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Ride Availability/Operations 2022-24
- Thread starter Ethan
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Itās at capacity apparently. OuchTh13teen lasted 35 mins
RIPCorky
TS Member
It's not thunderstorms though, it's a bit of wind and the whole park has gone into meltdown. Furthermore they have no filler attractions to cover for it so people are rightly going to complain.
Bowser
TS Member
Closed 20 minutes later
I did notice the drips last Saturday. Iām not sure Iād call it dreadful. Maybe my expectations were lower, itās certainly better than Dungeons.
Stick a roof on the old talbot gallery and use it as a preshow for a āAlgenons flying machineā flying theatre next to the Hex Building.
Stick a Ninjago ride on the car park behind Mutiny Bay arcade.
POTC type ride on the coach park behind Pizza/Pasta.
Retheme Dungeons.
Put a Huss Breakdance in FV in the Edge building and a Huss Magic indoors in X-Sector.
Reopen the 4D cinema.
Open Project Horizon (all being well a decent capacity indoor coaster)
Job done.
Thereās hopefully saving there repurposing things from other parks and off the shelf hardware to be spruced up. Most of them you could do two in a year. For opening day and May/June and would completely change the capabilities of the park.
Benzin
TS Member
Where you putting the parking infrastructure you're removing?
Don't know how big Ninjago is, but no chance of them doing a POTC style ride.
Maybe put in a funky dark ride in CBeebies area somewhere. Though the issue there being it would need to either be something timeless or easily altered just in case. Plus something that can have no real minimum height limit, apparently both Symbolica & Carnaval Festival are capable of this.
Also could do with another decent water ride. But that's another issue entirely.
Don't know how big Ninjago is, but no chance of them doing a POTC style ride.
Maybe put in a funky dark ride in CBeebies area somewhere. Though the issue there being it would need to either be something timeless or easily altered just in case. Plus something that can have no real minimum height limit, apparently both Symbolica & Carnaval Festival are capable of this.
Also could do with another decent water ride. But that's another issue entirely.
NuttySquirrel
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- Favourite Ride
- Batman: Gotham City Escape
It could be temperamental, I remember visiting one day with my dad in 2018 and it was up and down like a yo-yo all day. I don't remember it being especially reliable in its final year as Duel either, although that might have been because they knew it was closing and stopped bothering to try to fix things.
Well and truly cemented as an Intamin prototype. With emphasis on the prototype.
RIPCorky
TS Member
Just seems whatever they've done they've made it much worse?
Blackhole_Sun
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Black Hole
New trim was added wasnāt it?
Probably that, more complicated things bolted on. I wouldnāt say itās a good coaster as the coaster element of the ride is lame. The drop track is excellent however.
Matt N
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Shambhala (PortAventura Park)
Iām currently in the queue for Wicker Man, and itās moving bizarrely slowly.
For reference, I joined an advertised 70 minute queue at 4:30pm. Itās now been 70 minutes, and Iāve only just exited the portion of the queue inside the turnaround near the wicker man structure.
Iām unsure why itās going so slowly. Based on my throughput reading (around 830pph), Iād take a stab at it only being on 2 trains, and the RAP queue does look pretty considerable, but this must be the slowest Wicker Man queue Iāve ever stood in by quite some margin. It feels like weāre crawling along, and I reckon we could easily have the best part of a hour left to queue.
Does anyone have any theories on why it could be so slow?
For reference, I joined an advertised 70 minute queue at 4:30pm. Itās now been 70 minutes, and Iāve only just exited the portion of the queue inside the turnaround near the wicker man structure.
Iām unsure why itās going so slowly. Based on my throughput reading (around 830pph), Iād take a stab at it only being on 2 trains, and the RAP queue does look pretty considerable, but this must be the slowest Wicker Man queue Iāve ever stood in by quite some margin. It feels like weāre crawling along, and I reckon we could easily have the best part of a hour left to queue.
Does anyone have any theories on why it could be so slow?
AT86
TS Member
Could just be queue times being inaccurate too. I watched a live stream earlier and someone joined the 90 min queue for nemesis but it looked more like 25. So it seems some are being vastly overstated and some the opposite
AT86
TS Member
Stated queue times donāt impact how slowly a queue moves?
No I meant maybe it feels like itās moving slower because the queue is much longer than he expected
Matt N
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Shambhala (PortAventura Park)
Regardless of what was stated, this is moving slowly; Iāve been in for almost 90 minutes now, and this is my current vantage point, to give some idea of where in the queue I am:
Granted, it did briefly stop for inclement weather for around 5-10 minutes, but this is still the slowest Iāve ever known Wicker Manās queue move by quite some margin. Itās normally quite a quick queue.
Granted, it did briefly stop for inclement weather for around 5-10 minutes, but this is still the slowest Iāve ever known Wicker Manās queue move by quite some margin. Itās normally quite a quick queue.
BarryZola
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