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Asylum was awesome! Very simple concept but very effective! I also think it used the conga line style of the maze to its advantage. Freezer and Asylum were a completely iconic part of Fright Nights and to this day people still speak about it, it did last a decade or so.. I think Asylum is the Terror Of The Towers of Thorpe, I would not be surprised if it returned at one point in some form.. I loved Studio though! If that got brought back I would be equally as happy. Cabin though.. Now that Sub Species exists whats the point?

Icon was unfortunately very disappointing, it feels like it would be great if it was just faster! Blue Fire I think is also a little overrated. Taron on the other hand is lightning, absolutely incredible all the way through for me, perhaps one of my favourite coasters ever. Although that one isnt really an unpopular opinion!

Yay, I can spend one whole hour extra at the park on a random Friday. That definitely makes all the difference in the world.

On the topic of rides that everybody seems to love but I personally don’t like....Icon. I can understand why people enjoy the smooth nature of it, but personally I find the ride boring as all heck and easily the country’s most overrated ride. The ride feels incredibly slow (especially in the front row), has a dull layout to it aside from the odd element (heck this wouldn’t be as much an issue if it actually had some speed about it. Taron also doesn’t have that great a layout in terms of variation but it makes up for that by absolutely whizzing around it and really throwing you around as you go through each turn) and as far as it having “great airtime” goes, I personally have had more airtime in the car on my way to Blackpool on the motorway than I have had on Icon. I genuinely prefer Blue Fire to Icon.

The Asylum, The Asylum, The Asylum. By far the greatest maze they had their and that is not an unpopular opinion. I'm desperate to see that thing again, or if it's still controversial just name it what it originally was named... The Freezer. Perfectly designed maze to make you feel disorientated and put you into pure panic.

My big unpopular opinion seems to be that I think the Swarm is rubbish. I'm really surprised that it's so admired. You dont hear fans say it's just a decent coaster, people often say its one of their favourites! Fair enough, but I'm really baffled. The layout is boring, slow, short and the drawn out turns have a really uncomfortable, sustained G force that just gives you a headache. It looks bland and dull, a grey loop stuck out the back of the dome on some dirt. It could have been so much more. People say it's amazingly themed, but it's just some old trucks parked about the pavement, fences and a hideous station building that looks really weird. Doesnt conjure any atmosphere at all, just a featureless white blob of a building. The theme is so patchy that I get nothing from it. The Swarm is a terrible name but it doesnt seem to fit what was made anyway. A swarm of attacking creatures? More like a solitary fighter jet doing stunts in the air, that looks like... a metal alien? I'm sure there was some tacky 'backstory' for the cobbled together features we ended up with, but nothing that actually translated to the ride experience. The queueline video is all kinds of awful and it would improve the queuing experience massively if they just turned the screens off! lol I remember being very excited to go on the Swarm when it opened, I was really looking forward to it until the moment it finished and I realised that was all it was. There are hundreds of more thrilling, spectacular or just fun coasters out there. But I'm definitely in the minority!

Definitely an unpopular opinion! It's a bloody dreadful name!

What I hope - a complete revamp of the event with priority on actual maze quality and original ideas for story/theming (goodbye IP’s) aswell as Freezer and Big Top returning. Would also very much like to see the return of park wide decoration and the atmospheric midnight syndicate tracks. What I expect - Another lacklustre event with priority on using a damn IP to market the event with little to no quality in the mazes whatsoever aswell as Vulcan Peak and Big Top:showtime returning. This accompanied by those beautiful floodlights and ASDA Halloween sourced theming.

A complete revamp. Bring in someone with fresh ideas, money should be spent on the maze itself and not ip. Quality over quantity. Better organisation, maybe a rethink on the maze queue system. Close Derren Brown Ghost Train for good and create a haunted station themed maze. ? No more pound land theming and less of these !!!!