Is was going tonight at White Christmas but it was empty.   

Yeah, talk about being a tease!

It was running friday without passengers too.

Anyone hanging out to ride, might be worth heading down this afternoon. Looks like its running around with guests, people standing in queues, etc.

Please let it be finally open again

MW website still says the same thing. Unless they just haven't updated it yet. 

Going to White Christmas tomorrow evening, so crossing fingers and toes that it will be open!

!!!!!!!!!!

It's true ???

?????

^I doubt that they will have it running during WC this year. I'd say at this stage they'd just want to have it going in the day, just in case there are any issues). Hopefully they will have it running at next years night events.

Do people think that MW will become strict with loose items on the GL again? I mean with having to use lockers again, so the staff member at the start of the queue line can make sure no one has loose items.

What makes you think this incident would influence their decision on loose items? 

I hope not, Superman's loose items rules are really annoying.

Although the accident didn't relate to loose items they might still increase the rules to make sure nothing different happens.

17 minutes ago, themagician said:

^I doubt that they will have it running during WC this year. I'd say at this stage they'd just want to have it going in the day, just in case there are any issues). 

No, but there is nothing stopping us from going into the park beforehand to check it out ?

53 minutes ago, reanimated35 said:

What makes you think this incident would influence their decision on loose items? 

I just think that they may want to ensure people that people don't have loose items on them. Just after the incident I'd imagine they would take every procortion to try and stop an incident from happening again, and as loose items could result in something happening (hence the reason why they make people take items out their pockets). If they have someone check at the start of the queue then people would need to use lockers, but if there isn't, people may not listen and ignore the signage and ride attendants. I've seen many people ignore the attendant in the SE queue people would be there on their phones. It's just that small handful of people.

Theme Parks All-In-One have uploaded a video of the GL back in action this afternoon

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1674573556119970&id=1638746269702699

Loose items are unlikely to cause mechanical issues - most loose items policies are either:

1. designed to raise revenue from locker fees
2. to prevent injury to spectators walking under \ around the ride
3. to reduce issues where numbnuts drop their hat \ phone \ wallet inside the ride envelope, requiring ride shutdown to retrieve them.
4. to increase loading speed as people don't need to stow belongings when they sit down

Final destination style incidents aren't likely.

Despite what I said yesterday, I'm now thinking GL will be open for WC as it is included on the park map. (Photo: TPSN)

Just been on the GL. Was smoother than I remember and felt even quicker now. The on ride audio was working. And loose items could be placed in the storage containers at the station. Glad to have it back open again.

2 hours ago, themagician said:

Despite what I said yesterday, I'm now thinking GL will be open for WC as it is included on the park map. (Photo: TPSN)

Am I reading that correctly that Chinatown alley has re-opened (well partially?)

^Yes you are reading that correctly.

It's really great to see that it's back up and running, no doubt it's the culmination of many hundreds of hours of work to get to this point.

forget GL.... CHINATOWN is open again??? or is it JUST during WC?

Certainly a space they should be utilising all the time - especially for crowd control at events.

See that map is deceiving. Yes it shows the Chinatown alley as being open as kind of a Main Street Bypass, however last Saturday when we attended the event, the route as described on the map was closed making it quite a pain to navigate Main Street during and prior to the parade as people seem to enjoy camping on the street.

43 minutes ago, AlexB said:

forget GL.... CHINATOWN is open again??? or is it JUST during WC?

Certainly a space they should be utilising all the time - especially for crowd control at events.

I have to FN map from this year, and it even shows that Chinatown Alley is open. I also neglects to show the roof across Main Street, so I think it's a little outdated

Just rode GL again, first time in 3 years!!! Love it... so much fun but not as intense as its bigger brothers, which is a welcome change ?

Def back to being one of my faves ❤❤❤

It's great to see GL open now! Its a great ride.

Just thought I'd mention too that we are here at White Christmas and GL IS open and fully operational for it

1 hour ago, Zanstabar said:

I have to FN map from this year, and it even shows that Chinatown Alley is open. I also neglects to show the roof across Main Street, so I think it's a little outdated

The map would be useless if Main St was covered with a big grey rectangle. How would you know what's under it?

Edited December 17, 20159 yr by Brad2912