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Firstly, the train doesn’t ‘stall’ on the lift, it will stop there if the 2nd train isn’t brought into the station. Second, maintenance staff ride the ride as part if the daily safety checks, so it’s silly to be annoyed they are doing so. And finally, I know its been a while since a big major ride like this opened, but this is pretty normal anywhere in the world, new rides often have issues and as an enthusiast you should know that the price you pay for wanting to be ‘first’ is the thing might break down. There is no such thing as a soft opening, its open or its not. When parks like Disney do ‘technical rehearsals’ they bring in select groups at select times to ride. Sea World already did this with staff and contractors. And the reason? Because if you had public there they would be all buthurt just like the above when they didn’t get to ride. Until you open open a ride for normal ops you can never properly test it for how it will run under normal conditions. So unfortunately inevitably small issues will come up. Just keep in mind, its an amusement ride in a theme park, it’s not the fight against world hunger, so if you have to wait a little longer to have a go, it’s not the end of the world.

I actually thing the various park departments (remember different people are responsible for all these things) deserve some props for co-ordinating to get all the various projects completed the same day and open with Leviathan. To have the Nick refurb work, dockside and Leviathan all open on the same day was a very nice touch. Could easily still had rides closed and the tavern being worked on which would have made for a much less polished day. Good on them I say

Be curious to know if it IS actually running slower with 1 train given the stacking on the brake run with 2.

Who’s going for opening?

Lift hill is a block. In Leviathan for instance train can dispatch whilst other is in the course or brake run, but will stop on the lift until 2nd train clears the brake run.

Wow, feel bad for that gig. Still living decades ago There was no mistake, the ? Gobos come from Intellabeams. The patterns on the floor are obviously backlit panels built into what was the false ‘show deck’ over the top of the concrete Sound Stage floor.

Correct IBeams did not have rotating gobos. They were one of the first ‘big things’ from Highend. The big step up was the Cyberlight which is still used in some Disney attractions today and in fact a nee LED version has just been released to replace those originals for Disney specifically.

The ??s were gobos projected from High End Systems Intellabeams and were then kicking around the park for several years in various stages if disrepair. Prob still on the scrap heap somewhere.

Hmmm if there is no interest it wouldn’t make sense to bring in a fresh ambition focussed theme park person as CEO. We may be pleasantly surprised.

Is there a reason why they wouldn't be doing the splash pad in the 'Chill Out' area left by Wipeout's departure? I would think that would make a great spot for that to bring back Ocean into Ocean Parade, but maybe I'm missing something? I think once this multi year plan is done, some kind of big splashy water ride in the area would really round it out, and that's PROBABLY far enough since 'you know what' to do a water ride. Yes there would be mental cases that still cry foul, but hopefully they are too busy protesting about trams at the time to notice 😛 I think it's safe to say regardless of whatever anyone things about these announced plans, it would be hard to argue that they are not 1000% better than anything idiots in charge previously came up with this past decade.

By linking their video you are giving them views and thus promotion…

An old video If you go have a look at the park you can see thats now not white anymore

Nothing says vintage Rivertown like lighting effects and fog!

End of the day the ‘themed’ part is just some plastic bodies for the train. It wouldn’t be completely unfeasible to change them out. Paint the track, bit of simple theming (think vintage motobike race) in the station and it fits. Could be on the cards?

I dunno there are a fair few comments on FB of people saying it looks boring so maybe mild is right 😂 people are weird

POVs do usually tend to look kinda slow. You can see even off ride that this thing is hauling ass and keeps the pace on the whole way through.

It’s pretty clear the direction management wants to take the park. And that’s more family thrills and less animal handler skills. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that, if they only have so much capability I’d sooner less things done better than a big range half assed. I do feel like we’ll see animals phased out over the next several years though, time will tell.

I probably was misleading. The electric cars have futuristic jetsons style fake noises. RSR cars have the fake petrol engine feel/noises. ie it is possible to have an electric vintage car with artificial vintage sounds and feel.

Its simple. DLR is too cheap to replace the cars with the new Hong Kong ones.

I don’t really care if they move or do new, as long as the cars are good. It’s not the silliest idea to say move, because if they say ‘all new’ people will just say “oh they just moved the other cars”. Remember idiots think Wipeout is at Sea World now

Was just at Disneyland and it’s well and truly Christmas there.

I dunno, I will go visit the park to check this ride out. Still haven’t even bothered for ST. If they get this right could be a real winner of a coaster/attraction I recon.

We give Village shit for media puffery so everyone gets the same treatment

There’s a lot of room if you close the entire wildlife section at the rear of the park…

Every news article has said Indiana Jones style ride. Now we savy people can work out its the more obscure Indy coaster he is talking about. But the media and public instantly go to the Disneyland version, and DW aren’t stupid, they knew exactly that’s what would happen.