MattyMoo

😆😆 Will he even have an invite for opening day/press though? Can't wait to be on the ISLAND LIKE NO OTHER with all the stars.

Double posting again like the rapscallion I am. Less than a week now until the attraction that is the future of themeparks reopens... do we think it will still have VR? Personally I can't say I'd be too enamored with the idea of putting a headset on right now, it just seems an unnecessary risk? If they have to clean EVERY headset after EVERY ride that's going to make the queue even longer & slower than it normally is too... I think if they DO have VR still, they are going to have to make that clear from the offset/with signs outside, because if you haven't ridden before and experienced the future of themeparks, you might be a bit non plussed after queuing for it and then deciding you don't want to do it because of a potential increased risk of Covid. I'm someone who has been out and about as soon as permitted during these Covid times, gone to bars, restaurants, theme parks etc. etc. but all that said, I think a headset (even if it is just over your eyes) just seems a step too far as soon as 17th May comes - and I don't think I'd be the only one to think that? I can't really see the "experience" working without VR either - would love to know what the future holds for DBGTROTD if this is it's last year of the IP agreement, as rumoured. There's no way on earth that thing has been worth the money. I would say that maybe only Sub Terra ranks similarly in terms of Merlin "white elephants" - but the difference is there, it probably cost a fifteenth of the budget that DBGTROTD did and has done.

Anyone else think it's a little odd that Thorpe have posted nothing about Black Mirror on their socialz? Or have they forgotten about it? What's everyone's wild speculation about what it's going to be like? My gut is it that will have a mildly clever thing in there, that's slightly impressive first time around but that's about it I am also more than a little concerned about the throughputs... but we shall see!

Next week the plan is Paulton's on Wednesday then THE ISLAND LIKE NO OTHER on Thursday, gassed!

Fake news, didn't see this in Jack Silkstone's videos, sorry.

Indeed, we miss Jart muchly, but with speculation rife about a neW CoASteR coming to THORPE PARK RESORT after surveyors have been spotted in OLD TOWN maybe Jart will make a return?!

Didn't Samurai have a considerable amount of work done over closed season a few years back too? Just wish Slammer was still with us tbh, sigh.

Sorry not sorry for double posting but... do we really think the park will be that much busier on Friday 21st if I was hypothetically going to visit then? 🤓 No schools are off then of course and I'm sure MAPpers wouldn't dare take their kids out of school for the day just to get an exclusive pop badge or something.

TPWW already have agreed the rights to the first Youtube POV of the multi launch coaster, just heard.

What was I saying earlier in this thread about RAP queues ending up being longer than the main queue? Almost as if the system is being completely abused and a RAP pass is a right of passage for children who are used to getting their own way and just don't like queuing very much instead of having an actual medicial condition or disability that is deserving of a RAP pass. I'd love to know how many people on the MAP facebook group DON'T use RAP.... It's a shambles. Think Benin nailed it there with entitled idiots to be honest.

Give it a couple of years and the RAP queues will be longer than the main queue. What happens then? 🧐

😱😱😱 The plot thickens, just like an unbranded nitrogen ice cream cookie sandwich.

For a while anyway #RIPDBGTsTwoPhotoPoints In other news, if those roaming actors in silver clothes with pink wigs are anything to do with Black Mirror - please, please, please, I hope they aren't - that's absolutely laughable.

I've been in tears since I woke up.

It still doesn't work.

We've just booked Disneyland Paris, 3 nights arriving Sunday 22nd August... we figure it's pretty likely to go ahead, and all refundable anyway. As I understand it, w/c 23rd shouldn't be super busy but who knows anymore! We just want something to look forward to!

With the introduction of Creak Freak Massacre in the old station building - with the expenditure on a scare maze at Thorpe we haven't seen for quite some time - it's going to be some time before we see anything going on with Loggers I would imagine, especially with Creak Freak being unused last year. Appreciate they could start construction behind Creak Freak though potentially, and just re-route/postpone Platform 15 perhaps.

You can view the Wayback Machine's archive of Minds Wanted here: https://web.archive.org/web/20151127043531/https://mindswanted.co.uk/ Agreed, the Smiler hype and campaign was very well orchestrated - especially considering it was Merlin's own IP. I think it speaks volumes still that it's popularity hasn't waned since the unfortunate accident either. The Swarm's campaign I also loved, but it's interesting how that just didn't seem to strike a chord so much with people vs Smiler... maybe because people are/were sick of the "end of the world" and destruction rhetoric, where as the mysterious and different promo for The Smiler was more engaging. I was young at the time, but on a similar note I remember vividly the Oblivion hype on park, in particular the security guard actors positioned along the perimeter construction fence.

Yep - those gates are literally bog standard security gates - could have at least got them in a branded colour!

Do you reckon they'll stick vinyls on them to make them fit in a little bit better? You would hope so, no...?

Can anyone confirm if the 5th green light has been fixed on Stealth to celebrate it's 15th birthday please.

😂 Are we to assume the new land won't open until phase 4 of easing starts on w/c 17th May at the earliest?

Yikes, that's a lot of time to kill being stuck in a little box! Unless I'm guessing they'll hire in some food & beer carts maybe? Or maybe the huts outside DBGTROTD are still there from FN's?

Hopefully this paves the way for the second Detty tower.

A huge problem with DBGTROTD is - what on earth do you do with it next? Once VR is permitted Covid-wise I would assume that they could just change the overlay to something else/another story maybe? But if you take away the VR, it's just a train simulator. Could maybe see it going the way of a live action scare maze type attraction maybe? But even then, they don't have a good history whatsoever at the Island Like No Other.... there also comes a point too where you are just throwing good money away over bad, and it's not worth the outlay to keep it going. Any budget to retheme the thing isn't exactly going to be huge because of the cost already spent on it - and then subsequent "upgrades" - shout out to sweaty white T shirt man in the fake gift shop. Can't exactly see anyone being super keen on buying it off them either... and we don't want DBGTROTD, Saw Alive, Slammer and Loggers all sitting there SBNO.