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  1. Dean Barnett
    Happy with that. Just hook in the ride system to not play it until the train clears the birdsnest
  2. Dean Barnett
    I don't think they are fair comparassions... there's not really any safety requirements on RoTR - spoilers ahead - you just stand on the first part, and for the second part you just put your bag at your feet and put your own seatbelt on (shock horror) which is the same seatbelt as on Tower / Dinosaur etc etc.
  3. Dean Barnett
    Not really.. but we're not the grouper that has to tell every cycle to not touch the massive green button. It can be themed.. just have PIP's on the screen with animations.
  4. Dean Barnett
    Seems a bit dumb to have it where it is.. or having a button instead of a swipe thingy.
  5. Dean Barnett
    Is that what that button does?
  6. Dean Barnett
    If the train reaches a certain spot on the platform and there is a unsecure harness the train just stops. From memory I think they can multimove trains from the section after the end block brake to the end of the station. I did see a few riders that were too large for the ride, they tried to secure them but couldn't.. then they just walked off - while the train was still moving. Hagride at Universal is even more impressive - the trains get so close to each other in the station (next to a walkway that moves at the same speed as the trains) that you can't tell what car you're in (order of the train) until you either read the numberplate infront of you, or until it reaches the end of the station. The ride attendants have two RFID touch points (like ST but useful). One marks the car as secure, the other re-opens the restraint.
  7. Dean Barnett
    But they pump out trains - safely and very quickly That video is insane - the train is just sitting there for minutes doing nothing.. why aren't the airgates opened before the guests get there? Why are staff shouting orders at guests just to have a nicer-prerecorded message play moments later? Also most of the riders will be repeat riders in the back half of the day - but still have to be put up with shouted at. Can't say I've ever seen that before on any other coaster's ive done It feels like they're in a middle ground between Disney parks and Cedar Fair parks .. Both have excellent operations but just go different ways around it. I'm happy with what ever direction they go - I would love rivals to meet the 30 second dispatches that Blue Fire gets at Europa. Maybe the announcements could be combined with visuals on the screens too.. since the entire station is a LED wall. They could easily do the speil in the time the ride takes to go from the FBR to the unload spot.. close to 30 seconds by my count.. the the train isn't just sitting there doing nothing. You should see how they load the RMC single rails.. the trains don't stop.. the lapbars open one by one as they pass a point in the station, former riders get out, new riders get in, pull their lapbar down or the op does then secures the car, one at a time - then if all the cars are secure it continues on to the lift hill. Magical stuff. Free lockers below the station.
  8. Dean Barnett
    Sorry didn’t want to bump two old threads for no reason but yeah most of the shouting on rivals was don’t do up your seatbelt
  9. Dean Barnett
    Correct. It seems a bit of a waste having such a well themed area that every rider wizzes through. I only could do it once but I can’t recall any themed ones. The ops might have been shouting over it tho.
  10. Dean Barnett
    So I finally got on Levi today - Brilliant package ride Best in-station preshow on the planet Operations ... slow. The train takes too slow long the FBR to the unload position - I feel like this is to protect the junction to the storage track. (still not as bad as Steel Curtain) Lift hill audio is great addition The whole experience is ruined by ops shouting at you about the loading procedures. If I had it my way they should load one train in to the really well themed tunnel that you just wizz by and then add a themed video about putting loose articles in the bins. Make the doors from that section open as soon as the previous train dispatches then it al happens automagically. Same thing happened at Rivals - ops just barking out orders at you.. they should just give them a mic like six flags / cedar point parks. I still don't know why they won't let people put their own seatbelts on. Operations were very slow across the board and I can't imagine being in the parks during peak periods. Overall- money well spent. It feels like a smaller version of Ghost Rider (one of my top tiers)
  11. Dean Barnett
    I don’t think we have enough roller coasters to conduct polls like this
  12. Dean Barnett
    All I’m saying is there’s a huge difference between a ride not having a chance to operate at all (huge defect / missing part etc) and the ride being closed for a part of the day. I’d be equally as pissed if I chose not to visit the park because a ride wasn’t going to operate all day only for it to open a few hours into the day
  13. Dean Barnett
    Anyone taking bets on how many times they'll spray you with water?
  14. Dean Barnett
    Here I was thinking this was a discussion board
  15. Dean Barnett
    Close to the school holidays - but not during them.
  16. Dean Barnett
    If the ride has any chance of opening - it shouldn't go on the closures page.
  17. Dean Barnett
    And again
  18. Dean Barnett
    Maybe they could clone this at Dreamworld
  19. Dean Barnett
    We still don't have a Wing / Dive / Hybrid
  20. Dean Barnett
    I’m gonna go out there and say spike confirmed.
  21. Dean Barnett
    So another day where Levi is closed, and Tridant has a 45 minute wait. 😕 I'm visiting next weekend but only have a few hours spare - really think my chances of getting on it are slim to none.
  22. Dean Barnett
    It would be cost. Lots of venues just happily isolate smoke detection in rooms / zones per events. The detectors that go off IR/heat not just particulate matter in the air are exxy… but possible.
  23. Dean Barnett
    It should probably have extraction fans for fire smoke anyway - haze would be extracted at the same time.
  24. Dean Barnett
    It's not that hard. I do for in events all the time - some venues already have fire detection systems that work fine with haze. (You want haze, not smoke machines). Haze expands organically, and rises - so you just need to work out the timing for fan/haze cycles... which happens in bespoke events all the time.
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