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That looks wrong to me. Surely with water that rough rounding a bend the opposite channel should have a much higher side to prevent the raft riding up on to it causing a capsize risk? Seems mental to me to attempt a raft ride of all thing in house, rather than use the expertise of a big manufacturer.

Black Mirror is an odd one IP wise, in not having a set structure or regular characters. It could mean anything so surely is just a name above the door? If this had had any creative input from Charlie Brooker, which in reality is the only real consistent which makes Black Mirror Black Mirror, they would clearly have been shouting about it from the off as it would be actually meaningful to the marketing.

If it were The Goblin King, Sarah, Hoggle, Ludo and Sir Didimus I'd have been interested.

I'm hearing Omnipollo soft serves in steins.

Oktoberfest means good beer. If they have good beer then excellent, but they won't, will they?

Thorpe's food offering died they day Roast and Relish closed. Genuinely some of the best themepark food out there, actual quality, not fried crap, decent value.

I can imagine the power required for that boat ride will massive, huge amounts of drag moving something like that through water. I'd be amazed if it were viable at any reasonable running cost.

Surely it's the other way round? I'd have thought Chessington would be paying for the rights, not being paid to use it.

As much as I hate Merlin's marketing led approach to any investment, this just goes to show that marketing at least needs to be considered and attempted alongside building something decent. If I weren't active around these places I'd have had no idea Icon existed, that's just not good enough for such a major new coaster.

Interesting stuff. Won't stop me one clicking though!!

Looks like someone has done no growing up in the last 5 years.

Another year of travesty against Time Machine. 😥

All of the local 'live' sites are absolute shitrags of the highest order. They are the very definition of clickbait and sadly people fall for it and click away. Drives me insane.

But every time Merlin install something new it is the "'X' in the world" so it must be world class, right? RIGHT?

People need to stop changing their username on every damn whim!

Trying to get my bearings from the pic, is this immediately to the left if the little kiddie log flume?

Germany - Worker (possibly driver) killed in apparent suicide whereby he was struck by a roller coaster car carrying 4 people, who were also treated for shock. No indication of what the actual ride is.

Carters Steam Fair X 1 Thorpe X 1 The end. Even that was something of an achievement. Yeah, you try being an enthusiast with a new born!

It's closed season. They're bored in the office. And so it begins again. How low will they go this year...

Realistically - the entrance needs sorting out properly. I hate what they've done with it, it is a dreadful way to welcome anyone to anywhere let alone a theme park which should be a place of joy and escapism. It would kind of be OK if it left you feeling safe but security, it's primary aim being to keep out restricted items, is worse than it was previously as so long as you don't have a bag you saunter on through the middle with no checks at all. Yeah, I'm sure everyone keeps their knives, drugs and firearms in a bag! They need to make the entrance welcoming while achieving at least some level of security. I don't really know what the answer is, but the mess we currently have which achieves neither is not it! Inside the park I'd just like it cleaned. So much of it is so grotty. Ride stations and shops especially are filthy. It's not much to ask and should be a basic but there is clearly no system in place to actually clean things.

Plenty of room on the derelict loggers site, surely? A pointless conversation though, ain't ever happening!

Could he speak any slower. Painful listen. So a 20min video to say it's shut next year with an intention to open it the year after having been renovated in some way. What I don't understand is if the real problem is the running cost, which I primarily take to mean energy consumption, then how can that be meaningfully improved? Pumping that volume of water around will always be expensive and burning that volume of gas each ride cycle will always be expensive. You can't stop pumping the water and if you stop burning the gas you have lost its one real point of interest.

Surely track could still run from the existing station, along the perimeter of the park as it used to, turning towards the old treasure Island and meet up with the new as yet unused island? Another station there would actually give it a purpose. Not that they should or would do that, but I'm sure they could do if they really wanted.

Yep, infusion is the smoothest SLC I've ridden by far. I don't understand the hate either.

Adverse camber turns X2 to start. Just stop it.