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AstroDan
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LiamC said:I genuinely wish they would go back to the Habbo style ones!
Are you serious?
I remember as a kid, pouring over the Alton Towers maps and getting lost in them in my bed at night! The magic oozing from every corner of it, with stars bursting from random corners and a myriad of colour and excitement round every turn. The maps of old sold the Alton Towers 'magic' in a heartbeat. They were amazing.
The Habbo style from 2005-2007 symbolise everything rotten about the direction the park was taken in during those years - the last, dying years of Tussauds before Merlin took over. Nothing secret on those maps, nothing magic, nothing special. The 2005 version in particular made Alton Towers look thoroughly empty.
A horrid, horrid map which may well have been functional, but heaved the breath out of the park, much like Tussauds were doing themselves, with ill conceived installations like Rita, Charlie and the Dung Heap.
The new version is much better, and probably the best maps since the early 00s.
Blizzard
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I am honestly the most disappointed with any piece of towers marketing I've ever seen. That map is just shocking!
It looks naff beyond belief. Two completely different styles of map have been shoved together with 50% of the rides shoehorned in. You can barely see sonic spinball!
Yes, you can navigate with it, but a park map is a visual representation of not just the layout of the park, but the quality of it. Its obvious to anyone this new "map" has been botched together. Someone in the marketing department has been cutting some serious corners. I'm surprised so many of you are so "ok" with this? Have our expectations really become that low? :S
It looks naff beyond belief. Two completely different styles of map have been shoved together with 50% of the rides shoehorned in. You can barely see sonic spinball!
Yes, you can navigate with it, but a park map is a visual representation of not just the layout of the park, but the quality of it. Its obvious to anyone this new "map" has been botched together. Someone in the marketing department has been cutting some serious corners. I'm surprised so many of you are so "ok" with this? Have our expectations really become that low? :S
CoasterCrazyChris
TS Member
Blizzard said:
It has been 'Mediocrity Towers' for a while now...
BarryZola
TS Member
It's possible that the map which we have seen may not be exactly the same as the one which will be on the gate map.
What I mean is, the image shared a couple of days ago doesn't look like it is a fully-sized fold out map that you'd get at the park entrance. Have you counted the folds? It could be taken from some other piece of marketing literature where they have decided to squeeze the map and the ride info onto one page. Is it beyond the realms of possibility that on the actual gate map the info will be on the back as usual and the actual map part will be enlarged?
Of course, I could just be talking absolute rubbish
What I mean is, the image shared a couple of days ago doesn't look like it is a fully-sized fold out map that you'd get at the park entrance. Have you counted the folds? It could be taken from some other piece of marketing literature where they have decided to squeeze the map and the ride info onto one page. Is it beyond the realms of possibility that on the actual gate map the info will be on the back as usual and the actual map part will be enlarged?
Of course, I could just be talking absolute rubbish
James
TS Founding Member
That's not the fold-out map for the theme park. It looks like the leaflets you get in nearby motorway services. I've got one from 2009 that looks similar to the one posted a few pages back. That's why it has panels on the map showing what's in each area. I would assume the main map will not have this.
Dave
TS Founding Member
Blizzard said:
Because even if it's cut and mix of two older maps it's better than the previous few years. No one is saying it's the best map we have ever seen but it's a massive improvement on the mess the last few seasons have had as their map.
I don't think it looks naff either, if you hadn't studied the maps of the past (ie everyone but geeks) you wouldn't know it's a mix of two previous styles.
CoasterCrazyChris
TS Member
Dave said:Leek signs have posted some photos on Facebook (they do all of Towers non 3D signage) includes the park map with CBeebies. It's not easy to see but gives you an idea.
Slightly off topic, but that sign board is one of the things I don't like about Mutiny Bay - too much bland brown paint!!
It does look like this will be the proper map for the year then.
jon81uk
TS Member
Alton Towersteally does need a map that is easier to navigate with though compared to Thorpe where you can see the whole park. This years does look like it is back to showing where things are a bit clearer but could still show the gardens better as people always think the walk is shorter from FV to DF than it actually is!
Burbs
TS Team
Well this is a vast improvement on last year.
What annoys me is that there's people on here who say that last years was too much of a pretty picture and it's not navigable enough, whereas now it's a lot more navigable, they're complaining it's not pretty enough.
What annoys me is that there's people on here who say that last years was too much of a pretty picture and it's not navigable enough, whereas now it's a lot more navigable, they're complaining it's not pretty enough.