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I’ve visited the park three times during this off-peak period so far, and the way King Claw operates is honestly a bit strange and in my opinion, it negatively affects the ride experience. The ride operators have the ability to split the ride into quarters, enabling or disabling sectors 1 to 4. When certain sectors are disabled, the restraints in those sections don’t release at the end of the cycle, effectively taking those seats out of use. I understand this is likely done in the name of “efficiency,” but it doesn’t really seem efficient in practice. When you’re essentially halving the ride’s capacity, especially when each cycle takes around 10 minutes (unload, load, check harnesses etc...) it doesn’t take long for a queue to build up. The ride ends up operating well below its intended capacity. Then, by the time they decide to open all sectors again, there’s barely any queue left, and you're being told to spread out around the gondola and leave gaps between each other. I don’t believe The Claw ever had these kinds of artificial capacity restrictions, which makes it a bit disappointing to see implemented here. Another major issue King Claw has is with its exit gate. This really needs to be changed to something like Steel Taipans where it unlocks automatically at the end of the cycle as the operators are way too slow getting to it and no one can get their stuff out of the loose article spiny thing as everyone is crowding around the gate, and end up having to push through everyone to unlock it. On a more positive note, most of the theming still looks to be in good condition after the summer holidays. I’ve noticed that the audio effects are sometimes turned off or playing at a very low volume depending on the operator. During soft opening, there was a pre-recorded spiel that played as the floor dropped, which added nicely to the atmosphere. Now, operators tend to speak over that saying something along the lines of “you’re taking on King Claw.” It’s a really minor thing, but I do find some of those announcements a bit tacky and extremely repetitive over time.

Total rumor so definitely not speaking of fact but I think that was the ‘burning man’ guy who made a million promises and gave us such gems as that glass box around the turntable and a few cheap DJ City lasers in the disco room. The projection was a reputable mob, just one that clearly lacked the experience and knowledge of how you need to make such things work in a ride environment where the show timing can be so dynamic. This needs to be thought through right from the content creation stage through to the final show programming in order to get right. No guest should ever be seeing a blank screen or a shitty video reset no matter what happens.