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Dream Alton Towers

Slugjc

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Not sure if this has been done before, and if this sort of topic is in the right area but here goes.

Your at home one day and you there is a knock on the door, you answer it. Stood there is John Wardley and a big wig from merlin (we shall call him Mr Gandalf). They have been looking for a replacement for Mr Wardley and havent been succesful so after a long process of reading Towersstreet Forumn Mr Wardley and Mr Gandalf would like to offer you a job. This being is take Alton Towers in a new direction.

Mr Gandalf explains that you have a max of 3 years, a Budget of £50million and you still have to comply with planning restrictions (such as the tree height rule.) You can don anything you want, remove anyride, add anyride, change an excisting ride, change themeing. Hotels, splash landings car parks. ERT times, changes to the annual pass opening times. The world is your oyster.

So what you do? >:D
 
I would make a joke about Mr. Gandalf here, but instead I'll just bring back the pedals on Squirrel Nutty and extend opening hours to comply with European times only in the summer because I'm a nice boss. I'd just touch up on the little things that have hugged our Enthusiast wishlists for years; such as DF repaint, make use of the Duel queueline, the temp of some Splash Landing pools more efficiently (srsly I've had some cold days too cold and a warmish day too hot... bar the Bubbly Wubbly Pool naturally). Or just hire anyone who I wanted without attempting to go power-mad in the process. Promise.
 
If I had to take the reins I would employ people off here to work with me tbh ;) BigAl would be the first for ride design, then Diogo for ride lighting effects. I would get all our music making members along with the existing Towers people to create music etc.

On to plans....

2013 open season: Completion of The Smiler, have The Smiler staff in a re-designed uniform, fit a themeing disc to the middle of Enterprise, have the staff painting and cleaning the area to finish it off. Change the music in the Air shop to the Air theme and the Oblivion shop to the Oblivion theme. Gather materials and expertise in preparation to the winter challenge. Host the best Scarefest and Fireworks yet. Fire the head of H&S on resort. Revert to the old system of ERT but hold all non-ERT guests outside the turnstiles. ERT only for AT passes, MAPs and Hotel Guests. Slash entry prices to £25 for Adults (12+) and £15 for under 12s down to 5 year olds. Below that is free. Sort out the food at certain outlets. Parking free for all pass holders and hotel guests. Extend opening hours by a lot. Remove the silly Rita scaffold. Add the Oblivion Audio back to the top of Oblivion. £4 for parking. Fix the bar staff in the hotels.

2013/14 closed season: Rebuild the Nemesis station including a baggage hold where the FastTrack merge is. Remove all FastTrack from within the park. Have the Duel ride system overhauled completely and remove blasters and targets. Have the inside of Duel overhauled completely. Theme Air (yes including the tunnel) and have all the rides in FV tarted up and themeing added. Theme Fresh Fish N Chips. Sell/Scrap The Flume. Start planning a kiddie coaster for replacing Beastie. Build Lodges.

2014 open season: Change the hotels to make AT the more luxury one and have Splash as cheaper. Sort out the pricing and bring both hotels up to an amazing standard. Remove the last non-AT eateries. Add Sonic to ERT. Have Storybook Land and The Farmyard and Adventure Land sized up for a retheme. Have proper themeing plans drawn up for DF and Charlie. Have maintenance budget expanded to keep everything in tip top condition. Sort out lax procedures and encourage staff to speak up if there is a problem. Have Duel's extended queue sorted out. Increase the amount of smoking areas and have them in a semi-sheltered place. Enforce the smoking rules. Have queue jumpers singled out and escorted from park. Keep up the amazing Scarefest and Fireworks. Have many random actors walking around.

2014/15 closed season: Turn Adventure Land and Storybook Land into one big area. Retheme Sonic and add a kiddie coaster of some sort. Give Rita a station and make it into a proper Dark Forest. Add a queue munching flat ride to DF. Gut Charlie and retheme (The Boat station needs to come out again.) Power wash everything on park. Paint/theme the CRR and RMT tunnel and Land Rover. Theme rapids boats (Thanks Jon!) Get planning a new flume.

