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it just means the ride is on the rise, the height of popularity. It's never been a better time to be a fan of Derren Browns Ghost Train.

I can list what was a sketchy plan and as a bonus I'll even update it for you as to why its cancelled. Lucky for all. April Californias Great America Disneyland California Cancelled as we can't leave the country Alternative plan is to visit Paultons for Tornado Springs and a trip to Chessington as the fiancé hasn't been for 12 years. August Tivoli Gardens - Denmark Wonder Island - Russia Linnanmaki - Finland Grona Lund - Sweden Probably all will be cancelled because even if we got on the cruise ship, the chances of the respective ports being open for the ship to disembark from is miniscule. Annoying as we booked it a year ago, just before all this kicked off. September Walt Disney World Univesal Studios Busch Gardens Tampa All completely dependant on if we can leave the country and if we can get into the USA. The usual suspects will probably appear such as Alton Towers, Disneyland Paris and maybe even Thorpe Park after a two year absence. All completely dependant on so many factors.

It's not my place to answer the Western themed question I put out there. 😉

What was kind of strange is I'm all about quite short, direct pieces of writing but I felt your blogs were on the lighter side. There's so much more I thought you could have said about the island like no other branding for example as it talked a lot about the bridge and the island like no other brand but I didn't really get the connection. Really liked the theming blog, I wonder if there could have been closer examples of when the theming works and where it doesn't. Just to further emphasise your point as Oz'iris theming could be a theming blog all by itself. Are there examples of Western themes that actually work?

My previous post was wrong. The future of this park has never been brighter.

It's a Sin is an essential watch. I would say the most important drama for at least a decade. There's very little drama featuring the AIDS epidemic and its eye opening and heartbreaking.

Nice knowing you Lightwater Valley. I never visited, probably should have.

Pretty sure the sale of this coaster wasn't based on a certain name with a certain restraint but I digress. I'm glad this has the old style, perfect B&M restraints, The new ones killed Valravn and Valykire for me.

Legendary composer Alan Menken donated 100 dollars to this according to the comments. I want this to be true. I think its a great thing to bring people together for a charity too help others. The pandemic has been hard on all of us, the effects of this may be seen for years and anything people can do to bring joy should be applauded, not derided.

Can't wait to go through passport control and get my Belgium stamp to ride this.

MaP owners are hilarious. They seem to think loyalty is owning an annual pass. The reality is the 'sell em cheap, pack em in;' worked pre covid but with this year, that philosophy backfired.

Can't we all pretend for a little bit longer that Forbidden Tomb is coming back. it's such a wildly crazy lie, but at least its given people something to talk about in the doldrums of closed season.

Merlins strength with rides is always imagery. I suppose it goes hand in hand with USP and what not. But I like it a lot. Going to look great in promo.

Still 9 rows but the ends look slightly smaller. I imagine a maximum of three at the ends, four in the middle rows.

Wouldn't surprise me if the price increase was to put people off buying one. It's likely capacity reductions will still be in place in 2021 and the annual pass complaints this year were farcical (if highly amusing). I'd side with caution on the loyalty thing, annual pass holders are pretty entitled and seem to think the park owes them a favour.

I've been in this game for a long time. I know how this all works.

They'll hate the refurbishment anyway. Thats how enthusiast circles work anyway, decry something for becoming run down, get their hopes up when it closes to be redone then hate the new version. It's Enthusiast 101.

Yeah just to clarify, I imagine Thorpes target audience of up for it families will be the last to really be vaccinated (thats if the vaccine pasts its test). So that won't have anything to do with it. I also don't think a negative test result will be enough as the NHS still recommends that you only get a test if you are showing any symptoms. The system as Josh says isn't robust enough. I can see Thorpe opening in March however with similar conditions to this years season.

Which is really interesting because Epcot was never designed to be a traditional theme park, more about the relationship between humanity and the world, technology etc. It's been throwing away its identity for over a decade now.

I literally hate everything about this ride, this logo, everything. Why can't they build things that cater solely around me and what I like.

All mine post-lockdown Alton Towers - 4 days Europa Park - 3 days Chessington - 1 day Disneyland Paris - 3 days This year, was supposed to feature Disneyland California, Californias Great America and the Florida Disney parks. It's also the first time since 2000 that I haven't been to Thorpe Park.

Following the 28,000 job cuts across US Disney resorts, yesterday large amount of entertainment cast members have now been let go from Disney World. Just to name a few this includes Festival of fantasy Parade, the castle show, Hoop de doo revue, majority of the entertainment around EPCOT, Indianna Jones Stunt show, any main street entertainers, Beauty and the Beat stage Show, Voyage of the Little Mermaid, Festival of the Lion King and Finding Nemo at Animal Kingdom. Of course there's far more under the radar entertainment cut across the resorts such as the Grand Floridian band.

As they don't even bother to check if you're pre-booked to visit, do we know if they are even bothering to cap the numbers. They say they are but they also say you need to pre-book to visit.

Furius baco screams 2020 to me. Nice monkey, lots of alcohol. Then an absolute car crash and the only redeeming feature being a wine shop at the exit.

I know its not because Tiger Rock and Wild Asia are ride reliability, I know exactly that its cost cutting, because I used to work there. The problem is, when I went, it wasn't a quiet day. And they knew this because they have direct access to gate figures through having to pre-book.. These cost cutting days are nothing new at all. They've been pulling this nonsense since way back when. Is a 60 minute queue for Dragons Fury considered short in the days of covid? When you say these areas don't have many rides, Wild Asia has the most rides of any area in the park and Tiger Rock is the highest throughput ride there. I did a bit of working out. There are 21 rides at Chessington. On my visit, between 10-12, Tiger Rock, Jungle Bus, Jungle Rangers, Monkey Swinger, Kobra, Seastorm, Dragons Fury & Scorpion Express were unavailable. Thats a hell of a lot of real estate just sitting there doing eff all.