Dean Barnett

I can highly recommend Gästehaus Nikita for your accomodation - within walking distance to the park and the owners are lovely. I'm a bit of a musical theatre nut so I loved the phantom VR experience - its worth doing regardless because I'm pretty sure its the only VR coaster that starts before you're on the train. Eftling has an app for queue skipping with is very much worth its time. Europa has a lot of single rider lines if your misses isn't keen.

Yeah it would be cool to do the roof flame effect (2 m 32 secs) But if they can't get isolation for haze, I doubt they can pull off a flame effect.

Finally had a go on this last week. Very impressive.. only nit pick would be to enclose the bit of track from the station to the turntable room, add add more lighting effects and haze to the turntable room .

At least you’re sitting down!

The point isn’t that airport security and theme park operations are identical—it’s that they both involve moving large volumes of people safely through bottlenecks, and some do it far more efficiently than others without compromising safety. Everyone still goes through metal detectors, bags are still X-rayed, and staff still intervene if something flags. The key is smart systems and layouts that maximise throughput while maintaining safeguards. Now compare that to VRP where processes feel designed for friction. One clear inefficiency? Not allowing re-rides on dead days. If there's no line, no operational constraint, and guests are willing to go again, it’s absurdly inefficient to offload and reload the same train unnecessarily. That doesn’t improve safety—it just wastes time. Same goes for loading flow. Why wait until the unload platform is totally clear before even starting boarding? In many cases, that’s not a safety issue, it’s a procedural flaw. I fully agree with you if it’s implemented smartly. For a ride like Superman, universal-style metal detectors after the main queue with free double-sided lockers would be a game-changer. Keeps pockets empty, avoids last-minute dispatch delays, and doesn't punish guests with extra fees just to follow the rules. That’s the kind of ops thinking that actually improves both safety and efficiency.

Projectors have been known to be notoriously expensive to run (I really hope they got laser ones)

You can’t begin to compare the TSA (government agency) with what we roll here with (private contractors)

Yeah you actually don’t need another block - you could probably convert the transfer from the last brake to a block if you really want another block I guess?

Lets say it’s just under $2m per train (when they purchased the coaster) - that’s just under 7% extra for happy punters and 33% more backwards seats. Seems like a win to me. $20 a backwards seat on 3 minute cycles - they’d pay the extra train off in a year. (Assuming they filled every seat) 2 minute cycles with 50% of the backwards seats been filled would pay it off in 20 weeks! Calculating on $20 because $30 is too expensive.

I’m never letting anyone tell me that tracking / gaming efficiency jeopardises safety again.

Yes I’m aware @New display name, but they should have 3 trains if they were serious about throughput for their best ride in the park - they can just park it in the station overnight.

Good parks have a spare train - so in rivals case - 3 trains.

Pretty knarly stuff from 30 mins onwards 👀

Literally anything. Even the Riddler Revolution / Zamp Disco

I've said this - and been shot down for this before - but there must be 20 parks around the world that are open every year that keep their coasters open for years at a time.. with no downtime.