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Whilst Chessington has improved compared to the last 2/3 seasons there's still a lot that needs to be done before it's up to the high standard it used to be (pre-2004 season). The following rides could really do with a refresh. Dragon Falls Tomb Blaster Skyway Bubbleworks Rattlesnake Plus fury and Vampire could do with some lick of paint (and vampires queue line). Falls & Tomb Blaster especially need the most TLC ASAP as falls just looks bare and naked ATM and that tunnel section is over before it starts now (since some of the structures been removed). Tomb Blaster meanwhile has broken guns and pretty. Uh all the targets between the mummy scene and the giant snake don't work.

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Hi, Monday shouldn't be too busy at the busy, providing it's not in/near school holidays (however this is Legoland). In terms of rides, get Boating School done first as it's a night,are to queue for and has reached 30 minutes+ in the first hour. Also get Laser Raiders, Atlantis, Digger, Dino Dafari and Squid Surfer done at the start of the day also. Do Vikings and Pirate Falls midday and leave Dragon til the end of the day. In terms of food, I'd suggest City Walk (pizza & pasta) otherwise Knights Table is a good alternative (I haven't done burger kitchens yet). Ascot may be on so be prepared for long waits whilst exiting the park which are often a problem at Legoland anyway.

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This area looks fantastic. As a big potter fan,I'm very very excited about this area opening, that fire dragon is just fantastic. It's mandatory I somehow find a way to get to this place in the near future! Makes uk's new areas look like fairgrounds in comparison.

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A whole train for fastrackers? Sounds like an outrage to me. Closing rows off at a time is one thing, but a whole train when the queue is (presumably) at a long length is just wrong. I hope no other fasttrackers went on the trains afterwards.Reminds me of the time in 2011 when I visited Thorpe (stupidly on a busy school trip day) in July and queued ages for Colossus and chose front when some celebs (N-Dubz possibly) allocated the front seats of a train for two cycles. I'd queued 3 hours by the time I reached my seat.

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How was the construction of Castaway Camp (that kids play area) going?

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Not sure what's going on at Chessie at the moment, but it seems both Fury and Vampire are down at the moment (according to the ride status page). http://www.chessington.com/plan/today-at-chessington.aspx?tabNum=2 Certainly not very good considering they're the parks most popular rides, wonder what's the issue with these two currently? Probably shows how badly the park needs a third major coaster, one that does well on throughput and reliability.

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The Flow rider looks a great addition to the park for the summer and should be lots of fun. Want to try and give this ago at somepoint, eventhough I'll fail miserably at it.

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Park will be open until 7pm, however Summer Nights will be on in the evening which should finish at 10:30pm.

To say that attention to detail looks remarkable, would be an understatement. Wow!

The 9th would definitely be the best day for me for the meet.

Very impressive theming I must admit, even if it's for a rather average coaster.

And that's another coaster that I will sadly never get to experience (at least in its original form). Always remember this ride from RCT 2 Magic Mountain game & the Lampoons vacation film when the Griswolds trespassed in to a closed Walley World (filmed at Magic Mountain). I hope the ride gets the RMC treatment as it'll hopefully improve its smoothness, but as a hybrid I doubt it'll feel the same on a steel hybrid track and will lose a lot of its originality.

The backwards queue was open when I last visited (Saturday), and they were also giving tickets to use for the back rows as well. I do think though they should just have one queue for forward and back as it would work much better for queue experience and throughput, also considering that there were a few back rows going through empty on my visit due to dispatching workings.