NEMESIS: SUB-TERRA [Alton 2012]
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blivvies biggest fan
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Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012
^^ Yeah, your large comment a few comments back and lots of pictures proving your point seems to suggest you are quite worked up about it. They're steel structures and shipping containers. Is anyone else bothered it isn't canvas? Canvas is also less hard wearing AND temporary. It's a ride.
^^ Yeah, your large comment a few comments back and lots of pictures proving your point seems to suggest you are quite worked up about it. They're steel structures and shipping containers. Is anyone else bothered it isn't canvas? Canvas is also less hard wearing AND temporary. It's a ride.
Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012
Having been serving for a year in a supply platoon, I can definitely attest that the military does use shipping containers. On bigger field exercises, we were carrying around four of them:
1 water container. This was filled to the brim with water cans. We used a bog-standard green 20' container, because the battalion didn't want to spend money on a proper thermo container.
1 food container. Another twenty-footer, this one filled with cardboard crates with field rations.
1 oil-and-stuff container. This one was a ten-footer, carrying the various chemical compounds, oil, hydraulic fluids, etc, used to keep the artillery going.
1 stuff container. A field depot in a twenty-footer. This one was actually quite fancy, with electric lights. It contained a few items of everything one might need, from spare tents to extra pencils, in numbered shelves. It reminded us most of all of a travelling shop, which I guess it actually was, to some extent.
It should be said, though, that those four containers were the only ones we used, for a battalion with 500 soldiers. All the field HQs and stuff were tents. So were the medical areas. Then again, the "corpse carriers" were also containers. Luckily, we never got to use them.
Having been serving for a year in a supply platoon, I can definitely attest that the military does use shipping containers. On bigger field exercises, we were carrying around four of them:
1 water container. This was filled to the brim with water cans. We used a bog-standard green 20' container, because the battalion didn't want to spend money on a proper thermo container.
1 food container. Another twenty-footer, this one filled with cardboard crates with field rations.
1 oil-and-stuff container. This one was a ten-footer, carrying the various chemical compounds, oil, hydraulic fluids, etc, used to keep the artillery going.
1 stuff container. A field depot in a twenty-footer. This one was actually quite fancy, with electric lights. It contained a few items of everything one might need, from spare tents to extra pencils, in numbered shelves. It reminded us most of all of a travelling shop, which I guess it actually was, to some extent.
It should be said, though, that those four containers were the only ones we used, for a battalion with 500 soldiers. All the field HQs and stuff were tents. So were the medical areas. Then again, the "corpse carriers" were also containers. Luckily, we never got to use them.
blivvies biggest fan
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Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012
It's going either of 2 ways, either really bad and ruin the nemesis theme or really well and compliment the area. I want it to go well but...
It's going either of 2 ways, either really bad and ruin the nemesis theme or really well and compliment the area. I want it to go well but...
Crazycoaster
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Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012
Well, no.. they must care for it a bit seeing as they have the story printed in the chip shop next to Nemesis? Why would they put it there if they didn't care. Alton know exactly how much the legend means to people, hence this new ride that plays to it.
And if by the main soundtrack, you mean the one with the narration, then I'm quite glad they don't play it, as that would sound stupid playing in the area.. Most people wouldn't be able to hear the entire thing anyway, its better that they play the narration-less soundtrack. I mean, its not exactly THAT different tbh.
And while they may be small drop towers, I'm not gunna judge it before I've actually gone on it, or before they've even announced what the ride experience will be. Heck, maybe it won't be any good, but surely you should save that kind of whining till after its open?
Well, no.. they must care for it a bit seeing as they have the story printed in the chip shop next to Nemesis? Why would they put it there if they didn't care. Alton know exactly how much the legend means to people, hence this new ride that plays to it.
And if by the main soundtrack, you mean the one with the narration, then I'm quite glad they don't play it, as that would sound stupid playing in the area.. Most people wouldn't be able to hear the entire thing anyway, its better that they play the narration-less soundtrack. I mean, its not exactly THAT different tbh.
And while they may be small drop towers, I'm not gunna judge it before I've actually gone on it, or before they've even announced what the ride experience will be. Heck, maybe it won't be any good, but surely you should save that kind of whining till after its open?
Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012
Yeah, I agree it might not always want to be the full version, but the atrocity they play at the moment is just... **** painful.
I really don't think that would enter as highly on Alton's lists of 'things-to-care-about" as you might think.Crazycoaster said:
NEMESIS!!!!Crazycoaster said:
Yeah, I agree it might not always want to be the full version, but the atrocity they play at the moment is just... **** painful.
blivvies biggest fan
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Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012
What? Why would you want it to go bad? Do you like it when parks fail on large projects? Essentially wasting millions? Strange. And I especially want it to go well, it's my faivorite overall park area and do want the old girl done justice.
What? Why would you want it to go bad? Do you like it when parks fail on large projects? Essentially wasting millions? Strange. And I especially want it to go well, it's my faivorite overall park area and do want the old girl done justice.
EnigmaHyena
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Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012
^...Fairly sure he was being sarcastic. Why would people anticipate being disappointed? Of course we "want it to go well"!
Personally I'm not so thrilled about the ride but that's purely because I'm a wee bit terrified of drop towers...
^...Fairly sure he was being sarcastic. Why would people anticipate being disappointed? Of course we "want it to go well"!
Personally I'm not so thrilled about the ride but that's purely because I'm a wee bit terrified of drop towers...
Gazza
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Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012
So back to what we were saying, if you look at the plans submitted to council, the only use of shipping containers is a pair of them for the ride shop. Its not like the ride building is a shipping container is it?
So why the original complaint?
Apologies. You used the word 'plans', so I was confused as to whether that was referring to the 3D model built, which aren't 'plans' in my interpretation of what a plan is.Ben said:
So back to what we were saying, if you look at the plans submitted to council, the only use of shipping containers is a pair of them for the ride shop. Its not like the ride building is a shipping container is it?
So why the original complaint?
Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012
My original complaint was from when we thought the fake, fan-made plans were real.
The shipping containers as a shop are still upsetting because Merlin are literally doing that for EVERY new ride at the moment, and so it'll have the same shop as Th13teen. Which is lazy.
My original complaint was from when we thought the fake, fan-made plans were real.
The shipping containers as a shop are still upsetting because Merlin are literally doing that for EVERY new ride at the moment, and so it'll have the same shop as Th13teen. Which is lazy.