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Appalling. The wonky o is jarring and the logo seems compositionally off. To go from such a strong logo as the infinity to this lifeless wordart is a real shame. Why was there a need to change it in the first place? With the way Thorpe is being run these days, and the standard of this logo...

I just wanted to post quickly as I visited Thorpe for the first time in a very long time this weekend and was really surprised by the transformation the park has undergone, especially with regard to Fright Nights. Mazes wise, I was very unipressed with Survival Games. All of my group thought...

Civil Engineer chiming in - I've worked a bit with steel bridges and from my experience their life is determined as the number of load cycles they will experience, not a number of years. The paperclip analogy is spot on. That track flexes almost identically day in, day out, it will experience...

Hard to tell what this is for without seeing the updated plans. The supporting documentation mentions an updated Cut and Fill so i would imagine that this is for earthworks rather than an extended layout. I think they would have to explicitly state than in any application for a variation...

Spookslot is the Park's Haunted Castle, and was the first symbol of them expanding from the fairytale forest. It's a very quaint (very impressive for the time) mechanical show, performed to 'danse macabre'. It's a beautiful piece of the park and is very symbolic in terms of Efteling's history...

After all the years building up to the expansion and Circus Balance this all feels very bizarre! It's sad to see the whole of Spookslot demolished, but (despite what some Efteling fans seem to think) the park isn't a museum and has to update it's attractions in the same way all other parks do...

I still feel like Exodus is going to be a fantastic ride. But the grass would feel an awful lot greener if this ride felt like it was designed with any imagination, rather than being driven by the marketing campaign they'll be able to run and the headlines they'll generate. It feels like such a...

I would say it's quite the opposite. Nemesis was designed to be the best coaster within the constraints the park had, and is a beautifully realised rollercoaster that interacts well with the park. Exodus is a record grab.

The site is the site that the park selected and could have been bigger so i'm not buying that Thorpe were really constrained here. We get no interaction between the ride and the park either (a Wardley staple). Even the splashdown plaza is only accessible on the exit path? It's a tall, short...

That looks very far from the plans

Amazing I can't ever see Looping investing to bring this back when there are far more attractive offerings that they could spend the money on.

It strikes me that the layout is similar to Saw's outdoor section, just made larger and a bit crazier. It might be a bit of a stretch but ultimately highlights how this doesn't really add much dimension to the park's overall lineup. Both feature: Large drop (over vertical or twisted vertical)...

This is really going to change how Saw feels, it looks absolutely puny in the concept art and will lose a lot of its trees. Not sure how I feel about this coaster, looks tall and I'm sure it'll ride well but I'm in agreement with Rob, it seems like a wasted opportunity for this not to have a bit...

A Mack sounds sensible to me. I never quite believed the B&M or RMC rumours as they seemed to be more based on wish fulfilment rather than what Merlin would realistically greenlight. I can picture something compact taking over the Old Town/Slammer areas, reusing the Loggers Station. It'll save...

It makes some kind of sense to me, they can market the driving school as a new attraction in CBeebies and open up some space in TWoDW for new attractions there. Could even move Tree-Fu Tom up to TWoDW and advertise as a new attraction if they're being really cheap? From an advertising standpoint...

Just think about the vast amounts of trees they'd have to fell so that all the required plant to construct a B&M in the valley could access it. Is there even a feasible route to get a crane in? I'm sure that environmental groups, as well as locals, would have some serious concerns. The...

Aren't the cross valley woodie and the B&M surf two separate projects that John Wardley has always had in the back of his mind for Alton Towers. Surely there's been a site for the surf earmarked for a while that is separate to the cross-valley? I struggle to see why they would then switch to a...

I'm sure Merlin will be monitoring this and changing their procurement strategy for spare parts if the lead time on Gerstlauer parts has increased.

The markings on the ground are probably from a survey of the underground utilities. Doesn't mean much other than they are doing works in the area and have identified that there are potential utilities that they are at risk of disturbing. Is Swashbucklers essentially a pirate version of Jungle...

Could they relocate Peter Rabbit up to by the Vroomsters and open up a decent site along the back of Cbeebies? Will be interesting to see what they add - hopefully there will be other 2022 investments elsewhere in the park!