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Wicker Man - General Discussion - Part Two

Rob said:
I can't imagine that there will be more than two or three thousand people there today, and that may even be over estimating it. These are days where Towers quite simply make a loss.

Great for those who are there to get plenty of rides in on Wicker Man though!

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Well this is what I was getting at, because there are plenty more days like these in the next few weeks so it could be possible to do this coaster 4 times by 10:30 if this is anything to go by. I'd like another few goes before my pass runs out.
 
MakoMania said:
Surely if a ride has three trains the ride system is designed to run on 1, 2 or 3 trains?
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In theory, yes.

However, as there are no friction wheels on GCI rides all of their parking blocks are slanted downwards. On 2, the likelihood is that when the train hits the brake run, the train in the station will be long gone. This means it literally flies through the parking blocks and into the station but at a fast speed because it's a downward slope. There is a lack of control which results in inaccurate parking.

:)
 
I think it's so great to see 100% positive reviews of Wicker Man so far, who would've really thought in April 2016 that it was going to turn out this way!:)
 
On Tuesday when it opened, One train was stacking right behind the station whilst the other was still in the station already able to be sent.

I'm not sure if there's extra procedures or checks on this GCI than the others, I could imagine so as Alton Towers did make statements regarding it being the safest ride or something.
I would imagine the system relies on 3 trains running to be able to accurately load and unload correctly whilst another train is on the circuit and another is in the brake run behind the station?

It makes me think whether they would have been better off with a separate unload station?
 
I think stacking on this would ruin the final tunnel which I thought was a great finale. You went through it and in to the station with quite some speed and it ended the ride perfectly.

I can't see how running on 3 wouldn't result in stacking a fair bit.
 
WickerManiac said:
In theory, yes.

However, as there are no friction wheels on GCI rides all of their parking blocks are slanted downwards. On 2, the likelihood is that when the train hits the brake run, the train in the station will be long gone. This means it literally flies through the parking blocks and into the station but at a fast speed because it's a downward slope. There is a lack of control which results in inaccurate parking.

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Isn't that a big design flaw then? There are other GCIs that run on varying train numbers. Gwazi at BGT used to run between 1 and 3 frequently.
 
MakoMania said:
Isn't that a big design flaw then? There are other GCIs that run on varying train numbers. Gwazi at BGT used to run between 1 and 3 frequently.
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Yes. It has been on record that GCI trains are insanely inefficient at shifting and parking their trains.
 
Who ever is there today could get tonnes of ride time on it, practically walk on.

Same won’t be said for Saturday

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Will the audio be available to download at some point?
 
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