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Legoland Windsor

BennyBoy said:
Does Legoland have any single rider queues?
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They do not. It’s not really a park people visit on their own and in fact the log flume does not permit single riders.

Benzin said:
The queue times fluctuate so randomly too. Rising and dropping constantly with no real predicatable nature
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Legolands seem the least accurate in the UK. It’s the park we visit the most so I’m quite good at visually gauging them and they always tend to be wrong.
 
Some thoughts on my visit yesterday.

It was rather good really. Maybe helped a little by the kiddo making it to 1m so expanded horizons a little bit.

RAP queues were fine. The wheelchair lift for Dragon is still stupid though, given you suddenly appear into the main queue and everyone has to make way for you to get out. Worst one was to no surprise Sky Lion but we timed it fairly well that we didn't have to wait too ridiculously for it. Though we had timed out by the time we got off the ride.

Hill Train seems to only operate during "peak" times. Which is a burden if you do find yourself needing to go back up to GS.

First time on Sky Lion and it was rather cool. But much like everything else on park, incredibly faffy loading. Which is probably why a number of queues on things take forever when they probably shouldn't.

Special mention for Haunted House Monster Party having an absolute BANGER soundtrack. Bit faffy for wheelchairs with the need of a lift though a staff member did alledge the park wanted it level but found hippo dung under the site so couldn't.

So overall probably the best Merlin visit we've had in a while weirdly. Few breakdowns spotted over the day but nothing major. The queues fluctuate wildly though which is strange to me. Not like the constant BAM 90 minutes on everything at Towers all day.
 
Benzin said:
Some thoughts on my visit yesterday.

It was rather good really. Maybe helped a little by the kiddo making it to 1m so expanded horizons a little bit.

RAP queues were fine. The wheelchair lift for Dragon is still stupid though, given you suddenly appear into the main queue and everyone has to make way for you to get out. Worst one was to no surprise Sky Lion but we timed it fairly well that we didn't have to wait too ridiculously for it. Though we had timed out by the time we got off the ride.

Hill Train seems to only operate during "peak" times. Which is a burden if you do find yourself needing to go back up to GS.

First time on Sky Lion and it was rather cool. But much like everything else on park, incredibly faffy loading. Which is probably why a number of queues on things take forever when they probably shouldn't.

Special mention for Haunted House Monster Party having an absolute BANGER soundtrack. Bit faffy for wheelchairs with the need of a lift though a staff member did alledge the park wanted it level but found hippo dung under the site so couldn't.

So overall probably the best Merlin visit we've had in a while weirdly. Few breakdowns spotted over the day but nothing major. The queues fluctuate wildly though which is strange to me. Not like the constant BAM 90 minutes on everything at Towers all day.
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When we went a couple of weeks ago we just assumed the Hill train was closed for the day cause it just had a big closed sign when we walked past and it wasn't showing on the app. I think it should stay open whilst the path past the rapids is shut.

We had a similar experience with the queue times fluctuating. Some rides like the deep sea adventure would be 20 mins all day then you would look and it would randomly be on 60. At one point around lunch time we were contemplating getting 3 fast tracks as everything was looking busy but the site wasn't letting us get the 10% annual pass discount. We couldn't be bothered trekking up to guest services and at that time we just happened to be near the castle and we checked the app again and The Dragon dropped to 10 minutes so we went on that. Also whilst we were looking around Miniland Minifigure Speedway dropped to 15 so again we went on that. In the end we were glad we saved the money and didn't bother with fast track.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
Interesting, if true. I found an old map here:

From: https://www.flickr.com/photos/197074979@N05/52603301994/


Can anyone work out where the hippos (53) were in the modern park? I'd assume somewhere round the hotels, but I'm far from a LLW expert.
Edit: it certainly seems to be in the right kinda area to me.
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Assuming I've got the orientation right, it does seem to be the same place, ie. the hippo lake was the lake that's in front of the Legoland hotels.

Interestingly, Coastguard HQ seems to be on the site of the African Queen River Boat ride (which I always wanted to see). Legoland's Egyptian area is also roughly on the site of the safari park's Moroccan Village, so they do seem to have taken a few cues from what was there before.
 
Remember that the Egyptian area at Legoland wasn't originally Egyptian themed but circus themed. Laser Raiders was added in 2009 by Merlin.
So although they do occupy a similar spot it's purley coincidental that two Egyptian themes have existed in that space.
Technically I think the old Egyptian buildings actually became My Town, or what is now Lego Friends.
 
The lake in front of the hotels is named Hippo Lake internally, as it is indeed the old hippo lake. There used to be Lego hippo models on the banks a few years ago.

My comment above wasn't to deny that there may be dung in that area - more to deny that it would have caused any construction issues lol.
 
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