Drayton Manor Resort

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Metro said:
The schoolgirl who died on a theme park ride at Drayton Manor was killed when a half-ton boat crashed into her, according to a source close to the investigation.

But a source has claimed the girl was struggling to get out of the water, when another dinghy collided with her, according to the Mail on Sunday.

Syed Alam, 47, the girl’s uncle said: ‘If she fell into the water and tried to walk out, she was in there for a good few minutes. Staff should have seen her and done something.’

Earlier reports suggested the Leicester Jameah Girls Academy pupil fell in the water while trying to swap seats and hit her head.

It was believed the girl could have drowned in up to 5ft of water.

But according the Sunday newspaper, the water would have been little more than 20 inches deep.

And a post-mortem concluded that Ms Jannath died from chest injuries.

Hundreds of mourners attended the schoolgirl’s funeral at Saffron Hill Cemetery, Leicester, last week.

An inquest into Ms Jannath’s death was opened Staffordshire’s Coroner last week and adjourned until a later date.
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I have good and bad news to share. First the good news! Construction is underway on the lift and launch coaster.

Now. The bad news. As someone who loves standup coasters, it truly breaks my heart to say this. Shockwave will no longer be a standup coaster.

- shockwave new trains for 2024, not standup
- new name and theme
- height restriction down from 1.4m to 1.2m

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1:40 she says “lift and launch” but that hand motion is… something else👀 super excited to see this one go up!

“different setting & programming” (at 1:48) is a thing I haven’t heard people make a big enough deal about, could be very cool!😁😁
 
Now that track switches are so economical and steel track very much isn't, I think we're going to start seeing all sorts of wacky layouts like this. The more track that can be reused in novel ways throughout the layout, the more attraction value the can be delivered to the customer. I, for one, welcome our new weird coaster overlords.
 
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Now that track switches are so economical and steel track very much isn't, I think we're going to start seeing all sorts of wacky layouts like this. The more track that can be reused in novel ways throughout the layout, the more attraction value the can be delivered to the customer. I, for one, welcome our new weird coaster overlords.
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RIP wait times lol
 
What an incredibly neat, wacky, clever, fun-looking coaster!

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Great way to get an impressive ride time and varied attraction out of a small budget. Intamin feels like they're becoming the king of this sort of thing all the sudden.
 
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