Wallis has only recently took over the park, before that it was a collection of different travelling operators, now it’s all unified and lots of landscaping has been done to the area. TPWW has a great recent blog showing the new set up and it really is a perfectly pleasant place now given what it was. There’s less rides than there was before the 2006 closure but it’s no less pleasant than the latter days of the original park
Wallis has actually had the site since it reopened however he leased rides from showman as he didn't have the rights to put permanent structures on the site. He has recently secured a new lease agreement with the council that means he can build on the land. This is from what I understand from reading the articles from when it reopened.Wallis has only recently took over the park, before that it was a collection of different travelling operators, now it’s all unified and lots of landscaping has been done to the area. TPWW has a great recent blog showing the new set up and it really is a perfectly pleasant place now given what it was. There’s less rides than there was before the 2006 closure but it’s no less pleasant than the latter days of the original park
Pedantry aside, there’s been a very definite change in the way that the park is run since it has been reopened.
Sorry didn't mean to be pedantic. But yes you are completely right. Sorry.
Wallis has only recently took over the park, before that it was a collection of different travelling operators, now it’s all unified and lots of landscaping has been done to the area. TPWW has a great recent blog showing the new set up and it really is a perfectly pleasant place now given what it was. There’s less rides than there was before the 2006 closure but it’s no less pleasant than the latter days of the original park
Do you think that back in the 90s Frontierland got just slightly more attention and that was part of the issue?
The final flourish, as it were, was pretty exciting. Mistral in 1996, Tidal Wave in 1997, Chaos in 1998, TRAUMAtizer in 1999, King Solomon's Mines in 2000, Space Shot in 2002, Astroswirl & River Caves refresh in 2004 and three new rides in 2006. But it all came to nothing, as we know.
Frontierland didn't get a great deal of attention throughout the 1990s save for the Chairlift and the Polo Tower (both relocations). WGT held off with Pleasureland until the Pleasure Beach company was the only game in town. There were still concessionaires on rides into the late 1990s and on food, bingo, games etc until the early 2000s.
I think the public think about it less than enthusiasts (which is true of almost anything about coasters, right), but there have been a number of coasters removed due to low/reduced ridership and they're often the rougher rides.
Interesting I had never thought about this. Do you think this will affect the track much? Do you think the ride will need more maintance to deal with it?
