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MakoMania said:
You'd think. Have you ridden The Smiler recently?
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There's a number of issues with The Smiler's projectors though. Firstly, the poor quality mounting hardware means vibrations from the ride above knocks out the alignment constantly. When you do mapping on to 3D objects, alignment is essential.

The second major problem seems to be a health & safety concern. With the projectors on, the room needs to be dark. I'm pretty sure there were a number of incidents with people tripping over, chavs throwing bottles, and all the rest of it. Its a very poorly designed room for a constant flow of bodies. They should have had walkway lights mounted in the floor.

Lamps usually only last 2000 hours also, and since they aren't the main attraction of the ride the cost of replacing them is no doubt a very low priority.

Unlike Hex, where the projection room is an essential part of the ride.
 
PeteB said:
The existing building actually has quite a high ceiling in it. I'm sure they could put a 3D screen ride in there, like Universal's dark rides, but on a smaller scale.

Projectors = easy to maintain. Perfect for Merlin's cheap ass.
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As much as I can't understand Universals obsession with these rides, one decent one at Towers wouldn't hurt. As long as it's not effectively the Air tunnel with screens in it like Ninjago. They could keep the scenes in the back ground and just remove most of the props and animatronics, it would be cheap to convert, marketable, interactive and would keep the only 2 decent things the ride has left, namely the facade and indoor queue line.
 
PeteB said:
The second major problem seems to be a health & safety concern. With the projectors on, the room needs to be dark. I'm pretty sure there were a number of incidents with people tripping over, chavs throwing bottles, and all the rest of it. Its a very poorly designed room for a constant flow of bodies. They should have had walkway lights mounted in the floor.
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Ropelight is insanely cheap these days. They have no excuse!
 
what they should have done is worked on that as a VR instead of Galactica as it would of worked well (like Ghost train has)
 
What was even the point in NST? It was only open for around 3 seasons? What a wasted investment. The thing had potential. I fear this will become one of those “forgotten” rides of theme park history that on,y few remember experiencing...
 
Yeah. NST is such an eye sore. It’s in a bad state and covered in autumn leaves. Doesn’t make the park look good. They need to find a way of opening it with less staff. Remove the scaremaze at the end, maybe remove the armoured guys out front. Seems ridiculous to spend all that money and then act like it never happened.
 
Jared said:
Yeah. NST is such an eye sore.
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The exterior has always been ugly whether the ride was open or not. It really is no wonder it was not popular and closed as the outside theming is some of the blandest and laziest of any Merlin project. Literally nothing to entice people in. A shame really because I actually really enjoyed SubTerra.
 
If they could excavate another 50 feet or so and increase the buildings height by another 20. You'd have a cracking good 100ft drop tower right there! Maybe then it would be more re-ridable and marketable?
 
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