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I know The Swarm used to have this at one stage, as I have an on-ride video from it from 2015 or so! I seem to remember that Saw and Air (as it was then known) also used to have it.

PortAventura are also big on it, with both Shambhala and Red Force having the functionality. My parents bought the on-ride video from Red Force…
 
Matterhorn Blitz is another one at EP, I think it still has it but TBH it might have gone. I really don't care enough about it to pay any attention whatsoever.

Flamingoland used to have it on Kumali but I think that one was removed a while back.

You could also count the ill-fated YourDay @ Alton Towers, though that must have been more than 15 years ago as Corkscrew was in the promo vid
 
Bowser said:
With the rise in popularity of social media you’d think someone would build a rollercoaster with built in cameras so people can buy the footage after.

Has anyone?
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rip ride rocket at universal orlando has it, it was expensive but you went to the lockers and had an option to buy a dvd with it on, this was a few years ago so IDK if it still dose
 
Couldn’t think of anything worse. I mean I have a couple of ride photos with my kids but I doubt I’d _ever_ watch back an on-ride video, it would just end up being filed in the same place as all the fireworks videos my daughter has made and never watched.
 
jibbsie said:
rip ride rocket at universal orlando has it, it was expensive but you went to the lockers and had an option to buy a dvd with it on, this was a few years ago so IDK if it still dose
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That sounds very old fashioned!

I remember at Plopsaland you just went to a machine after for photos and put your email in. Presumably even that could be turned into a QR code now.
 
'YourDay' at Alton has been the most they've ever done. It was a mixture of stock footage and on-ride video. It felt pretty high-tech at the time. You were given a wristband to create a personalised DVD with all the clips taken throughout your day. It only lasted a few seasons.



Personally, I don't see why you would want to watch your face for an entire ride. One-off pictures and the short clips/pictures they do now is good enough.
 
James said:
Personally, I don't see why you would want to watch your face for an entire ride. One-off pictures and the short clips/pictures they do now is good enough.
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People love that reaction stuff on social media though, it's why you get so many clowns with their phones out.
 
Saw also had the on-ride cameras at one point.

The Nemesis Reborn video is pretty good though, a nice mix of you on the ride, a still of the ride photo and animation of the ride. Definitely see them doing more of this style of videos with off-ride footage.
 
So presumably these were all cameras added on and subsequently removed?

I was thinking more of a manufacturer integrating them into the trains.
 
Bowser said:
So presumably these were all cameras added on and subsequently removed?

I was thinking more of a manufacturer integrating them into the trains.
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The one on Saw was integrated into the train in some form, but it is added separately not by the manufacturer. I think this is because the coaster manufacturer isn't the picture company. What if the technology Gerstlauer installed isn't suitable for Picsolve's systems basically.

The current video on Nemesis and the YourDay ones were all off-ride cameras and the YourDay ones were removed years ago.
 
RRR at Universal had it (many years ago at least). The footage was low-quality and expensive.

Disney do it best! eg. 7 Dwarfs combines a pre-recorded video spliced with a few second of off-board "live" footage. Tower of Terror does the same with on-board footage, which is pretty excellent. Key difference is that both are included and automatically uploaded to your account.

IMHO there's something unwholesome about being charged 50%+ of the ticket price just to get some digital photos. Add £2 to the ticket price and include it - cheapest marketing ever.
 
Smiley said:
Disney do it best! eg. 7 Dwarfs combines a pre-recorded video spliced with a few second of off-board "live" footage. Tower of Terror does the same with on-board footage, which is pretty excellent. Key difference is that both are included and automatically uploaded to your account.
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Its automatic but not free, you need the memory maker package which is $210 (on the gate, $185 in advance) for up to 30 days of pictures for your whole group/family, but included in the UK tickets. Or $75 for a single day, which is roughly 50% of the on the day ticket price. I guess you had UK tickets so with the cost of it included in the ticket price you don't notice it.
It was the same with the video on Nemesis Reborn, it was added to my account when entering the ride photo number, but you need the £25 digi-pass to download it.
 
jon81uk said:
Its automatic but not free
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You are correct. I forget what an amazing deal us Brits get on Disney/Florida tickets. Obv still very expensive, but last time I paid for 1-day Disneyland it was over $200 each (plus an extra $60 for Plus and Star Wars FP).

I think the Disney MM isn't at all comparable to UK offerings;
- it includes your whole family/group for one price
- they have "professional" photographers all around the park taking photos, not just on rides. And not just one photo, they will spend a minute or two and do a series of shots/poses. And they often add some "Disney magic" into the photos too.
- all photos from rides are automatically uploaded.

Free digital photos for all!! Free marketing for Merlin. Is that so radical in 2024??
 
Last time I visited Alton Towers I came across a blocked off path just behind the toilets at x sector. I looked on the map and I’m still none the wiser. Does anyone know where the path leads to? Seems to lead to a building at 52.98860° N, 1.89617° W
 

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Was it a path or a vehicle entrance? the one near the toilets and Games Bunker is a vehicle entrance, as seen here with the LR about to leave through it.

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No idea what the building is used for, but the road can lead either behind Spinball or past the building and both go past/to security.
 
Yep that’s the entrance! It seems to also lead towards CBeebies land, where there’s another mystery building! Does anyone know what the buildings are for?

The things you find when looking at satellite view!
 
Smiley said:
I think the Disney MM isn't at all comparable to UK offerings;
- it includes your whole family/group for one price
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The Alton Towers one does allow you to get your families photos too. Just type the photo numbers in on the app.
They had photographers taking photos on Towers Street before but don’t think people really go to AT to get that photo so I understand why it wasn’t popular. Pretty sure you can get photos with the CBeebies characters though.

Yes £25 at AT isn’t cheap but used to pay that for five printed photos 20 years ago so I don’t think the price is bad and the per day cost is comparable to WDW really.
 
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