I've been sat thinking about Thorpe's X with VR. Instinctively I was like, well no because of the indoor gimmick - like what's the point if enclosing a coaster only to make guests blind to the dark nature of it? But then, that's my argument about VR on outdoor coasters too, why take away vision from this unique.... Thing. I think VR would be better utilised in general for dark ride style attractions - not NECESSARILY indoor rides, but I guess narrative based is what I mean. Especially ones where the guest interacts with stuff, one where there are variant endings, etc. But even then, I'm not sure I trust implementation by anyone but the industry best at this kind of attraction - Universal, and I believe there is likely a reason they're yet to get one, my guess is capacity issues.
Nowerdays, X's value is that it's got a low height restriction in comparison to the rest of the park, not that it's indoors, or backwards. I would certainty pick X if one of the parks coasters HAD to get VR, but more for preservation of their existing major coaster's throughputs.
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