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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

John_P said:
It's taken Merlin 2 1/2 years to apply for planning permission to to knock down an eyesore rapids people would see on every visit to Legoland. At Thorpe a few well placed walls with some vinyls on and they can pretend the Rumba Rapids didn't exist for decades.
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Seems that sadly what I wrote a few weeks ago looks pretty much spot on.
 
Skyscraper said:
You can't say that for certain though, as we have no idea what they are doing. All we can do is just wait and see.
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All the evidence points to that. The "back in 2026" demolition of the entrance just a week before opening. They basically admitted they have no plans for the area in the closure announcement. Not even pretending its for future developments
 
I think it is fair to say nothing about this seems very planned.

If they knew it wasn't going to reopen, all of the current activity would have made way more sense at the start of the closed season, rather than the end.
 
My thinking is what's the point.
Alfredo said:

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j2rEasL3j4

First video of the launch pad final product
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It looked fine imo as amenity beach which they drained when they wanted to use the space as events. I get it would of made more sense had they built the stage but then they axed all the entertainment so no point building a stage. At that point half of amity beach had already been demolished so I'm guessing this was a cheap way of paving over the area without restoring the pool or putting in a stage. It doesn't add anything to the park though. No one is going to buy a ticket because of this so it just seems a waste of.money
 
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