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It’s not a “claim”, it’s a fact. Merlin Entertainments are the second biggest operator of themed attractions in the world. No one else has as many parks and midway attractions. Six Flags and Universal are probably next behind Merlin. They never say second in quality or anything, just in size of...

But how many rooms is just Alton Towers Hotel? Splash was added around 7 years later then enchanted village another 12 years later.

Yep what I realled wanted Thorpe to build was a Mako clone or similar, just a tall non-inverting coaster.

Same thing, they are saving money by not scheduling as many staff. They aren't going to rota the staff who would normally work Tiger Falls and then just have them sit in a break room all day, they'll rota the minimum staffing number on all rides and not get the staff in to work at all on the...

It’s not Merlin doing it, it’s Thorpe Park. They run their own annual passholders Facebook group to give these kind of updates, none of the other parks do that anyway.

Legally no, but what Thorpe said is they are choosing to stop rides when there is a drone above them. Risk is it runs out of battery or otherwise stops flying and lands in the ride path causing damage or for open rides it could cause injury.

If they are regularly treating off-peak days like this then it needs to be made clear when purchasing a Discovery Pass. I know the terms state things might be closed, but the average person assumes that is because they are broken, not because they can't be bothered to hire enough staff and run...

Had a thought following the finale of Ant & Decs Saturday Night Takeaway last weekend, in Florida they have Race Through New York with Jimmy Fallon (late night chatshow host), but imagine if they did create a UK version of something like that with someone like Ant & Dec. Don't see it happening...

I don’t think it will be a carbon copy of any existing Universal park, there might be some repeated rides or themes but so far Universal seem to not be too repetitive in other parks. Would definitely welcome some exclusive British stuff that is different to their other parks.

Lost Continent at IoA was broadly original, using myths and stories more than IP. Celestial Park at Epic Universe will also be original.

Yes Tussauds had both Chessington and Alton before 1994

Yes and they keep having to get permission not to build a third gate as that was due by 2026 but they now have until 2036. https://insidethemagic.net/2020/02/third-park-at-disneyland-paris-tm1/

Its bigger than Ferrari Land I think, but it still never quite felt like a finished full park and probably still won't after the new lands. It used to have some great shows like CineMagique, but some attractions like Rock n Rollercoaster just felt like poor clones of Florida. Ratatouile was...

They're just painted on black dots to try and resemble rivets.

But the park name on the Saw and Colossus trains didn't match the park logo either. Its always been in the ride font, not the park one.

Pretty standard at Disney to see managers carry litter pickers

If people are coming from Southend they can take the bus. But given Alton Towers car parking is now £10, for tourists coming to the town those rates don't seem terrible. Blackpool Council is £12 for 12 hours

Then (other than being political) why does the owner care, if he thinks the park is a good price surely a few quid to the council on parking won't stop people visiting

Or maybe Adventure Island could refund the parking charges with purchase of a ride wristband if they care that much about their customers.

But at Disney where they had a high number of guests with accessibility needs overall, making it so that scooters and wheelchairs didn’t need an access pass did make a difference in how many people were needing to use access passes, even just moving 20% of people back into the main queue as it...