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2023: The Curse at Alton Manor

Craig

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As some of you may have seen, Monday's press release brought us a substantial number of images of the interior of The Curse at Alton Manor. Sadly, a lot of news outlets and fan sites have posted the images directly on their social media accounts, so if you're trying to avoid all spoilers, you might find it pretty difficult I'm afraid.

That said, we'll still try our best to keep things spoiler free for those who want to avoid it, both on social media and here on our forum. So a day or two earlier than planned - welcome to your new The Curse at Alton Manor topic!

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Found a really interesting news article regarding of the ride, while also mentioning some really interesting things, especially (for me anyway) flying demons.

Just a word of warning for anyone who doesnt want spoilers… article includes image of a ride scene!

For those that have seen the image, one of the items is a very clever easter egg to another of the parks previous rides/areas!

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After seeing those new scenes and hearing that it's as if she's talking directly to you, I have a very good feeling about this. I'm now confident more scenery in the ride will be new
 
I did want to keep all of this a surprise but I guess it’s impossible to avoid exposure when you have several social media accounts 😂

The scenes genuinely look fantastic, and importantly very well lit with theatrical lighting rather than LED wash lights from B&Q.
 
Discussion of scenery and some easter eggs in spoiler tag:-

The quality of the scenery looks good, although I hope it isnt all just static with 'movement' solely by projection mapping. Overall it looks very promising and I remain optimistic. The oversized items does seem to support the idea of being shrank down.

I've spotted four/five easter eggs in those images which are a nice touch and I hope there are more throughout the ride!
- Ug Land/Corkscrew - oversized Corkscrew box
- Duel - Nicholad Roodyn on tin of green paint
- Toyland Tours - on the toybox outside the giant dolls house
- Rita - Car toybox outside giant dolls house
- Wicker Man - poster next to stuffed bear
 
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I'm actually overwhelmed…...I don't say that often. For the time and budget they had, with that level of detail and creativity. This is clear to be a uniquely artistic visual, which I don’t believe we have experienced in a ghost type train in Europe. Very different to any ride I have been on anyway and Wow I can't wait to ride this now! Obviously riding will be a different story but visually from what I’ve seen I can’t fault the unique imaginative style. Very impressed with the Merlin designers and the brains behind such a thought out back story
 
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Can anyone work out the location of the scene? I’m assuming it’s to replace the end scenes that were botched in 2003 with the “cellar”
 
It does appear to be the end scenes yes which definitely leads to speculation of the remaining scenes still being in place but being tweaked which I have no problem with when utilised correctly.


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