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I think a lot of Phantasialand's 'issues' are with the older generation of rides and attractions that are crying out for updates... HOPEFULLY we'll see things like TotNH and Hollywood Tour scrapped and turned into things on the same level as Chiapas and generally the rest of the park... Fortunately, even these lower quality filler rides are better than many others you see across the world... I cannot honestly think of an attraction to a similar scale and look as Hotel Tartuff at any park...

Sounds like YourDay a bit... Never really was a success that unfortunately... Plus with the amount of technology available to people now, do parks need to provide it for them in such a way? I don't think the answer is yes...

Swarm - Alien Attack/End of World theme Smiler - Being Corrected (altering body and mind) These advertising campaigns aren't exactly too far off the finished products...

Probably adds a bit of spark to it...

There was a recent trademark application from Merlin for 'automatons'... Food for thought...

I don't really get Towers Street Bar, since it's the closest BIG restaurant to CBeebies Land... Some strange decisions around the parks these days...

Same story as Pocahontas tbh... I'd probably rather watch Suckerpunch again than Avatar... At least Suckerpunch tried to do something (even if it was dreadful, and I don't actually know what it was)...

I wasn't saying that the lack of roof was cut, I just think it's a daft idea, given the design reasons behind it (a roofless building wouldn't require a fire exit, to which Ms Holland wasn't a fan of for some reason, imagine how atmospheric Swarm's station could've been if it had been enclosed)... It's that balance of design ideas and eventual cutting up of budgets which is always the worry...

I always find it interesting how these incidents always tend to happen in the States... Just, peculiar really...

There are numerous shops in the park which sell them, with one relatively close to the entrance... Unless you can actually buy them before you enter the park, which is plausible...

The question is really, "Can Towers open Smiler again without the HSE report published in the public domain?" Towers know 100% what caused the incident... They most likely knew on the actual day of the incident what caused it...

I would say the interior of Sub Terra is actually really well themed and high quality... Not sure how they could've themed the exterior mind to make it fit into the theme... Thirteen has some decent theming as well, aside from the SHED poking out... In fairness, the theming that does come into play is actually good... The Marmaliser is a fantastic set-piece in amongst the tangled track of Smiler is one of my favourite examples of their attempts at themeing... It's just a shame that the budget gets shredded and we end up with Smiler's station building, or daft decisions like no roof on Swarm's station...

Never go to a Cedar Fair park, they close rides when someone sneezes in the nearby vicinity... At Cedar Point they closed Blue Streak in light drizzle... That is really pathetic...

Next year? It's open now!

You'd think after nearly 10 years of Imperial Leather Bubbleworks people would've stopped blaming Merlin for sommat they didn't do... All for the Merlin bashing, but at least blame them for things they actually DID...

If the current weather over Thorpe is the same as in central London atm, then it's a daft decision... Besides, not like Storm Surge isn't flooded on the nice days, makes zero difference in that case...

It's got to be REALLY heavy though, and for like, hours on a consistent level before it would cause any real flooding/danger... Thunderstorms are obviously another matter, but 'heavy rain' is a poor excuse...

The amount of irony in the post is amazing <3 This post is also quite ironic, what with water rides being apparently closed due to wet weather...

Potterland is the only reason this was ever considered... Disney, strangely panicked and decided an external property would suit Animal Kingdom, a park which thrives on realistic theming and environments, so obviously Avatar was the only sane choice... Beastly Kingdom was never gonna happen, but they could've gone for any random continent in the world instead... An Artic themed area done by Disney could've been really fab as an example... South America is also under-represented in the theme park world...

It's what they did with Zodiac... Perhaps a new Top Scan would be an idea, who knows if Mondial have improved the design? Bearing in mind Samurai is 16 years old, it might be the best avenue for Thorpe to take...

Asylum offended people (after many years of operation)... It might offend enthusiasts if it's dreadful... At this early stage it's too easy to claim certain things about this ride, though we know Merlin love some good market research, and I'm sure a few people on here have before been pulled into some of these focus groups whilst on park... That much is probably actually true... Everything beyond that, is hearsay...

I agree, this isn't really that comparable to SeaWorld's issues surrounding Blackfish, mostly because in recent years animals are treated as pretty much equal to humanity (when it suits us of course)... The recent case of Cecil the Lion shows what strange lengths people go to because of an animal being treated cruelly (yet flip the coin on certain humans being treated the same, as no-one cares)... Especially in the world of internet warriors who tend to apparently know much, much more than qualified vets and stuff, although with Blackfish it's one word against the other, and brings along with it the whole argument as to whether zoos are suitable... Blackfish has pretty much killed 2 parks and caused a lot more disruption to them... It's also an international scale thing, whereas Towers has mostly been a national thing, with a few international reports at the time of the incident in the same way we had a few articles about some of the Stateside incident... That SeaWorld have responded by building a B&M Hyper in Orlando is about the only route I would suggest Towers also take...

Chessie have had rats for years... Huge buggers too... Sure they're commonplace at the other parks too, since food sources and stuff...

But there's Avatar sequels coming out at some point (which also, no-one else asked for)... All style and no substance... Just like the films... In regards to other additions, we did recently have a wave of them, new Fantasyland was Magic Kingdom's big thing, and I think the next focus will be Hollywood Studios... You don't always need to add something new every year, although given Universal's sudden "we're going to invest ALL the Harry Potter money" move, Disney's additions aren't looking that great comparatively... But they won't start losing millions of guests as a result...