I can't find this comment, where exactly is it?

Needless to say, other than TTT and Rattlesnake still being in the park, they got a lot of their "facts" wrong.

Not sure where to put this yet a interstimg piece of stuff if its true and taken from Towers street forum... this in realtion to the staggered ride opening times at Alton Towers and how they apparntley do this to stop electric blackouts....lol....



They clearly either haven't heard of anti surge protectors, or Merlin are so tight fist'd, that they won't spend a single penny on one.

Forget about the BS, I know someone that used to work at Pleasure Woods Hills, the area that contained the rattle snake roller coaster (when it was there) and the bumper cars, never used to open until lunch time, this would save Pleasure Wood Hills themepark around £4,000 in staff cost per season. Bear in mind that pleasure wood hills don't have as many ride host per rides as Alton dose, they are open less days through out the season than Alton dose, and we are only talking about a couple of rides here, so I let you do the sums, think how much Alton are saving per season with their staggered opening times?

yes ive just looked and its all gone...along with many others

All of these minor improvements seem good, if they can cheaply get the place tidy and looking proffesional this season, as seems to be their intention, then have rattle snake ripped down, ttt fully out, static train out and all scrapped over the winter, thats a few £ and sort of the remaining unsightly stuff gone (other than hyperdrive but doubt that will go)

They then just need a new flat to go on TTT's base, (mega bowl or something rarer than the norm these days) and a mini coaster on rattle snake like the whirlwind at gypb, just with non generic themeing, i dont know if a slightly larger layout is available, its a nice quiet ride, try to maintain the trees, then put the clown slide back down there if its not scrapped or get another, finish the second mini railway station and thats probably enough to get them another season with a good spread of stuff accross the park. Imo anyway.

Facebook debate tonight with over 80 comments so far, this sort of stuff wont do much good

lowestoft facebook site, i didnt read the 80 odd comments as i cant imagine they would have had anything positive

Yes but PWH isn't a wildlife reserve, nor will it actually have much wildlife in the park given that there are people there most days, making a lot of noise on the rides etc.

The woodlands may have wildlife, but I don't think that's what people are talking about when they're saying everywhere is over grown.

Went to pwh for my 3rd visit this season it was a good day out. Park was clean and tidy so why people are complaining for I don’t know. High Dive show was fantastic also on another note the carts on the rattle Snake appear to have covers on them which I don’t remember them having them on there before rather strange for a coaster that’s supposed to be removed

It's 8.48pm and with loud music coming out of the park and cars still parked inside there, there is clearly a event on it could be staff, car park gates still open

Yeah most of the ride is still there
it looks like no more track has been removed since they last did remove some

yeah
basically all they have done has removed some of the track which like you say is most likely the rotten ones.

The track hasn't actually rotten, it's just worn thin.

The Zierer Tivoli coasters have metal wheels on metal track, so both the wheels and track will wear down.

Unlike most coasters that have metal track and polyurethane wheels, with them the wheels take all the wear and tear so the track doesn't ever really need replacing.

So with that in mind, I can't imagine it's just a small section of track that needs replacing (if was then the cost really wouldnt have been an issue). Obviously certain section of track will have more wear than others, but in general once it's worn through in one place, it's likely to be all over as well.

-- Edited by Martyn on Tuesday 7th of August 2018 12:11:03 PM

ok here we go, its the ride by cannonball entrance I cant remember, the rest I do.

 

Photo, August 1998

-- Edited by coolskin on Tuesday 7th of August 2018 12:54:18 PM

Coolskin, I remember there being a cheap and nasty go kart track on there for part of one season, but it was quite short lived.