In what timeframe are you talking? Do you mean that it’s improved since it opened, or that it’s improved very recently?Silver Star has improved. Its very good.
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Since it opened. The main issue for me is I wish I was 2 stone lighter to benefit from all the airtime.
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I've ridden Steel Vengeance. And many coasters with more airtime than Silver Star.Got a feeling being heavy is why I can't find these pops of airtime on it. The only real bit for me is after the MCBR. I think my main issue was riding it after Hyperion, given the 16 years of progress between them.
Heck, this thread starts with someone calling it “Europa’s dullest coaster”
I’m not saying you’re wrong; only you can say how it was when you rode it!Me, and I'm right.
In fairness, it's a good few years since I've ridden it, it may well run a lot better now.
to be precise: Silver Star has no virtual queue.
Ah, my mistake; I thought I saw people coming from up the exit on occasion, which I thought was virtual line, but that must have been something else. RAP, perhaps?Silvia does have a virtual queue doesn't it? Or is it absent?
Are “the extra pens at the front” the ones right outside the front of the building, that are there all the time? Or is there a whole different “extension” set that’s put in on peak days? I waited probably no longer than 15-20 minutes for SS on my recent visit, and that is with one of my rides on it having a queue that begun just outside the building.The exit is for RAP and Baby Switch. A small number - typically 1 row every 2 or 3 trains on a normal day.
Silver Star to the entrance with all available queue open, including the extra pens at the front, is approx. 45 minutes.
Without exaggeration, taking into account RAP/FT, on a ride such as Smiler this would be 2 1/2 hours.
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You don’t always realise on Silverstar that is actually has quite a few queue opens. There are the extensions at the start of the queue. You then sometimes will go straight in and straight up the stairs to the station. On busier days the queue will go upstairs but then also round the upstairs before going in to the station, or if it’s proper busy it can also go outside upstairs and then back inside before heading to the station!Are “the extra pens at the front” the ones right outside the front of the building, that are there all the time? Or is there a whole different “extension” set that’s put in on peak days? I waited probably no longer than 15-20 minutes for SS on my recent visit, and that is with one of my rides on it having a queue that begun just outside the building.
I wasn’t expecting the discrepancy between SS and a Merlin queue to be quite that big… wow!
So SS has an outside queue extension upstairs? I certainly never knew that... I thought the only outside queue upstairs was where the front row queue is located! I did notice some switchbacks next to that, but I assumed they were extensions for the front row queue.You don’t always realise on Silverstar that is actually has quite a few queue opens. There are the extensions at the start of the queue. You then sometimes will go straight in and straight up the stairs to the station. On busier days the queue will go upstairs but then also round the upstairs before going in to the station, or if it’s proper busy it can also go outside upstairs and then back inside before heading to the station!