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HermanTheGerman

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  1. I really struggle to see this years improvements. Toadies, Falls, Scorpion, Bubbleworks are just depressing to go on. New Market Square looks nice I guess but there's not much to it.

    How is Scorpion depressing? It looks new and fresh. It's entertaining people and it has loads of little hidden touches.

    Bubbleworks is looking the best it's been since 2005. As it has finally had all of the sodding logos removed, the facade is looking better than it ever did, and a hefty amount has been spent on lighting. Especially in the Fountain Finale!

    Falls looks hideous for obvious reasons. But should all go well, it'll be sorted in due course.

    If you don't think the park is looking good, I suggest you take a trip down to Thorpe where the Lost City, Canada Creek, Calypso Quay, Neptune's Beach, Amity Cove and Storm Surge do a fine job of looking awful. You'll soon realise Chessington is in very good condition! (Now!)

  2. Ideally they will build another coaster, but we know merlin, so it will probably be some boring dark ride, or even worse, just another food outlet. We would already have seen the planning application if they were intending to build something big, so probably no coaster will be built by 2015.

    Question, are you saying you find dark rides boring as a whole or just Merlin's? As dark ride's themselves are probably the most immersive attractions you will find at a theme park. Dark rides (as well as log flumes and mine trains) are about the only attraction that entertains virtually everyone, which after all is the point of theme parks, entertaining large spectrums of people. If you say dark rides are boring, I suggest you take a closer look. Just see how many people come off Bubbleworks or Hex laughing at each other, enjoying the experience TOGETHER.

    So yeah. Dark rides are fantastic and it is just the attraction Thorpe needs, one everyone can enjoy.

  3. Yes, but Thorpe's video didn't need to be fantastic. They were just trying to get a little buzz over the event, whereas Towers are aiming to make people pay £280pp. Their video needed to sell. If it didn't there would be some serious losses.

  4. Why not something groundbreaking in it's own right, with no IP thinly attached to it?

    As rubbish as The Smiler is, the marketing behind it pulled in loads.. Didn't it? Why do they feel the future of Merlin parks can only be bright with an IP?

    Actually, it didn't. They did get an increase in attendance, but a small one. only 100,000 up on the previous year. That's pretty poor when considering Thorpe got a 200,00 increase by adding... um... shipping containers.

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