Mattgwise

I don't mind the name tbh. I'm just happy we are getting what looks like a decent coaster. Good name or crap name this should be very good for the park and increase visitor numbers significantly.

People that add "The" to the front of ride names when it isn't part of the name. "The Colossus is wicked". "Let's go on The Nemesis".

The park are clearly massively understaffed, especially in terms of maintenance/engineering as virtually everyday they have been unable to have all rides available at opening. It seemed as if they were making this seem normal procedure on weekdays as the screen would display what was open at park opening and what would open later.

I'm not one for creating huge blogs so... Just got back from my second visit to Europa having been five years ago, and think I enjoyed it even more. This is truly a wonderful place and hope to be back sooner than five years. As you'd expect, all rides working, no breakdowns, high capacity, friendly staff, good food (and too much choice). Got on many rides and the longest queue was 25 mins for Matterhorn Blitz, everything else around the 10-15 mins mark. Sunday park open till 7:30 and Tuesday on our second day open until 9:00. Was fantastic to twice see engineers working on animatronics, proving they truly do keep everything going, unlike some places we all know a bit too well I really recommend visiting the Silver Lake Saloon for dinner if anyone visits the park and stays nearby. Great food and great surroundings. Just a few pics...

This is exactly the same for me. Thought it was just me!

The hotel has been planned for years and had some plans changed several times. It doesn't stop them building any rollercoasters at all. As far as I know the hotel money has already been budgeted for.

I wasn't too sure of the music played at entrance and in the dome at first, but after having been on a school trip Tuesday and being able to listen to it for some time it really works. Only part that gets a bit annoying is the birds tweeting in the background to the track. Glad they have an end of day track played again as well. Was able to listen to it on Saturday as park was due to shut at 5 but got extended which meant it was playing in the areas from 5pm.

Put me down for this and the meal please.

Probably means it's had issues in testing and will require a new part which takes weeks as it has to be specially made. I would guess its taken off for now and will reappear when the ride is ready. They aren't planning to remove it.

Seeing this in action actually gives me more hope for SW8, as like that this looked dull at first, yet now it's built it seems to be faster than I would have thought and looks a similar scale to SW8.

I don't think the track is to do with Lionsgate/Twisted Pictures as it is not from the official Saw soundtrack, they only use that at Halloween.

Yeah at first when it was posted on friends and family day I was like errr no, but as I have listened to it again and on another clip of the dome it seems fitting, can't wait to hear the full thing.

WWTP, Colossus and Inferno should be left alone, but can't see it as there were already hints over closed season at Colossus and Inferno receiving new soundtracks. Changing those would be a bad decision, although happy for everything else to change.

Literally as it looked this time one year ago, those two boats that can be seen haven't moved.

Nope... From http://live.themeparkguide.biz/

It's more suited to Amity area, dunno why they put it there.

I like the old theme, but this new one is not as bad as I thought it would be. Anyone notice at the 1 minute mark they have completely forgotten to paint just one section of the fence (a speaker cover), which is still bright green? I just hope they have left Inferno and Colossus alone as they were rumoured to be changing!

Looking forward to going 1st April, first time in five years. Shame the new ride won't be open but the place is awesome enough anyway

It is most certainly an improvement on Bubbleworks 2, but it's hard to appreciate as much as should be when the original Bubbleworks was done so amazingly in a time with far less technology and expectations. I mean add in an image of the original bubbleworks for comparison too. (From British Theme Park Archives) It will be a success.

Looking a lot better than I expected. Sadly lots to maintain and we all know that's not Merlin's strong point. http://live.themeparkguide.biz

It still hasn't been perfect but has been more consistent the last two seasons, previous seasons it gave up by April/may and then was never sorted for the rest of season. At least they have managed to bother fixing it if it breaks the last few seasons. The one that surprised me last year was the spinning blades beneath Saw: The Ride's drop. They worked faultlessly every season until last year, and I didn't see them work once in 2016.

I like that it has its current soundtrack even if it is silly to use a video game soundtrack. People actually dance to it haha. The station could benefit from not using the same track and having the old announcements and sound effects there in my opinion.

^ That clarifies the disagreement between ChessingtonSam and I It was flipping fine when I saw it going Sunday, and wasn't as noisy as in the video.

Because today there was no queue at all! I rode it several times and walked on. Wait until the Easter holidays.

Yes it was... Walked past at least 4 times.