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[2026] CBeebies Land Junior Coaster

I’m sorry, but what a waste of time and money this all looks. The postman pat hardwire isn’t even that old - surely they could retheme this into a Bluey attraction rather than getting rid of an attraction with no height limit, whilst also shortening another attraction?

There are many areas of the park where this money could’ve been put to better use.
 
flyingguitar said:
the exit has been moved to the load side, will it now have a stare cross over (similar to the smiler)
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yes, the floor plan shows this well, I have marked it in red: (the disabled exit is the green dashed line)
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although I have noticed a few intresting things:
1. it has a masive window (I am curious what theme it will be tied to)
2. it has a large amount of area under the ride - I wonder if some maitanence has moved underneath the station.
3. the enterance and exit and station are elivated floors which is an intresting move, appart from some of nemesis I can't think of another coaster merlin has set up like this.
4. there is no room for air gates, dose this mean it will all be just set up to walk to each row.
5. the whole queue (appart from an area which looks like it is half stairs half ramp) has no stairs
6. why is is the door leaving the station like twice the height of the one entering the station, I understand that there is a start of a hill straght after but I would imagine they would have to be running pretty long trains to required that much change in clerance envelope form the look of the start of the lift hill
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Alphe86 said:
Said it before and will say it again. This ride was going somewhere else first / now they’re committed it’s just ending up at Towers because the original plans failed.
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I don’t want to be too “tin foil hat”, but I agree with this. This seems like a project that was forced on the park from higher up under the guise of “we’ve got an xyz junior coaster, find a place to put it” rather than being something designed specifically for the park.

This increasingly seems like a very odd addition. I don’t really get what it’s going to add to the area when Octonauts already exists.
 
Matt N said:
I don’t want to be too “tin foil hat”, but I agree with this. This seems like a project that was forced on the park from higher up under the guise of “we’ve got an xyz junior coaster, find a place to put it” rather than being something designed specifically for the park.

This increasingly seems like a very odd addition. I don’t really get what it’s going to add to the area when Octonauts already exists.
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If you want a good barometer of how Merlin is performing, just track the general tone of Matt N's posts on anything relevant...
 
Islander said:
If you want a good barometer of how Merlin is performing, just track the general tone of Matt N's posts on anything relevant...
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A new coaster is rarely a bad thing, and I’m sure this will be a fun ride for the audience.

With that said, I will call a spade a spade here and admit that I think there could have been better additions to the park when CBeebies Land already has a coaster. I feel the money could have been better spent on another flat ride, for example, and I’m not sure that taking out a non-coaster tracked ride in favour of a second coaster that doesn’t appear to do a lot differently from the area’s first one is the best move, in my personal view.

If it offered something meaningfully different from Octonauts aside from a different theme (which it may yet do, I admit!), I would feel differently. Something slightly bigger, like a Vekoma family boomerang or something, would add an untapped dimension to the park’s coaster lineup and expand the offering for the middle-ground family demographic, and something smaller like Duplo Dino Coaster could potentially have negated the need for a height restriction at all and functioned as a truly tiny coaster.

But this ride… looks a bit too big to be a Duplo Dino and a bit too small to be a more thrilling coaster than Octonauts, so I don’t really get what hole it’s filling.
 
Even without considering the removal of the maintenance building, this seems like a much more cost-efficient implementation of the ride. I'm somewhat baffled as to why this wasn't what they applied for in the first place, The original plans did seem overly fussy for what they were proposing to install.
 
Let’s take out a perfectly fine family ride for a tiny little coaster (which we already have one of!) which not everyone in the target audience can fit on!

WHAT?!?!

I remember hearing Offhand Disney look at Epic Universe and saying it has too many coasters; I’d disagree, it’s about right for its target audience, but certainly the thought of “Coasteritus” had been sewn in my brain.

This is it. This is Coasteritus.

Do we think this is a corporate higher up pleasing/shareholder (if they still have them!) move or are they actually just a bit.. well thick
 
Coasters are infinitely more marketable.

Much like with Horizon, it feels like adding a coaster for the sake of it, rather than it filling a particular role or niche within the line up.
 
Benzin said:
Coasters are infinitely more marketable.

Much like with Horizon, it feels like adding a coaster for the sake of it, rather than it filling a particular role or niche within the line up.
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I agree with the first sentiment, although not the correct reason to install one in this instance as there’s an equivalent 2 minute walk away.

Horizon would fill arguably the last gap in the lineup of an indoor coaster, lost since the black hole.

After that I see no need to add any new coasters at Alton bar replacements. (Rita)

I’d debate family attractions were needed far more than this (boat ride, 4D theatre, flying theatre, trackless dark ride)
 
Ash said:
I agree with the first sentiment, although not the correct reason to install one in this instance as there’s an equivalent 2 minute walk away.

Horizon would fill arguably the last gap in the lineup of an indoor coaster, lost since the black hole.

After that I see no need to add any new coasters at Alton bar replacements. (Rita)

I’d debate family attractions were needed far more than this (boat ride, 4D theatre, flying theatre, trackless dark ride)
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Retheming and reopening Charlie/Dungeons as a family attraction would have been infinitely cheaper than a new coaster, and more needed too.

Toyland Tours Strikes Back anyone?
 
jibbsie said:
6. why is is the door leaving the station like twice the height of the one entering the station, I understand that there is a start of a hill straght after but I would imagine they would have to be running pretty long trains to required that much change in clerance envelope form the look of the start of the lift hill
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I saw this after looking at the twitter post and was confused, to me even the back door is pretty large for a coaster, then the front is even taller
 
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