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Manta Gerstlauer or Intamin?

Rumours and debates suggest we will actually see the return of the original theme of the ride which existed until the ride was updated in 2005 instead of another sequel retheme. From what I'm aware it involved the sun/moon storyline, however I'm not really sure as I haven't done the ride in either form (or visited the park as a whole).

Mystery Of Hocus Pocus (theme tune for the winning) However haven't done either properly yet but this year I'll hopefully get to finally try them both. Oziris or Black Mamba?

In regards to attendance of parks in Europe, Disneyland park is the most visited themepark in Europe (6th in the world) whilst the Studios is now the 3rd most visited (Europe). The park took quite a drop in attendance last year (somewhere around 5%) where for the first time ever, Europa park became the 2nd most visited European park. However with the recent addition of the Ratatouiee ride, I can see this years gate figures being on the rise where studios may well retain it's 2nd most visited park status again. Let's hope this loan/extra funding gives the love,investment and attendance figures it deserves as it does seem to get the mouse's share of investment at the best of times compared to the other parks and it still amazes how despite being the most visited Themepark in Europe, it still has major debt/financial issues 22 years later from opening. I think the park could greatly benefit from some Superhero attractiones (something of which will sort of happen in the future with the studios retheme) along with a Frozen ride/attraction, I know there opening a ride in Epcot WDW, but it would make sense to add one in Paris considering the films based in Norway and the series is still surprisingly popular nearly a year on. Euro Disney won't be going anywhere for a while yet, I hope.

Looks like a trap for me

Choices of coasters I'd most like to see for Thorpe's next big addition. 1/ RMC with lots of air time 2/ GCI woodie flooded with air time 3/ Mack launch filled with air and hang time 4/ B&M hyper induced with a great level of air time 5/ vekoma Runaway Train style coaster- lots of helixes and maybe a some air time This post became a little bit airy,

Play station Cadbury or Nestlé?

In terms of sizes I know Legoland's 150, Towers is 500 and Blackpools 42 acres. No idea about Chessington's size but with Zufari taking around 20 and the rest I'd say about 90. I think Thorpe is no bigger than Blackpool pleasure beach so doubt actual patk space/land is more than 40 (excluding car park, lakes and up accessible areas and islands).

Think this may have been here a while (maybe since the summer) as I recall seeing some Lego movie treasure hunting bits when I last visited the park this September. Still think it's a great touch to the park using elements from the movie as kids probably love the film (probably second to only Frosen). Would love to see a Lego movie themed attraction/Walkthrough as it would be such a fun interactive addition and be a hit with visitors. If residents refuse this then it's time to release the Kragle!

The big question I have is apart from the island near Swarm, Fungles spot and Shark island eventually, is there any unused land left at the patk after that and could more lake infilling ever be a possibility? If the answers no, I guess assuming Merlin do the big ride ever 4 years method (previously 3) we will see thorpe run out of empty space run out at the park by 2024. On the side note I see the following rides either gone or at the end of their lives by/before that time (expanding on other posts). The beach area (possibly minus the fish) Loggers, Slammer & possibly rocky Ranger county Lost city flats (mostly vortex & samurai) I think Colossus & saw will get to 30 years before they're removed/torn out, which I guess would be 2032-2039 Btw how big is Thorpe (in acres)?

I don't like rants that are short, pointless and don't contribute anything Rant over

Ok, worst experiences thrmepark wise in 2014 1/ waiting 90 minutes for Valhalla because the ride kept breaking down and (what seemed like) thousands wanted to ride it too. (Was worth in the end though-just). 2/ getting stuck on Bubbleworks for 20 minutes (where we had to wait). Ironically my boat was the next one off the exit. 3/ Waiting for one train Colossus 4/ Legoland getting burger kitchens but not a haunted house 5/ Rita & Charlie existing

Yeah Impossible isn't the best attraction (possibly my least favourite on park) it's almost so bad it's actually good. Haven't done Dora yet but expect a pleasure beach equivalent of Charlie. I'll have to add to the list of rides to do next time including River Caves, Derby Racers, Nick land remainder & Flying Machines (which were closed when we went).

