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Paultons Park: General Discussion

Benjsh said:
It's a bit disappointing from an enthusiast's point of view how from a capacity and operations point of view it's going to help them keep their queue times down and avoid Fast Pass so I can see why they are doing it.
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If it is run like Vertika (which it shares parts of the layout with seemingly and the maintenance and station seemingly combined) I would imagine it is single car loading and poor throughput. They might, eventually, get onto building more but it will attract a queue. Gersts own family offerings offer superior throughput.
 
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I have to say, this park looks cool! Those hedges remind me of RCT, love it. It's great to see a park here work so hard to make sure guests enjoy themselves. Quality of product looks fantastic. I've never been there, but it looks great, congrats to the owners for generating the income to invest. The passion is clear. I don't have children to warrant a visit. Build a thrill ride and a hotel and I'll happily visit!.... Bravo paultons! Keep going, your doing awesome things!
 
Quantum said:
I'm really hoping it will have two trains or it will have worse throughput than flight of the pterasour
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I’d imagine it will have multiple cars.

I would be surprised if the throughput was overly high without a dual loading station, though. Saw attains about 800-900pph on a good day with a dual loading station.
 
Actually looking at the plot of land Drakon doesn't actually take up that much room. Furthermore Edge is being relocated freeing up more land for another potential coaster after this. Could this be the start of multiple thrill coasters perhaps alongside family rides and coasters.

You can put a coaster anywhere providing you have enough Creativity, Gumption and Determination
 
Hid said:
Actually looking at the plot of land Drakon doesn't actually take up that much room. Furthermore Edge is being relocated freeing up more land for another potential coaster after this. Could this be the start of multiple thrill coasters perhaps alongside family rides and coasters.

You can put a coaster anywhere providing you have enough Creativity, Gumption and Determination
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Drakon is but one piece in a broad, cautious strategy to introduce a few thrill rides to Paultons. It'll serve a similar function to its companion, the long established Cobra/Raven, and possibly be a sideshow or compliment to the 2027 mystery ride (that involves water). Drakon may be a bit rough, but hopefully it will be less rough than SAW (in the same way Cobra is supposedly a less ragged ride than Chessington's similar "wild mouse" Rattlesnake).
 
The more I think about it the more the ride type makes sense.

Fairly cheap low risk entry to the thrill market. If they had of gone more expensive hardware and it flops, then it’s a bigger financial risk I guess. But if this works then I see this as an entry to another coaster or two at this or possibly higher thrill levels.
 
Quantum said:
I could definitely see Paultons getting a woodie at some point in the future as long as they avoid noise issues, something similar to Wickerman would be great
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I always suggested Paultons were following the Plopsaland trajectory so perhaps they’re just further back than initially hoped and are more literally doing it (albeit hopefully accelerated):

2026 Drakon = Anubis (Gertslauer thrill 2009)

2029 ??? = Heidi (GCI woodie 2017)

2032 ??? = Ride To Happiness (Mack statement coaster 2021)
 
Bowser said:
I always suggested Paultons were following the Plopsaland trajectory so perhaps they’re just further back than initially hoped and are more literally doing it (albeit hopefully accelerated):

2026 Drakon = Anubis (Gertslauer thrill 2009)

2029 ??? = Heidi (GCI woodie 2017)

2032 ??? = Ride To Happiness (Mack statement coaster 2021)
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Just hopefully better coasters than Anubis (rough), Heidi (rubbish) and RtH (inconsistent)
 
Back onto Paultons…..

Someone raised questions about the impact of the new baby arrival in Peppa pig and how the park would respond, they couldn’t answer on the day due to embargo’s but they have now released that baby pig will be joining the land this summer.

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The park will eventually be in a position where it doesn't need whole new themed areas but instead just investing or replacing individual rides/ small expansions. It's a great place to be and once they get to that point you will see bigger and more ambitious attractions as they already have the area up and running.
 
Valgard is likely going to be Paultons' last main themed "area" for the next 5 to 10 years (with maybe Crazy Critters replaced/revamped, another advanced dark ride, and a bigger again 3rd thrill coaster after the 2027 project). They're actually reinvesting back into themselves more logically on a single site in the UK - unlike Merlin that set up another Legoland in a ME country many people never heard of, with too many other irons in many, many fires worldwide at Black Stone's behest (while Alton Towers, etc, relatively stagnated for around a decade).
 
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