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Paultons Park: General Discussion

Poisson said:
I can see the roof quite clearly in the first photo.
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Tbf I was responding to the existence of themed roofs, not whether there was any ceiling visibility.

More importantly that photo is presumably promotional and very bright, in person it’s much darker and personally I found it both immersive and impressive. Here’s a video which is more representative:


From: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7KPeM1Hyb54


I think these areas can be well done and certainly in Tokyo offered a very welcome relief from the climate! An equivalent of this at any UK park would surely be well received.
 
This is inside the Mexico pavilion at epcot, it is quite a bit darker than in the video (so you can't see the celling), the ceilling isn't "themed" interms of adding a structure but how it works with everything else is really nice essentialy making a night time village scene and I found it worked really well, especially how they blended that back wall with the volcano, temple and cloudy sky.


From: https://youtu.be/jeaWuQgM0oc?t=28


similarly this is DLP pirates (with the resturant) it uses a similar tequnique although slightly differnt lighting (to make it seem like moon lit) they then added trees and other things to the scene and made it really effective.


From: https://youtu.be/px_TmewqJOU?t=70


I think in both of these senarios it was less the effort put into the celling (which is essentially black tiles) but more the effort put arround the area with fake buildings, trees and quite importantly the lighting which is primarily from lamps or buildings not the sky.
 
I visited Paultons recently and the new viking area is coming along nicely, but the one thing I'm curious about is the old log flume area. The big blue tray thing is still there and appears to have been painted, and it's just been surrounded by a plain wooden fence.

Does anyone know what's going on there?

Had a great day at the park, no queues for anything. Ate in the Route 66 diner which was by far the best theme park food I've had. The park always looks absolutely spotless and it's clear that guests money is invested well.
 
Matthethemeparkfan said:
I visited Paultons recently and the new viking area is coming along nicely, but the one thing I'm curious about is the old log flume area. The big blue tray thing is still there and appears to have been painted, and it's just been surrounded by a plain wooden fence.

Does anyone know what's going on there?
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It wouldn't surprise me if that was a result of a change in plans and the original intention was for Raging River to keep operating until 2026/2027. I think I've thought this before.

In my opinion, I'm thinking the area with Sky Swinger, Raging River, the kids rides, the land unused from Valgard and playgrounds could be the next expansion for the park in the coming years. It seems to be big enough for a medium sized area.
 
PercyO said:
There is one being built at Six Flags Qiddiya and another at a Happy Valley park in China according to RCDB
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I suppose open to interpretation, i think the reference is to two new ones as Six Flags is basically finished and no idea what's going on with Happy Valley as can't find any mention of that.
 
Bowser said:
I suppose open to interpretation, i think the reference is to two new ones as Six Flags is basically finished and no idea what's going on with Happy Valley as can't find any mention of that.
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The one in Happy Valley is a clone of Poseidon, that is supposedly opening this year but like you, I've heard nothing about, so I'd guess it may have been delayed: https://rcdb.com/20263.htm

Perhaps this is the second new water coaster?
 
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