It is looking like a busy few seasons coming up at Alton Towers, including a Bluey coaster in CBeebies Land and Project Horizon on the old ‘Coaster Corner’ site. Let’s take a look at what we know about the projects the park have lined up…
2026 and beyond
Project Sunshine – Bluey Coaster
In December 2024, Alton Towers announced their intention to build a new coaster in CBeebies Land ready for the 2026 season. The full planning documents state that:
The proposal is for the removal of an existing attraction and to replace it with a new attraction and ancillary buildings (station and maintenance buildings) within the CBeebies Land area of Alton Towers.
Since then, documents related to ‘Project Sunshine‘ have been uploaded to the Staffordshire Moorlands Planning Portal, confirming that the new coaster is set to be built on the former site Postman Pat Parcel Post. 
Construction started in June 2025, and in September the park confirmed the long-standing rumour that the new coaster would be themed to Bluey.
For more information on the new coaster and its construction, check out our dedicated Project Sunshine Development Archive.
Project Horizon
The other big ride in the pipeline in code named Project Horizon and 2027 is now the earliest this attraction could arrive at the resort. All we know about the attraction so far is that it will be an indoor ride, located in the backstage area next to The Alton Towers Dungeon. For more details about this mystery new addition, check out our dedicated Development Archive.
What Sites are Available?
There are several sites around the park that are currently available for redevelopment. Here we take a look at some sites where we can expect to see new attractions built in the coming years.
The World of David Walliams
The World of David Walliams may be relatively new, but the area has plenty of room to expand.
Most of the buildings on one side of the area are no longer open to the public, from the shuttered 4D Cinema and Toy Shop at one end through to the old Nickelodeon building at the other. Will the area to expand over the coming years to incorporate these unused spaces? And not forgetting the Driving School, which is likely to be rethemed in the near future.
The departure of Flavio’s Fabulous Fandango and The Alton Towers Dungeon, give the area lots of potential sites to be redeveloped in the coming years, to coincide with the opening of Project Horizon.
X Sector
2021 saw the end of The Submission Memorial Garden to make way for the Retro Squad. However, the former site of Submission is now vacant again, so perhaps it is time for the Ministry of Joy to add a new experiment and bolster the park’s dwindling flat ride line-up.
The Enterprise also departed the park at the end of 2022 and is now also vacant and ready for a new ride to be added in that location.
In 2024 the site at the bottom of X-Sector was home to the pop-up food & beverage options of X-Position Food, but this is only a temporary usage of the site whilst it awaits redevelopment.
Dark Forest
The Dark Forest is brimming with potential for future development, most notably on the former site of the Ug Swinger, which was more recently home to Roller Disco.
When the area was Festival Park in the 90s, the area around Th13teen’s entrance played host to several other rides, including The Beastie and Enterprise, so there is potential for more than one attraction in this under-used area. Perhaps the park could re-visit plans for the Robo-Arms that were considered as part of the Dark Forest development.
Equally, the site that currently houses the Dark Forest Lockers was once the site of the Magic Carpet and later The Spider. Whilst the site itself is compact, the queues for these attractions once ran through the neighbouring woodland, with some evidence of the site’s past still visible today.
Forbidden Valley
For the briefest of moments Forbidden Valley was ‘full’. With Toxicator under construction, all the current attraction spots in the valley were filled. But alas it was not to be, and at the end of 2024, the park announced that they would be removing The Blade.
The pit at the centre of Forbidden Valley is now empty once again, but it reamins to be seen how long this remains the case.
CBeebies Land
Even with the arrival of the new coaster in 2026, there is still room for new additions in CBeebies Land, which has not yet expanded to use the entire corner of the park that was once home to Old MacDonald’s Farm.
Next door, in Adventure Land, there is also the long abandoned Refresh@Spinball site, which site in an area which could be re-used as part of either of the neighbouring lands.