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Ride Availability/Operations 2022-25

Ethan said:
Have you ever seen a ride as unreliable as Rita this season. You telling me it’s had 2 lengthy periods of downtime and now a few weeks after reopening its shut again. Time for Merlin to get rid
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I don't want them to remove unless they have a proper replacement oh the way keep it going but if you are going to remove it have another coaster ready to open the same year that it closes
 
I agree about Rita i could see it closing before a new coaster is set to replace it , then Galatica either needs a big retheme for forbidden valley or replacing , there's a lot that needs doing
 
Regardless of having a new coaster ready to go, at some point they’re going to have to make a decision on whether they want to keep putting money into a ride that is giving diminishing returns.

As they’ve just done a big fix on it (not that I’m techy enough to know the details) you’d think they’d want to get their money’s worth by keeping it going for a bit, but it’s starting to feel like sunk cost fallacy.
 
Wicker Man's estimated queue close time is listed on the app/queue times sites;,

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That's good, although it may cause a last minute rush of guests.
 
Danscott22 said:
Anyone know for definite why it’s an early close for Wicker Man?
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Maintenance maybe but they don’t want it shut all day for a few days when the park is so busy during the last week of the school holidays.

So I’d assume they’re trying to spread out the maintenance over a few days but also have it open for a few hours a day to appease those on park.

Either that or lack of staff but I can’t see that being the issue.
 
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