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Chessington World of Adventures Resort

Towers4ever said:
Attraction Source have found Intamin mentioned in the planning documents. Surely this is Horizon plans moved from Towers to Chessington? As long as we get the superior model I don't mind just wish Towers wasn't facing huge cuts. Looks Southern-centric
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Considering that a manufacturer has never been announced for Project Horizon, no.

The dimensions of both projects are also different.

If it weren't for both projects featuring a shed, we wouldn't even be entertaining this discussion.

As for the shed, if the Resorts have plans to become all year around attractions, as has been consistently suggested and hinted, then investing in indoor attractions makes sense.
 
Towers4ever said:
Attraction Source have found Intamin mentioned in the planning documents. Surely this is Horizon plans moved from Towers to Chessington? As long as we get the superior model I don't mind just wish Towers wasn't facing huge cuts. Looks Southern-centric
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We never knew that Horizon is/was to be manufactured by Intamin; that was purely enthusiast hearsay.

All we know/knew about Horizon was that a big building was to be built in Coaster Corner. We didn’t know the contents of that building at all. We could make a reasonable inference that it was likely to be a roller coaster based on the dimensions and comments made in the application, but exact manufacturers/types is nothing other than hearsay and suggestions.

The biggest smoking gun for me that this isn’t “Horizon moved to Chessington” is that this has an outdoor section, whereas Horizon didn’t. The building dimensions are totally different.
 
Maybe yes maybe too obvious to draw the conclusion. Resorts open longer and being resorts means more indoor attractions which can bolster the Xmas offerings
 
No idea if this was supposed to be for Alton originally. The largest evidence for me that it may have been are the public surveys, shared on this forum, that showed Minecraft proposal for Alton Towers before a CWOA one.

I think it may have even shown the location of the potential Minecraft area as near Dungeon etc. I believe the actual pictures/scans of the survey were taken down at the request of the owner.

Common sense suggests it’s completely plausible that a switch happened, but we are unlikely to find out for certain anytime soon.

Also on the £Xx million investment front. They are likely including the licensing fee in that when trying to get to the largest number for a press release.
 
ChrisAChats said:
he largest evidence for me that it may have been are the public surveys, shared on this forum, that showed Minecraft proposal for Alton Towers before a CWOA one.
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The survey was A/B tested. Half of the surveyed saw Alton Towers, the other half saw Chessington World of Adventures.

Minecraft was always going to be Chessington World of Adventures, over Alton Towers. Project Horizon had already submitted planning permission documents before the consumer research, through Branded Surveys, was commissioned too.
 
I don’t have the same inside information as you obviously.

If you’re saying it as a fact, that’s fine.

It would be very weird to come up for a concept for Alton Towers in relative detail just to A/B test it for no particular reason. Usually in marketing (where I work) you A/B test to decide which option to go with.

If you know that factually, then please confirm.
 
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