TraX Posted July 10, 2015 Report Share Posted July 10, 2015 Anyone that ever rode, or has seen the pictures of Dragon River/Falls, will agree how splendid and spectacular an otherwise run of the mill log flume could be. The fact the bosses at Merlin (not Chessington, as they don't give a crap on such things) are content with it's current state speaks volumes. They should be utterly ashamed of themselves for failing at exactly what a theme park is. Chessington; you are an absolute dump of a park that needs someone to bring it back to the standard in which it once was. Paramount will be a huge kick in the face for you, and it doesn't matter how many hotel extensions, or re-themed attractions due to urgent H&S concerns that you rush through, people will see every disgusting flaw that you are pretending don't exist (rant over). pluk, Ian-S, Project LC and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 If the only way to get anything done is if the attraction is structurally unsound how about we spend the closed season tunneling our way under half the park?! Celia Mae 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 Sounds like a plan, I can just hear the Great Escape music playing while we tunnel our way in, just make sure you measure things correctly, we don't want to come up under Tomb Blaster and inadvertantly cause them to have to do more fixing on that instead, we need to arrive precisely under Falls big drop. Kerfuffle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 Unfortunately Merlin seem too money based. The only way I think we will see some (duressed) TLC occur is this It seems the only way merlin seem to do something about 'very worn areas' that aren't becoming re themed as new or next to new rides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraX Posted July 11, 2015 Report Share Posted July 11, 2015 Even then, not to replace anything and just shove some benches on top and hope no one asks 'hey, wasn't there once a nicely themed building here?' Ugh shanty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catherinewalsall Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 I was just wondering if anyone had a DRAGON FALLS pin badge they would like to sell. As I'm missing this from my collection. Thx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPJames Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Any news on whether Dragons Falls will be open during the upcoming season? With the other Merlin Log Flumes closing this year I remember hearing some rumours that Dragon Falls would be closing also, however since then haven't heard any follow up on these rumours. Falls has been in a right state since the promised refurbishment which was never carried out properly, so it closing and then being replaced in the future or done up(both of which are extremely unlikely) would be the ideal situation. However, if the attraction is to close for 2016 it could be a bit of a disaster as with Safari Skyway and Rameses Revenge(for a large chunk of the season) closed, it would just damage the parks already extremely poor image it has portrayed in the last couple of years even further. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJ Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 It is opening as it does not require the "maintenance" that the other flumes have been shut for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerfuffle Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 From Chessington's Facebook page. Looks like Buddha's received a repaint! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Certainly looks better, aside from the naked back drop. As long as the ride is open its a step forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Why is it silver? The jade looks much better imo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJ Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 It isn't silver in person, it's yellowy gold, I've no idea why that photo Chessington posted makes it look so silver. Seems like they tweaked the colour balance It looks nice in gold for when the sunlight hits it, although it will never look too good for as long as it is sitting in the middle of a rusty building site pognoi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 Of all the things that needed sorted, a repaint of Buddha was actually relatively low on my list. It just seemed alright as it was, and the ageing it had worked well. Did I just miss its desperate need for paint, or? Hopefully if they're sorting out the looks of stuff which I thought was a low priority, then they'll also be sorting out the looks of stuff which I thought were in actual need of it too... Ian-S 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJ Posted January 24, 2016 Report Share Posted January 24, 2016 They're painting almost everything this year so may as well get it done too. The budda may have been 'relatively' low priority, but that's relative to the very unkept state of the rest of the park. In isolation, it was still long overdue a repaint. JoshC. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeah Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 Next up they'll be painting the animals! It's great, but to be fair Buddha isn't, or shouldn't, exactly be the prime target. Like, the whole of Land of the Dragons needs it A HELL of a lot more. Sent from my SM-G361F using Tapatalk Ian-S 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HermanTheGerman Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 Yeah, but no one cares about Land of the Dragons. SteveJ, yeah and Kerfuffle 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 There's so much that could be done with that area... Namely destroying Playhouse and putting ANYTHING in its place... Awful design... yeah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 Is this a sign that Dragon falls will be open this season? I would assume that if it wasn't then they'd close the whole area. Close it at the wild Asia end and then close it and the climbing wall. Painting Buddha would be a pointless task for this year as no one would see it. has anything been done on the large drop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernoMartin Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 Is this a sign that Dragon falls will be open this season? I would assume that if it wasn't then they'd close the whole area. Close it at the wild Asia end and then close it and the climbing wall. Painting Buddha would be a pointless task for this year as no one would see it. has anything been done on the large drop? As stated further up, Dragon Falls is opening this season It is opening as it does not require the "maintenance" that the other flumes have been shut for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappomatic Posted January 25, 2016 Report Share Posted January 25, 2016 Weird that after a lifetime of being an oxidised copper colour that they choose to change it... it's going to look really bad when this coat of paint starts flaking off (unless the old colour was stripped first?) yeah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeah Posted January 27, 2016 Report Share Posted January 27, 2016 Yeah, but no one cares about Land of the Dragons. I do [emoji24] GRIFFINS GALLEON IS THERENo but seriously, it's like the kiddiest area there. And Galleons is awesome. There's so much that could be done with that area... Namely destroying Playhouse and putting ANYTHING in its place...Awful design... Totally agree. Even worse, nobody can go in it because of the ridiculous height limit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeah Posted March 30, 2016 Report Share Posted March 30, 2016 Apparently a boy got out of his boat at the top of the drop today - staff didn't notice till somebody told them. Sent from my SM-G361F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 236 Posted March 30, 2016 Report Share Posted March 30, 2016 Great! I dread the day log Flumes need a mandatory lap bar restraint because of things like this Han30 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian-S Posted March 30, 2016 Report Share Posted March 30, 2016 I wondered why they'd stopped everything earlier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whatever Posted March 30, 2016 Report Share Posted March 30, 2016 Lap restraints in a way would make sense. My brother was with me in the back section of the boat when he was about five and decided he'd rather be at the front with my mum. He stood up in the small section before the second drop. He didn't understand that you weren't supposed to do that, and a lap bar would have stopped him from getting up. He was lucky not to have stood up too late and be injured by the drop, though needless to say we were all shocked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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