1 hour ago, themagician said:

From my perspective, when you’ve got half of the parks attractions closed (most of them being major ones), surely you’d want to push as hard and as fast as possible to get this thing open?

The opposite to that, they have a large portion of their major rides closed, so why bring attention to that when opening a 'new' ride. 

The ride is now lit up at night.  Red and yellow can be seen from the M1.

Stands out nicely from Green Lantern and Rivals

The park has posted a story on their instagram that an opening date announcement will be coming soon.

8 minutes ago, themagician said:

The park has posted a story on their instagram that an opening date announcement will be coming soon.

When do we think it will be scheduled to open... Middle or end of May? Will they have a soft opening?

We have an announcement!

Opening day to be announced soon!

🤣🤣

Thankyou for announcing the announcement that an announcement was about to be announced.

6 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

Thankyou for announcing the announcement that an announcement was about to be announced.

What you do when you have nothing to announce.

It's a Clayton's Announcement.

Looks like the construction wall's down

It still amazes me how long this actually took. We first saw movement on site in February 2023 and 15 months later, it’s finally going to open. 
 

For comparison, it took about 9 months for Surfrider to open after track first arrived at WnW. 

48 minutes ago, themagician said:

It still amazes me how long this actually took. We first saw movement on site in February 2023 and 15 months later, it’s finally going to open. 
 

For comparison, it took about 9 months for Surfrider to open after track first arrived at WnW. 

How long did it take for Steel Taipan to open after the track arrived ?

18 minutes ago, STRAWS said:

How long did it take for Steel Taipan to open after the track arrived ?

20mins.

21 minutes ago, STRAWS said:

How long did it take for Steel Taipan to open after the track arrived ?

The track started to arrive during the April 2020 lockdowns (as it was supposed to open December that year), so 20 months after it arrived as it didn’t open until December 2021. 

1 hour ago, STRAWS said:

How long did it take for Steel Taipan to open after the track arrived ?

Hardly an apples for apples comparison, given the perilous financial position of the park and other events happening over that period.

Edited May 9, 20242 yr by aaronm

It was testing all afternoon today with ops staff I hear they must be getting up its 500 cycles prior to being allowed to open

2 hours ago, STRAWS said:

How long did it take for Steel Taipan to open after the track arrived ?

Bigger coaster and brand new as opposed to a relocated coaster with 10 pieces of track and a couple of support columns

apples and oranges mate

Edited May 9, 20242 yr by Baconjack

10 hours ago, Baconjack said:

Bigger coaster and brand new as opposed to a relocated coaster with 10 pieces of track and a couple of support columns

apples and oranges mate

Yeah I wasn't a comparing t at all I was just curious cause it feels like its been ages since the flash construction started. 

17 minutes ago, STRAWS said:

it feels like its been ages since the flash construction started

Because it has been ages! We first saw markings on site in February and the slab was poured late April/early May

I'm hearing the ride is cycling today with passengers. Not sure if they're staff to get the cycle count up for ops or if it has soft opened, but seems like it will be announced as open any day now.

I wonder what ride will be better they both have the same fundamental idea but which do people think will be better Claw or Flash?

The Flash is undergoing technical rehearsals (thanks to ChrisEvans via TSPN)

Edited May 13, 20242 yr by TBoy

Flash is also currently the only ride, that’s not for kids, actually open.

Edited May 13, 20242 yr by Levi

1 hour ago, TBoy said:

The Flash is undergoing technical rehearsals (thanks to ChrisEvans via TSPN)

Didn’t realise what this meant til I rocked in for the last hour of opening, they’ve actually learned from Levi & opened it for guests pre-grand opening. Actual good job, VRTP!

Edited May 13, 20242 yr by Tricoart

SW ran out of time to soft open Levi @Tricoart

High quality theming that is.  🤢

Update: Got on last ride of the night, and got evac’d lmao. Only other people on it were staff (great people running it rn btw, real enthusiastic & rather quick too), and they said that was the first stoppage of the ride they’ve had to deal with. My un/luckiness from Levi’s opening day (was also on last train, nearly got evac’d but it was able to advance to station) persists.

Edited May 13, 20242 yr by Tricoart