Bert2theSpark
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You could have a theme around fusion of former attractions like the Thunderlooper and The Flume and have an attraction based around a post-apocalyptic bathtime with raging factions of rubber ducks!
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TBC: SW9 Speculation
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You could have a theme around fusion of former attractions like the Thunderlooper and The Flume and have an attraction based around a post-apocalyptic bathtime with raging factions of rubber ducks!
QTXAdsy
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Bait enthusiasts with nostalgia of naming new ride after much loved former ride = £££Gen2 Thunderlooper
Funnily enough, I did make the idea of my alternative history of Towers is that they would open new rides named after long gone classics such as Black Hole, 80 days etc.
If they were to use this idea of mine then I demand royalties from Merlin/Towers actually going down this path!
Trooper Looper
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That is true. I'd love to see a low terrain hugging S&S 4-D coaster (aka X2) but in a long time. The Parks priority should be quality non coaster, non IP attractions.
QTXAdsy
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- Black Hole
Technically speaking, wasn't Nemesis actually a European first as in the contientent's first suspended B&M coaster or looping suspended coaster outright IIRC?
I think @Poisson is referring to the fact that neither SW3 or SW8 were world firsts.
Squiggs
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Technically it was, but importantly that wasn't the reason it was built, and I don't think it was ever used as a marketing point... not least because very few people would have understood what that meant.
QTXAdsy
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- Black Hole
Aye, they never went on about anything the ride had then, it was only when SW4 started that the whole Secret Weapon 'World's First' thing started to take off though this might have never had happened had Wardley gotten to build this woodie that was supposed to come after Nemesis and as of result not going on for further SW projects which are nothing more than hit or miss prototype rides (former the likes of Oblivion, Air, Wicker Man and to some extent Smiler and the latter IMO being Thirteen) then you have to wonder how very different Towers would be today if they just built straight up quality coasters.
Skyscraper
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- Nemesis
Not convinced it'll be anything major yet, but someone in a Discord server shared this;
Does anyone know exactly where that lake was?
Does anyone know exactly where that lake was?
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Bert2theSpark
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Damn, that's actually quite upsetting, I really liked that view as part of the gardens and seeing the fish with peace and quiet, amongst the lockdowns in 2020, it definitely became somewhere special for me, somewhere you really wouldn't expect at any theme park. Let's hope this is some sort of restoration or better yet installation of a water feature.
Hope the fish are okay...
Hope the fish are okay...
AT86
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Is this just maintenance as per this post.
https://towersstreet.com/talk/threads/2022-general-discussion.6001/post-367802
The gardens are listed, they can’t just built SW9 in there.
https://towersstreet.com/talk/threads/2022-general-discussion.6001/post-367802
The gardens are listed, they can’t just built SW9 in there.
Squiggs
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*is.
The lake is still there, it's just been drained for maintenance purposes. It's already been discussed in 2022 general discussion.
Given the pics, I think it's this one:
Poisson
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*is.
The lake is still there, it's just been drained for maintenance purposes. It's already been discussed in 2022 general discussion.
Given the pics, I think it's this one:
Yes it is Squiggs. They have a dumper and a minidigger kicking about as well as the concrete kit. Absolutely not SW9 as they look nearly ready to reinstate the water.
jon81uk
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Not convinced it'll be anything major yet, but someone in a Discord server shared this;
Does anyone know exactly where that lake was?
That probably is water removed not soil added as the writer of that caption assumed.
John_P
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An S+S 4d does make sense as with their compact size and throughputs they are effectively flat rides.
However Merlin seemed to think they can't market them anymore (probably because they refuse to build good ones).
So a 4D going into X-sector can be easily themed and has a ride cycle that certainly fits the theme of the area.
The ride is unique to the UK and Europe so it'll be completely unique to the customers that actually matter to them.
Plus its an 11th coaster which would give them the current UK record (ahead of Blackpool and Flamingo Land) so again another marketing string and even potential merchandise line.
However Merlin seemed to think they can't market them anymore (probably because they refuse to build good ones).
So a 4D going into X-sector can be easily themed and has a ride cycle that certainly fits the theme of the area.
The ride is unique to the UK and Europe so it'll be completely unique to the customers that actually matter to them.
Plus its an 11th coaster which would give them the current UK record (ahead of Blackpool and Flamingo Land) so again another marketing string and even potential merchandise line.
Danscott22
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Don't want an S&S 4d, i want ACTUAL flats
Trooper Looper
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Same here. I don't see the rave about them, i just want a damn good high quality flat ride that isnt a little spinny ride. Is it too much to ask? Probably. But hey, we can hope pne day when the Retrosquad is gone.Don't want an S&S 4d, i want ACTUAL flats
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