Pear
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You and I must have ridden very different rides thenExcept for one section, Star Trek is not slow on ride.
You and I must have ridden very different rides thenExcept for one section, Star Trek is not slow on ride.
I especially like the launch noise As I'd have said a few years ago 'Want!'
Just read this on the official facebook page in the comments... "doesn't look anywhere near as good as the big one"
If I'm honest? I don't think it will have that big of an effect down this way, regardless of the marketing of it. I don't think people are going to drive up the M6 in their numbers for a ride that isn't the biggest, the tallest, the fastest etc....
It looks crap! It's basically the big one without the huge drop... 16million for that ...
The reason it won't be a commercial flop is for that very reason. People are pre-judging it before riding. The GP can't "recognise" a gimmick here, which is what I think many people out there expect from the amusement industry, so it doesn't seem as "good" from a PR standpoint, which makes sense. That leaves an element of surprise for when they ride it, because it will clearly ride better than it looks... that's the whole point of a rollercoaster... ride it!
The British public are too pessimistic not to try it just to have a moan. I think it might not be an instant like blow up type success, it'll be like a sleeper hit. Got to bare in mind what limited coaster selection most of these people have been on, this is the closest thing the GP will get to Helix.
But they won't go to the park and ride it. That's the point. Look at ATI's post for a perfect example of that. Because it doesn't do the "biggest/tallest/fastest", some people just aren't interested because they've been conditioned to think that a good ride has to have those features.
The general public don't know what Helix is. You could chuck Helix or even Taron in the middle of BPB and people would probably say it looks :emoji_poop:. As I said above, hopefully the likes of Icon and Wickerman start to change the public perception that a ride HAS to be biggest/tallest/fastest to be good and word-of-mouth feedback about how good it is starts to convince nay-sayers to give it a go.
What is even funnier about this is the same members of the public were calling the Wild Mouse dangerous and too rough.
You know, the Wild Mouse that had a top speed of 14mph and a high point of around 35ft was too much for the little snowflakes, yet this, with its 50mph launches and almost 90ft drops isn' enough....muppets.
The general public don't know what Helix is. You could chuck Helix or even Taron in the middle of BPB and people would probably say it looks :emoji_poop:..
Well most good woodies feature some kind of airtime. Whether wickerman actually has any if another story.If Wickerman is supposed to be an airtime focused coaster then it really fails at that lol
Maybe if they named it "The Bigger One" instead of Icon people would think differently