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Welcome Evie, pleasure to see a new member who's been browsing for so long. I do wonder though, how come it took you so many months to make an account if you don't mind me asking?

I suspect with this on the cards and looking in comparison to most projects of its sort they'll already be having meetings to figure out investment strategies to compete, this is most relevant at Towers, but they are ahead of the game on one thing and that's that they already have an operating...

A @Thameslink Rail submission to the coaster challenge with a (sort of) break run? I'm shocked! Anyway my apologies @Matt N but I don't think I've got the time to be part of the coaster building challenge this year (I know I signed up last year and then didn't submit anything) but I'm just far...

Which was exactly my point Goose...

There British films, if they are filmed in the UK and the majority of the crew is British then they are British. A little like Harrods isn't owned by a British company but it's still British or anything similar where the parent company is foreign but the company operates nationally.

This is very interesting so I wanted to run through my thoughts on it. Firstly I agree with @Leigh that it's well connected and a good location, close enough to London to get the London visitors but far enough out that land and costs are nowhere near as bad. Do I think it's likely to end up as...

Nice to see track on site, I wonder if we will see only single spine track or whether some sections will have the bigger Intamin track. Either way I don't mind the colour of the track it's not bad at all I don't think.

My thoughts on this are that I think they perhaps need a family orientated coaster with a less dark theme but I don't see a major problem with it. I don't see them changing there stance on theming too much because they need to be able to market these new attractions, and there most successful...

I doubt that if they are ending one contract with Sega they are about to start a new one. I imagine they'll do an in house cheap retheme and leave it at that. I wouldn't expect anything too well themed or expensive. Especially with them opening an incredibly expensive coaster the same year.

This is because of a multitude of international agreements, agreeing to let the small number of people who want to drive temporarily in another country be allowed to do so. It's sort of to save the effort, I imagine a calculation was done and it was decided that the risk outweighed how...

There are so many options for the space, but I imagine very little will be done until they're new duelling boomerang opens. I hope I'm wrong, but they will probably leave a large amount of the rapids in place until the funding is allocated and there ready to start building the replacement...

This is interesting, this business stragety is clearly working for them and putting guest satisfaction first seems a good thing. I will say however, that I think most people in the UK, expect to queue when they got to a theme park. They don't want ridiculous long queue's but they don't mind...

I'd say for me it's more intelligent and lengthy discussions. Sure I often disagree with people on here and people often disagree with me but it isn't usually just insults thrown which tends to be the case in the usually shorter form content of social media. Twitter//x is famous for it's...

Yes, thanks Matt.

Can I have a TLDR @Matt N for those of us who scrapped a pass in maths and really doesn't have the brain space to try and understand that?

POV of @Burbs when we opens this thread:

I imagine it's just cheaper and easier logistically for them to do the whole track with the veins, plus that extension queue is bound to be used when the ride reopens and they don't want it not to match when they're just done a big relaunch.

It wouldn't need as extensive work as nemesis, it's only a small piece of track that gets much force applied, so I imagine it's an awkward job but something they'd probably do over a closed season. Probably just replacing one or two bits of track, or perhaps even the running rails.

I imagine it's the pure cost of building something like this in the UK as opposed to other places. The other fact is Merlin tend to spend large amounts of there budgets on theming and marketing something they've probably had to move away from to spend money on very expensive hardware. Then again...

I mean to be fair they're not wrong, even if the skyride is down the step count when you go to Towers is huge, there's just simply so much space to walk around. I don't think this post is as bad as some of the others, though I do get some commenters points.