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THEY WERE WAITING FOR A PART! The takeover will have had nothing to do with Wickerman reopening... Come on guys it happens...

I believe that is right Josh, for Mack the success of Blue Fire propelled them back into the industry eye, where the up and coming Gerstlauer and Maurer were sneaking into their turf... Think about the Mack installations prior and post Blue Fire... It's an amazing difference, and something we're now seeing Vekoma catch into... Regarding Merlin, no point breaking out the bunting until things REALLY start changing... Investment needs to be intelligent, and not wasting money on crap that ends up mothballed or shut in 2/3 years... Hopefully the change to private company will be a major factor in this...

I think Josh is also qualified to understand a tongue in cheek comment on his own without any white knighting.

For good companies might be worth looking on Blooloop's job section too, jobs in all sorts of leisure stuff...

It's easy to get to from centre of Paris via coach as well; people using going to outskirts as an excuse also need to consider where DLP is in relation to the city

To maximise profit they should make the parks operate in a sensible fashion, with sensible hours... People who are enjoying their day spend more money... Something they can't or don't want to do when 3+ rides are dead, half the f&b places are closed and the place looks worse than Bakken!

Taiga looks unfortunately like a poor man's Helix based on the POV...

I assume going for a family friendly approach will involve getting rid of Walking Dead cred then? Constant reactive decisions aren't helping, and as soon as changes are made and aren't successful in a season (because a massive change like target audience takes time) they'll revert back...

Adverse Camber sounds like a good name for a rock band.

Metal detectors? Bit of an over reaction to loose items on rides there...

Hate the location of it, the whole entrance of park to Cliffhanger is just so bad... Hopefully they'll run it ok, but as it's Mingo I doubt it... The park could be decent if operations improved even to just a standard...

It will be the best roller coaster at the park... #damningwithfaintpraise

Hansa is fab, really do need to get back there soon... Glad that they're still updating the old areas, wonder what's next on their list?

Not sure if serious... (No idea who the other person is)

Why? This isn't TST...

None of these are unpopular...

Child seemingly thrown off the Twister coaster today, from the pic I've seen it could well be midway through the circuit which either leads to restraint failure or height issues... Not good news for anyone...

Fansites get free trip to Thorpe with nibbles and are positive about new addition they've been invited to review... [/Shocked.gif]

Get your own choice of meme! It actually does look like something off a fun fair... I'm sure I've driven past this one many a time...

Looks very RMC... Still dunno if that's good though...

I still don't like the retheme of the Flume, totally weird for the Medieval section (with Heidi next door) to suddenly have dinosaurs...

Most parks don't just let rides fall into disrepair though... But Merlin don't care unless they can market it... I mean they nearly killed Colossos (not that I rate it)...

I just accumulated mine through multiple hotel stays... Freebies!

Colossus is still running so Merlin won't spend money on fixing it... Remember, they only spend it when they HAVE to.