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Next big investment: Augur- The station building is a large Roman temple with the queue line beginning through a large roman statue littered garden then entering through the grand pillar open air entrance into the building for the station where a god like spirit in flames projection explains how in ancient times Augurs where considered witches who interpreted the will of the gods and the island was once a witches haunt they made a grave mistake interpreting a battle and the island was scorched as they burned they placed a powerful curse on the land that centuries ago was defeated and buried however with the work for the new ride on this land the curse has been released again. The ride then exits the station to climb a lift hill dropping down into the 6 of a large Roman clock drawn on the ground and rising through the 12 into a loop where the central statue sprays water at the riders and back through the 6 and exiting the 11, the ride then performs a air time hill over the gardens and turns round to enter the 10 and exit the 4 into a large banked turn entering the 2 and exiting the 8 and meandering through the temple pillars. The ride then turns passing over the gardens to enter the 9 exit the 3 into a Immelmann loop that turns and enters the 5 and travels through the beak of the main feature underground which is the Augur statue (a bird looking woman) with wings outstretched and exits the 1 into a banked turn back into the 12 to perform a helix around the main feature and exit the 7 to return to the temple building where the ride abruptly stops the platform the car is on begins to shake and tilt as the room appears to suffer from an earth quake and flames burst around the room a screeching sound is heard and the room fades to black with the train arriving back at the station.

That is a good point we don't know for certain what is going into these new lands yet so I am just assuming currently, its more the fact for me personally that I would stay Paris doesn't really have any stand out features/attractions to me compared to when I went to Florida or Tokyo and sadly for me the only reason I would go again would simply be for proximity there is very little there that draws me in only ratatouille and crush's coaster. Though as you said ratatouille is now being built over in Epcot, I did notice how many Americans were there all because of Ratatouille on my visit wearing branded t-shirts and the like and talking in the queue about how cool it was to have something different here to go on, kind of feels like with that circumstance changing they will lose out on people. Granted its probably a small percentage but for the least visited Disney every little helps. On a side not I hadn't heard the Ant man ride idea that sounds awesome and I'm glad there not changing tower of terror, to much.

That is very true I would assume it would be incredibly rare for someone to have done all six parks, however with these 3 new lands you could to go to Florida shall we say which a fair amount of people do go to and apart from the Frozen land, there is the Frozen attraction but not as grand as the Frozen Land coming to Paris, these additions are all there as well as at the others parks as well. I think its probably more wishing on my part to be honest but it seems odd that the parks outside of America replicate all the attractions of America, it would be nice to see Euro Disneyland have more European based attractions on European inspired Disney films I.e a Beauty and the beast land as were in Paris, or hunch back of Notre dame ride etc I feel they are missing a trick in that respect if they had more big unique attractions it would give people more incentive to stick closer to home than go to say Florida etc

Glad to see such expansion for Disneyland Paris finally, just wish Disney as a whole would start doing more Unique attractions. I guess you can argue that not everyone can get to other parks around the world but if you can there's not really any reason to go to Disneyland Paris. Star wars land is basically going to be at every single other park Disney has and so it seems Marvel will to and Frozen land is coming to some parks as well, I wish they would do more unique things like they did with Ratatouille as if every park is pretty much for those of us who can go to America or Asian parks there's nothing different to draw your attention to Paris.

Next we can expect to lose Tower of Terror to the awful Guardians of the Galaxy re-theme.... Paris could really do with some originality and unique rides not carbon copies of attractions elsewhere if that's the case I'm sure people would just rather head to America.

This it totally true we need to bring the log flumes back to our UK parks.

Personally I'm torn because X was a staple of my Thorpe Park visits however if the ride break runs are reinstated and they add some strobe effects and zombie mannequins etc similar to the mall scene in the mazes in USA with sound effects I can see this being a really interesting thrill ride. But with how they are lately with themeing and effects I don't hold out much hope.

A retheme of X would be interesting if they turned it back around to backwards in the dark with VR now that would be a worlds first

Blackpool pleasure beach x1 Disneyland Paris and studios x4 (4 days) Very quiet year really, haven't been fussed about Thorpe park this year got kind of stale for me. Looking forward to Blackpool and Alton towers and Tokyo Disney I hope next year.

