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  3. Derren Brown's Ghost Train: Rise of the Demon

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  5. Project WC16 - New for 2016

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    From what Lewis mentioned had been trademarked, and previous rumours of a Dr Who dark ride if you do a quick Google search there are a few links. Using the Dr Who Wikipedia there are a few interesting articles, the first is the "Clockwork Droid".

    The latter crashed in Earth's distant past and remained hidden until the Victorian era when their control node tried to repair the ship with both organic and mechanic material from Victorian London to take them to the "promised land".

    This would fit in with the teaser image and also the "Chronicles of London" trademark. They were also androids which could fit in with the Automaton trademark. In addition there is an article on the site for "Automatons" although with the definition of the word being "a self-operating machine" it is quite a general trademark.

    I could be putting 2+2 together and making 5 though!

  6. Project WC16 - New for 2016

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    I know this may seem far fetched, but I hope this company (http://www.creaturetechnology.com/exhibitions-themeparks/coming-soon/) who make state of the art animatronics, will be providing animatronics for this attraction. Reason behind me saying this is because of the automation thing and how that relates very much to clockwork and living machines, which leads into animatronics. The company, Creature Technology Company, have a page for theme parks and exhibitions, but they are in the process of waiting to announce what they will be making and for whom. Maybe thorpe will be their next point of work.

    Their biggest/exciting project that they talk about on the website is the AA for the new King Kong attraction opening at Islands of Adventure.

  7. Project WC16 - New for 2016

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    Credit to Lewis on TowersTimes for finding it

    Merlin have filed two intriguing trademarks recently; 'Chronicles of London' was filed on the 23rd March and 'Automatons' was filed only a few days ago, on the 8th April. They have similar classifications to The Smiler's trademark, which would suggest that they are looking to use the names for attractions and merchandise.

    Now there is obviously the suspicion that one of these will be the name of Thorpe's 2016 attraction, and with the codename of Project Whitechapel, 'Chronicles of London' could be seen to fit. Whereas 'Automatons' has a few extra classifications and is a name which could lend itself well to some sort of ride vehicle. However, Merlin have stated that there is new midway brand/attraction in the pipeline, so it is possible that either of these may be the name for that. It has also been established that Merlin have purchased the .co.uk and .com domains for 'chroniclesoflondon', which could be to set up a minisite for the 2016 attraction or a website for the midway attraction. Of course there's also the possibility that these names will be for attractions we aren't aware of yet, so we'll just have to wait and see...

    At the moment this only add to the speculation, but neither of these trademarks seem to allude to an IP so we may be seeing an original concept next year. You'll be able to find details of the trademark applications on the 3rd page here.

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