Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1
Right, report from yesterday then.
They had one car on the track and two on the transfer track by the looks of it.
LOTS of work still going on and the queue line area is a real mess. Railings being put in, welding and stuff going on, concrete being cut, that kind of thing. They do have three days though.
I imagine that they've been testing with multiple trains and are sorting out the bugs in control systems.
The ride seems oddly smaller now it's finished :lol: It's still bloody impressive though and one of the airtime hills looks awesome.
X-Sector was packed for the first two or three hours (the rest of the park was a typical Sunny May Sunday) - presumably with people heading to The Smiler, finding it closed and then going on the rides there. Even Enterprise had a four cycle queue! Oblivion was an hour, with the other rides being between 20 mins and 40 mins. So yeah, it's going to get packed down there.
The crappy entrance looks a little better in real life and they were working on it yesterday. I'm not going to say it's great, but it fits in better as part of the whole package than when you just see it as an individual photo.
Edit: Temp queue may be in case they haven't actually finished the main queue yet - there's a good chance...
