Behind the Scenes Tour - July 15th

Nick · Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:19 pm

There was so much in the boardroom, Haunted House construction, Oblivion Construction, Charlie opening, Press cutouts dating back years and years! It was too much to take in. . . . . .and the sandwiches and crisps too

Martin seemed more interested in them!

Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:39 pm

[quote=""barryzola""]Good pics Nick, thanks for uploading. I've got a question. Were most of the people on the tour from sites such as this, or were there a load of people who just seemed to stumble across the phone number/information about the tours somewhere else?

How the hell am i going to get to the top of the flag tower? I'm s**t scared of heights.[/quote]

you seemed ok that time i was chatting to you on the swinger, did u get the footage u wanted anyway?

Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:04 pm

On a brighter note, not sure if it is been mentioned, but on oblivion, we were told that the oblivion signs will be on the front of the cars as of next year! That may lead to a major clean up of oblivion I hope. Although it doesnt seem too bad.

Anonymous · Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:29 pm

Hello all,
I was lucky enough to go on this tour too with a couple of friends. I'm not from a site or anything (in fact this is my first post on a theme park site ever), just happened to see the "Behind the scenes" link on the official site a few months back.
I've always been interested in the way rides work and have to say it was well worth the £60. Excellant job by all the staff, I think it was the personal touch that made the difference such as adjusting the tour a bit to do what people wanted (the black hole

).

I have 180 odd pictures myself but I think most of them will be similar to the ones already posted, if I spot any really good ones I'll post them up for you all.

Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:21 pm

the crane in the oblivion construction pics is one of my uncles, 'steve foster crane hire' he played quite a major roll in the construction of that ride. O yer and thanks for comin the visit guys lol.

Anonymous · Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:51 pm

[quote=""DaveB""]Hello all,
I was lucky enough to go on this tour too with a couple of friends. I'm not from a site or anything (in fact this is my first post on a theme park site ever), just happened to see the "Behind the scenes" link on the official site a few months back.
I've always been interested in the way rides work and have to say it was well worth the £60. Excellant job by all the staff, I think it was the personal touch that made the difference such as adjusting the tour a bit to do what people wanted (the black hole

).

I have 180 odd pictures myself but I think most of them will be similar to the ones already posted, if I spot any really good ones I'll post them up for you all.[/quote]

Hi Dave and welcome to TowersTimes Forum. If you can, please upload your photos - they're always welcome and always appreciated.

Glad that you enjoyed the tour!

barryzola · Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:31 am

[quote=""Henty""][quote=""barryzola""]Good pics Nick, thanks for uploading. I've got a question. Were most of the people on the tour from sites such as this, or were there a load of people who just seemed to stumble across the phone number/information about the tours somewhere else?

How the hell am i going to get to the top of the flag tower? I'm s**t scared of heights.[/quote]

you seemed ok that time i was chatting to you on the swinger, did u get the footage u wanted anyway?

[/quote]

Yeah, i'm fine when i'm strapped into something. It's just when my body is free to move and stuff. Maybe it's because i subconsciously think that my body is going to go into spasm and jump over a wall from a great height, or even fall backwards down 200 steps. I don't know to be honest.

As for that footage i wanted, i did get it. Not perfect though. Maybe i'll have to try again, it's good fun anyway.

Nick · Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:49 pm

Well your body is hardly able to move when going up in the Flag Tower, the steps aren't even 2ft wide I dont think! Lots of transmission equipment on the top for the phone companies and the parks radio comms. I'm glad they got turned down permission to install more!

Website · Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:06 am

Looks like some interesting stuff, looking foward to my trip this Saturday. Full trip report to follow of course, providing my computer has been fixed at last that is.

Anonymous · Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:18 am

I've uploaded most of the pictures I took, if you want you can have a look at them at www.freeworldonline.com/temp/ATBTST

Use the numbers below to find certain parts of the tour:
807-826 Hex
829-844 Rita
845-862 Oblivion
867-868 Nickelodeon
872-876 Coaster corner
881-884 Driving school
887-892 Flag tower
893-899 Charlie
942-951 Archieve material / board room
953-965 Black hole
967-988 Duel
989-994 Air lift

Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:31 pm

can't wait for this saturday. Looks like we'll be having an interesting day!

