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Paultons Park: General Discussion

DiogoJ42 said:
Send a few volts through the seat. They'll get out quick, mark my words.
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I know a former ride attendant from my theme park worker days who'd scream directly in guest's faces. Definitely did get the great British public moving quicker.. with this being Mack hopefully bags can go in one of those wholesome automatically closing cages to help speed up dispatches...:laughing:
 
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The Big Mack said:
I know a former ride attendant from my theme park worker days who'd scream directly in guest's faces. Definitely did get the great British clientele moving quicker.. with this being Mack hopefully bags can go in one of those wholesome automatically closing cages to help speed up dispatches...:laughing:
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Bags will probably be able to go on ride, same as other similar stuff like Tomb Blaster, Curse at Alton Manor and almost everything at Disney.
 
The Big Mack said:
I know a former ride attendant from my theme park worker days who'd scream directly in guest's faces. Definitely did get the great British clientele moving quicker.. with this being Mack hopefully bags can go in one of those wholesome automatically closing cages to help speed up dispatches...:laughing:
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Sounds good, but it is technically an assault I believe...and told so by inspection officers.
Good to see someone being efficient by upsetting people, not a good look on a day out.
Fine to make the great British clientele moving, but simply illegal.
 
Very early days (impressive early planning, mind, take note Merlin) bur Paultons ride availability page has been updated and confirmed a closure for Cobra from 8th Septmeber 2025 to at least 30th April 2026.

One would assume, as its a longer period of closure than normal or expected, that'll be a retheme for the new area.

Magma (but curiously not Edge) also having a longer than usual closure as well, closed from mid-Nov 25 to at least 30th April 2026. Edge currently just down for its usual winter maintenance till mid-March 2026.
 
PhalanaxOperativeA1127 said:
Very early days (impressive early planning, mind, take note Merlin) bur Paultons ride availability page has been updated and confirmed a closure for Cobra from 8th Septmeber 2025 to at least 30th April 2026.

One would assume, as its a longer period of closure than normal or expected, that'll be a retheme for the new area.

Magma (but curiously not Edge) also having a longer than usual closure as well, closed from mid-Nov 25 to at least 30th April 2026. Edge currently just down for its usual winter maintenance till mid-March 2026.
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Curious that it still shows Seal Falls and Digger Ride with it's usual winter closure dates for 2025 and nothing about Dragon or Edge from after the end of the year 🤔

I'm assuming this has yet to be fully finalised however could mean that the smaller rides appear to be staying for 2025 whilst Dragon and Edge might either leave the park, get relocated or be down for 2025 refurbishment or any combination of those.

I had been half expecting Seal Falls and Digger Ride to end up at Funland Haying Island.
 
If the retheme is for the former log flume site, digger ride, Seal Falls, Dragon Roundabout, Magma, Cobra and Edge, this is an absolutely MASSIVE area, so perhaps it’s not all being done at once. That whole area would, I’d have thought, take more than a few months, so perhaps Cobra and Magma are being done first, then the rest of the area. Once the new ride replacing the log flume, digger and seal opens, this will be the official opening of the whole area. This is just speculation.
 
Enter Valhalla said:
If the retheme is for the former log flume site, digger ride, Seal Falls, Dragon Roundabout, Magma, Cobra and Edge, this is an absolutely MASSIVE area, so perhaps it’s not all being done at once. That whole area would, I’d have thought, take more than a few months, so perhaps Cobra and Magma are being done first, then the rest of the area. Once the new ride replacing the log flume, digger and seal opens, this will be the official opening of the whole area. This is just speculation.
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There is the possibility that Raging River wasn't originally due to leave the park in mid-2024 but something major happened for it for it to be uneconomical to not operate for a further 6-18 months.

It would make sense if the end of 2025 was the original planned closure date for Raging River especially if a like for like replacement is indeed planned for the new area. That would be a seamless transition between one and the other.

If that was the case, the Raging River, Seal Falls, Digger Ride, the playgrounds, Sky Swinger and possibly the area behind Cobra where a Rapids or a medium sized Woodie would fit like a glove (if not part of Project 2026) would be a new area before the end of the decade 🤔 I'd like to say a bit sooner as the Flume does leave a moderately compact site for some sort of ride.
 
owenstreet7 said:
There is the possibility that Raging River wasn't originally due to leave the park in mid-2024 but something major happened for it for it to be uneconomical to not operate for a further 6-18 months.
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owenstreet7 said:
It would make sense if the end of 2025 was the original planned closure date for Raging River especially if a like for like replacement is indeed planned for the new area. That would be a seamless transition between one and the other.

If that was the case, the Raging River, Seal Falls, Digger Ride, the playgrounds, Sky Swinger and possibly the area behind Cobra where a Rapids or a medium sized Woodie would fit like a glove (if not part of Project 2026) would be a new area before the end of the decade 🤔 I'd like to say a bit sooner as the Flume does leave a moderately compact site for some sort of ride.
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Regarding the log flume, that's exactly what happened from what I've heard.

With the Digger Ride and seal falls seemingly open next year, I'm going to hazard a guess rhe new area will consist of;

The Go karts and surrounding area where Dragon was.
Extending into the Cobra and Magma areas, as well as the field in front of and next to Cobra.

There's currently ground works going on in the fields between Cobra and the car park, and between Cobra and the Sky Swinger. As well as the field next to the Go Karts.

The area comprising the old log flume, sky swinger and junior rides will either be a phase 2 or a seperate project. Surely it's too big an area for one investment?
 
I hadn't been to Paultons outside of December before today, so I got a new credit in the form of Cobra, which was decent, but it was attaining a poor average throughput of 212 pph (average of 4).
Splash Lagoon is very good, and you get a bit wet. I really enjoyed the theming on display.
Velociraptor seemed to have a judder, which didn't affect the ride experience, but I don't think that it was present previously.
 
Zeock said:
I hadn't been to Paultons outside of December before today, so I got a new credit in the form of Cobra, which was decent, but it was attaining a poor average throughput of 212 pph (average of 4).
Splash Lagoon is very good, and you get a bit wet. I really enjoyed the theming on display.
Velociraptor seemed to have a judder, which didn't affect the ride experience, but I don't think that it was present previously.
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I had a nice visit to Paultons earlier this month, it's a nice park and we had a really good day. However we bailed on Cobra more than once because operations looked so poor.

Paultons staff are amongst the friendliest out there but I can't say they're particularly efficient. A little bit more urgency without compromising friendliness wouldn't go amiss. The park does also have a lot to contend with in terms of height checking (and age checking) young riders, making sure there are enough adults to ride per number of children, etc. I can't help feeling there's a better way of managing all this before the group actually gets to the ride.
 
Zeock said:
I hadn't been to Paultons outside of December before today, so I got a new credit in the form of Cobra, which was decent, but it was attaining a poor average throughput of 212 pph (average of 4).
Splash Lagoon is very good, and you get a bit wet. I really enjoyed the theming on display.
Velociraptor seemed to have a judder, which didn't affect the ride experience, but I don't think that it was present previously.
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The thing is, much as us enthusiasts love efficiency, does Paultons ever get busy enough to need throughputs of more than 212 pph on Cobra?
 
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