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6.7/10 too much wood.

Wonder how many Japanese Spider crabs contributed to that total...

Knightmare is more fun to ride than half the stuff at Thorpe too...

We're still waiting for that surely? Also that's not the ride entrance for Wodan, since the queue starts in a random wooden shack... All for Merlin bashing, but let's do that when they actually deserve it...

Jordan works for Thorpe anyway, you see her name crop up a lot in the Trip Advisor responses... Think she's been learning PR off that Morwenna lass who used to work at Towers (remember THOSE stunts?)

I literally don't recall any issues with phone signal on the park, guess everyone else just has crap providers...

Gotta love that barbed wire fence aesthetic...

Irony being that Shambhala is probably the best operated ride in the park (to be fair to them, Shambhala isn't operated that badly platforming wise, it's the Fastrack balance)...

Still a better contractor than TG Cruise.

Yeah the Arthur baggage system is poor (made more hilarious that single rider queue completely skips it)... I'd rather do locker faff outside the queueline like Universal et al then a confined indoor space...

Best way to describe PA is all skirt and no knickers... Which is a shame because when I visited with Mark those years ago I had a very good time there... @Mega-Lite you'll have to at least ride Baco in the back row outside seat once... Just the once...

3 rethemes in one year is impressive... Poor Seal Maybe you can get them to send it to you Mark?

When you doing the Disney runs?

Pleasure Beach has good days and bad days... I believe I was also visiting the same day as Mark once and that day was full of dreadful people (and not just the goons)...

It's a shame they couldn't bothered getting someone who actually knew about British parks... I gave up after the umpteenth inaccuracy from him...

Like Ratatouille? Which is going to Epcot... Star Wars is about the only definite clone from the States, Frozen Land looks like what was meant to be going into DisneySea (and has gone quiet since announced), and Marvel is potentially a weird mix, we're definitely not getting Guardians of the Tower of Breakout, or likely to get the Guardians cred going into Epcot; so beyond the Iron Man RnRC retheme and the stunt show replacement I don't know what we might get that'd you'll find in America... Someone has mooted the Ant Man shooting ride coming into Hong Kong but without any solid concrete announcements we don't actually know if there will be much cloning going on...

DLP has the best Magic Kingdom #truthbombs

It'll be equally amusing and upsetting when the GP are completely non-plussed about this...

HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS AND GLASSES! The Studios will no longer be the red-headed stepchild of DLP, it will gain 3 new themed areas (Marvel, Star Wars and Frozen) over the course of the next few years (I'm guessing)... http://www.ed92.org/en/news-disney-announces-transformative-multi-year-expansion-for-disneyland-paris/

It's almost like these parks DON'T want me to visit this year...

No Rocky Express? Joke of a place...

Thirteen V2.0 - Fire edition.

Problem is we've seen it time and again with Merlin's attempts of theming/experience attractions, and I speak as someone who likes Sub Terra... There's always that ONE mis-step made that stops them from being that high quality they do strive to be... I've still not bothered with DBGT, but that it itself has been high evidence of the difference between theory and practical in terms of experience attractions... Given rides a story for the sake of having a story does not work, bigger parks than Merlin have buggered that one up enough times... And tbh I don't think being to the level of Baron 1898's pre-show is actually that far beyond MMM; given that it is just well designed projection mapping, but the devil is in the details... Would Merlin add a little hatch that opens up when the ghosts appear, or have the physical scenery move when they fly off? As I say there's always that one step they miss that prevents them from going from good to great...

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Doubt he'll be working for Towers much longer... The pre-show has been making the rounds (a verbal description, not a vid/pics), all seems a bit of an attempt to give it a story or something... Certainly going to have to be something to judge upon viewing (but it has to beat Baron 1898)...