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The Alton Towers Music, Video and Other Multimedia Thread

GooseOnTheLoose said:
If you want the entire suite in a FLAC file, yes, it already exists. It's a rip of the YouTube video, wrapped in a FLAC codec.

As I and others have explained to you though, FLAC does not guarantee quality or fidelity. It is a lossless compression format, yes, but if the original source file was already compressed and sounded like garbage, the FLAC file will also sound like garbage.

It's like you're asking for a PNG of the Mona Lisa. I can fly to the Louvre now, with an old flip phone and take a photo on that terrible camera of the Mona Lisa. I can then transfer the JPEG from that old flip phone to my desktop and then convert that awfully low quality JPEG into a PNG. I can then send you a PNG of the Mona Lisa, which is what you asked for, but it will look like my caboose after one too many leftover sandwiches.

What you actually want, as others and I have previously said, is a high quality, or high fidelity, version of the suite. Ideally an uncompressed rip from a CD, or an uncompressed bounce from Graham Smart's DAW.
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You knew exactly what I meant and still wanted to behave like a contrarian…

So no, a FLAC containing (containing a lossless track) doesn’t exist.

But you do you…
 
Another interview from Bianca, and I think this one is the best so far, very chilled and not corporate at all. No new information about future projects (as expected) but a few little titbits of nerdy info:

They sold 13 WEEKS worth of merch in the Nemesis shop on opening day
The first Scarefest 2024 meeting was held 1 week after Scarefest 2023 ended and has been in planning ever since
The Dungeons will return after Scarefest
Daz Games was their no 1 scare attraction in 2023
To open CBeebies land for Pirate takeover took a whole year of planning
She said that Nemesis Reborn was titled Project Relentless (although didn't make a point of saying this)
Alton After Dark was planned after she listened to the demand from people, rode all the rides in the dark last year and 'got' the hype for dark riding

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N7zWEFChgU
 
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It has outstayed its welcome, but I guess the idea with The Dungeons is to keep it operating until they have a replacement ride for the building rather than keep it SBNO, which would be worse.
 
Ash said:
How? It would have started long before the more recent ones?
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Nemesis Reborn would have been planned around the same time as Hyperia (Exodus) and Mandrill Mayhem (Amazon), but before Horizon. Ocean has been revealed recently.

It's been a long time since I learned my alphabet, but I'm pretty certain it doesn't go A, R, E, O, H (opening order). A, R, E, H, O (in announce / reveal order) also isn't alphabetic.

All of the above though avoids the glaring issue that there are lots of letters missing between A - E, H - O & R.

Yes, you're right though, if you definitely squint, tilt the screen, do some rearranging and open your mind a little they're definitely distinct alphabetic letters going in order.
 
GooseOnTheLoose said:
Nemesis Reborn would have been planned around the same time as Hyperia (Exodus) and Mandrill Mayhem (Amazon), but before Horizon. Ocean has been revealed recently.

It's been a long time since I learned my alphabet, but I'm pretty certain it doesn't go A, R, E, O, H (opening order). A, R, E, H, O (in announce / reveal order) also isn't alphabetic.

All of the above though avoids the glaring issue that there are lots of letters missing between A - E, H - O & R.

Yes, you're right though, if you definitely squint, tilt the screen, do some rearranging and open your mind a little they're definitely distinct alphabetic letters going in order.
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Those are just the ones we know about, every project that Merlin have going across all of their parks and attractions around the world will have project names.
One of the missing letters in there that we know would be "B" seeing as Chessington's Water Park project name is Project Bruce.
 
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dazza4783 said:
Those are just the ones we know about, every project that Merlin have going across all of their parks and attractions around the world will have project names.
One of the missing letters in there that we know would be "B" seeing as Chessington's Water Park project name is Project Bruce.
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Shhh don’t let common sense get in the way of point scoring…
 
Steve74 said:
Another interview from Bianca, and I think this one is the best so far, very chilled and not corporate at all. No new information about future projects (as expected) but a few little titbits of nerdy info:

They sold 13 WEEKS worth of merch in the Nemesis shop on opening day
The first Scarefest 2024 meeting was held 1 week after Scarefest 2023 ended and has been in planning ever since
The Dungeons will return after Scarefest
Daz Games was their no 1 scare attraction in 2023
To open CBeebies land for Pirate takeover took a whole year of planning
She said that Nemesis Reborn was titled Project Relentless (although didn't make a point of saying this)
Alton After Dark was planned after she listened to the demand from people, rode all the rides in the dark last year and 'got' the hype for dark riding

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N7zWEFChgU
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Having watched this I found it really refreshing to hear someone interested in, and clearly understand, the nuts and bolts of how a theme park works.

Operations - throughput, relatability, weather, skyride
Theming/effects - maintenance, importance, lighting
Merch - Offering
Food and Bev - (will be difficult to improve quickly due to commercial reasons)
Events - characters, street theatre
Hotels - character breakfasts
Other - park lighting, paths, bins, customer experience

When was the last time a general director was interested boots on the ground, interested in how rides are running/operated? Or walking round with ride patches on their jacket?

Between BS, JB and the heads of marketing (whose names i forget) Alton is in safe hands. Weather BS yet gets the sense of history, place, originality at towers yet remains to be seen. But it’s a superb start so far.

Bring back Henry & Henrietta Hound and she’ll get carried out on a throne.
 
Not Alton Towers related but some of the Specials on Dark ride database are worth a read.

My favorite being The History of Indiana River - World's first Enclosed Log Flume.
The geek inside me loves all the behind the scenes information and pictures.

Edit: To make this post relevant to Alton Towers, here is their write up on The Curse at Alton Manor, a great read, featuring pictures from this site.
darkridedatabase.com

Report: The Curse at Alton Manor - The Haunted House strikes back, again! - DRdb

Alton Towers opens their newest incarnation of The Haunted House: The Curse at Alton Manor. We check out the new ride and look into the history of its predecessors
darkridedatabase.com darkridedatabase.com
 
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Once again I've found some oddities in the depths of my drive that might interest a few people on here.

First is a selection of unused themes by Pitstop - it's unknown exactly where these were intended for, but it carries the melody they used quite a bit. It comprises of three tracks - I believe the second one hasn't previously been widely available, and whilst the third piece has been, this version is not only of a higher quality, but is also longer.


From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y94HwtdLMjw


And whilst we're at it, the 2006 Towers Street music - I think it's quite clear why it didn't last long, it's proper DIC-era slop. No idea who wrote it.


From: https://youtu.be/8Gh_8dCpNb0
 
The guy who set up Pitstop stop productions was my music teacher for 2 years. A bloke called John Sanderson. A brilliant teacher.

He once did a lesson to demonstrate how a speed of piece can change the mood of a piece. He used teddy bears picnic as an example. A 12 year old slugjc got to see the early stages of the theme for thirteen.
 
Sure we're all familiar with Simon Allen sharing some of his Scarefest stuff - but I just found out there's a selection of tracks from House of Monsters and the original Mine Tours on his Soundcloud. The HoM tracks are a bit more melodic, whilst the AMT ones are ambient.
 
A bit of a random one but does anyone have the Charlie & the Chocolate Factory exterior theme version with the factory sounds on it? I know the standard exterior theme exists but I haven't come across the edit with factory sounds.
 
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