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[2026] Bluey Coaster in CBeebies Land

Platinum pass holders can go for a behind the scenes tour on 30th Jan.

Behind the Scenes - Bluey Tour​

Platinum Passholder Extra Magic Exclusive
On 30th January, Platinum Passholders are invited to a FREE behind-the-scenes tour at the Alton Towers Resort.
What's included?
  • ✓ A guided tour of CBeebies Land, with a peek at winter maintenance in action.
  • ✓ Exclusive access to the Bluey: The Ride construction site.
  • ✓ The chance to ask all your burning questions.
  • ✓ All hosted by Tom, our wonderful Multiskilled Engineering Supervisor and David, our Senior Project Manager.

The Details:
  • This event will run from 12pm - 3pm.
  • Corner Coffee & Little Explorers Toy Shop will be open.
  • This is an extremely limited event, available only to Platinum Passholders. Please only book a slot if you're sure you can attend.
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Alton Towers are offering a "Behind the Scenes" tour of the construction site for "Bluey the Ride: Here come the Grannies", on January 30th.

You must have a Merlin Platinum Pass for this experience, but it is free and not an up charge.

Thankfully it also won't be swamped with vloggers, as they're not allowed to film:
As you'll be entering top secret areas not usually accessible to the public, there will be no photos or videos allowed during the tour and all participants will be asked to sign an NDA in order to take part.
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It also means that, sadly, anyone who's attended also won't be able share anything with us either (until the NDA expires at least).

 
Skyscraper said:
Unlikely I think, as the content creator program was discontinued.
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To suggest that the vlogging community will cease to document the construction of a children's coaster, simply because they haven't received an official laminate, is touchingly naive.

You could build a 50 ft concrete wall around the perimeter, dissolve the marketing department and declare the site a black ops exclusion zone, and there would still be a 20 minute "MAJOR UPDATE" video uploaded by tea time analysing the shade of the mud through a crack in the fence.

The "program" may be dead, but the hustle is eternal.
Islander said:
I don't think that changes the possibility of such tours at all - just means the park may run them ad-hoc (like any other Merlin park), other than as part of a program that clearly wasn't working.
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I suspect the realisation that the program "wasn't working" coincided precisely with the moment management looked at the balance sheet and realised they were handing out thousands of pounds worth of perks to people whose primary output was complaining about the shade of paint on a support column. The same people who would unashamedly likely pay for the perks, if they were commercially available.

Moving to an ad-hoc model just means they can return to the time honoured Merlin tradition of panic inviting whoever has been nicest to them that week, rather than being contractually obliged to entertain the cretins critics.

Dance for the Wizard and you might get a crumb.
 
GooseOnTheLoose said:
You could build a 50 ft concrete wall around the perimeter, dissolve the marketing department and declare the site a black ops exclusion zone, and there would still be a 20 minute "MAJOR UPDATE" video uploaded by tea time analysing the shade of the mud through a crack in the fence.
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It might have been twenty years before vlogging was popularised, but this is basically how they built Oblivion.
 
Plastic Person said:
It might have been twenty years before vlogging was popularised, but this is basically how they built Oblivion.
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Indeed. The primary difference, of course, is that with SW4 the black ops vibe, with actors screaming at you to get out, was the entire point of the marketing strategy. Tussauds actively weaponised the secrecy.

If they tried it today, I fear they would be slapped with a harassment lawsuit by a 19 year old with a gimbal before the concrete had even set.
 
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GooseOnTheLoose said:
To suggest that the vlogging community will cease to document the construction of a children's coaster, simply because they haven't received an official laminate, is touchingly naive.
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That is not what the poster I was quoting said, though, so you cannot call me naive. I took "separate vlogger visit" to mean an organised site visit.
 
Skyscraper said:
That is not what the poster I was quoting said, though, so you cannot call me naive. I took "separate vlogger visit" to mean an organised site visit.
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I would argue it's still naïve to think that such a visit would never be organised. Especially if upcharged lol.
 
Skyscraper said:
I never said that I didn't think such a visit would ever be organised, that's the thing.
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You literally said that you didn't think that a separate vlogger visit would likely be organised.

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