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Ride Availability/Operations 2022-24

Is interesting they’re choosing to carry out maintenance during the main season. Hopefully this will help with the work load over the winter
 
Ethan said:
Is interesting they’re choosing to carry out maintenance during the main season. Hopefully this will help with the work load over the winter
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With Oblivion, it might have been a legitimate issue that needed maintenance before operating again.
 
Have to give credit, on park for last two hours and despite it being utterly dead everything that can run multiple trains is. Utter bliss.

Other than a train on the brake run, no obvious signs of work going on at Oblivion.
 
golgactic said:
Have to give credit, on park for last two hours and despite it being utterly dead everything that can run multiple trains is. Utter bliss.

Other than a train on the brake run, no obvious signs of work going on at Oblivion.
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Lift hill was running on and off through the day (no vehicles going up though) but yes. Nothing seemingly happening
 
Often you don’t see much happening unless it’s a structural thing. These days it’s usually electrical faults so the fixing is more behind the scenes.
 
Dave said:
Often you don’t see much happening unless it’s a structural thing. These days it’s usually electrical faults so the fixing is more behind the scenes.
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A staff member (so of course take it with a pinch of salt) said the issue was something to do with the increased rate they’ve been switching between one and two station operations with the operational cuts during the day.
 
AltonLover123 said:
A staff member (so of course take it with a pinch of salt) said the issue was something to do with the increased rate they’ve been switching between one and two station operations with the operational cuts during the day.
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In other words run the ride properly like it’s supposed to
 
AltonLover123 said:
A staff member (so of course take it with a pinch of salt) said the issue was something to do with the increased rate they’ve been switching between one and two station operations with the operational cuts during the day.
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Yeah right.

And pigs can go supersonic
 
Danscott22 said:
As far as I’m aware, that is actually the truth, as ridiculous as it sounds
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I mean it’s always swapped to either one or two stations depending on the predicted gate figure for the day and occasionally will swap out during a day, but for the last few weeks it’s been switching from one station in the morning, to two in the afternoon and back down to one for later.

I imagine whilst it was originally designed to be able to switch out, the added pressure of multiple switches daily on an aging system could easily cause issues.
 
AltonLover123 said:
I mean it’s always swapped to either one or two stations depending on the predicted gate figure for the day and occasionally will swap out during a day, but for the last few weeks it’s been switching from one station in the morning, to two in the afternoon and back down to one for later.

I imagine whilst it was originally designed to be able to switch out, the added pressure of multiple switches daily on an aging system could easily cause issues.
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Even the ride is telling management that these operational changes are ridiculous
 
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dave___ said:
Visitor solution: lock the panel into two station so it flies through queues and is a good experience

Management solution: lock the panel into single station mode because money
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I do understand it on quiet days but changing between 1 and 2 stations at weekends is ridiculous and unnecessary. Towers surely have enough money to accommodate max operations for most the season
 
I agree, with pre booking the park have a good idea of gate numbers before opening so it should be possible to make a decision (1 or 2 stations) for the day and stick with it. Chopping and changing like this is totally unnecessary, and likely doesn't save much money anyway.
 
Ethan said:
I do understand it on quiet days but changing between 1 and 2 stations at weekends is ridiculous and unnecessary. Towers surely have enough money to accommodate max operations for most the season
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Even if it's an quiet day, what's the issue with sticking a tensa barrier up to block station 2 and just sending the carts around empty? If it is quiet enough to only need one station then spending 30 seconds securing an empty train isn't going to cause much of a delay is it. It's not like they are completely separate platforms like GalacticAir
 
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