Benin Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 If the placing of the spot is to be believed, this would replace the crappy upcharge attractions by Peeking Heights... Preferably, they'd get rid of both the upcharge AND Peeking Heights... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeah Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 (edited) Just read on Chessington Buzz, Chessie have begun a teaser campaign for their new 2016 ride. All we know so far is that it will be in the Mystic East, as on the map it reads 'New ride for 2016' next to Peeking Heights. So this could mean Heights is being removed? Also on the map it says about the glamping we already know about and a new High Ropes course! I didn't expect this! Excited to find out what the ride is! Edited August 10, 2015 by JoshC. Merged with existing thread :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordanluke2009 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 There's already a topic mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 If the placing of the spot is to be believed, this would replace the crappy upcharge attractions by Peeking Heights... Preferably, they'd get rid of both the upcharge AND Peeking Heights & toadies ... Resulting in room for a decent coaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Resulting in room for a decent coaster OCTONAUTS INFERNO Kerfuffle, Tom and yeah 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Resulting in room for a decent coaster There is barely enough space to put a decent sized flat ride, let alone a Wacky Worm or anything bigger... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 OCTONAUTS INFERNOYeah that might work, Also having read the article, I can confirm that the (perhaps dreaded) Treetop quest thing is happening now (for 2016) and will be near the Explorer hotel area apparently, where it's actually I don't know. There is barely enough space to put a decent sized flat ride, let alone a Wacky Worm or anything bigger...I meant Toadies site in addition to where peeking & the game things are located Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry-go-girl Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Hell if they can put miles of train lines under a city perhaps Chessington could revolutionise subterranean amusement attractions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJ Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 The High Ropes Course (assuming a real name is forthcoming) will be next to Explorer Car park in some trees recently bought by the park. 2016 ride will probably be part of Wild Asia, but weirdly the map suggests otherwise. No the rumoured Tomb redesign is not happening next year anyway pluk and HermanTheGerman 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam P Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Maybe now its been run into the ground, Samurai is being packed up to send back... Kerfuffle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPJames Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Given there's no plans online yet and Chessington has pretty difficult planning constraints, it surely can't be anything remotely big if they're confident enough to be advertising it already? My bets is on a small ride replacing the Lorikeet Lagoon area, which has been closed and empty all season. As I do not know, how long does it take for planning permission to be submitted and accepted by the council before construction can begin? If we're talking a fair amount of time, could we potentially be seeing a magical month of May opening? If the attraction is indeed located next to PH, this will result in the smaller trampolines, bungee trampolines and the rock climbing wall being taken down. The hot dog stand potentially will be removed as well. This doesn't leave an awful lot of room for an attraction, so unless chessington truly surprise us, I am expecting a small children or family flat ride. A small scale ride is likely due to chessington wasting even more money on accommodation by setting up glamping and high ropes whilst abandoning their park. A large scale ride has been overdue since we go back to Dragons Fury. --- The idea of Samurai isn't a bad one either, I know the reliability would be as useless at chessington as it is at thorpe but the cycles it currently operates on are much more suited for the target market at chessington opposed to thorpe(they could even turn it down another notch if needs be). However, this is the most unlikely thing to happen and in all honesty samurai just needs scrapping altogether. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldFarmerDean Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 there is potential for other rides to be removed to make way... but I just can't see things like peeking heights etc. being removed in the open season, and closed season probably wouldn't leave enough time, so I don't know! I would love to see some sort of large scale family flat ride though... but what!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry-go-girl Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 Maybe now its been run into the ground, Samurai is being packed up to send back... Don't tempt fate, this is Merlin we're talking about here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraX Posted August 10, 2015 Report Share Posted August 10, 2015 I'm sure this attraction will suit Chessington like a glove. ie-Don't get too excited. OldFarmerDean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dk3 Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Why not bring back the Magic Carpet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyMoo Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 My bets is on a small ride replacing the Lorikeet Lagoon area, which has been closed and empty all season. WHAAAAT! I had no idea Lorikeet Lagoon has been closed - what happened there?! I <3 the Lorikeets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchada04 Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 As I do not know, how long does it take for planning permission to be submitted and accepted by the council before construction can begin? If we're talking a fair amount of time, could we potentially be seeing a magical month of May opening? If the attraction is indeed located next to PH, this will result in the smaller trampolines, bungee trampolines and the rock climbing wall being taken down. The hot dog stand potentially will be removed as well. This doesn't leave an awful lot of room for an attraction, so unless chessington truly surprise us, I am expecting a small children or family flat ride. A small scale ride is likely due to chessington wasting even more money on accommodation by setting up glamping and high ropes whilst abandoning their park. A large scale ride has been overdue since we go back to Dragons Fury. Planning doesn't have to take long. If they get it in around now time (could be sitting with the council and just not registered into the system/computer yet) it'd be approved most likely before closed season and expecting it to be a fairly small, simple ride it could easily be done for March. It's not an awful size site, if you utilise the space of the path behind Toadies a bit too. Could easily fit in a medium scale flat ride. I feel like it won't be too kiddy or un-noteworthy if they're already advertising something new. The budget has nothing to do with them spending all their money on hotels etc, that's a separate budget assuming all the Merlin parks work the same way. Samurai, even if it's tamed down, would still have a 1.4 height restriction making it utterly pointless. Air Race please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HermanTheGerman Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 On the subject of planning, recently, Chessington have acquired the habit of advertising (and in some cases opening) things before planning has even been submitted. So I doubt the lack of an application so far has too much to do with the scale of the actual attraction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Assuming they even need to gain permission, when I did a search there was a lot of old stuff granted that was never built, it doesn't take much to extend those conditions, certainly not as much work as putting in a fresh application for a new project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merry-go-girl Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Why not bring back the Magic Carpet? Technically it's still there, it just has a roof now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dk3 Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Technically it's still there, it just has a roof now. Where? What do you mean!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Where? What do you mean!? Jungle Bus. dk3 and Matt 236 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJ Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 Yet Jungle Bus is about half the size and half the speed of the proper Magic Carpet ride Kerfuffle and Cal 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 In terms of the 2016 being a complete new ride & being supposedly where the Mystic East games are, I made a general site outline in where the ride would go. Whilst it looks a bit larger than expected, there still isn't a lot of room there even though the footprint is similar to Peeking Heights, so I'm not to sure what they could actually put there, it's probably too small for an air race or a coaster (even octonauts size). Unless peeking's going, the only rides I can picture here are a ride like sky force or samurai dare I say it! I also highlighted toadies site which is quite a bit bigger than you think (almost the size of Fury's footprint). If you were to rip peeking out and the games too, that would be the site for one hell of a coaster. Merry-go-girl 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 If it's going to be in the Mystic East, then they can make advantage of this and also carry out the Falls revamp!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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