The fact that the park exists. I know that seems like a genuine cop out to say such a thing but hear me out.
Without a major corporation and IP behind it, a listed estate and ruins in the middle of the English countryside managed to become a fully fledged theme park in just a decade! That's incredible when you think about it. There wasn't loads of money, no corporation like Disney behind it, no catalogue of strong grounded IP's to use and it wasn't a gradual progression like other parks with many decades of organic growth behind it. It was almost a standing start (a fun fair behind the Towers doesn't count). All this in a country that had very little heritage in this sector, rediculously strict planning restrictions (although admittedly many of these were bent and twisted in the first decade), a mild rainy climate and full of NIMBYs.
What happened the next decade is almost as incredible. Just 12 years after it started, it opens unique and world class attractions that stand head and shoulders (and sometimes above) the most established big boys elsewhere in the world, as well as becoming a resort, opening 2 hotels and a water park. I can't think of any other park that has as many handicaps as Towers and has managed to achieve this, so well and so fast.
On top of these challenges, Towers then spends the next 2 decades inflicting harm upon itself. It opens a plethora of attractions of much decreased quality, falls into a state of disrepair that it never recovers from, does a great deal of damage to it's original theme park heritage, slashes operational budgets and crashes a rollercoaster. Yet still, despite all this, it somehow still exists?
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