MattyMoo

But the social media team said they hoped Loggers Leap would be making a splash back soon so with that in mind who knows where Vortex will be back ?

It's finished already ? I can only begin to imagine what's been going on inside after 3 years of Alton Towers Loving Care, going to be incredible.

But there's a pop badge. Everyone loves those. In years to come, after Brexit has gone through and the apocalypse has arrived, people will trade goods and services for small circular plastic discs with a poorly fixed cheap sticker in the middle, and our saviour Mrs. T will overthrow the queen.

I appreciate that the report is from Reddit, but even if you take it with a massive pinch of salt, it's still completely inexcusable. Awful, awful reading.

I personally like the comments from people saying it's gone from "Year of the Walking Dead" to "Year of the Brain Dead" ?

Where the next short lived IP can come from? ?

Thought: If it says "now the legacy begins" - perhaps it's ex-Thorpe employees/creatives/people that are starting their own horror mazes? That would make some sort of sense.

Until Jart says it's not coming back, I will go to sleep each night full of hope and dreams that our timber related old faithful will be confirmed as splashing back next season. Or the season after that.

Exactly. Too good to be anything Merlin related

I feel sick.

Ooops. Need more coffee. 1/10 on the humour scale.

*insert obvious joke that trains should be flying out of the station as it's a B&M Flyer here* That's good to hear though Shame about Colossus but then I've never liked it anyway and would rather not ride than ride due to the headache situation that Han mentions!

Smiler's projector room seemed to be working OK when I visited in April - but agree, the state of the building outside is not good

No chance of even getting in I'm afraid. I'm slightly north of 30 age wise and got ID'd last time I went - as did everyone else.

A fwend of mine who hadn't been to THE ISLAND LIKE NO OTHER in quite some time visited last week and went on DBGTROTD knowing nothing about it whatsoever - and he thoroughly loved it. He particularly liked the hologram start, the VR with the doggo and most of all the fake shop which took him by surprise. On the flip side - he thought Living Dead THE RIDE was absolutely laughable and I quote "It's literally just the same coaster in the dark with the occasional zombie flashing at you, maze either side with like 1 dude in make-up trying to scare people". To be honest I don't know why they didn't use that description on the website?

But... but... Mr. Worldwide is elite, no? Rules are for normal guests

Was it hot/sunny in the faster one by any chance? Wicker Man definitely runs better in the heat. We were thrown into a few of the corners when we rode on 20th April and it was a scorcher of a day then.

DBGTROTD retheme to Dr. Wh0 confirmed, now those fake leaked images make sense ?

That fence around the Buddha looks incredible... ?

Drinks offerings on park at Towers were Stella and Stella Cidre at the Welcome Inn, with some other similar mainstream stuff.

Good work on the Goose Island - was similarly impressed the other year when they had some Meantime beers in that little street food bit that randomly appeared near Crust. Goose Island is now owned by InBev mind you so they are "mainstream" if you like, but that's me being pedantic Better beer selection than Towers anyway!

Didn't know the Tiger Rock tunnel had a PopWorld IP but fair play for securing that one on the quiet, lads!

15/10 on the tunnel scale

Is Quantum still dead? I hear the beloved Rocky Express has been a little under the weather recently too May as well just close off the whole of "Old Town"

Towers isn't exactly heaving "off peak" - looking at today for example, the longest queue I've seen is 20 mins (good old Galactica) with everything else being 0 mins - 15 mins. Right now on the "Family" side of rides at Towers, 19 out of 21 rides have a 0 minute queue. That's a lot of staff doing not a lot - as said above, Merlin can probably cope with that better than a one off attraction could do.