It’s been a couple of years since we’ve last visited, so I thought I’d post some random, lesser spoken about observations from our first day:
Silver Lake looks to have had a bit of a rearrangement to its themeing outside. Have they removed the “please scrape shit off boots” sign?
I was excited to try the EPA Pale Ale. It was just okay.
Madame Freudenriche was just as weird as I expected. It made very little sense. Jim Knopf was a delight.
The perspex on Euro Tower is now badly crazed. On a sunny day it really effects the view, which is the only reason for going on Euro Tower in the first place.
Batavia’s animatronic is even more lifelike in person.
Voletarium’s picture seems to have improved, however the sound remains underwhelming. If you’re going to rip off Soarin’ at least copy their speaker array. The bass is just not there when you should feel the thud of things like the fireworks at the end.
The Feel The Beat show in Italy is really bad. It feels very ‘caravan site’; the singing quality is not good.
It’s good to see Arthur remaining so popular after five years. It had the most consistently long queue all day. Please build more rides like this EP.
The French area now feels so much better and more complete with the change to Eurosat. The area by the old ride shop now feels quite enveloping in its theme, rather than the confused “spaceship Paris” feel it used to exude. All I’d say is that the new fountains are a tad annoying.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that we’ve never seen the EP Band play more than one song before they move on. I think we’re just unlucky, but is there a schedule for them anywhere? We’d love to watch them play a few songs.
Overall, it’s just good to get back. I remember why I love this place so much and a lot of it is just the intangibles.