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Lottie. said:Although you can still get a glimpse of the ride by the Children's Zoo
Shh! Don't tell anyone. They might put a wall up that side too!
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Shh! Don't tell anyone. They might put a wall up that side too!
Rose Of Dawn
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BigAl said:Considering Chessington already have plans sorted, I wish the winner all the best in convincing the park to make their design instead!
I find that really mean of them. There'll be kids doing their darned best to come up with a design, with no chance of seeing it come to life.
Maybe they'll just pick whichever comes closest to their design, but I still find this kinda nasty.
BigAl
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They'll probably make something small but majority of the attraction's new theming will be sorted by now. It'll be why they've also included 'could' in their competition posts. I'm sure kids won't mind if they don't see lots of their designs made. To them, they'll still be the designer.
joelpagett
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An update from Chessington yesterday, a few things to note...
-Zufari was the best we have ridden so far with loads of animals out enjoying the sunshine and the queue moved quickly!
-Tomb Blaster is filled with light due to air vents being replaced so the entire experience is almost ruined as you can see everything... very disappointing.
-Runaway Minetrain has been stripped bare with nothing there. Nothing is one site with a new theme to take place ready for 2014.
-Dragon Falls is a bit of a state, but most of you knew that already!
All in all not good at Chessington at the moment, I hope they can get it up to scratch for next year!
-Zufari was the best we have ridden so far with loads of animals out enjoying the sunshine and the queue moved quickly!
-Tomb Blaster is filled with light due to air vents being replaced so the entire experience is almost ruined as you can see everything... very disappointing.
-Runaway Minetrain has been stripped bare with nothing there. Nothing is one site with a new theme to take place ready for 2014.
-Dragon Falls is a bit of a state, but most of you knew that already!
All in all not good at Chessington at the moment, I hope they can get it up to scratch for next year!
joelpagett
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Lottie. said:
It was one of my favourite rides at Chessington, It just seems as if they have stopped caring this year! It was a total let down yesterday!
Dave
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Benzin said:
So it's not a recent change then?
I suppose air-vents are low priority, it is annoying on Duel though, but i get the thing might explode if it didn't happen though.
It was always a joke on Duel that as some of the methane sensors where near a vent not too far from the female toilets in Gloomy Wood that if too many ladies had big "poo's" too soon the vents opened.
it made me laugh
Nope, they have to open them once the building goes over something like 18c.. it's the buildings only way of ventilation. You'd literally want to kill yourself if you were in there with them closed.
Makes the dark ride awful though. But it's nowhere near brilliant in the first place.
Makes the dark ride awful though. But it's nowhere near brilliant in the first place.
CGM
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For anyone considering sending ideas to Chessington, the closing date has been announced as September the 3rd, so there's still plenty of time. Also, as well as Dragon Falls, you can now send in your ideas for Runaway Train as well!
http://www.chessington.com/updates/#help-us
http://www.chessington.com/updates/#help-us
djtruefitt
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Me and Sammy did Chessington on Thursday, although the park was busy, we managed to get on all the major rides and spent quite some time looking around the zoo. Overall we have a wonderful day and a really nice meal in the chicken shack (Nandos style place).
Zufari has improved slightly since my last visit, it helped that both times we did it there was a tiny queue and plenty of animals to be seen. I think it was running on low capacity as they were not using the offload platform (thank god) and there was only ever one van in the station at once, and that one didn't leave till the van behind came out the cave. I'm sure because of this we drove round much slower and got a much better look at the animals. Finally since my last visit they have removed the seatbelts and have now added a lapbar for each row. I don't think it locks or anything, but it's much better than the seatbelts.
One slight negative about the day, we often moan about Towers closing too early, but Chessie was a 5pm ride close, on a busy hot day, when Towers was 5.30pm and down the road at Legoland and Thorpe it was a 6pm ride close.
Zufari has improved slightly since my last visit, it helped that both times we did it there was a tiny queue and plenty of animals to be seen. I think it was running on low capacity as they were not using the offload platform (thank god) and there was only ever one van in the station at once, and that one didn't leave till the van behind came out the cave. I'm sure because of this we drove round much slower and got a much better look at the animals. Finally since my last visit they have removed the seatbelts and have now added a lapbar for each row. I don't think it locks or anything, but it's much better than the seatbelts.
One slight negative about the day, we often moan about Towers closing too early, but Chessie was a 5pm ride close, on a busy hot day, when Towers was 5.30pm and down the road at Legoland and Thorpe it was a 6pm ride close.
djtruefitt
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AstroDan said:
I really liked it, I had the half chicken (hot) and chips and I really couldn't fault it, got plenty of chips and the chicken was really nice, certainly on the same level as Nandos.