania]

The adverts for it on channel 4 talk about the Smiler incident.

 

[Danny]

I strongly suspect from an editorial perspective that the documentary will open on the crash.

 

[Benzin]

*overhead shots of park*

This, is Britain's Greatest Theme Park(tm), Alton Towers... Prosperity reigned, laughter laughed, and punters punted...

Until a rollercoaster suddenly, and mysteriously... CRASHED!

 

[SuperMuscleMan]

Its going to talk about the decline in visitor numbers and add jeapody about how this is a make or break ride for the parks future.

We will also see how they just in time make the deadline for wickerman and we will see a spanner or two thrown in the works that could halt the whole project.

Its channel 4 so be prepared for constant reminders of what happened 15 mins ago and a #hastag.

Jeapody is the keyword folks!

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