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Drayton Manor Park

Themeparksandy1981 said:
I do wonder if that back in the day event was kinda a test to see how many visitors visited just for the zoo mainly and brought tokens/tickets for select rides to really see how popular the zoo still is.
I think Drayton and Paulton’s will be the main major attractions for the 2026 season.
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Am I being clueless but have Drayton got something big in the works for next year?
 
Mick said:
Am I being clueless but have Drayton got something big in the works for next year?
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Not that we know no, there have been rumours about Pirate Adventure being brought back, but they are just that at this point. Rumours.

There isnt even any construction going on, you would expect a project of that size would be well under construction now, it is indoors yes, but you expect to see a huge fleet of tradesman vans parked outside. We have seen nothing.
 
DistortAMG said:
Not that we know no, there have been rumours about Pirate Adventure being brought back, but they are just that at this point. Rumours.

There isnt even any construction going on, you would expect a project of that size would be well under construction now, it is indoors yes, but you expect to see a huge fleet of tradesman vans parked outside. We have seen nothing.
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It could be done secretly you can't really see behind the building so there maybe things going on behind the scenes. It can't be coincidence many people have been suggesting something is happening with it
 
Hid said:
It could be done secretly you can't really see behind the building so there maybe things going on behind the scenes. It can't be coincidence many people have been suggesting something is happening with it
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There is a huge car park and railway behind the building, you can see very clearly at the back.

Done in secret maybe, but you will still see a huge fleet of trades vehicles from people working on the ride. We have seen nothing because there is nothing as of yet.

I hope the ride comes back as much as the next person, I really do. For next year though? I dont see it.
 
DistortAMG said:
There is a huge car park and railway behind the building, you can see very clearly at the back.

Done in secret maybe, but you will still see a huge fleet of trades vehicles from people working on the ride. We have seen nothing because there is nothing as of yet.

I hope the ride comes back as much as the next person, I really do. For next year though? I dont see it.
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You do have to wonder if they use the main old ride area for storage it's a big building so could store a lot of stuff
 
Hid said:
You do have to wonder if they use the main old ride area for storage it's a big building so could store a lot of stuff
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It was cleared of a lot of stuff. They use to store the red shockwave train in there for spares for the blue train. The maintenance shed is completely empty and I know for a fact they tested out the motors for the lift hills and they all work. It will need new pumps as they were knackered.
I think construction will start Aug/Sept and that will give them 9 months for a May opening date.
 
GooseOnTheLoose said:
They may get a second train for The Wave (they won't). They may run Gold Rush for a full season without significant downtime (they won't). Accelerator may get a theme (it won't).
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For starters each has a chance of happening. As for Gold Rush it is a complex ride with Switch tracks all rides have downtime, downtime does not equal bad it could be for good reason.

No one can know the future so we shall see
 
Hid said:
For starters each has a chance of happening. As for Gold Rush it is a complex ride with Switch tracks all rides have downtime, downtime does not equal bad it could be for good reason.

No one can know the future so we shall see
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They do, but it's Drayton Manor Park and Zoo, so likely not.

Gold Rush is not a complex ride, by any means. Switch tracks are relatively standard now.

Two out of three ain't bad, but they've yet to accomplish that.
 
GooseOnTheLoose said:
They may get a second train for The Wave (they won't). They may run Gold Rush for a full season without significant downtime (they won't). Accelerator may get a theme (it won't).
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They may get a 2nd train.
All. New coasters have downtime just look at Nemesis and Hyperia which were also installed last year and had downtime.
Accelerator it’s had the outside done this year so they could do it inside next closed season.
To keep visitors coming you need big attractions every 2-3 years with a small investments in between to keep the visitors coming back.
 
GooseOnTheLoose said:
They do, but it's Drayton Manor Park and Zoo, so likely not.

Gold Rush is not a complex ride, by any means. Switch tracks are relatively standard now.

Two out of three ain't bad, but they've yet to accomplish that.
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Gold Rush a lot of safety things can go wrong with switch tracks. Most of its downtime is down to the Valleying issue
 
Hid said:
Gold Rush a lot of safety things can go wrong with switch tracks. Most of its downtime is down to the Valleying issue
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So which is it? In your first post you've said it's the switch track, now it's the valleying. Both are issues which, on their own, would be considered disastrous. Especially for a relatively mid/generic coaster operating in its second year.
Themeparksandy1981 said:
Accelerator it’s had the outside done this year so they could do it inside next closed season.
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Excuse me for missing this, but has it? The Jim Bean Green Machine logos have been on the outside since last year, otherwise the outside looks relatively unchanged.

They conveniently haven't mentioned how long the "temporary" Drayton Manor exhibition will be operating for, instead of the 4D cinema. I'm guessing that due to "unprecedented and overwhelming support and feedback" they'll keep the "museum" for the rest of the season. Conveniently mothballing the 4D cinema by the backdoor.
 
GooseOnTheLoose said:
They do, but it's Drayton Manor Park and Zoo, so likely not.

Gold Rush is not a complex ride, by any means. Switch tracks are relatively standard now.

Two out of three ain't bad, but they've yet to accomplish that.
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Gold rush clearly has a design failure, this isn't Drayton Manor Resorts fault entirely, same as Hyperia at Thorpe. Intamin have a habit of building rides that are difficult to maintain and don't work properly in there first season because they've built something wrong. It valleying is hardly Draytons fault is it.
 
GooseOnTheLoose said:
Excuse me for missing this, but has it? The Jim Bean Green Machine logos have been on the outside since last year, otherwise the outside looks relatively unchanged.
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They been doing the work in-house so they been working on it when the park has been closed.
The 1st pic was taken during the Feb half term event

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The next 2 was for the big restart event

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And the last the 1st day of the main season

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Now I do think that looks a lot better and I’m sure they will do the inside during the closed season.
 
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