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I just find it hard to believe that that many people would hold off on visiting for one ride no matter how impressive. My mindset is more to take the opportunity to go while it's quiet now even if I'm missing one ride. I travelled up there a few times over the summer and to be honest whilst it...

I was just coming on here to post the Mirror article. I seriously doubt that he worded news of a reopening like that as both Nick Varney and Merlin have handled the situation so well in the last few months. I also doubt that the Smiler reopening would generate enough money to remove the losses...

After watching his interview that he says what if he was a single parent Alton Towers are currently being very strict on their you must have 1x adult for every child under the height of 0.9m or whatever it is. What if I was a single parent with 2 kids under that height? How could I go on the...

Was here yesterday and witnessed them testing the Smiler. They were sending round cars with different weights of dummies on and at one point they had the car stuck on the lift hill as well. Going round the park you can see the obvious influence of revised health and safety. Fresh signage and...

Haha I like skim read one of those news stories, saw Air in the headline and then completely missed the word Monorail. Afterwards I was like wait a minute how can any of that story have been true?!

I was thinking about how I feel regarding the Smiler as I would class myself as general public with a vague interest in rollercoasters. I mean I browse various threads on this forum but I really don't have that much depth to my knowledge. Personally I feel way more comfortable with the thought...

How quickly have other UK attractions such as Hydro reopened to the public after incidents? I know obviously that the media has gone to town on the Smiler incident and as a result of that I wouldn't imagine they would reopen it even if they could this season. But I was just wondering how long...

Just taking the lawyer talk one step further in a way. Obviously there's three scenarios that are responsible for the crash: human error, ride malfunction or combination of both. Hypothetically could anyone see them removing the £18m ride if it was pure human error which caused the crash...

Alton Towers website implies that Sonic has reopened Chessingtons website shows Rattlesnake as still being closed as well as SAW is still unavailable.

Have any of the other multi car coasters reopened yet?

That's interesting as living in Kent and being subjected to the local radio every day at work, I obviously end up hearing a lot about dreamland. I wouldn't say that the press have been jumping on these fires that negatively, more in an is this going to impact on the opening of the park as they...

Oh yes sorry I obviously scrolled past that somehow!!! Welcome :)

I'm guessing most of you have probably seen this as you've already talked about the shoddy Guardian article. Obviously this isn't much better http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/al ... re-5864073 I'm guessing the technical issues reported are fairly standard and just the media leaping upon...

I was thinking the same as Speedyworm. Have there been any other major incidents at large well reputed parks which have garnered so much attention? I am speaking from the point of view as just general public I vaguely remember reports of Hydro having that incident and a few others but I would...

I find it difficult to believe that they would be considering a rebrand so quickly after the incident. I do wonder if they will leave it closed until next season not only to deal with the determined cause of the crash but maybe also to try and make the ride more reliable. I have no idea how they...

I was only asking as I would have figured it would run a similar system to the other closed rollercoasters? Does X: No way out (or whatever its called now) run a similar system as that is still open isn't it?

Will Sonic Spinball be open?

That Saw thing is interesting, is it possible that is just Merlin covering their backs on the off chance? Also I was wondering as Thorpe Park is also Merlin would they have relatively the same safety protocols in place as Alton Towers or are they put in place as separate parks? As if HSE are...

They keep saying they need to determine whether it is an isolated incident to the Smiler or not, so surely unless they are talking about human error/their own safety procedures etc this can't be an error which would effect the vast majority of the park? And I gather other parks with Gerstlauer...

Ah thank you for clearing that up!! Been wondering about that for a while!