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[2026] CBeebies Land Junior Coaster

This does not solve the issues Alton Towers has, if anything it makes it worse.

Theme Parks are supposed to be fun days for all the family, where you spend your time together, making magical memories.

Lets be honest, by the time children are turning 5 and 6, most of the rides in CBeebies are hardly the most exciting rides to go on. If your family has a 5 and 9 year old, the 9 year old does not want to spend several hours in CBeebies land.

And outside of CBeebies land, there is nothing for the 5 year old to do.

As a family you now have a choice to make, spend half the day in CBeebies land with a bored 9 year old and the other half the day with a bored 5 year old, or split the family up, with one parent and the 9 year old going to do the bigger rides, and the other parent and 5 year old doing CBeebies land.

In both scenarios, they are hardly going to create magical memories with all the family.

This new addition means that more time is going to be spent in CBeebies land. At least the old farmyard had the animals to view and look at, something which all the family can enjoy. Now there is nothing. This is the problem with such an age specific IP. Forbidden Valley has 2 (Soon to be 3) 1,4 meter rides, and nothing else. But what is there to stop a mini-monorail which is themed to a Phalanx Observation team, or put a children's play area under the helicopter, or have a junior coaster themed to a tentacle hatching out of an egg? You have taken an area which was previously 8+ and now made it suitable for all families. You can do the same with X-Sector and Dark Forest (Bring back Ugland). You could argue the Paultons has the same issue with Peppa Pig Land (Although I would argue that everyone wants to ride the dinosaur ride, there is no ride at CBeebies land that I want to ride), but all the new coasters are 1m+, so anyone child who has paid to go on, still have plenty of rides outside that area.

Does adding a Bitsize themed ride or CBBC themed ride to CBeebies land really work. CBeebies land must be making money for Alton Towers, I cant understand it in my head, as I would not be happy paying full price just for CBeebies. Where as I never had an issue with paying full price at Paultons just for Peppa Pig land. Because even though that was the only reason we went the first time, we still ended up wondering around other areas of the park and finding things to do.

I wonder if CBeebies works because it brings in families that don't have school ages kids, and therefore its actually CBeebies land which makes the park money during the week, and then the older families come at the weekends? I don't see this approach working as well as Chessington, where its a lot easier to get to.

Put the ticket prices up by £10, that's an extra £18 (£15 after vat) million a year, and you could easily afford to add two new rides over the next three years (6 in total) to Forbidden Valley, Dark Forest and X-Sector and that would make the park a lot more rounded, and I don't think anyone would complain to much if ticket prices went up by £10 and and we got 6 new rides.
 
It does seem an interesting choice given they are massively struggling to get 10 coasters open on time right now and experiencing little down time. Half the coasters are plagued with issues as it is.

I'm sure the ride engineers are all thrilled with this news. 😂
 
I wonder if they could do something much akin to the old Dragon at Camelot, taking the space of Tree Top Adventure. Skyrider just closed at LL so the Towers equivalent probably isn’t far behind
 
Matt N said:
If it’s not replacing Spinball, I can’t see where else it would go.

Get Set Go is a decent suggestion, but I feel like the aerial nature of it would mean that its removal wouldn’t actually open up that much space. And seeing as the area’s only entrance path is underneath it, I can imagine it could be a complicated removal.

Is/was Octonauts under a different GDO to the rest of CBeebies Land, then? It’s taller than 5m, and was definitely built without planning permission, if I’m remembering rightly.
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I do wonder about the long term future of Justin’s Pie-O-Matic Factory bearing in mind that it’s cousin Temple Of Mayhem has bitten the dust at Chessie with their new themed area on the way. I wonder if that space might be utilised for a new attraction in some way, either by using the building in some way or removing it?
 
