Camelot - gone for good?

[venny]

Definitely a bizarre one this. Absolutely nothing about it adds up, other than the council seem to not want to grant permission for housing on the site, almost as if they’re forcing the point of reopening a leisure destination.

But then they didn’t want to grant planning for the old Vekoma years ago.

It’s almost as if the British planning system doesn’t make sense…

 

[Martin]

Also half the shite has been repurposed for other leisure and industrial things

 

[RoyalFool]

Probably unrelated but the Camelot website has also recently been reactivated - exactly as it was from 2012. Weird!
https://www.camelotthemepark.co.uk/

Hey it's just closed for winter, should re-open any day now then

 

[DiogoJ42]

I'll just file this away with the "London Resort".

 

[Squiggs]

I'll just file this away with the "London Resort".

Now, now... you know the drill.

You don't get to file it away until we've at least had a multi-year debate that has got needlessly heated and/or repetitive!

 

[ACX96]

Probably unrelated but the Camelot website has also recently been reactivated - exactly as it was from 2012. Weird!
https://www.camelotthemepark.co.uk/

Was it ever switched off? I noticed it last week after going on the wayback machine for this & flambards. It's strange they've deleted the booking hyperlink and kept everything else as essentially a time capsule, including a post about winning a 2013 season pass.

 

[James Watkins]

Was it ever switched off? I noticed it last week after going on the wayback machine for this & flambards. It's strange they've deleted the booking hyperlink and kept everything else as essentially a time capsule, including a post about winning a 2013 season pass.

Yes was taken down at the end of 2012. Reckon a thoosie bought the URL and restored it

 

[Skyscraper]

thoosie

 

[WillPS]

Yes was taken down at the end of 2012. Reckon a thoosie bought the URL and restored it

The domain registration must've lapsed at some point because it was last registered in 2020.

It does appears the currently online version is made up of flat HTML files knocked together with assets from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine or some other scraped backup, rather than being the actual original PHP assets reinstated.

Note the differing file extensions:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120825214602/http://www.camelotthemepark.co.uk/merlins-wizardry.php
https://www.camelotthemepark.co.uk/merlins-wizardry.html

This could have been covered up with rewrites, like the Wayback Machine does, but the fact it hasn't been is a bit of a tell that this isn't the original site being 'woken up' but rather a recreation.