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I'm blaming Benin because he didn't vote. Oh look Michael Gove removed To Kill A Mockingbird from the GCSE English syllabus because he didn't like it.

Yes Thorpe.

Would have been thread of the year if you had put headphones on him.

For £25/£15, I'd be expecting some pretty high quality stuff. I still don't see what differentiates this event from your local clubs apart from the ERT at the start.

^ Then spoil your ballot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oczj6thd4CY lol

If they don't have roaming actors dressed as the birds for Fright Nights, they will have missed a trick.

'thinks' is being confused for 'markets itself as'.

You haven't seen Rockit's queue have you Sidders? The trains look like a cross between Spiderman and The Mummy. Should be good.

I love going on Splash Mountain but cloning old attractions is boring. I guess we could have sweepstakes for how long it would take for all the animatronics to break

Money is getting pumped in because of ownership changes. I haven't been really following it but I know the Disney company now have a larger investment in the park. Management positions have also been shuffled. The EBITDA fluctuations are a bit crazy. The decrease in attendance compared to last year could just be people waiting for Ratatouille so it will be interesting to see what happens after it opens.

Time to be movin' along... To new attraction concepts.

I don't remember any dodgy trains on Blue Fire, it just wasn't very loud. They should take a leaf out of California Screamin's' book.

The real question is, is there an onboard soundtrack?

The animatronics look stunning. The ride portion looks fun, serviceable I guess. Taken by itself, the ride is fine. The problem is that Magic Kingdom hasn't seen a new E ticket since Splash Mountain in 1992. This attraction took 2 and half years to build and whether people think it is 'fair' or not, it's going against the Potter expansion.

Well at least it matches Scary Adventure's/most Disney dark ride's endings then

The figure thrown about is $80M and you are right that that most of the design work could be copied over. It wouldn't be too much by Disney standards but this is the park that has only added Tower of Terror (massively delayed) and Toon Studios since opening. If they are going to all the effort of making a Parisian area for Ratatouille, it would nice to get an attraction about nostalgic French filmmaking. Hell, alter the location of Tower so it says Paris in the preshow, rip out all the tack between the two locations and replace it with the same style by the entrance turnstiles. Or something to do with The Hunchback of Notre Dame and I'll be happy.

High investment for low capacity which the park cannot afford. It would just be Crush 2.0.

Most of those rumours have be circulating for years. While sorting out Big Thunder's and Space's problems and finally upgrading Star Tours would be lovely, I wouldn't hold out for them. Midway Mania is exactly the kind of ride that Studios shouldn't get.

I remember seeing a 1.4m or 1.5m sign for Blue Fire's back row at some point. No idea if that's still around though.

The fountains have been turned off so guests can get a clear view of the new wall. Aside from the obvious ride failures, the new attractions staff seem to be clueless which I guess is down to poor training. The new 'safety' rules on Vampire combined with batchers not being able to sort people out before the next train, even when it stacks is hilarious. I am not sure why people give this park sympathy when it is run by THE SECOND LARGEST THEME PARK OPERATOR IN THE WORLD, SECOND ONLY TO DISNEY.

Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimised by Regina George Flipper. I'm no businessman but high attendance is not sustainable if the attraction is low quality. Word of mouth alone will destroy you.

I like how a guy from IMAscore summaries the ride's story better than any publication by Merlin or by the looks of the things the queue does.

Crush still has to deal with the problem of year round operation (though pretty short days by Disney standards). The maintenance of Paris leaves a lot be desired but in the case of the cannon I think that's more a case of bad design. It is refurbed every couple of years and breaks again shortly after. A pity since the recoil and smoke effects make all the difference.

Disney's maintenance is going to be way higher. Test Track, Pirates, Splash, Indy (this one alone must be a nightmare), the list goes on. Complex, long rides with lots of vehicles and scenery which during most times of the year have very little downtime therefore requiring large night crews.