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Thirteen: General Discussion

So when visiting adventure world in Perth, I noticed a ride frightfully similar to Alton Towers ride Thirteen theming. However like most Australian parks, it’s actually really made me appreciate the level of theming and execution of rides in the uk. Even if they attempt theming, it’s usually really cheap materials, cheesy, never consistent, bad execution in ride stations and rarely a back story (excuse movie world but it’s still not great and lacks any immersive rides) So surprising I’m giving Merlin some praise

It wouldn’t let me attached the other photos that look similar to Thirteen ideas, but the ride called ABYSS.

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TroySmith1 said:
So when visiting adventure world in Perth, I noticed a ride frightfully similar to Thirteen theming. However like most Australian parks, it’s really made me appreciate the level of theming and execution of rides in the uk. Even if they attempt theming, it’s usually really cheap materials, cheesy, never consistent, bad execution in ride stations and rarely a back story (excuse movie world but it’s still not great and lacks any immersive rides) So surprising I’m giving Merlin and uk company’s before some praise.

It wouldn’t let me attached the other photos that look similar to Thirteen ideas, but the ride called ABYSS.

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TroySmith1 said:
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Feel At least Merlin do a better job than that to hide the station buildings. Inside the station there was no theming no music and just tin walls exposed as too much daylight came in.


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Looks like they started theming the building but then had a change of heart or ran out of money. :tearsofjoy:
 
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At least with Abyss they actually bothered to put some theming around the ride area, unlike Thirteen. I'm not singing it's praises but the station also looks little worse than The Smilers.
 
Matt.GC said:
At least with Abyss they actually bothered to put some theming around the ride area, unlike Thirteen. I'm not singing it's praises but the station also looks little worse than The Smilers.
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I guess Thirteen does have the forest around it, though, which is arguably theming in itself given the theme of the ride. A ride with Thirteen’s theme probably didn’t require any artificial theming during the outdoor section, as the natural theming was already there.

I’ll admit that that was a very clever design choice on Merlin’s part, in my opinion!
 
Yeah that’s exactly it going into the forest makes it! Abyss is just on flat ground which isn’t landscaped at all. Which is now mostly dry with dead grass.


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Managed to get front row but couldn't see any changes on the track before the lift hill. Difficult to tell if the drive wheels are different though.

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