2015 open season: Begin planning a reroute of roads on Resort in prep for creating of a new area behind KG. Plan to relocate the minibus parking. Begin sourcing a new madhouse. Usual outstanding food, opening hours and events. Have a new monorail priced up and feel your eyes water as you're a Yorkshireman.

2015/16 closed season: Remove the Hex swing and install an identical, but new, one. Equip the park with proper, appropriate permanent lighting for night operations and prepare for extending hours even more. Re route the roads and relocate the minibus parking. Begin to prepare the land and plant trees where the road passes by it. Install a new flume on the site of the old one, but make it much more interesting. Rebuild the Golf. Have a new monorail installed that has more than one station in the carparks.

I think I'll leave it there. This may get edited many, many times.
 
Rip out Nemesis, move it to Thorpe, replace Inferno... Then bulldoze the whole park and turn it in to a squirrel sanctuary.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
Rip out Nemesis, move it to Thorpe, replace Inferno... Then bulldoze the whole park and turn it in to a squirrel sanctuary.
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Danny said:
Give them BigAl's address and shut the door.
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This. Also, tell them that all he will require in payment is the ownership of a cottage in the gardens. ;)
 
I wouldn't do that much really. Tidy it up, put a lot more money into maintenance, replace some of the older stuff with newer, better rides, staying pretty like-for-like, and have a bit left over for one or two big new show stoppers.

And to shut you lot up I'd sort the Air tunnel. ;)
 
So, what to do with £50m to sort out Towers? :p

1. Sort out the Air tunnel
I don't think I need to say anything more about this. It's just boring old concrete with nothing of any value in it. Even some light blue gels would improve it a lot!

2. Nemesis
Ah, Nemmy. What's wrong with it? Well, the station is falling apart for one, and it could do with a big clean-up.

3. Lighting
Anyone who's been to Scarefest or Fireworks in recent years will know what I'm on about. Lighting on park is not very good at all. It's just too bright and detracts from the theme too much. Nemesis, for example, could do with some red gels, and Dark Forest would benefit from green ones. Also, having more smaller lights across the park would make it seem a bit better. Another thing is theme the lighting to the areas/rides. The Rapids has yellow metal lanterns in the queue, and these are at just the right light level for the ride. I'd like to see some old-style street lamps in Gloomy Wood, too. Searchlights in X-Sector would be beneficial as well, although once The Smiler opens, this may well change.

4. Dark Forest
Rita actually needs theming for a start, and something has to be done about the scaffolding under the launch. Yes, it's good that people can walk under the track again and throughputs are increased, but there's no denying that it looks awful. I mean, scaffolding in a creepy forest? Seriously?! It surely can't take much effort to install a catch tray under the launch to contain the cable. That way, throughput would be half-decent again, and the ride would look a whole lot better. Also, the area badly needs at least one flat ride, although what to go for is another thing entirely.

5. The hotels
The two hotels currently on resort seem perfectly decent, but something needs to be done about them. Make Splash cheaper and more aimed at families, and then ATH can be the more premium product. Also, I have a simple suggestion that should please many people. Actually open Emperor's a lot more, and run the sodding place better. Last year at TT@10, the booking for Emperor's which I was on got moved around from one time to another, and when we did turn up, they didn't have enough space for us! So we just gave up and went to the Vane instead. Frankly, that's an appalling way to treat customers. And also, SORT OUT THE SODDING BAR STAFF!

6. The Rapids
Don't get me wrong, I think that the Rapids are fantastic, but I've got one minor gripe. The boats. Bright yellow does not fit in well with Katanga Canyon's theme at all - the previous boats in red worked a lot better. I'd personally get the boats in a similar colour to what they were before they went yellow, but possibly more of a terracotta colour, which should work nicely with Katanga's theme.

Then there's the generic tidying-up of the resort, making sure everything's to a good enough standard. I'd also invest some money into health and safety procedures which would increase throughputs across the park - most notably on Blivvy's station.
 
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