Re: [The Smiler] Construction Updates and Ride Speculation Part 2
GaryH said:
This is my concern. John Wardley always said you can build the biggest, the fastest etc. but if people dont want to go back on it then you have failed as a ride engineer. I may be wrong, and i'm not slating the ride at all - after all, I havent ridden it yet - BUT, I do have a worry that the re-ride factor on this ride given its intensity will be low amongst the GP.
But I may also be wrong.... wait and see!
I was paying greater attention to how the ride, well, rides on the game today also, the inside bit from the station looks like it will be a total head bender. It also puts pay to this nonsense that you will "need to ride it first" meaning an inversion record is the only first. Between the game and construction, you can read many posts from people who've gathered it will be an inversion record breaker and have tied the game and construction.
The track is unlikely to move obviously, the projection having just been leaked out (surprised they were allowed to print that) - means to me, they're going to bend your head in that first part of the ride. It matches with hints we've had, things you've heard, things I have heard, and now other things appearing to back it up. I am not one AT ALL for effects like this, I even hate the trommel in duel, and as for Hex lol? Forget it. I am not the only one either.
Then there is the ride, this has to ride smooth, like, glass smooth - if it doesn't, it will be an absolute nightmare of a ride, worse than Colossus which is unbearable for me at the back now.
I think the track concerns, the OTT concerns, are the real issues here - and no longer the "will it be immersive" etc as it is clear even to me it will be. They also seem to be adding a bit of sinister, the cartoon aspect I still don't like and never will, but when those screens went on it's so in your face that it takes attention away from the bits that could, in my opinion, have been a bit better.
This is most definitely more like the creepy Willy Wonka film, stylised sinister, rather than faux happy like The Sanctuary.