MattyMoo

Merlin love a good "accidental" leak. They've been doing it for years. Just try walking under Storm Surge.

Another IP that's past it's sell by date

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.... Not even a mention of VR

Quoted by Benin #lifemade

When's this "world's first" attraction happening then eh? Summer is winding down now

Preview Night is the cheapest night The Colony went into the cornfields I think but there were random fires, actors etc. so maybe it was that maze that had been adapted? The sheer size and length of the mazes astounded me like I say! 100% going again this year. Also to keep on topic: How long until SAW Alive gets binned? And also - FN's starting on 29th September this year now

100% going to Tulley's again this year - purely just to meet the popcorn girls again haha Was very impressed last year, and that was on the preview night, so assume it would have been even better once the actors had got used to the new mazes etc. Hopefully Hellements goes this year as that was laughable, that was my only negative. The size/length of The Colony is something that Thorpe can unfortunately only ever dream of.

Don't mind me, just quoting myself

I applaud AT for these videos - like I said on Facebook, they shouldn't have to explain themselves - but it helps shutdown (no pun intended) the Daily Mail fake news articles. I haven't read the article, but I wonder if they mentioned the Smiler accident in it - I'm sure they did....

I see no planning applications have been made so it has to be something they wheel in and plonk down somewhere...

Thorpe's social media will keep saying a mixture of it's closed permanently and under redevelopment, ad nauseam, because they don't know. Looking forward to another 10 pages of Twitter and Facebook screenshots until closed season.

Don't h8 m8 apreciat8. Soz m80.

This is/was Merlin at their most desperate IMHO. There's a reason why it's a world's first Surprised they didn't come up with a World's First for Storm Surge... I can think of a few It's a shame tagging world-first (or UK first) on to everything - The Smiler is/was a strong enough brand without it. Evidently doesn't always work or make any difference, with The Swarm being billed as the UK's first winged coaster being a case in point.

Anyone know where the washing machine element is going? Or have I spoken out of turn?!

Excellent addition to the lineup to soak up those queues, and the blue fences fit in a treat with Old Town

DBGTROTD opened after a couple of days of unplanned downtime this afternoon.

The only person who knows anything is Jart. Say his name, and he shall appear.

We stayed at Disney All Star Sports resort and funnily enough they don't make it easy for you to get to Universal We investigated buses but it seemed a right faff so we just thought sod it, we're on holiday anyway so we got a taxi to and from Universal for our 2 trips! The Disney buses and transportation system are amazing - we went to The Hoop Dee Doo Musical Revue at Ford Wilderness - which is literally in the back end of no-where on the resort - and we were made a right fuss of and looked after by the bus driver heading back as they had to take a diversion due to an accident. Can't wait to go back to Orlando but I suppose Disney & Disney Sea Japan this November will have to do

Looks like Lumber Jump has a blue fence too from that photo!

That's quite a sensible suggestion actually - either that or Loggers is finally coming back next year...!

Very curious.... or just the social media team not giving accurate information for a change

Very good to hear DBGTROTD is going down well this year - shame it couldn't have been this good for opening but lessons will be learned etc. etc... It's just as easy to remove bits of the experience as it is to add them - will be interesting to see how the ride operates in a few years time.

What are the panels leaning against the fence in the background?

I should've put a sarcasm note in my post, sorry dude It 100% isn't supposed to look that dirty!

This is the photo from TripAdvisor. This is actually theming to fit in with Lost City's new "abandoned" theme, it is not through lack of repainting.