Chessington World of Adventures Resort

[jon81uk]

- RAP queue will bypass immersive queue features, a Chessington tradition lives on

Thats quite common at a lot of parks that the access pass and fast track queues don't see the themed queue. A lot of the Disney ones including Avatar, Expedition Everest, Test Track and others have the fast pass queue bypass all the interesting things.

 

[MaxPower]

It looks like the area's going to be quite cramped given how popular it's likely to be.

Shame they couldn't incorporate Tiger Land in from the get go.

 

[Squiggs]

Judging by those plans they'll have to do a lot of work to make those indoor cattlepens of death immersive.

I'm not so sure. An immersive tunnel in Minecraft:

Thats quite common at a lot of parks that the access pass and fast track queues don't see the themed queue. A lot of the Disney ones including Avatar, Expedition Everest, Test Track and others have the fast pass queue bypass all the interesting things.

It'll be interesting to see if that is still the case with Test Track after it's retheme. For Tiana's Bayou Adventure, the bypass queue is supposed to have equivalent theming to the standby queue, so it seems that Disney may have recently changed policy.

 

[jibbsie]

For the length, I feel like it could be similar to escape from gringots at universal, it is quite short interms of ride length but it has many stops to tell the story.

 

[dave___]

I'm not so sure. An immersive tunnel in Minecraft:

It'll be interesting to see if that is still the case with Test Track after it's retheme. For Tiana's Bayou Adventure, the bypass queue is supposed to have equivalent theming to the standby queue, so it seems that Disney may have recently changed policy.

My kids have never got into Minecraft. They are however neck deep in the mire that is Roblox, I can't work out which is worse but either way it's always impressed me that games with such low resolution graphics have become so popular.

They will be like 12 by the time this land opens so I can't work out whether they will have passed the ideal age to enjoy it much..

 

[Bowser]

RAP will likely be split between ambulant and non-ambulant. Can see the position of the lift (which will once again be onload side, making it a faff to get off) on the plans.

It specifies that all RAP bypass it and then merge via a stairwell for ambulant and lift for non-ambulant.

Thats quite common at a lot of parks that the access pass and fast track queues don't see the themed queue. A lot of the Disney ones including Avatar, Expedition Everest, Test Track and others have the fast pass queue bypass all the interesting things.

Merlin have otherwise been good with that though. WickerMan at AT, pretty much everything at TP and Legoland. Seems a shame if they're emphasising it's an important part of the experience.

 

[The Big Mack]

The plans cite the coaster as also being a "dark ride". Expect slow moving show scenes in addition to the short coaster sections, it appears a fair bit like Escape From Gringotts in that respect... let's hope for less screens! So with that in mind, I'd expect an overall length of around a minute and a half since there's more to it than just a coaster.

 

[jon81uk]

Merlin have otherwise been good with that though. WickerMan at AT, pretty much everything at TP and Legoland. Seems a shame if they're emphasising it's an important part of the experience.

Wickerman is a pre-show not an immersive queue, so it makes sense that everyone would go into it. I've not done Legoland in a long time but I'd think of something like laser raiders where the queue is full of models, I assume the fasttrack and access queues don't get to see all those models in the queue?
Hex is also a reasonable example, the wheelchair accessible access has the video playing outside, but you don't get the immersion of actually queuing through the armoury but you do get to see all the pre-shows.
Generally at Disney everyone will see a pre-show but you don't see the models and theming in the queue unless you do standby.

 

[The Big Mack]

Screenshotted from AttractionSource. This seeems to show the platform and mechanism for the indoor ride. The platform looks fairly bulky, could this be more substantial than a little kid's flat ride? Maybe a really scaled down version of a Dynamic Motion Stage?

 

[Bowser]

Worlds first outdoor Intamin Dynamic Motion Stage confirmed.

Vindicated!

 

[The Big Mack]

The planning docs clearly state that it's an indoor ride.

 

[flyingguitar]

how about one of the mack shooting theatre rides?

 

[Bowser]

The planning docs clearly state that it's an indoor ride.

But it has outdoor viewing points

 

[flyingguitar]

But it has outdoor viewing points

where? I can't see that on any of the documents
(from attraction scource)

 

[DiogoJ42]

where? I can't see that on any of the documents
(from attraction scource)

Only three queues‽ 4/10. Must Merlin harder.

 

[Bowser]

where? I can't see that on any of the documents
(from attraction scource)

Designed to be enjoyed by younger guests when accompanied by an adult, this is set to be a heavily themed experience beginning with glimpses of the ride from outdoors, continuing with a themed outdoor queue and culminating in the immersive ride.

Entry to the experience is via a pre-experience space, offering a lobby and spectator area. Though just the entrance and exit are displayed on plans, additional themed openings may offer guests a view inside the experience, offering the twin benefits of allowing anxious guests to preview the experience, whilst allowing non-riders to supervise their companions on the attraction

 

[flyingguitar]

Entry to the experience is via a pre-experience space, offering a lobby and spectator area. Though just the entrance and exit are displayed on plans, additional themed openings may offer guests a view inside the experience, offering the twin benefits of allowing anxious guests to preview the experience, whilst allowing non-riders to supervise their companions on the attraction

(attraction source)
interesting, I read this more as glimpses, in terms of being able to see when the exit opens and just see a glimpse of the room, considering it has pram parking I think it will be more of a dark ride and be enclosed, or maybe they could have videos playing showing the ride (maybe through a "portal" that opens to different realms

 

[DiogoJ42]

Do we know what's going in this shed yet? And if not, has anyone crunched the dimensions RE: a Breakdance 5?

 

[ChrisAChats]

Seems like it might be Cadbury World style trackless ride vehicles? Pics show Seaworld’s trackless ride as an example.

 

[Jb85]

Designed to be enjoyed by younger guests when accompanied by an adult, this is set to be a heavily themed experience beginning with glimpses of the ride from outdoors, continuing with a themed outdoor queue and culminating in the immersive ride.

Entry to the experience is via a pre-experience space, offering a lobby and spectator area. Though just the entrance and exit are displayed on plans, additional themed openings may offer guests a view inside the experience, offering the twin benefits of allowing anxious guests to preview the experience, whilst allowing non-riders to supervise their companions on the attraction

So in reality
Budget cuts mean naff all will happen
The ride will be a bore fest

Seems like it might be Cadbury World style trackless ride vehicles? Pics show Seaworld’s trackless ride as an example.

Hopefully they will shift Gangsta Granny there