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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

D4n said:
I love how Thorpe Park is now filled with unused spaces where this could be going.

I'm a Celeb, Living Nightmare, Saw Alive...

The park is a graveyard. I give the new attraction a year. The IP is odd but it is not the main problem.

I wonder what next year's IP of the week will be. Fingers crossed for Stranger Things.
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Doubt it - they tend to pick them up at least a couple of years after the buzz of said IP has died down so they’re cheaper.

Merlin would argue IPs allow them to secure coverage on the clickbait-hungry news websites that they otherwise wouldn’t get for “Thorpe Park opens generic maze” - case in point:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/uk-ireland/thorpe-park-unveils-black-mirror-21574023.amp

But this has gone on for far too long now, and will likely continue until the company changes strategic direction, which may be never.

Until then, except many more walkthroughs or possibly - if they’re feeling really adventurous - another retheme. Add a couple of dummies to the tunnel of Rumba Rapids and you’ve got Fear Falls.
 
Doublethink said:
Do Thorpe pay yearly to maintain their IPs? Wonder how much they are spending to maintain Darren Brown, Angry Birds, Saw, Walking dead and now this every year.....
It's no wonder there is no money for further investment
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I'm sure they pay for a agreed ammount of time? I read somewhere "Saw" was only for 10years?
I'm sure they could got a rmc or verkoma for the price they have paid for all the IPs?
 
How odd, was watching the Screenwipe best ofs at the end of the year and the 2016 one Charlie Brooker was filming his VT bits at Thorpe Park. Or the bits I watched as it all got a bit depressing by that year.
 
John_P said:
How odd, was watching the Screenwipe best ofs at the end of the year and the 2016 one Charlie Brooker was filming his VT bits at Thorpe Park. Or the bits I watched as it all got a bit depressing by that year.
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Charlie Brooker loves a Merlin park, seen him a couple of times in Cbeebies Land with Konnie Huq and their kids.

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Charlie Newbold said:
This is an unconventional IP in that Black Mirror is purely a series of stand alone episodes connected only by theme. There’s no common setting/characters between episodes, just the overall idea of scary technology in some dystopian alternate universe.
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Yeah but the dumbed down marketing 'image' of Black Mirror is usually along the lines of "PHONES ARE BAD!" "20-somethings GONNA FREAK OUT!" so they will probably go with that as the theme

It's not a major attraction, I wouldnt get your hopes up. It will be another Saw Alive type thing at best but hopefully more creative
 
ANPR related, the annual passes for Thorpe & MAP now has an optional box for vehicle reg details.

*Optional - Vehicle Registration to be used for seamless exit at selected UK Resorts
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Yes; my mum had to fill in a vehicle registration when helping me buy my Premium MAP recently. I didn't think of it being due to Thorpe's ANPR at the time, but it makes perfect sense now.
 
With the limited information we have, this attraction could end up being brilliant or awful. My guess is that it will be great when it first opens and dwindle over time like most things at Thorpe, especially when there is an IP involved because whoever is being featured by Thorpe Park is going to want it to be good even if Thorpe don’t care.

The choice of Black Mirror is excellent in my opinion. I know a couple of people have already mentioned but it is huge, especially with the younger generation that consume most of their media through Netflix and YouTube. The interactive Bandersnatch episode that came out not so long ago was all over everything so it makes perfect sense for Thorpe’s target audience. And it fits in with the dystopian feel they have going on already. The only problem is more of the same.
 
Tentaclaws said:
With the limited information we have, this attraction could end up being brilliant or awful. My guess is that it will be great when it first opens and dwindle over time like most things at Thorpe, especially when there is an IP involved because whoever is being featured by Thorpe Park is going to want it to be good even if Thorpe don’t care.

The choice of Black Mirror is excellent in my opinion. I know a couple of people have already mentioned but it is huge, especially with the younger generation that consume most of their media through Netflix and YouTube. The interactive Bandersnatch episode that came out not so long ago was all over everything so it makes perfect sense for Thorpe’s target audience. And it fits in with the dystopian feel they have going on already. The only problem is more of the same.
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The whole park already feels like a dystopian nightmare ran by an profit maximising cooperation so they don't need black mirror to capture that vibe
 
Tentaclaws said:
The interactive Bandersnatch episode that came out not so long ago was all over everything so it makes perfect sense for Thorpe’s target audience.
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As someone who grew up playing Lucas Arts SCUMM point-and-clicks, I found Bandersnatch very dissapointing. And that's before I realised that you can only play it once per account.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
As someone who grew up playing Lucas Arts SCUMM point-and-clicks, I found Bandersnatch very dissapointing. And that's before I realised that you can only play it once per account.
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I played through it a couple of different times, wasn’t aware about that thing of once per account? Yes, I personally don’t think it was as groundbreaking as people thought, but my point was that it was hugely popular and definitely fits Thorpe’s target market.
 
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