[2026] CBeebies Land Junior Coaster

[flyingguitar]

It won't absorb any capacity because they're removing a ride for it

it may, rollercoasters tend to have more capacity compared to rides like postman pats, which only has a cap of 320pph (RMT has a cap of 1062pph if it were to opperate similarly) (no data for octonaughts though)

What if this coaster has been designed long term to replace the octonaughts coaster and bring a coaster into the heart of cbeebies land. Octonaughts always has long queues and seems to struggle with the out of season demands meaning they close it as soon as christmas has arrived leaving the park with no coaster for twixmas. We know they are aiming for 365 day operation which will probably never happen but fixing their christmas and spring half term events would be a good start. Also if this coaster is short but with high capacity I think it will make a lot of parents and kids happy with a short queue (possibly why there is a big shed for an extra train or so they can maintain it over winter)

I would agree this could make sense to essentially move octonaughts more inwards to CBeebies (the queue is not the best, and it feels like it has been squashed in a random spot) and the additional maintenance shed could allow for 2 trains meaning one can be off during its yearly rebuild (as required by most rollercoasters). this new ride looks to have a longer station and maintenance bay so it could have longer trains and so could have a higher capacity compared to octonaughts and looking at maps this new ride is probably comparable ride length to octonaughts (no turn arround but longer station and lift).
on the other hand I would assume the rollercoaster part of CBeebies is quite a popular one so it may make more sense to have 2 rollercoasters to expand the rollercoaster capacity.

Now this is where my theory gets interesting. What if the plan is to replace octonaughts with some 1.2m flat rides creating what used to be something like adventure land with spinball whizzer (its just had a single rider queue added for some reason). If the tree top ride is going as well this could be them shrinking cbeebies land and creating an area for older kids for the winter and spring events. This gives them cbeebies for 2-6, mutiny bay for 5-9 and adventure land for 7-12 possibly. Maybe they could even use the conference venue for ice skating or something aimed at older children to tie into the area. This would also mean they don't need to grit huge parts of the park to open other areas that appeal to older kids reducing operating cost whilst allowing full families to visit.

if they were aiming to replace octonaughts I don't think they would eat into CBeebies to expand adventure land, I think it would make sense to add additional rides to CBeebies land. I think if it was the plan they could probably add some theming or other (bushes / foliage) to hide spinball from inside CBeebies and add some more to it.


also get set go tree top adventure is could be staying, I checked on google maps and comparing it's lay out to the plans (approximatly) it only goes over the queue I have drawn the layout in blue over the plans bellow, if they are keeping it the layout makes more sense.

 

[jibbsie]

On the Maintenance Building, I suspect that the size might suggest that it is designed to be a maintenance building for the whole of CBeebies Land, rather than just the new coaster. It would make sense to increase maintenance capacity for the land. They'd obviously still need to use their larger facilities for big jobs, but a small-scale maintenance facility within CBeebies Land would surely make things more efficient on a day-to-day basis.

looking at the floor plans there is a roller door leading into the track and would appear to be set up very similar to be how a switch track maitanence bay would be set up withe another roller door at the oposite end (a feature of maitanence buildings sometimes they have a bit of track to allow removal of the train, such as in hyperia, spinball, rita and some more) also the enterance (for the rest of the land) is via the staff carpark with a rarther small looking roller door, if this was for the whole land I would expect a larger door and it not to matter if it was inline with the coaster door.

 

[Ben]

I think we’re finally getting the washing machine element in the shed. 360 rotating track, 15 inversions beating their own recird

 

[TBoy535]

I feel like this new investment has baffled us all

 

[Dave]

I feel like this new investment has baffled us all

To be fair it’s genuinely a pickle, the maintenance shed makes no sense unless there is a way to run two trains AND have the ride make two circuits.

Unless you do a lot of shuttling between the lift hill and the end like an elaborate rock n tug.

 

[Ash]

Also, why would lose the corner coffee outdoor seating for a bit of queue and yet there’s unused space next to it?

It’s just stupid.

 

[Bert2theSpark]

To be fair it’s genuinely a pickle, the maintenance shed makes no sense unless there is a way to run two trains AND have the ride make two circuits.

Unless you do a lot of shuttling between the lift hill and the end like an elaborate rock n tug.

If there’s two trains, the lift hill would also have to double up as a holding block in order to transfer trains on and off the track, as it looks like there’s no block brakes meaning that the station block would serve as the same block section as the free-coasting track.

 

[flyingguitar]

If there’s two trains, the lift hill would also have to double up as a holding block in order to transfer trains on and off the track, as it looks like there’s no block brakes meaning that the station block would serve as the same block section as the free-coasting track.

I think It would probably have brakes before that turn in to the station it is a steep turn and normally there are brakes before a switch track (if it has one)