lewumbrajumbos Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Plenty more Lionsgate IP's available. There is still a part of me that thinks this will just be another maze though. Don't know where this thing about it being a maze has come from .. but the plans do state that there is a station Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altitude Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 There is still a part of me that thinks this will just be another maze though. Part of me thinks you haven't read the plans haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Oh I have, I'm just being pesamistic, that way when it's the best thing since sliced bread, I'll be pleasantly surprised. If you have high expectations, you will only over be disapointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 It is 100% definitely not a maze. Altitude and Matt 236 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenC Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 It is 100% definitely not a maze. This project is way too big for Merlin to just be a maze. Taking a closer look at the revised plans, you can see some of the interior of the building; looks a lot like a station to me! There's almost certainly ride hardware going in there. You can also see that the building will be split-level, with guests walking up to the ride station, as is the case with SAW. More over at Total Thorpe Park. JoshC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry-go-girl Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Pre-show....uh oh. Kerfuffle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Pre-show....uh oh.NEW FOR 2017: A brand spanking new CATTLEPEN to (apparently) speed up queueing times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 This project is way too big for Merlin to just be a maze. Taking a closer look at the revised plans, you can see some of the interior of the building; looks a lot like a station to me! There's almost certainly ride hardware going in there. You can also see that the building will be split-level, with guests walking up to the ride station, as is the case with SAW. More over at Total Thorpe Park. Pre-show, Station, Chronicals of London - dare I say the black cab history ride at Tuassards? Maybe with a modern twist of those virtual cars + screens being described earlier in thread earlier instead of the train like system used in Tuassards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted April 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 You see, with this whole Chronicles of London thing, it doesn't sound like something you'd hear at a theme park. More specifically, it doesn't sound like something you'd hear as a ride at Thorpe. "After we've done Colossus, let's go ride that Chronicles of London thing!" Just doesn't sound...Thorpe-esque? However, it does sound like an attraction / thing you'd hear at say the London Dungeons or Madame Tussauds. It comes across as something a bit more educational in value in my mind; a sort of story of London's past. Is it possible this is just a new bit for either of those attractions, or even a retheme of the Taxi ride at Madame Tussauds (I've never done it, so don't really know how possible it is)? pluk, Cal and Ricky 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 We did it in February, tbh I don't even remember what the ride is called but it certainly fits into the educational mantle you describe, certainly not a type of attraction you'd expect at Thorpe. Having said that, I wouldn't say 'I'm a celeb' fits into the genre of Thorpe either and they've done that, both of those things are the kind of ride/experience you'd expect to see at Chessie or Legoland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatever Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Considering a 'Chronicles Of London' theme, I just don't think they would be able to create the same amount of hype that there was for the Smiler and Th13teen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted April 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Considering a 'Chronicles Of London' theme, I just don't think they would be able to create the same amount of hype that there was for the Smiler and Th13teen. Too much hype is a bad thing though. Th13teen's original marketing was awful: "World's first psychcoaster!", "People have to sign a waiver to ride", "No under 16s allowed", etc. It was way way way too over hyped for a family attraction. You don't want the same for this. Anyway, for a dark ride, you want to build mystery and intrigue, not hype. You don't want to be hyped up before the ride, you want to be curious about it. Very different feelings and emotions. pluk and jon81uk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stretchy Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Hmm that layout is interesting. Some other things caught my eye though rather than the queue.. There are 3 what look like platforms there. What I guess is that they are emergency evac points. So on that I drew arrows. I then thought. hmm wonder if the same ride car would fill them all so I drew the blue boxes. Then I thought well how would a car like that get from one to another. The red path is the only route I can think utilising the space as much as possable. That means it goes sideays and long ways for different places, not a bendy track. Assumptions made during this scribble 1) there is 1 ride vehicle per loading platforms 2) it is all on one floor 3) the vehicles are the width of the gaps 4) there is a track and it isn't a walkthrough maze 5) the rectangles are stations and not holes or drainage or something else. BenC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjh123horry Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 I'm just wondering what the whole pre ride area could be, more what it is than what will happen in there. Sounds confusing, but if we follow the path to get around the building there are stairs when you exit the ride into the shop. There arent on the other hand stairs when you come in. Now presuming the load and unload is all on the same level, some form of getting you up to the 2nd level will need to happen at the beginning - I propse that the pre ride area could be an elevator of some sort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Project LC Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 They boxes with the crosses through them are disabled lifts. The preshow is simply a preshow. If you look there is definitely a set of stairs on the way in and on the way out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchada04 Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 Well look at the box with a cross in it next to the load/offload. That means it's a lift and that's the bit with the pit. Drop track right as you leave the station...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjh123horry Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 They boxes with the crosses through them are disabled lifts. The preshow is simply a preshow. If you look there is definitely a set of stairs on the way in and on the way out.So there is, didnt look at the original, the arrow on this one is covering the stairs, my bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 So isn't what you've described how that dynamic attractions ride thing works, shifting back and forth on short interconnecting tracks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex23 Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 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! jjh123horry and alexander 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlesberg Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 I was at first slightly disappointed as it's not going to be a roller coaster but now I understand that this may be something the park could do with. After all, it's not only roller coasters that make the park amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraX Posted April 13, 2015 Report Share Posted April 13, 2015 This has to be a Triotech attraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.S217 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 the size of the track for an sfx coaster is huge but who knows lets see what happens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pognoi Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 They've been able to customise it, such as for the forbiddens journey track which appears to be much more like an Arrow/togo track then their huge tri spine track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchada04 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 At first I thought Triotech what with the Wonder Mountain of Dragon thing at Canada's Wonderland(Yeah this thing). But that was really cheap at 10 million dollars compared to the rumoured £30 million for this dark ride. Dynamic would be amazing, they are spectacular and branching outside of Disney/Universal now so they've clearly become more affordable. Track wise, they've redone the track for Big Thunder Mountain at Paris, and Gringotts track is very different to the track that people saw from Dynamic a while back. Gringotts track. Dynamic track posted. I doubt the large track is capable of doing the trick stuff and is purely for the coaster itself (remembering a large one of these has launched coaster segments). Dynamic are very diverse, they can cater to all needs, and even if it is an SFX doesn't mean it'll be a coaster. I've heard Gringotts has one coaster section that last 5 seconds or something. Other than the trick track sections, it might be able to run trackless depending how advance it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.S217 Posted April 15, 2015 Report Share Posted April 15, 2015 Rollercoaster trackless coaster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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