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But on the other hand, nobody is going to want to stay as an abandonded theme park forever, so it makes sense to eventually do something with it. The council are aware of this, and surely will likely cave into some kind of residential development, just maybe on a smaller scale than Story keep...

I think housing will eventually get approved on this site, purely because the council will realise there is no chance of anybody developing a permanent leisure facility here. With the governments new push for housing, and with the change in the planning laws coming. I could see this eventually...

These parks are incredibly different, Knotts is more of a 'theme' park, it's also way more family orientated, while Magic Mountain is far more thrill coaster heavy (I think they still have the record for the most coasters). Six Flags America was too close to Kings Dominion, itself not...

I don't think Batwing has any chance of being reolocated unfortunatley. It's old, complicated and there's probably at least some problems for getting parts. The massive expensive for what is probably not a great ride experience for guests is also a factor.

I have to say I think that the 'portal' branding for this park looks really good and I think it sets a new design standard for theme parks. I think we could see similar elements incorporated into Universal studios GB, although I don't think the same 'portal' branding will be used.

Yeah, when they merged I think it was stated that the new chain would need to refocus on the right properties. I wouldn't be shocked to see parks that were previously competing now get reorganised, with some closing where there is duplication. I also think this park in particular was clearly...

How many is too many though?

But for a true family park it needs to have something for everyone to do. And although I haven't visited Paulton's I don't get the impression there much to do for teenagers or young adults. If a family has a thrill-seeking teenager and a younger kid, there's little point visiting a park that...

I don't visit often, so when I do I really try and squeeze in everything, but I do not tend to go on The Smiler all that often, have no real interest in the thing, Would much rather just get another lap on nemesis.

I'm glad you had a good trip Matt, Roller Coaster is always the highlight for me, sure your right it's nothing by modern standards, but if you get the right brakeman (or woman) and its being going all day I have known the occasional intense ride on it. If I'm honest I have a bit of a soft spot...

Well done Matt, lots of work has clearly gone into it and I hope you get a good grade out of it.

Yes but with this being the UK's new tallest coaster it shouldn't exactly be a difficult thing to sell? If anything it seems pretty straight forward, you'd think there would be ads all over the place by now but I've seen nothing.

Has anybody seen much advertising around for this? Considering it's opening in a few months time you'd think they would've started to have gone really big advertising wise but all I've seen in Thorpe's own social accounts and newspaper articles.

Sober barrels maybe? Then again it doesn't quite have the same ring to it...

I reckon they'll go for clean and shiny, looks better in Instagram pictures, I wouldn't expect many new theme's and area's to look old and ruined because it just doesn't look at good unless cartooned, doing it accurately just looks like it isn't looked after when your having a quick glance.

They'll probably just get new names and skins, I wouldn't imagine full scare rethemes or we'd have probably heard about it already.

No it doesn't, firstly it's spent a hundred years with a system that almost everyone expects of a pleasure beach style park. But secondarly and more importantly is this silly ticket system, if it's one price to get in why do you need to scan your phone at every ride? Why do they need a picture...

Yes it is important, this isn't about this story in particular, they lost lots of money and unless they want to keep loosing money then they need to make some changes. Allowing entry passes and then having places to eat/drink/be entertained on park makes a lot of sense for pleasure in its...

Pleasure beach definatley should return to there pre covid ticketing system or something that is an improvement on it. Scanning your phone at every ride is just a pain and having a walk around pass is a great idea for them for reasons @Matt N has talked about around how the park is perceived. If...

I know some Starbucks at least do charge for different sorts of milk, like oat milk, one of my friends can't have dairy and they always charge them extra for the milk.