Goodbye Blade…

[coasterenthusiast]

It’s official…

 

[Matt N]

It looks like that rumour wasn’t a Kingda Ka joke after all, then…

 

[Benzin]

Winter Update | Alton Towers Resort

www.altontowers.com

Also confirms Flavio's is gone too.

So that's -1 to the attraction lineup.

 

[owenstreet7]

It looks like that rumour wasn’t a Kingda Ka joke after all, then…

I'm amazed For the time I assumed it was a vicious rumour sparked by Kingda Ka, it turned out to be true.

It looks like it's not the only flat going, Flavios is off and likely going back to the travelling circuit and the dungeons is no more.

I'm assuming this may be Project Horizon starting to get constructed

 

[howlingmadmurfdoc]

Dungeon permanently gone too. So all talk of the new flat helping ease ride times is rubbish with them removing the only two other flat rides.

 

[Dhev123]

Lmao of course this happens now.

 

[Josh555]

So to be clear, they finally get a new flat ride and when they do so remove 2 others as well as the Alton Dungeon?

Stunning.

 

[coasterenthusiast]

Unless they plan on replacing Blade or relocating a similar ride?

EDIT: to somewhere such as the Dark Forest for a more family oriented lineup.

 

[Alphe86]

Hm. -2 flats and then +1 new.
Dungeons going and i have 0 faith in a replacement for next season.
Not looking good from a capacity perspective

 

[owenstreet7]

I've just realised, the Blade's space could be big enough for at least one if not two flat rides. Especially if the area is redone and landscaped.

One if it's a Disko Coaster - two if it's more traditional round platform rides.

 

[coasterenthusiast]

Don’t worry about capacity! Turns out they secretly build Project Horizon in the Dungeons Building

 

[Mick]

The pessimistic in me says that it’s more bad news for the park, the eternal optimist in me hopes they’ve got a few tricks (of the good variety!) up their sleeve for next year.

 

[Benzin]

If they were replacing Blade for 2025 we'd have seen the planning applications.

Dungeons/Amigos will presumably turn into Scarefest only.

So wouldn't get hopes up.

 

[LordOfDarkness]

Closing 3 rides after a terrible season and gaining 1 new one (which is already a revamp of a previously closed ride)

Then making a blog post as if this is a good thing

Just towers things… seriously, screw merlin

 

[Danscott22]

1 step forward, 5000 steps backwards, always seems to be the case.

 

[ringo]

I guess we now have the answer as to why Bianca deactivated her insta account.

Not good news at all unless they are deliberately holding off announcing any replacements be that temporary or permanent.

 

[Alphe86]

I guess we now have the answer as to why Bianca deactivated her insta account.

Not good news at all unless they are deliberately holding off announcing any replacements be that temporary or permanent.

Retro-squad Reborn

 

[Danscott22]

They know there won't be any immediate replacements. We've been expecting The Blade to go for years and Flavio's and The Dungeon were always on borrowed time. The fact they're all going at the same time is very, very poor though.

 

[Leigh]

They must be doing this deliberately. I can’t think of any other reason for making as many terrible decisions as they have.

Make a big song and dance about improving capacity and end up minus one attraction. Nice one towers.

 

[TheDuke]

They know there won't be any immediate replacements. We've been expecting The Blade to go for years and Flavio's and The Dungeon were always on borrowed time. The fact they're all going at the same time is very, very poor though.

Yeah I don't understand the surprise at this, the ride is very old and does need a replacement I'd argue but agree that staggering the closures would make the most sense given lack of flat rides.

I just hope they replace the closed rides with less temporary feeling rides in the case of the latter two mentioned above