I don't think it would replace nutty squirrel (too much intertwined with the rest of the land, any construction would close the whole land and the plot would be very limiting)

It could replace spinball, but they have invested in a SRQ (late in the season as well) and a new controller, so I feel like it is less so

There are more places it could replace, looking at the maps pretty much any of the attractions in the land is more than big enough to be replaced with a good length coaster (apart from peter rabbit and dinosaur dig) complete guess but how about in the night garden boat ride, it is quite an old show and the ride system is from 1989 so I can't imagine it is getting easier to maintain and it is a really nice large central plot in CBeebies land.
 
flyingguitar said:
how about in the night garden boat ride, it is quite an old show and the ride system is from 1989 so I can't imagine it is getting easier to maintain and it is a really nice large central plot in CBeebies land.
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That would be a good plot, you could split it into 2 or 3 rides/attractions and it looks to be most the area of cBeebies land, for comparison here is from google maps, light blue is the octonaughts ride, green is spinball and red is in the night garden, you could probably fit the octonaughts ride or spinball in that plot1734722416961.png
 
flyingguitar said:
I don't think it would replace nutty squirrel (too much intertwined with the rest of the land, any construction would close the whole land and the plot would be very limiting)

It could replace spinball, but they have invested in a SRQ (late in the season as well) and a new controller, so I feel like it is less so
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Is it not replacing Postman Pat or did I imagine this? Probably the latter! 😂

flyingguitar said:
how about in the night garden boat ride
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I'd like to see this area used for something like Grampy Rabbits Sailing Club at Paultons (a Mack free flow boat ride). It's lovely and gentle for the younger children plus mine always loved watching it go round and waving to the riders! Like you say, it's a good plot so hopefully, they'll do something solid with it, even if not the coaster!
 
I don’t know where people are getting the idea it would replace Spinball from but the notion of dropping one of the few medium thrill rides (ie 1.2m) for a CBeebies level replacement seems rather absurd considering that’s already the demographic least catered for in the park.
 
Bowser said:
I don’t know where people are getting the idea it would replace Spinball from but the notion of dropping one of the few medium thrill rides (ie 1.2m) for a CBeebies level replacement seems rather absurd considering that’s already the demographic least catered for in the park.
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The idea of it replacing Spinball has come from the fact that it's seemingly been "on the chopping block" for at least the last 10 years. Alton Towers' Long Term Development Plan, from between 2010 and 2019, cited it as a potential ride for removal, and with Adventure Land having grown ever smaller having been partially enveloped by CBeebies when they built Octonauts, the next logical step would be for Spinball to eventually go and for that whole corner to be exclusively CBeebies.
 
Benzin said:
Purely based off guessimates on my own kid, she'd hit 1m by her 3rd birthday, so potentially 1.1m by 4/5. So only just would be starting school and still likely watching CBeebies (if she's Disney'd out).
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Just looked up the average age of someone who's 1.1m and it seems that is about 5. It does vary and some would reach it earlier or later.

From what I understand, it's between 5 and 7 that kids do tend to gradually outgrow Cbeebies programmes and onto content for slightly older ones.

There is a huge lack of rides that steps up between the thrill rides and Cbeebies Land and at Alton Towers, it is a struggle where one part of a family can go to Cbeebies Land and the other ends up at the other areas of the park. It's just two extremes and no transition really. It's been made worse with Flavios and Blade going.

It's hard to think 10 years ago, Alton Towers had The Flume, Wave Swinger, 4D Cinema, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Blade and Enterprise were at the park.

There was a time that Runaway Mine Train and Marauders Mayhem both had a 0.9m height requirement.

I find it odd that the park would do a 2nd Cbeebies Land coaster when the park need something appealing for a wider audience and theme like Gold Rush.
 
On the one hand it makes some sense in that CBeebies is really the only area of the park that is open "all year" and if they're trying to be 365 then it's another attraction there.

Of course in that regard building indoor attractions would make even more sense.

As we struggle to look for things to do over the Christmas period it's wild to look to our European friends and see parks like DLP or Efteling not only open every day but often well into the evening. Time difference aside you could be joining the queue for Space Mountain right now.
 
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