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Chessington World of Adventures Resort

tayspru said:
Sorry but it’s the parents responsibility to make sure their kids don’t run off. Having an access point at the SW end would make a lot of sense
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No one's saying it's not. What they are saying is that a design choice was made to mitigate any worst case scenario.

It's the driver's responsibility to ensure that the car doesn't crash, but we still have seatbelts and airbags installed, as a design choice, to mitigate any worst case scenario.
 
When it comes to issues regarding children and theme parks you can always tell on here who is a parent themselves and make sensible points based on their own experience, and those who aren’t parents but come out with these wild takes on things they don’t really have experience of.

The idea that a children’s area at a theme park is badly designed because it only has one way in and out and shouldn’t be like this because it’s the parents responsibility to look out for their children completely misses the point. You can be a very vigilant parent but it’s so easy for an excited child to see something and run or toddle off in the blink of an eye towards it whilst you are say setting another child up in a buggy or have your back turned for a moment and everyone that is a parent will have their own experience of briefly losing sight of their child for a panic inducing moment whether that be in a shop or a play park.
 
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Shaggy_Dog_ said:
When it comes to issues regarding children and theme parks you can always tell on here who is a parent themselves and make sensible points based on their own experience, and those who aren’t parents but come out with these wild takes on things they don’t really have experience of.

The idea that a children’s area at a theme park is badly designed because it only has one way in and out and shouldn’t be like this because it’s the parents responsibility to look out for their children completely misses the point. You can be a very vigilant parent but it’s so easy for an excited child to see something and run or toddle off in the blink of an eye towards it whilst you are say setting another child up in a buggy or have your back turned for a moment and everyone that is a parent will have their own experience of briefly losing site of their child for a panic inducing moment whether that be in a shop or a play park.
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Fortunately there’s nothing terribly exciting in CBeebies land

I have visited the park with young children, and unless you’re at the sensory garden (which itself is one way in / out) there’s no real reason for kids to be unsupervised anywhere near either the current or previous extra entry / exit point. Those areas are also not really anywhere you’d need to stop
 
With Project Play, I'm hoping the likes of Flying Jumbos and Tiny Truckers get replaced with rides in the new area.

This way, the park can add in more rides for everyone which the park seems light on. I've just seen the "Family Explorers" tab and it only has 7 rides on the list.

It might also mean places for Monkey Swinger and/or Tuk Tuk Turmoil to go.
 
tayspru said:
Fortunately there’s nothing terribly exciting in CBeebies land

I have visited the park with young children, and unless you’re at the sensory garden (which itself is one way in / out) there’s no real reason for kids to be unsupervised anywhere near either the current or previous extra entry / exit point. Those areas are also not really anywhere you’d need to stop
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My toddler would incline to disagree with that first comment.

There might be no reason to have the kids unsupervised. However, kids are kids, they are unpredictable, and funnily enough the reason that Land of the Dragons originally only had the one entrance/exit design as well.

Would rather have an area targeted at really young kids be designed in that way. Towers especially have the bonus of the staffed entrances, meaning that they can also be vigilant for any rogue toddlers who've wandered off.

It's not even closed season and we've hit the weird arguments section.
 
Benzin said:
My toddler would incline to disagree with that first comment.

There might be no reason to have the kids unsupervised. However, kids are kids, they are unpredictable, and funnily enough the reason that Land of the Dragons originally only had the one entrance/exit design as well.

Would rather have an area targeted at really young kids be designed in that way. Towers especially have the bonus of the staffed entrances, meaning that they can also be vigilant for any rogue toddlers who've wandered off.

