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Towers Loving Care

AstroDan said:
Lots of work is taking place across the park this winter regardless of the lack of TLC updates.

I believe Galactica has had a jet wash for one. Pigs have flown!

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Looked like a repaint to me. Either that or it was just extremely filthy before
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AstroDan said:
The problem is, it takes several weeks to do the job completely and they bring in external contractors. It's a pretty complex job, with ropes and all manner of things required to do it fully.
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Fair enough, I know Busch jet wash Kumba in about a week and Towers had about 13 closed days in September alone last year. Maybe it's different with different work cultures/contractor availability etc though.
 
Probably different requirements and ways of working. Also, they probably want to get it all done in one go rather than a couple of days here and a couple of days there.
 
AstroDan said:
Probably different requirements and ways of working. Also, they probably want to get it all done in one go rather than a couple of days here and a couple of days there.
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If they wanted to do it they could have. The Macks probably wouldn’t leave it like that for a year!
 
Forgive me if I am wrong, but in the photo above, it actually looks like a paint job in a new colour (Galactica Blue) as oppsed to just revealing the original greener Air track. Could be wrong as only just seen that 1 picture.......
 
BarryZola said:
Forgive me if I am wrong, but in the photo above, it actually looks like a paint job in a new colour (Galactica Blue) as oppsed to just revealing the original greener Air track. Could be wrong as only just seen that 1 picture.......
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It appears that way because in that picture, coincidentally, that part of the track is covered by a blue parcan light.
 
Absolutely fantastic this is being done! Also fantastic it isn't being promoted online to (impressionable young) enthusiasts as if this were anything more than basic maintenance.

In a better situation, Alton Towers would be allowed the resources to do this every other year to avoid it ever turning moss green!
 
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