Benin

That grey is gonna blend in perfectly to the glum Blackpool sky...

It's a marketing thing, and it's a peculiar angle to take (although many other park operators are following suit, Six Flags' claims are about as equally ridiculous) considering you could literally build anything and people would visit it because it's new...

Just build a bloody Chiapas clone and be done with it...

Joravision

What could a park in such a situation offer AP holders as compensation? In extreme cases the park(s) have to consider the safety of customers... A storm coming right in off the Irish Sea would not bode well for the park, and I doubt they would've taken the decision to close early lightly either... Without knowing the full details of what was and wasn't open at 5/6 it's hard to judge whether the decision was merited...

In what world is Hansa a two day park? Combine it with Heide is the best option for such a plan. Can stay in Hamburg and both are easily accessible...

Will this be like the one for this summer?

Urgh, don't Walibi when I'm considering returning next year around Halloween... Especially for something so awful looking...

No other operator would buy all 3, too much investment would be required to get the parks up to standard, which is of course where the rub lies... I dread to think how much infrastucture cost would be required to drag Chessie into the 21st century... Or how many gardeners they would need to hire to get the Towers Gardens back up to snuff... The problem is that Merlin don't seem to see that such provisions as landscaping and maintenance are the most important aspect to a park, yet they spend the least possible amount of it... I'd love to see Plopsa get their hands on Chessie for example, it would suit them to the ground...

Flying Theatre would be interesting, I'd assume like the one at Ferrari Land... One would hope an indoor cred would be ideal for such an area as well...

At this rate the best thing for the parks would to be sold off to whoever wants to run them... I think even Parques Reunidos would be a better operator at this rate...

- Our parks aren't doing great, should we invest more into them? - No, we shall build MORE hotels! - But we've had to close Splash Landings because no-one's staying there... - NO! MORE HOTELS, IT'S THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE! That Merlin see themselves as market leaders of the industry concerns me greatly...

Is Peppa Pig really that big worldwide? Bear Grylls is a weird one, though that whole project is weird given it being right next to the NEC...

I lol'd...

Are any of the corners even banked on that image? Knowing GCI, it'll probably just be unbanked for the lolz...

The problem is that there's no reaction to there being a sudden surge in busy times... Most parks will, on quieter weekdays, run one train... This is no issue of course, why would you run more than required? However many of these parks will, in the event of queues developing beyond a time frame (I'd say maybe 30 minutes? Maybe 20 depending on how nice I'm feeling) add on an extra train to cope with it... Why Thorpe can't do this (Chessie did in my time on Fury and Rattlesnack, Vampire was a different thing though due to how the transfer track worked) I'm not sure though, perhaps they're still struggling with their maintenance teams? If Rush and Rumba were open it would make a difference to the queues... Likely not a lot, but every little helps...

Well, they can ask a 15 year old for ID, otherwise they'd get in trouble if they served alcohol to one... Depends on the staff, but you'd think that since you've purchased tickets for these mazes they'd have a reasonable amount of leniency...

Oh, well at least I can ignore St Nicholas Park's existence if the cred is dead...

Most of that wood won't be in a good condition though, given the years of salt water blowing on it... It's probably not even worth a fiver as scrap

£25 is too expensive for me, but it's a neat idea... For comparison, Wodan blocks are €12.50...

16 coasters would make the park the second highest in Europe behind Ankapark (yes, Turkey is arguable whether or not it's in Europe), which is lol-worthy... Another reason why Brexit is stupid

They'd have to tell the staff who work there about the deals though (any worldwide discount from UK MAP holders seems to be an unknown concept from staff, I got in for free in Tussauds in New York when it should have been half price)... But if you were going over there, wouldn't you still buy the FlexTicket anyway? Assuming they'd keep Sea World on it (they'd be stupid to take it off) of course...

I struggle to think of a park (or company) who could afford for: - Deconstruction - Packing - Shipping - Further Delivery - Reconstruction Of (according to RCDB) 6'400ft worth of track and support structure... Sad yes, but unsurprising that no one could take them up...