It's not even closed season and we've hit the weird arguments section.
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Towers have scrapped the Cebeebies entrance hosts now due to budget cuts.
 
flyingguitar said:
apparently the new Minecraft update thing has been leaked, interestingly it has the last line:

link:
From: https://youtube.com/shorts/0AWxVfW_3Z0?feature=shared


I don't think it is referring to a potential Chessington land, but it could show that they have an intention for experiences (assuming it isn't something like a VR thing)
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It's referring to this walk through interactive experience in Dallas, Texas isn't it?
www.minecraftexperience.com

Minecraft Experience

Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue is an epic rescue mission and story-based walk thru experience where the most popular elements of Minecraft are brought to life before your eyes. Your journey through Minecraft Experience will be an interactive and immersive quest.
www.minecraftexperience.com www.minecraftexperience.com

Minecraft Villager Rescue There’s a good summary of what it is and what it involves at the Minecraft Wiki page. Groups of 25 people get taken through it at a time for an hour long experience. To be honest it sounds quite like something akin to the Merlin midway attractions.
 
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Shaggy_Dog_ said:
It's referring to this walk through experience/exhibition in Dallas, Texas isn't it?
www.minecraftexperience.com

Minecraft Experience

Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue is an epic rescue mission and story-based walk thru experience where the most popular elements of Minecraft are brought to life before your eyes. Your journey through Minecraft Experience will be an interactive and immersive quest.
www.minecraftexperience.com www.minecraftexperience.com
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oh yeah, looks quite a bit like the nintendo world, it dose show that they are looking at real world intergrations of minecraft though.
 
So it's been advertised as the last final Banyan show at Howl'oween this year. Now we know why. So with that in mind work should have started on the new land come October next year then.
 
Had a nice visit to Chessington for the Halloween offering (sort of) today. It wasn't too busy surprisingly, pretty much everything was 30 min or less all day except for Vampire and Dragon Fury.

Did what may or may not qualify as our first ever scare maze, just the free thing by Vampire. My son really enjoyed it, mainly the bit in the tunnel as he loves being in the dark so i think that bodes well for him doing a proper one at AT this year but we'll see.

My wife was terrified, which naturally meant all the actors latched on to her and chased her round much to my amusement.

Croc Drop was on the best ops i can recall, really smashing it out (though not rotating of course).

Might be imagining it but Scorpion Express looks very rusty.

Mandrill was the most bouncy i've ever felt it. Not uncomfortable per se but did stand out from its normally glorious smoothness. Remains a distant second to Flying Dinosaur now.

The decorations were generally nice, seemed like there were things everywhere, more than last year.

Only gripe of the day was some of the customers were truly vile. Four main incidents:

1. A father loudly and repeatedly calling his son a "f*****g d***head" for walking off. The boy was about 10.
2. Someone smoking a cigarette in a queue
3. Someone bullying a neurodivergent staff member into letting them use the RAP queue instead of the FT.
4. A group boasting they were using the RAP as a queue jump.

When i'm alone with my son i probably don't notice these things as i'm so focused on him but it can be pretty bleak at times and as ever made me long for Efteling. Feel bad for the staff too, they're just kids for the most part.
 
Fury going down and staying down about two cars before ours was not the one for my first ever visit.

Vampire is a real treasure isn't it
 
Bowser said:
Only gripe of the day was some of the customers were truly vile. Four main incidents:

1. A father loudly and repeatedly calling his son a "f*****g d***head" for walking off. The boy was about 10.
2. Someone smoking a cigarette in a queue
3. Someone bullying a neurodivergent staff member into letting them use the RAP queue instead of the FT.
4. A group boasting they were using the RAP as a queue jump.

When i'm alone with my son i probably don't notice these things as i'm so focused on him but it can be pretty bleak at times and as ever made me long for Efteling. Feel bad for the staff too, they're just kids for the most part.
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Pretty standard stuff for Chessington. There's been worse than that of course... staff, as well as minors, have been physically punched by more aggressive punters.
 
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Ticking this place off next week during half term as part of our first year MAP. Forecast from queue times site says 1%. I thought that didn't sound right. But understand London area schools are actually off the week after. My kids are 10 and 13. Think there will be enough to keep us entertained for the day in Fury, Vampire, Mandrill and a few more, but if we can box everything in 5/6hours I'll jump in a cab to Thorpe for a few night rides
 
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