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Funny things you've overheard people say in queuelines

IDB said:
I heard a group in Blackpool discussing a “spinning looping ride” that spun faster and faster, couldn’t be stopped and when they finally did stop it, everyone on it was dead.
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This was actually a genuine concept designed by a Lithuanian professor - purely as a thought experiment mind, I don't think there was ever any intention that such a thing would be built. It essentially involves pushing the rider into tighter and tighter loops exerting sustained high G-forces until they lose consciousness and ultimately die.

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The first dialogue was in the queue for The Smiler. The second dialogue was in the queue for Sub-Terra.

'Didn't this ride have a crash?'
'Yes, but it happened in the 90s...or maybe the 2000s. Anyway, it was a long time ago.'

'Is this based on a film?'
'No, this is based on the Nemesis story.'
'What is the name of the creature in Nemesis anyway?'
'Nemesis.'
'Oh...I thought that it might have been the Loch Ness Monster.'
'Does that look like the Loch Ness Monster to you‽'
'I don't know what the Loch Ness Monster looks like!'
'It's supposed to be some form of dinosaur.'
 
I was at the park the other day and whilst I collecting our RAP card from the booth at the entrance my wife told me she saw a little kid look up at the remains of the Corkscrew and say to their parents “How do we get up on to that ride?”. That was a very cute thing to say.
 
I heard a few interesting candidates for this thread on my recent solo trip to Legoland Windsor and Thorpe Park...

When I heard this quote, I was exiting Thorpe Park over the bridge. Hyperia was in view, and as I was walking, a test train was cycling. A man was walking next to me.
  • Man: "Oh just f**k off, Hyperia... you f**king flaky bast**d!"
  • The man then stuck his middle finger up at Hyperia multiple times.
When I heard this exchange, I was walking towards Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park. A group of teenage boys were walking next to me.
  • Boy 1: "Look, there's Saw!"
  • Boy 2: "I don't think that's Saw, mate..."
  • Boy 1: "Nah, bruv; that's definitely Saw!"
  • Boy 3: "He's right, fam; it's red 'cos of all the blood, see! That's gotta be Saw, init?"
When I heard this exchange, I was in the queueline for Ninjago at Legoland. A father was trying to usher his small children out of the Lego play area, with other adults from his group watching on.
  • Father: "Come on, kids; let's get on the ride!"
  • The kids expressed reluctance to leave the Lego play area.
  • Father: *gesturing to the other adults* "Oh for f**k's sake... we come all this f**king way, and the kids just want to play with f**king Lego all day! I could have just stayed in me living room... wouldn't have cost a hundred f**king pounds and I wouldn't have had to wait in f**king queues all f**king day!"
 
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Matt N said:
  • Father: "Come on, kids; let's get on the ride!"
  • The kids expressed reluctance to leave the Lego play area.
  • Father: *gesturing to the other adults* "Oh for f**k's sake... we come all this f**king way, and the kids just want to play with f**king Lego all day! I could have just stayed in me living room... wouldn't have cost a hundred f**king pounds and I wouldn't have had to wait in f**king queues all f**king day!"
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I have lived this pain.
 
Secret Weapon said:
I remember hearing somebody in the "Nemesis: Sub-Terra" queue getting confused when he realised that he wasn't queuing up for "Nemesis" as he'd expected. I felt sorry for him, as wasting time in queues is no fun - but part of me still saw the funny side!
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I heard quite a few of these around the park during the refurb year, many people though Nemesis Subterra was the new Nemesis. I guess they'd have found themselves corrected when they got to Forbidden Valley and found a building site!
 
in the nemesis queue line, someone was video calling someone and trying to describe the rides

"You know the wickerman they painted it to look like wood and it has flames"

also according to the same person nemesis a "water tunnel" (what ever that is?)


another time, a dad and kid (it was halloween) at alton (can't remember which ride)

kid: "Can I do pumpkin carving next week"

dad :"Like F***, we've all ready missed one match for this, we are not missing another one for F***ing pumpkin carving"

(great way to encourage your kid, who is defiantly not going to hate football in the future)
 
Slightly off topic, but on the Blackpool prom...little kid, big ice cream, big blob drops out of cone onto the steaming pink concrete...
Little kid..."Cluck!"
Mum gives the kid the instant back hander of the nineteen seventies, the poor kid screams, and mum turns to dad and screams...
"That's your clucking fault for swearing in front of the clucking kids."
I love Blackpool me.
 
On smiler near the top of the stairs:

"What the f*** is wrong with this guy they are only letting one person through, the guy should be f***ing fired our queue is barely moving..." it went on like this for a while...

the reason the queue was moving slow? We were in the single ride queue!
 
NuttySquirrel said:
I heard quite a few of these around the park during the refurb year, many people though Nemesis Subterra was the new Nemesis. I guess they'd have found themselves corrected when they got to Forbidden Valley and found a building site!
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A group of people behind me in the Reborn queue couldn’t believe that the app stated a queue time of 20 minutes when the queue was at least an hour from where we were stood. They eventually realised they were looking at the Sub Terra queue times!
 
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