Recent content by toofpikk

Absolutely love that we're slowly creeping towards a generation of NoLimits & RCT gamers entering (and flooding) the professional side of the industry. It's been bleeding in for a fair few years now, but it's properly on the horizon for the imminent future. Cannot wait for a real life Mr...

Never paid full price for an annual pass (as I guess the rest of the UK lol). 2013, I got one given to me for my birthday (believe my parents used clubcard points for it) 2014, I got gifted a 50% off staff code 2015-2019, I used my own 50% off staff voucher Haven't had one since, always had...

Surprised at the positive reception of the trains. They look like a sad collaboration between JCB and Lamborghini to me, somehow within the theme of an ancient goddess? Yeah nah. Printed bolts on a playmobil looking zero car isn’t doing it for me. Nice colours tho, and the team who produced the...

UK Wise, you'll be hard pressed. I also collect books on theme parks. The first one that really jumped to mind was 'Made by Mack'. Disneyland Paris, from Sketch to Reality is pretty much the ultimate 'coffee table style' theme park book there is imo. Other good ones, which don't carry the same...

Ok so maybe I’ve read this thread too fast but having been an operator there I can explain why Europa has some of the best ops in the world. 1. It’s essentially a showroom for Mack. If the rides don’t run well here, where they’re often prototypes, why would anyone invest in them? They have to...

As much respect and admiration as I have for John, it does seem like he's rather quickly becoming a poster boy for ALL the projects produced by the hundreds of MMM team members. Of course many of us, me included will be looking on with a touch of jealousy for having these opportunities. Let's...

Interesting range of replies here. For me, it's the majority of GCIs. Definitely one of the nerdiest comments I've ever made here, but I've never had a great first ride on a GCI. The rides are so chaotic, it always takes at least a second lap to learn where to tense and lean to make the most out...

Kinda - (I gather) one of the briefing documents was put into the general access on merlins file management so any employee could have a look through it. Looked pretty crap. MMM need to have words with their file controller 🤣 But yes - i think the belief is that Horizon wasn't developed enough...

Yes, it might help avoid any miniscule planning skirmishes. The way they're discussed in architectural circles, NSIPs essentially behave as a fast track for planning. Although local consultancy will still need to take place, they might not carry the same weight in criticising and changing a...

On a single cycle with no LPs, a top spin CAN get over 1000 riders per hour. Typically, however, due to the unforgiving restraint systems and the fact pretty much all the classic top spins run a double cycle, it's more in the region of 400-550.

I saw people complaining about BBC's fact checking quality control going down the gutter recently - thorpe park? 490 acres? If you include all the land and lakes from the boundaries of monks walk and Staines Road, you're still struggling to reach even half that. Ofc Towers is bumped up by the...

Frankly - If Towers' marketing team were quick and creative enough, nerds wouldn't feel the need to do this. furthermore, if they were desperate for things to stay under wraps, they should literally do that, so when inevitably geeks start pushing boundaries like this, there's very little skin...

Vampire. I was the only worker who had it every single season for 7 consecutive years during my time there (which I always liked to assume was because I became the invaluable worker on it year after year hehe). I broke the throughput so many times, one halloween we got over 100 extra people on...

Yeah, Looks slow

Can I take us away for the trims for one second, and can we start theorising the inversion names now please? I've been thinking about it for more than a day which means I've either missed key info or we need to start this discourse immediately. Some options I thought of: 1. Thorpe Roll 2...