I was doing some reading as I visited Paris Disneyland a month ago now and I must say when I was there you can really tell the difference in size and scale to other parks I've been to Tokyo first and then Florida, so I wasn't surprised to read that the Paris park hadn't had much invest but I was surprised to hear it had been struggling financially. I don't think it helps that compared to the other parks its so much smaller and it does show, I went for 4 days and at times it got to the point where it was like ok we've done that quite a few times now, what haven't we been on so much. I feel sad for the park really as you'd think being the only park in Europe they would want to do more with it. Considering that China has 2 parks (granted it is a very large country) that are from what I can tell much more on par with Florida and Tokyo's scale it seems odd to not have as many attractions for the European counterpart. I was reading that the financial/investment struggle was blamed to shared holders and now they've pretty much brought them out they can start putting more in. I really hope this is the case as to me it kind of feels like the one park that's being left out when you see all of the plans for Tokyo, Chinese and American parks. It could really do with more unique rides to like Ratatouille was amazing but soon that won't even be there own signature ride with the opening in Florida.

Thank you

I really pray its so, I miss that ride so much!

I don't know whether to get excited or not, Thorpe have got my hopes up and dashed them to many times before, although they surprised me with the walking dead being not as lacklustre as I expected.

Canada Creek/Old Town: The whole area has more of a undead western theme with the new roller coaster, loggers leap is refurbished and re-opened with updated theming. Dander Dash: The Vekoma steel launched coaster the same model as Disney's Tron light cycle coaster but the cars would be themed to undead horses. The station building and queue line is the old Canada creek railway area. The roller coaster goes straight ahead into a room which has a sun down illumination and two figures either side the light goes out and a gun shot is heard the ride then launches out of the building beside the log flume into an inverted loop with a barrel roll over the top of the building with a figure with gun shots fired out of a wagon, the ride then drops down passing a tavern building and a over turned wagon with shooting sounds, the ride then performs a banked turn over the walkway with burger king etc, straight into another banked turn underneath the Colossus lift hill and then at the top into a building based on slammers site where it would perform 5 downward Helix's in the shed themed to a barn lightning lights and sound effects within the centre of the helix a graveyard where western zombie figurines slowly rise up from the grave with strobe effects. Exiting the building to pass western zombie figurines one a hanging victim reaching at riders they then perform a bunny hop over the entrance from lost city and perform a banked turn passing the start of loggers leap and a banked s-bend over the bottom of the drop, the ride then turns and performs a break run around the back of the station building and you exit at a separate unloading station.

I would love for loggers leap to re-open but sadly I think the ride is just being left to rot until they can replace it with something else, probably a roller coaster. Which is a crying shame, Merlin parks currently lack log flumes so I hope that if it can't be fixed they replace it with a new log flume/water ride as this takes away from the water rides line up. I'd love it if they could add in a coaster but still keep loggers.

What I'm most intrigued about by these walking dead mazes is how well they will be put together in relation to Universal own mazes for there HHN and also how different they will be, being that this is Thorpe Park I'm going in with very low expectation in the hope that I will be pleasantly surprised as I have been lucky enough to attend HHN.

https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2017/03/21/rumor-universals-dragon-challenge-coaster-making.html Seeing quite few rumours circulating that Dragon Challenges days are numbered.... Riding it without the coasters interacting did make it feel really bland to be honest. I'm quite excited by the possible prospect of a Fantastic Beasts and where to find them area that would be wonderful and it makes a very good point that with all the recent announcements about so much changing at Walt Disney World they really need to do something to compete.

Gutted about the Hollywood studios ride being shelved for a mickey mouse and co ride? Really! It sounds like a terrible idea!

I have been starting to worry this was the case as there's been no more mention of anything else...

What a bunch of idiots!

People are asking because its part of the experience its something they enjoyed and they want to know whats happening to it. I do because without loggers leap it makes me want to go somewhere else as tidal wave just soaks you and isn't an experience and rumba and storm dirge are naff, I think it helps that people are showing interest so that they see the ride is wanted and hope it will persuade to put there money where there mouth is.

I agree with everyone above, we went before a few years ago when they implemented a rule about if you were under 16 you had to be accompanied by an adult but it was just a group of school friends and we were refused entry to the ride, especially now that there's only rumba and tidal wave left (as decent water rides), it feels unfair to tar all teenagers with the same brush just because of a few stupid people who choose to ignore the safety advice given.

I can imagine there's plenty of complaints about loggers not being open since your only other options are getting completely drenched on tidal wave or enduring the snoozefest of storm durge.

I would love something like Disney/universal in the UK sadly doesn't seem like its possible, I only hope I'm proved wrong and that it turns out they work with lots of big companies in collaboration for a wider spectrum of brands.

Yes but I don't get that argument for two reasons, A) If a brand as big as disney and several other american brands are doing it and think its safe surely it would be B ) If there were seat belts on the rapids at dream land arguably they would have survived? Since two of them died from drowning and the other two died from being crushed in the lift chains whereas if they were strapped in, they wouldn't have been ejected to be crushed by the chains (not claiming to a be technician, maybe someone can shed some light on whether or not the ride did have seat belts, didn't think it did)