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Chessington World of Adventures Resort

Matt N said:
It appears as though Chessington have also jazzed up the “danger cave” on ZUFARI:

It looks nice… but I thought it was meant to be a “danger cave”? It doesn’t look terribly dangerous in there at the moment, and it just goes straight through instead of stopping like it used to…
EDIT - To be fair, it appears as though this is part of a wider revamp, with the queue and former pre-show area also being made a lot more colourful and receiving some new theming:
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Fair play, chessie. Looks quite nice.

I really hope they do fix the sequencing in that blasted cave though…
 
I've just had a thought about the loss of capacity and realised that with recent additions.

It wouldn't be much different to what is was pre-2022.

With Jumanji, this has added a major coaster and two flat rides, plus Shipwreck Coast which had two flat rides added which would more than compensate for the loss of Wild Asia which is four flat rides and a children's play area.

This would've meant that any added capacity would've been temporarily offset by the developments rather than lost completely.

Scorpion Express wouldn't have made any difference as it wasn't operational since 2022.

Thinking positively, the loss of rides doesn't seem as bad as it would've been at first thought.
 
MrTowers said:
App has been updated showcasing the opening dates for the new areas. Interesting that one is referred to as a new land and the other as just something coming, I'm not sure if this has any reference. Either way this season is going to be an interesting one capacity wise.

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Imagine going to the park and realising two full areas are under construction and looking up from your phone like:

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Poisson said:
The SBF rubbish dumped in Jumanji will have barely any throughout. Both are single staffed and Stampede will take a while to check before dispatch. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire area barely scraped 1000pph
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Honestly, whilst neither have the best throughput and I'd say doesn't go beyond 500pph an hour - a lot of Chessington's rides don't have great throughput and I'd say there's rides that the SBFs have better throughput than i.e. Tiny Truckers. I'd honestly be satisfied if Towers added those SBFs.

Mandrill, I'd say is one of Chessington's better throughput coasters nowadays and roughly equates to about 800pph. Especially when the rides there are Dragon's Fury, Rattlesnake and Vampire (who's capacity is lower due to not running the 3rd train nowadays).

Chessington needs high capacity rides is the main point really.
 
It honestly baffled me that a park which already has ride capacity issues decided to build a low capacity coaster with Mandrill.

However, and hear me out here, could this perhaps have been a deliberate move to keep the throughput roughly in-line with the other coasters? Say for example if they’d gone with a two train B&M capable of 1,100 per hour, even as the new ride it would have had shorter queues than Vampire, Fury and Rattlesnake. Did Chessington perhaps think that having their brand new coaster with a queue of less than half of their other coasters would look bad and make the new ride seem unpopular? The non-enthusiasts see a ride which always has a long queue and they think the long queue equates to popularity rather than capacity.

Just a thought.
 
Worth noting, allegedly, when John Burton got interviewed by Coster Studios about World of Jumanji, one of the three questions they weren’t allowed to ask was why they went with the ride model they did.

Which means the B&M Shuttle Wing was probably just given to Chessington from corporate as part of a ride deal with B&M, and that they were likely well-aware of the capacity issues when they were planning the land.
 
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owenstreet7 said:
Honestly, whilst neither have the best throughput and I'd say doesn't go beyond 500pph an hour - a lot of Chessington's rides don't have great throughput and I'd say there's rides that the SBFs have better throughput than i.e. Tiny Truckers. I'd honestly be satisfied if Towers added those SBFs.
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They literally fall to bits. 3 adults on one arm of Ostrich Stampede broke it. The travelling versions have no issues loading 3 adults. The SBF rides are terrible quality. Don't accept crap.
 
The_bup said:
I mean really, a motorbike/quad bike coaster would be an easy win for them
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That was what was teased on the last MTDP.

I wonder what made them choose Mandrill - I think it's a mixture of innovation, IP and the loss of Ramases Revenge.

Poisson said:
They literally fall to bits. 3 adults on one arm of Ostrich Stampede broke it. The travelling versions have no issues loading 3 adults. The SBF rides are terrible quality. Don't accept crap.
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SBF and to some degree Zamperla are known for providing cheaper hardware for parks offering value for parks that may not be able to afford flat rides otherwise.

For a smaller park like Oakwood, it is right for them but it's baffling that Merlin would go for them.

With Towers lack of flats however, SBF Visa is better than nothing 🤣
 
Bert2theSpark said:
Worth noting, allegedly, when John Burton got interviewed by Coster Studios about World of Jumanji, one of the three questions they weren’t allowed to ask was why they went with the ride model they did.

Which means the B&M Shuttle Wing was probably just given to Chessington from corporate as part of a ride deal with B&M, and that they were likely well-aware of the capacity issues when they were planning the land.
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I’ve thought this for a while. It seems to be a new ish trend at Merlin. Bulk buy the hardware and force the parks to take it.
 
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