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Yup, this is definately their aim. I heard it from a friend in the Merlin office centre long before it became a story online Dunno what it'll entail, except steering away from the horrible BRAP BRAP BRUV marketting. But hopefully it'll mean investment in some neglected areas like family thrill...

I would go as far as to say this is the finest example of a family ride built to date. Barely anybody is excluded from experiencing it (I don't know the height limit, but I doubt they would even turn toddlers away), and I can't imagine anybody coming off it not having been entertained on some...

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Re: Scenic Railway in Margate news Brilliant! Will see them there as soon as they get it open. Hoping for the Southport wheel!

I am shocked. Shocked to my core. ...To open this thread and see it happened on the Ladybird

Didn't they state at some point that they were going to advertise this as a family ride? Well they better had...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUwGcR93jXM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-szEb0KSss&feature=relmfu I have also previously seen one where somebody grabs the bottom of the queue bridge and hangs over the water until the next boat passes to catch them Frankly, if they didn't make some attempt...

While I don't mind (or take offense to) the existence of such a pass, I WOULD prefer it to be as expensive as they can get away with The idea of several thousand of these ultimate pass holders being in a park and infinitely stalling the regular standby line is a bit grim. Kinda like the misery...

Haha, yeah, I did stifle a laugh at that video. But yeah, totally with Marc on this. And regardless of whether people agree with us or not, this strategy has been a phenomenal success. Thorpe park's expansion over the past decade has been epic. The railway was a hindrance at this point...

That's weird... the layout profile on the PDF has no second lift hill. Looks like it was designed with the intention of making it to the drop sequence solely with momentum from the first drop Did they request a second lift hill to add capacity and then have to slow the train down with magnet...

Looks good! Will probably head to it when next in Italy. HOWEVER... As a huge fan of dark rides and coasters, and a complete nerd on figuring out how the designers crammed them into the show building, I headed to RCDB and found this: ...which is quite frankly the most ridiculous waste of an...

Something must have held them up dreadfully during construction. They actually went back and removed a very significant structure to get this done on time! And all the other area theming is perfectly finished off I know the joke here is that UC was being daft for saying it surely couldn't...

That was pretty neat! I love how their entertainments crew are being enthusiastic about opportunities like these to tinker with the park scenics every now and then The actors running the show were fantastic. The hands-off-my-wife glance back Ian got looked almost too genuine haha...

Yes they would. Give a company enough money to design an entirely new system (track or train) for you, and very few would turn you down if it was within their capabilities* It has happened many times, where a client has requested entirely unique systems or compatible systems for their...

Why does this one have three, possibly even four boats on the lift hill at the same time? All today there was at most, two boats on the hill, and even then it was with one leaving at the top just as one was starting Seems like unless they figure out this loading thing, they aint going to...

It'd probably be fine even with the same structure seated on a rectangular base, to be honest. The only forces are lengthways along the structure, which is the longest footprint dimension. There are no mechanical lateral forces at all because the vehicle only goes back and forth. I doubt...

Sooooo much scarier than the newer versions, solely because they look like someone stole a leg off the eiffel tower and run about as smoothly as a 18th century wool mill I only did the one at Magic Mountain, but it was amazing. I know that Imagineering used to find them equally...

I reckon that sorta stuff stays secret, so we have to fill in the gaps ourselves =) Lift Hill over jacknifed lorry (food outlet) Half roll-dive loop type thing underneath the wing of a jet liner and up into a zero-g roll Inclined loop, low turn over a ditch which has a...

Does that corner pass behind the butt of a different corner? Those extended supports appear on the low turns, maybe there's a corner down behind that wall and they re-used the tip of one to support a later part of the circuit

I'm fairly certain we'll see the wooden loop appear again before we see the hypercoaster attempt return