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Dean Barnett

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  1. $25 for backwards, $45 for braked spinning, $65 for freespin.
  2. Not sure.. many of their operation decisions don't make sense. Any chance of them putting Mack Spinning cars (RtH style) on the track? Another chance for an upcharge!
  3. Probably a few weeks at least. Idealy a few months. Disney (I know, on the opposite side of the scale) recently announced RnR's closure from Feb 20th on Dec 29th.
  4. A multi million dollar upgrade.. that they announce (checks calendar) 3 days out.
  5. The only useful thing I've seen with the RFID tags is on Hagride. With the rolling station, the attendant verify the car as secure with one location and can even reset/unlock the cars with another RFID reader position. If the train hasn't been secured by the end of platform area the whole station stops. Velocicoaster until recently was fine with one attendant checking the restraints (and just pulling up. never stapling people in). Millions of people have ridden without incident. They recently changed it so every seat gets checked twice, but I feel like this might be to stop half empty trains being dispatched because the groupers can't keep up with the platform load speed. Using RFID's to verify seats on a static station seems like a waste of both time and money.
  6. Phantasialand doesn't have any hyper coasters - they're height limited, so everything is built low by necessity. 95ft is the tallest coaster, and that's only because it was built below the ground level. Just look at Silverstar - and incredible coaster inside a immaculately Disney level themed park- and the station is too.. but the coaster outside of the station, while navigating the carpark is completely un-themed... and it doesn't need to be.
  7. I can't think of a single hypercoaster with theming around the track. It doesn't need it.
  8. Would be neat to weigh the trains (like DL SM) to work out exactly how much juice is required to very gently crest the top hat.
  9. The Smiler incident was caused by a maintenance team member forcing the continuation of the ride.
  10. It backs up my claims that they’re not posting that the attractions are closed at the front gate - and people are travelling from interstate to ride these attractions also $12 for lockers … and coins only?!
  11. Post a statement / announcement whatever you want to call it on their socials. Make it very obvious on the front page of their website that the rides are down. Give free return passes to any single day / 7 day pass guest that has visited since the “grand opening”
  12. It’s still happening tho - we’re yet to see all 3 rides running at once.
  13. Dollywood advertised LR would open in the Summer of 2016. RMC released a statement along with Dollywood's announcement saying it won't make the grand opening explaining that the issue was the third party launch system. It started rehearsals May 23, and opened on June 13 - one week before summer starts in America.
  14. I wrote it via AI.. just to demonstrate how easy this would be to at least address.
  15. Almost like they should have run soft previews from the 3rd to boxing day - the officially open boxing day.
  16. You could probably expand that to globally... ever since Lightning rod - but atleast they were transparent... and it was a world first .. not 2 off the shelf flatrides and a pretty standard woodie.
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