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I think it mostly sits in a park's desire to keep the dark ride going to the highest level too... Efteling know the Dreamflight is the most popular ride on park, so station and queueline withstanding continue to ensure it looks fantastic... Fata Morgana is the same really, though nowhere near as popular... Then again there's a lot of "cheesey European dark rides" that take some weird charm from the dodgy old effects and what not, so it works both ways really...

Wouldn't say there's any hate for this, just questions about the point of it when it's about 10 years too late for anyone to actually care about... If it was say a Formula Rossa or Flying Aces clone I'm sure there would be a lot more excitement... As it is, a slightly bigger version of Stealth that isn't as big as the American duo just isn't THAT interesting...

Red Force? More like Red Farce!

Which is very useful if he's completely stepped away from this project... Besides, it only means that when the current version of VR is outdated it can be replaced, though of course that means spending money on updated graphics and new headsets... So an even bigger moneypit of an attraction then...

There's no detail whatsoever, the only important info is when an opening date is being announced...

Surely stop-gap investment in a theme park is a bit of a weird route to take? Like whats the point in building and operating something that will barely least 3 years?

So they're actively REDUCING the line up in peak season? Something doesn't add up surely?

There's still theming on Rumba?

It is probably an underlying issue triggered by the ride, and even more obvious that she's just after the money from a big company when you reject 30k settlement... Disney like most parks and companies do a standard payout to prevent further court action and general faff (oh the stories these lawyers could tell)... Like, I'm not sure how they could 100% prove that the ride fully affected the biology of the brain without any pre-present problems... Sure Space Mountain is rough, but it's never been THAT rough?

Shame they didn't spite Insane tbh... It'll certainly change the area for sure, very different from the original design from ages ago mind...

Potter Studios is definitely worth more effort than Thorpe, though I recommend mentioning that any money spent in the gift shop will take away from the wedding fund... Plus, I never like rushing through 'major' parks, really does detract from the enjoyment of the overall trip... Also you might end up stuck on the M25 for hours on end anyway...

Oh, I assumed due to the rush of defence they were opening for all half term rather than every weekend like before... Of course, one could say that Blackpool's older rides actually help in terms of maintenance turn around, less confusing parts and all that stuff... Just wonder why you tell me Thorpe are irrelevant to this discussion when you yourself brought the Merlin parks into it...

Yet you brought them up because people were being negative over Big One having one train operation... You got called out because you decided to bring Merlin into something they had nothing to do with; as you needed to one up them and defend Blackpool over something that you will no doubt moan over when you visit Thorpe this year... What do previous years have to do with it? As Josh said, people moaned about the situations at Thorpe and Towers because they went wrong, it's not like everyone was positive about them because they were open... Given your critical nature surely you would understand others being so about one train operation on a massively advertised half term event that Blackpool hadn't tried to this level before... Just take the rose tinted glasses off and accept that Blackpool isn't perfect...

I guess all those years Merlin parks had a half term event when Blackpool didn't count for nothing then eh? Granted they weren't always perfect (cold weather was usually the reason for Thorpe's problems, I'm sure if they'd attempted it this year it would've been fine given the weather recently), and when they did it majority of the time was on capacity (unless Nemesis decided to pour oil on everyone)... But you know, some parks get away with murder in some people's eyes...

If Silver Star didn't have the trims of doom then it would probably be rated akin to most B&M hypers... Still better than Millenium Force though...

Having one train operations when the park will pretty much know expected figures (although I assume the milder weather in the north probably pushed a few extra visits, as well as this being the 'crossover' weekend of north/south half terms) is poor though, even with valid reasoning, you would have hoped Blackpool would've pushed for two train operation on their biggest ride... It's a fair complaint, and I'm sure if this was Thorpe having two hour queues with one train operation on a Saturday in a school holiday you would've been first in line to stick the boot in...

Bet half the train is full of sandbags to boot... This is why Feb half terms end badly, UK parks never seem prepared for the numbers who turn up...

Classic business tactic, make Merlin throw more money at him to renew the lease at the risk of losing a fairly big cash cow of a park...

Bring back the Nemesis Nosh bus!

What rides in the park will be closed this season to make up the budget? Surely a park cannot just afford to plus a pre existing attraction without something needing to be done?

I won't have to beg, I'll just resort to kidnapping instead, much less hassle...

Another park for the big cred whores to beg for entry then...

They redid Heide because it was just the same as Colossus (and the rest of the park had really bugger all in the way of actual themed music)... Getting rid of Colossus and Inferno's music though? Bugger off would IMAScore top Colossus...

Dungeons is clearly more in the field of 'Horrible Histories' style these days, not a bad thing at all, and I've no real issue in how they look, run, sound, etc these days... This is very typical news stuff now though... Brand does PR stunt that some find offensive, blah, blah, blah... Boring really...

There's no point the UK parks doing big shows at the current time because there's a questionable level of interest (though that's probably down to there being no decent shows) from park guests and there's zero time in the day to actually take 30-45 minutes to sit and watch one... Would UK guests want to watch an ice skating show? Whilst the Madagascar shows were usually busy was that down to the show quality or the IP?