Regards,
Neil

Nick · Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:18 pm

Some of my photos now appear on the Black Hole's RCDB page

http://www.rcdb.com/ig799.htm

Also every single photo I took is found here;
http://s23.photobucket.com/albums/b373/ ... %20Behind/

Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:51 pm

[quote=""rctneil""]So you walked all the way around the duel track through each section?

Regards,
Neil

Can't wait until I go next weekend![/quote]
i`ll see you there neil im going then aswell, not got my tickets yet tho

see ya
dave

Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:04 pm

Seeya there. I won't know anyone except the one person who i am going with!

Regards,
Neil

Thu Jul 20, 2006 1:53 pm

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/ ... A50432.jpg The tent of teh Black hole!

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i278/ ... A50438.jpg Duel.

If TTF wants to use the pictures, i have no problems with that

Got a few more that il stick up later.

Website · Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:58 pm

Not long got back from todays behind the scenes tour (22/7).

Not going to post much now, been a long day, up since 5 so i'm shattered.

great day though, despite the downpour in the afternoon, and the thunder n lightning.

Highlights Includer going up top of flag tower, christ I was knackered by the time I got to the top.

Rita winch room, Hex control room seeing how the ride works. Oblivion workshop.

Going to top of air lift hill, though I wish I hadnt looked down between the steps about 2/3rd's of the way up.

Priority rides on Rita, Oblivion, Hex, plus priority ride tickets for Oblivion, Nemesis, Flume, Air, Charlie & Spinball.

Edit.forgot to add, going around the Black hole, only the spiral, and a couple of other pieces of track remain now, station has more or less gone, control cabin is still there. Suprised to see how close the track comes to the control cabin, almost touches it.

Too much else to go in to much detail at the moment. Got plenty of photos, im going to check how they turned out, and get round to posting them sometimes tomorrow if they arnt to rubbish. Not many from top of air lift hill though, I had a rather unsteady hand by that point for some reason

Park was busy today, even Rapids queue was out of the queueline, at the 70 minute point sign, though info signs were stating 20 all day. Flume was over 90 minutes at one point, nemesis was on extended queue line as well. So the priority passes were a godsend, 2 goes on back row nemmy as well.

No downers really, except that right hand lift on Charlie, the floor wasnt working, so made for a rather dull ride, though the boat ride is an improvement on my previous experience.

Big thanks to all those involved in making a great day.

Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:59 pm

Hello,
Jsut got back like nightsin2dreams. Had a great day. Really enjoyed walking the duel track and was very interesting to hear how complex the blaster system is and how every LED sensor is networked back to a main computer. The board room was rather interesting but they wouldn't let any of use bring the mini oopmpa loompa home

The flasg tower was great for views except my legs didn't think much of it. Great to see the Bucket and Spade event kick off in a thunderstorm. The priority passes were great and came in extremely useful! One of charlie's lift floors wasn;t workng so we had a very smotth elevator ride! Fluem duck was working - for once

. Was great going in black hole tent, amazing to see how big it really is in there. Overall had a great day and met soem great new people.

Thanks to everyone who made it a excellent and informative event.

Regards,
Neil

Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:53 am

[quote=""Locker""]I must say right now, to all of those who attended, what James Paulding said, and what actually happened, is very different :P

Regards,
Mark[/quote]

what did happen then mark? i was on the tour with you on the 22nd july and kept hearing about the shoe incident!

cheers dave

[quote=""rctneil""]The board room was rather interesting but they wouldn't let any of use bring the mini oopmpa loompa home

Thanks to everyone who made it a excellent and informative event.

Regards,
Neil[/quote]

kellie is still going on about he oompa loompa, it would of looked good in our sons room lol. it was a great day tho i was knackered after it all! i cant wait till the fireworks.

dave

[Liam - Merged double post]

Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:42 pm

Hey,
My trip photos are being uploaded now. The Hex ones are already in the Gallery with rita beeing done now. So keep watch over the next half and hour and keep refrshing the gallery as more photos from the tour will be available.

In the gallery at www.atmania.com

Regards,
Neil

Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:53 pm

what did happen then mark? i was on the tour with you on the 22nd july and kept hearing about the shoe incident!

Basically I stole my friends shoe and threw it on the floor. It landed near the driving school construction fence and another mate of mine said "it would have been funny if it had landed under", so then I kicked it under expecting to be able to bend down and grab it. However, I'd kicked it to far, and as I was waiting for construction workers to return from their break so they could pass it under, James turned up, and made what he hadn't seen up :P

Regards,
Mark