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Leah said:
Is it nice to feel so optimistic about a park that's disappointed us time and time again? I would be hopeful, but it's more than likely well get some generic kids ip with no imagination whatsoever. At least bubbleworks was an original idea, even if the ride was dead years ago.
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Things with an IP don't tend to be cheap and nasty - the owners of the IP don't want to harm their brand. IPs are the future, it seems - Merlin made it pretty clear in their strategy. A lot of parks/chains have done very well with IPs and Merlin are very late to the party on that, they want to be part of that now.

If the ride was died years ago (when you were 6?) why mourn its loss? I don't understand.
 
Rick said:
Things with an IP don't tend to be cheap and nasty - the owners of the IP don't want to harm their brand. IPs are the future, it seems - Merlin made it pretty clear in their strategy. A lot of parks/chains have done very well with IPs and Merlin are very late to the party on that, they want to be part of that now.
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IPs don't tend to be cheap and nasty? CatCF? I just find that most IP rides have a cringy story line based on a film that came out years ago that most people tend to have forgotten about. I'm not saying that this will be bad, I won't condemn it until I've ridden, but from past experience, ips just don't feel as good a ride as an original idea.

Rick said:
If the ride was died years ago (when you were 6?) why mourn its loss? I don't understand.
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I get why you don't understand it. I never went on professor burp's, but it doesn't make it less of a loss. It was one of my first dark rides, and no matter the state the ride was in, it was magical to a ten year old.

Over the years though, I've watched it get worse and worse, until this year. Even in the mind of someone who never did the original, the ride was well and truly dead this year. Broken audio, missing effects, the ride had lost any soul it had left. It was a shell of 2010, which even then, was a shadow of its former self.
 
I wouldn't be surprised if they use a Dream Works IP. Then again, Thorpe Park did 'I'm a Celebrity', so perhaps they'll use a reality TV show. 'Jeremy Kyle the Ride'? Some of their guests would fit right in. (If it does become Jeremy Kyle the Ride, remember where you heard it first).
 
If they want to get genuinely retro, they should theme it around the original 80's master of spit bubbles...
"Puh.... Oh.... Buh."

Pob's Bubbleworks. Oh yes. I went there.
 
Charlie is a literary IP, or at least the ride version is. If it is something from Dreamworks, that won't be the case.

I'm not sure how Shrek is performing financially, but it's a quality attraction, as are the dungeons etc. This will come from the same team.

Kung Fu Panda will be the next "Adventure" midway ride.
 
siralgenon said:
Hotel Transylvania IP? Although then that would tie in with the land so I'm probably being a tad hopeful there.
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Think it's the best we can hope for. We know it's going to be a kids ip, most likely dreamworks. Hotel transylvania is probably the only dreamworks film I can think of that won't complete deface the area, at least securing vampires theme (if anything, it will fit better than bubbleworks, I know Wardley had reasons behind a drinks factory (transyvanian brewery), but a soap factory?).

Please tell me I'm not the only one who is scared to think about what the new enter encephalitis will look like. Or the new music that will no doubt ruin the feel of vampire.
 
If the music on a nearby ride "ruins" a roller coaster for you, that's only because you want it to do so.

Many folks would suggest that Vampire "died" in 2000, if we're getting back to talking about coasters as if they're humans again.
 
Boundary changes for areas could quite possibly occur here. The location of Vampire's entrance vs. its station certainly helps with that.
 
TedTheHuman said:
Hotel Transylvania is not a Dreamworks film, it's produced by Sony.
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Is it? I'm just going on what my brother told me, thought it was. That's even worse now, probably going to be how to train your dragon now or some other film that has nothing to do with vampire at all.

Rick said:
If the music on a nearby ride "ruins" a roller coaster for you, that's only because you want it to do so.

Many folks would suggest that Vampire "died" in 2000, if we're getting back to talking about coasters as if they're humans again.
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When it was turned up to its highest, would you say that the smilers music enhanced oblivion? Say for example, the chosen ip is kung fu panda (just throwing about a few dreamworks names). What music will that use? Not going to be something that compliments vampire is it.

And at least vampire still has some of the spirit of the original. It may not be as good now, but at least it still retains its original theme and many of the elements. The change of train was essential, or it wouldn't of reopened, and many themed elements had to be removed to make clearance for the new trains.
 
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