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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st It's fairly commonplace for forums for any other interest group to have 'members only' content, it just never really happened in the coaster community. I don't see any problem with how TTF are publishing their content, the Roflcopter is a...

Re: My Orlando trip report: Part 3 I think there's some substance to the 'start with Canada' theory. Even though Disney usually list the countries starting with Mexico, theme park psychology suggests the majority of visitors will naturally go to the right (although English people tend to go to...

I think the parks are exceptionally busy this August Bank Holiday because of the crap weather we had earlier in the year. People who want to visit will visit at some point, but they might hold off when it's wet and go when it's nice. A nice bank holiday after a wet couple of months is a recipe...

Lowering the height restriction to 1.1m, that's all well and good, until we remember that for 20 years the height restriction with the old boats was 0.9m. The old style boats still operate at various places (Walibi World comes to mind) with the height restriction of 0.9 accompanied, 1.2...

There have been some policies at parks I've known that have been over the top, including regulations on the colour of staff members' underwear in case they bent down and a guest saw their pants... From experience in the industry, staff who are permitted to have their hair how they like...

Pieced together from reputable news sources and alleged eyewitness reports... The general consensus is that it was on the last section of the queue before entering the building, which is a raised walkway rather than a bridge. The fence here is a wooden 'picket' style, so you would expect each...

I posted the original Google Maps link on there, but one particularly stupid person decided that because it showed ropes as theming it was evidence of Chessington's lackluster repairs. There's no reasoning with some people. Like I've been saying the whole time on there, the truth will come out...

In the last eight years I can only remember a full power cut happening once at Adventure Island, and that was due to a road accident further down the seafront knocking the entire seafront out. Luckily the most 'at-risk' rides were all in loading position at the time! The park issued...

So Vengeance isn't going with the Dungeons, Merlin have a (fairly crap) spinning dark ride system going spare... Which park recently closed its 4D attraction and now has a large empty 'dark' space? Thorpe, say hi to Vengeance. This is speculation but things I've heard coming from the rumour...

I don't think they'd have that much difficulty modifying Extremis and building a few new sections of trough, it'll almost certainly be the same machines.

Re: Second London Dungeons at County Hall? Very interesting, looks almost certainly like they want to move the entire London Dungeon attraction to County Hall. The most obvious difference as far as the rides go is that Extremis would load at the top rather than on the lower level, in a...

The stupidity of a few shouldn't affect the enjoyment of everyone else, the majority of park guests aren't going to do that and the ones that do should be dealt with appropriately. Chuck dickheads out of the park with no refund. Don't penalise thousands of other guests for someone else's...

Funny how Mack 'forced' Merlin to change their height restrictions, yet other similar or identical Mack rides around the world still operate with the old restrictions. I think it was just Merlin covering their arse.

Ok, so Thorpe Park systematically remove everything small children can go on, and puts the height restriction up on things they can, make it clear their target audience is teens and young adults, then restrict access to a ride designed for all ages to family groups with children under 12 - who...

This may warrant a thread of its own in the News section, because it's industry related... Former Dreamland boss Jimmy Godden has passed away: http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Kent-seasid ... story.html And we as coaster enthusiasts must of course remember that this man was allegedly probably...

It's Southend, no question about it. I'd be interested in seeing TPRich's argument for it 'definitely' being Margate. Mark - the canvas roof you can see on the left of the photo is the Peter Pan's Play Pod, not the Dodgems, and the astronaut was on the Telecombat Jets at the time! The photo...

There's what looks like a nozzle for the flame effect on top of the fire engine, I think it'll be added before long. I hope so, anyway.

Why does the bottom right corner of that picture look like MSPaint sneezed on it?

You're correct - the park was closed from the first weekend of November to the first weekend of February, although Saturday was quieter than an abandoned morgue and Sunday was closed due to inclement weather... But yeah, all the major stripdowns were done in the last couple of months, they...

The season started on Saturday!