If you owned AT?

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If I owned towers?

I'd sell it. Earn lots of money from it and buy something I which really needs improving and would be fantastic fun to shape, like chessington, or some telephone boxes.
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1.) Demolish CATCF (You all seen that one comin)

2.) Bring Back Toyland Tours (and this one...)

3.) Delay the oblivion brakes for 10 more seconds.....

4.) Set more fireworks off at Bonfire night

5.) Put Justin bieber over the park speakers on scarefest

6.) Make the nemesis cars slower so the ride can be more longer = more fun : D

7.) upgrade duels guns to mini uzi's

8.) Make rita twice as fast :D

9.) Give thirteen a pre-ride video

10.) MAKE AIR MORE RELIABLE!

11.) Make hex scarier
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sku11dude123 wrote: 1.) Demolish CATCF (You all seen that one comin)

2.) Bring Back Toyland Tours (and this one...)

3.) Delay the oblivion brakes for 10 more seconds.....

4.) Set more fireworks off at Bonfire night

5.) Put Justin bieber over the park speakers on scarefest

6.) Make the nemesis cars slower so the ride can be more longer = more fun : D

7.) upgrade duels guns to mini uzi's

8.) Make rita twice as fast :D

9.) Give thirteen a pre-ride video

10.) MAKE AIR MORE RELIABLE!

11.) Make hex scarier
Loving the mini uzi idea that would be insane! In response to your number 2 for the older people on the board I think I speak for all of us when we say we'd like to see around the world in 80 days brought back.
Poison Tom 96

i would......
1 ) Theme Air And TH13TEEN some more
2 ) repaint Rita a darker colour and give it a proper station
3 )Significantly rework CATCF to make it much better and build a damn Choccy Shop
4 )Upgrade Duel and let some MACK engineers at it. i would have mini Uzi's front row and M4 machine guns on the back row
5 ) Put More Dye in the Nemesis water and theme it a bit better
6 )Fix Hex
7 ) Repaint and tidy up X-Sector
8 ) Make Cloud Cuckoo Land look epic
9 ) Set B&M engineers on Air to make it more reliable
10 ) Make RMT more forceful.
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James wrote:
CoasterCrazyChris wrote:
Dormiens-Dave wrote: They where not peddle boats, they moved themselves

:D
Do you actually know how those Swan Boats worked?

I am really intrigued, I know they operated on some sort of underwater pulley system but what on earth was that all about?
They were operated by thirteen pulleys spread around the lake. Each Swan Boat was attached to a cable, and this cable was attached to another cable which followed the route of the pulley system. I can't think of any simpler way to describe the system. In itself the system was very simple and worked brilliantly.

In fact, the Swan Boats system was installed by Intamin, it is the 'Tow Boat Ride', some info can be found on the Intamin Website.
The best place to see an example of this system is at miniland in one of the Legoland parks:

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Poison Tom 96 wrote: i would......
1 ) Theme Air And TH13TEEN some more
2 ) repaint Rita a darker colour and give it a proper station
3 )Significantly rework CATCF to make it much better and build a damn Choccy Shop
4 )Upgrade Duel and let some MACK engineers at it. i would have mini Uzi's front row and M4 machine guns on the back row
5 ) Put More Dye in the Nemesis water and theme it a bit better
6 )Fix Hex
7 ) Repaint and tidy up X-Sector
8 ) Make Cloud Cuckoo Land look epic
9 ) Set B&M engineers on Air to make it more reliable
10 ) Make RMT more forceful.
I agree with all of them, except the last one. RMT is know to be a ride for younger riders, if it were to be made more forceful, it would scare the youngers away from their first 'proper coaster', making AT a less family attraction. Also, making it faster would also have H&S risks.
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