I guess out of all the woodies there, it's the one I'd mind the least waiting one train op for (I'm excluding the flyer as it only has 1 anyway). Although I'd love to see a 2nd train there (which I think happened a couple years back once). Still better than waiting for 1 train Colossus Yeah monorail was a bit of an eyesore tbh and I'll doubt we'll see it go anytime soon, as there's quite a few SBNO attractiones there now Ark, Trauma Towers plus Bling's site is still empty (but hopefully not for long). Hope this year is a successful year for the park. They're no Merlin or towers (better in some ways from them) but I think they seem to try quite hard and make the place up kept.

Blackpool for me is arguably the best themepatk I've seen at night. It's so beautiful with the illuminated lights and rides in the background. To say it looks better than Thorpe, Oakwood and even (to a degree) Tivoli World is saying something. Of course can't compare it to other big parks really as I've not done Disney (all), Port AV, Efteling etc. yet. Legoland is nice at night, but the park flops a bit due to lack of activity as half the park closes (Viking,imagination, traffic etc.) making the only real highlights the view from top and dragon and miniland at night.

In regards to rides worldwide, I wished I could've ridden 1/ Wildwasserbahn 2 at Heide Park, it looked quite a decent flume attraction with theming and a big final drop, better than the remaining one there. 2/ Studiotram Tour (FL) I know there's one in Paris, but this is one if the original WDS rides. 3/ Big Bad wolf- it's an arrow suspended coaster. Enough said. 4/ Maelstrom- I know it isn't closed yet but by the time I ever set foot in WDW it'll be Frozen 5/ Jaws- looked a great ride 6/ Back to the future- great Scott! 7/ The Original Test Track 8/ Colossus- magic mountain- 9/ Mr Toad MK 10/ Gwazi- I know it's still open but it's on the chopping line and I doubt I will get chance to ride it

Put me on the attending list please. As for Brave it alone I'm looking in to it, but again for now put me on list.

Or we could go to Chessington as a protest vote/meet.

Yeah sadly Blackpool has lost quite a lot of rides in the last 10 years, here's some of them. Monorail closed 2012 Bling closed 2011 Gold Mine closed 2011 Swamp a Buggies closed 2011 Magic Mountain closed 2010 Alpine Go,f closed 2009 4D Cinema closed 2008 Noah's Ark closed 2008 Trauma Tower closed 2008 Space Invader closed 2008 Clown coaster closed 2008 Junior whip closed 2008 Spin Doctor closed 2006 Black a Hole Waltzer closed 2006 Drench Falls closed 2006 Turtle Chase closed 2006 Big Apple closed 2004 So that's it. At least 17 rides gave been removed from the park in the last 10 years which is depressing, what more at least 6 of those rides haven't been replaced by anything, ark & trauma I fact technically still SBNO. 2006,2008 and 2011 seemed to be notorious bad years for ride removals. Hopefully the park will be doing better now (especially with it's recent trip advisor success) and will be going back to growth again.

Unfortunately in the world of themepark saw we receive many new/updated attractions every year, we also see many close & disappear. What's everyone's top 10 attractions in the uk/world they sadly never got to try but would most want to ride/experience. Mine are (uk only) 10/ vampire- pre 2001 bat trains Chessington 9/ Trauma Towers Blackpool 8/ Runaway Coaster Rotunda 7/ Magic Mountain Blackpool 6/ Noah's Ark Blackpool 5/ Magnum force Flamingo 4/ Knightmare Camelot (assuming it doesn't run again in the uk) 3/ Toyland Tours Alton Towers 2/ Corkscrew Alton Towers 1/ Black Hole Alton Towers Rides I've ridden but miss the most Phantom Phantasia, nutty jakes gold mine, rocket racers, Magic Theatre & Magic Mill

Things I'd like to see happen for 2015 at the park 1/ Rumba Rapids extensively rethemed/refreshed with a major repaint, new water & interactive features and a more wild water flow to make it like a small scale Congo River rapids. 2/ Canada Creek refreshed, repaint TLC, loggers improved with new tunnel and improved water system. 3/ Flying a fish with new interactive and theming additions 4/ Colossus repaint (doubt this will ever happen) 5/ a new dark ride would be nice Doubt many of these things will actually happen

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