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OH NOES! BUCCANEER HAS BEEN TAKEN DOWNS!!! IT MUST BE LEAVING AND IT'LL BE LIKE RODEO ALL OVER AGAIN!!!!!111It's sitting elsewhere in the park atm... Major maintenance times obviously...And Toytown got cancelled a while back... Hence why no-one's been continuing on that front...

Bullet for my Valentine tonight <3<3<3<3<3<3Gonna be awesome...

Try again, Tripsdrill has the original bathtime themed log flume attraction... Including animatronic half naked ladies... And personally I'm not bored with pirate themes... Towers were clever with it as an addition as it didn't require too much work (with the pre-existing buildings already being piratey), pirates regaining popularity due to the films, and it actually looking pretty decent and revamping a rather dull area by giving it a much more obvious identity...Pirate themes are also very simple for guests to understand, as they are very general knowledge... That's why lots of parks have them... Nice, simple and can be very effective if done well...Replacing Flume does provide an interesting choice for Towers, removal could involve a good old arguement with the council, whilst revamping would be the cheapest idea, but not provide anything truly exciting and new... Plus they will need to consider throughputs as Peter said, it's one of the highest in the park...A conundrum...

Flume needs... Something desperately... It's extremely hard to theme the entire layout with only the tunnels and queue providing any form of chance for theming to occur...I'm not sure if it should be replaced or not... Certainly about one of the few big layout rides at Towers that would be relatively simple (in comparison to others) to remove and hence replace...But as to the original question, removal of branding is currently the most we can hope for, unless they decide to throw some money at it since they lost Shrek...

So people can freeze whilst 5 rides are open?I think it's in the park's best interests not to attempt it unless they KNOW they can get as many rides as possible operating at opening throughout the day...

That would be... interesting... But whether or not RMC were planning it is arguable... It that same alternative universe Tussauds' additions to Chessie and Alton would have been of the same quality since they didn't have to think about Thorpe...

Blackpool are redoing the Big One... Losing the Pepsi sponsorship and redoing the entrance as well...Pictured above is the new look trains...Sea-side silliness for the win!

They're fun? Missed that email

I suggest those who took the glasses from the 4D show give a pound back to Merlin since that's how much they cost to make...

Did they answer your post on fb? I'm... Unsure about this tbh... I can't say that going to the hotel restaurant will be the first thing that comes to mind for people leaving the park... Looks decent enough as it is if a bit... Bland...Would love it to be a restaurant on park though... Especially given how significantly the on-park food has improved over this year...

Wait... When did that happen?

Ohhhhh, Hayley Williams... What are YOU doing here?EDIT - Ahhhh those Germans do provide us with some strange things... I never thought the Black Mamba video could be topped, but a strong contender from our friends at Europa...

IT'S A TRAM! RUN!

Wahey, it actually has a 90 degree turn...I think the layout is also completed, meaning that the trains are the last thing to look forward to...

Bumpity bump bump...The theme of the new ride (whatever it is), will be.......*Sighs*

Back? You never really left... Merlin is always there... Behind you... With a grip like steel...You never truly leave...

It is going slightly quick I'd say, considering it's already December...It's all done to opinion though ain't it?

In other news....YOU ARE TEARING ME APART LISA! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMH8vNhz9QI

Alternatively, OBVIOUS TROLL IS OBVIOUS...

Ahhhhh, there's the cheap section of the idea, this naturally makes it a much more likely thing to happen now that we know there's some form of recycling.....

Nice to see... But forgive for being rather tentative about the source... Dunno how someone with 5 posts who joined today can be seen as reliable... It must be going over my head...

Why can't Chessie or Lego do it? It's obviously to do with the parks thinking it will not be as popular as you might think...Lego DID used to open over the winter period, with the majority (if not all, memory is hazy) open... That's a plus... The negative? It was empty... Granted this was before AdventureZone or whatever they call it, but it probably felt to the management that it just wasn't worthwhile that they opened for Christmas...Evidently, I'd guess Chessie feel the same... It currently has it's Zoo Days, so will no doubt use them as a precursor to how busy they feel the park will be... Oh, and of course they have numerous bits of maintenance to do... Buccaneer isn't even THERE right now... And considering also this is when the park areas begin to teem with vehicles left, right and centre, it's not the safest place, then we add in staff payments and the like...Of course, they could do something at the hotel... Oh wait, they ARE! Well blow me down the park's actually KNOW what they're doing... CHESSIE DO SANTA STUFF!!!!1111Rich you list Adventure Island and Paultons as the two parks who do it... One of which is in a busy costal town, the other is a small family park with two rides that need major maintenance work... Two parks with their biggest rides both being Gerstlauers in comparison to parks with Vampire, Dragon and the rest? Yeah, I think the park's know EXACTLY what they're doing more than ANY of us, including you...

A week after the other two?It's ALWAYS been like that... And it's not 'stupidly' late...Anyways, noted down in the calender... Shall defo be making my way down for opening day funtimes...

Disorganised public transport in heavy snowfall times?What a shocker!

^Your area is obviously crap then...Looking at the way the North operates it seems to be kicking the South's arse in running transport bus-wise...