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Chessington World of Adventures Resort

Tim said:
I have to ask because this has confused me for years. Enthusiasts love to talk about big multi-coaster deals whenever a chain of parks order multiple rides from the same manufacturer. But has there ever been any actual evidence this is a thing?
Personally for the top tier manufacturers I suspect it's more likley the companies want to work with them on multiple projects because of their reliability as a supplier. Maybe there's a small discount because it's guaranteeing work for the manufacturer. But unless the rides that are "part of the deal" are clones of each other or both payed for the R&D cost (like Raptor and The Swarm likley did for the first Wingriders) the cost for the manufacturer to deliver the ride doesn't change. So all they would be doing when they offer a discount is trading profit from the first ride to guaranty a return business. Something a big name like B&M might not even need to do.

If these grand deals really do happen to the scale they are described by enthusiasts I'm sure Exodus would have been a B&M as well.
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Valid point.

My only thought on it is by forward ordering a substantial number of rides, Merlin have given B&M the opportunity to lock in component prices with their suppliers by forward ordering in return.

That in itself must be worth a small discount to Merlin. There is no way though your going to get 10%-20% discounts off order. More likely 1%-2% max, which is still a substantial amount on a £100m order.
 
I agree with that.

Obviously buying a coaster isn't like buying a regular product. Many levels of negotiations and dealings lead to the final sum. forward ordering for example could also apply to a ride planned several years ahead of the delivery date.
 
Yeah I mean it would make sense for discounts to be applied from manufacturers when somewhere wants to buy a bulk of expensive attractions as that's just standard business practice.

And we see some parks have good relations with particular manufacturers where they keep going back for more, so I could only imagine there's a reason for that.

As mentioned above it's not going to be something drastic these aren't packs of Hobnobs so it's not going to be buy 1 get 1 free these are feats of engineering specially crafted down to perfection and it's steel weighing hundreds if not thousands of tonnes and obviously all the technology involved is elite.

So with that said the cost required especially with the best of the best like b&m even just 1-3% off is still a sizable amount of money.
 
Sat nav took me straight past Chessington today, pulled into the car park to have a nose.

Sat in the car for a bit whilst on some work calls. Lots of work happening around the brake run area and a few extra themed structures seem to be popping up.

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RicketyCricket said:
Sat nav took me straight past Chessington today, pulled into the car park to have a nose.

Sat in the car for a bit whilst on some work calls. Lots of work happening around the brake run area and a few extra themed structures seem to be popping up.

Some pics that show absolutely nothing new attached...
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Even if there is nothing new, it is nice to see more pictures of what is definitely the most beautiful coaster at Chessington!
 
Another thing I noticed, you can clearly see it from a distance above the tree line. Specifically when driving past the garden centre on Leatherhead Road.

Up close, the track is huge and dwarfs the main themed structure. It's clearly a family coaster and from seeing most of the layout, it looks like it will be quite a slow ride. The highest point isn't very high up at all.

Still, nice to see a brand new bit of B&M track.
 
RicketyCricket said:
Another thing I noticed, you can clearly see it from a distance above the tree line. Specifically when driving past the garden centre on Leatherhead Road.
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I thought that Chessington couldn't build above the tree line similar to Alton. Isn't that why both Rattlesnake and Croc Drop are in a pit?
 
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Tom said:
The logos were filed as part of the trademarks, so came from the same source. They are bad, particularly in the case of the coaster - hoping they are a joke/deflection but realistically won't be.
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They won't be if they were in the trademark fillings, they'll want to have exclusive rights to that logo on merch for the ride and stuff so they won't have filled it wrong. I do agree with @Matt.GC that the logo's look quite amateur, I mean they could've made them worse but that's hardly the point, maybe if they do a cool entrance sign they could just about pull it off but I somewhat doubt it. It's odd though because some Merlin parks marketing is fantastic, they'll only let the best of the best logo wise, but clearly that doesn't apply to Chessington.
 
I’m guessing we’ll get the ride names and logos along with some nice videos of the logos with their rides (probably concept art in the style of the video games we’ve been seeing recently on their promo).

And maybe a bit more official information about the rides in the area, eg what they actually are (as I’m sure they’ve never officially said?), capacity maybe, stats, etc.

From what I gather it may all come out at midnight tonight, see keep your eyes out on all the fansites.
 
Matt.GC said:
Were the logos fake and just mocked up by whoever found the name trademarks? Because they looked really amateur.
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Seems like they are. Chessington have made other bad logos in the past such as the Croc Drop logo.
 
Press is out for the new rides, confirming much of what we already know

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What we didn’t know is that Mandrill Mayhem will indeed only have a 1.2 m height restriction - it appears there will be a new lap restraint style to allow this. Still no clues as to how the capacity problem has been solved, perhaps it’s just generally easier to get loaded onto the ride without the vest faff?

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Zooming in on one of the concept art pieces also seemingly confirms the backwards seating on the 7th row

Full article : https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-o...ook-chessington-world-adventures-25986904.amp
 
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