A Lost Zookeeper

Sadly its not really by choice that things like the organist fall into disrepair. Unlike Disney and Universal, Merlin Parks don't have a huge budget for fixing up themselves. Unless its attached to a new project or an IP, there is no push for things like that to get done as it is not going to attract any more guests. Not many guests complain or even notice how things aren't working. I am sure that if you gave the parks the opportunity to refurbish the parks they would jump to the opportunity. If there weren't so many "H&S issues" with the chandeliers, they would be up right now otherwise they would have been straight in the skip. It shouldn't be a PR stunt (Towers Loving Care). It should be something they do regardless of if it will attract more guests. However that is not the way Merlin parks are organised and set up at the moment.

It currently seems that a bunch of disjointed theme park fans are running the park. With the bizarre and irrelevant IPs popping up constantly; rushed, poorly managed, low-budget attractions; and pointless, disappointing events it is difficult to see where the park is planning on going. Hopefully they will learn from this mistake, and sort out the actual root of the problem. The people who believe that creating 8 Mazes and a 'Show' (very, very loose term) in one to two months with minimal staff who seem to be not experienced enough to make it work. It seems that the Marketing team saw what Universal are doing, and decided that they would take it all and do it in the UK, without thinking about the amount of money that goes into those attractions, and the large group of designers, technicians and builders who manage to create these attractions.

Normally adding layers of story to the area music wouldn't be that bad, but at Thorpe (and more importantly Amity) where less than a half of all speakers actually still work, having guests have to wait around 15+ minutes to understand why the same music that plays all year round is playing is laughable. Especially in queues like Stealth where only two of the speakers in the plaza actually work. If having a few 'theme park celebrities' (a very loose term - haven't heard of half of them, not sure many of Thorpe Parks target audience have either) is a cheap way of them getting some more guests in, that is laughable. Why not use the Imascore loop created for FN last year, and spend some of the money that was used to create the new loops on the mazes that lack quality or depth. I'm no expert, but Imascore can't be cheap, and it sounds a lot better than a couple of theme park fans creating a dream WWTP playlist. Why not use something for more than a month.