Proper nice UV!

It would look good in a mine setting for sure! UV is used to much better use in more rides other than just ghost trains. Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, Tomb Blaster and Tinkaboo's Sweet Adventure are perfect examples of using UV in a non scary way. Remember that the park is for a young audience. An indoor family friendly ride is what's needed at the park after Fairytale Fantasy and TOTC were removed.

LOL! The theming was great. What's it like now with the target upgrade they had?

if it's a shooter (still dunno what that really is) how long will be be before they run out of things to shoot or to shoot at or the whole thing just looks a real mess. We know The Hills is not very good when it comes to keeping on top of things.

To be honest it sounds like a lot of fun, but i just don't like ow it's been shoe horned in at the last minute, They certainly could have kept Hobs for one last season, advertise it as one last season and then make a really cool new ride for next year.

But there last shooter ride Laser labyrinth turned out to be a flop... couldn't they have done this under the castle instead?

Merlin don't understand lighting. They've replaced most of their dark ride lighting with LEDs to be more energy efficient. The trouble with that is, like you've said Martyn, it lights up whole areas and reveals stuff you shouldn't be able to see.

You really don't know what a shooting ride is Bubbles? Look up Duel at Alton Towers or Buzz Lightyear at any of the Disney parks as just two of many many examples.

Hobs Pit was set in a mine though... hence the mine theme. It was somewhat of a ghost train but it's actual theme was of a Wild West type mine... so the theme makes perfect sense.

A ghost theme would have been just as unoriginal. See Duel at towers for the competition there...

The names not great but 'Hobs Pit: Shooting Gallery' would have been far less imaginative 😂.

Yeah because they all had Laser guns in the wild west.. so i guess the theme does work.

But however it turns out it's got to be better than this hunk of junk, if this is what we can expect...  for shame  

yeah, as i say they can't do worse than that monstrosity. But to overall hobs to a high standard in such a short space of time has me worried. Plus in usual hills style all the effects will be broken after 3 weeks use.

Sorry chaps, i just can't get positive with this. it's such a dumb idea when the time and money could have been invested into Hobs.

I think that myself sometimes... Running a theme park is obviously much, much harder than it would seem to be on the surface of things but still, would most of us have brought hyperdrive or turned hobs pit into a shooter ride?

It's not just PWH though, look at merlin. A ride themed to I'm a bloody celebrity and an intamin looper that's at least 5 years overdue for a repaint. And then there's DBGT which I didn't get on at all last year after 5 visits. Oh, and Chessington with dragon falls, and alton with bugger all in regards to flat rides anymore. And merlin's collective 1 train ops that turn 5 minute queues into 20-30 minute ones. I am in no way saying that I could do a better job but sometimes decisions seem so stupid that people will think that and can you really blame them?

It won't have been cobbled together in a few weeks. It's an odd time to build the thing but this will have been planned for a while no doubt.

As long as they look after it it might be quite good, but they don't. I can see two years down the line they'll remove the laser guns and just have a ride around thing.. because that's what happens at PLW.

Anyway, gotta be positive. The park needs a second dark ride.... if they pull down rattle snake maybe they could add a new boat ride?

If things didn't move what would be the point in shooting them? but then they'll soon break down and it'll have no moving parts lol although i agree those pictures do look good.

I do hope there's some high quality on ride footage of Hobs, other wise it'll become a faint memory like the Haunted Castle,  we'll know what it was bit forget what it was like inside.  

-- Edited by Bubbles on Tuesday 18th of July 2017 09:09:36 PM

So it officially opens this Saturday!

can we imagine it's a prequel.. Sam Hobs eventually when insane, made a pack with the Devil and when on a killing spree.. this kiddie ride just got a whole lot darker.. lol

It's a real shame they didn't think to turn TOTC in to something like this and kept Hobs..  they'll have to decent dark rides if they bother to look after them, and two attraction that add variety to the place.   The Waveswinger could have gone somewhere else in the park.

It's such a shame things have turned out this way.

-- Edited by Bubbles on Wednesday 19th of July 2017 05:17:02 PM