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Fly to Hamburg, S-Bahn to Hamburg Hbf, train to Sierksdorf (which might involve a change of trains) before walking the mile to the park... Its that easy...

Why do those rumours keep coming back? Omg top bants etc.

Have Mingo actually cleaned the water on Lost River now? It was vilely green for years...

Dem truth bombs tho...

Seeing that article just reminded me of when Fox News accused the Muppets reboot of brainwashing children against oil barons because the villain was one...

Redeveloped =/= refurbishment

Then the enthusiasts will realise that there's more to building parks than no limits or rct...

It wouldn't be the first time this has happened at a Merlin park, or indeed ANY theme park in the world... Given that the Discovery Centres have the no lone adults rule, perhaps it will come into play... Within reason...

Gotta remember as well that Thirteen was a prototype, and has a ridiculously large pit foe the drop system... Most of the cost would've gone into those...

Well, the train station was at any rate...

To be fair, you could have Tower of Terror or Kong or Gringotts break down on your first ride and it could potentially ruin the whole thing...

They'd need to do some serious rejigging if they wanted the entrance elsewhere (like the opposite side of the building), then it's likely that no one would ever find the entrance... It'll be exactly the same building and queueline, just a different theme inside...

Shame most of the land is green belt though... That's a good decision to move Carousel though, it's always been in a dodgy position...

Movieland is utterly fab, U-571 and Magma are worth the entry fee by themselves...

That's the same Slammer that also opened late and tends to spend 90% of a season closed right?

A lot of discussions suggest that DC films get completely changed by the execs at WB, so far as to showing two different cuts of the film to audiences for testing... They are desperately playing catch up to Marvel but aren't seemingly taking the same steps because they're so behind...

Oh that's only part of the PR for this, nothing that should be taken seriously... As for what the retheme took out, it pretty much took out any form of charm out of the ride... Subtle jokes were turned into stating the obvious stuff and the music was warped into some awful mix of rubbish... The grandeur of the station and fountain finale also went missing in the refurb... One of the worst things ever done to Chessie, if not the worst...

I think Smiler started the season with 3 trains, the (new) fourth train only just turning up recently, but I wouldn't be surprised if the park are tentative about it... I can imagine onlookers going mental if there were two trains on the track because people are thick...

I'd say the bigger concern would be any infection to the eyes of a guest if they're not cleaning the vr stuff properly... Something severely wrong could occur (low chance, but not worth the risk)...

Fish and X are older than Colossus though... Plus the throughput isn't great either, facts are fun!

Add noise cancelling headphones, then add a bit on the VR that says "Please remove your goggles now!", its pretty simple...

There are a lot of similarities in ride and number of staff required between Ghost Train and Terry (also to be noted, the closure last year had a certain incident making any other problems ride might suffer cause extreme caution as part of the reasoning)... In two years Thorpe will have to foot the bill for the high number of staff required to run the ride... It does feel like Merlin never learn that heavy staffing levels do cause problems later down the line...

That Josh has come up with this somewhat baffling piece of storytelling/explanation for events shows some of the flaws of it... Trying to be too clever for its own good usually ends in a mess in other media, theme parks are no different...

That hashtag is amazing... Paging Mark9 to the thread...