Recent content by Chris Brown

Genuinely had no idea! Thanks

Having seen a few IP / Theme predictions floating around I wanted to put my thoughts into a post. Potentially controversial, but I think the over utilisation of British themes would be a mistake. (Potter excluded). I worry about how us Brits would receive something that could be considered a...

Count me in, will be nice to go later in the season without the cred anxiety, inevitable teething problems and all round stress!

If they’re gonna bring back ripsaw in any form the logical thing would be to go all out and get an ABC tourbillon. The marketability would be so good.

Thorpe are still running the park hours Oktoberfest where people can have beer, pretzels and roller coasters zooming in the background though. This is just Thorpe tapping into a huge potential revenue stream utilising their abundance of space and social reach to create non park / ride reliant...

I dont get the hate on this one. Oktoberfest events outside of parks are very popular, with similar pricing if not worse. My local Southampton one easily sells out a friday, saturday and sunday and has done for the last few years, they serve overpriced beer and bratwursts, put on an oompah band...

2012 is regularly cited as a dud year when it came to UK Theme Park attendance. The 2012 Olympics, hosted in London, coupled with the 2nd highest yearly rainfall have regularly been cited as reasons for the poor reception of The Swarm at Thorpe Park. The major Merlin parks (excluding Legoland...

Do you have anymore details about it being part funded by ACE? I remember the funding of this ride is somewhat interesting, with a few articles suggesting the park owner put a significant amount of his personal savings towards the ride. First I've heard about any ACE involvement though.

Looks a fun layout for a dive machine. Shame there's no themeing / tunnel / ground work around the first drop, such a simple thing that greatly improves the ride from both the riders and non riders perspective.

Being selfish I'd have preferred a quad bike launch coaster but grateful for any kind of coaster addition. May actually have to pull my finger out and visit the park once its built, its only 2 hours from me.

Had a more detailed read through the planning app and thought this section on nearby competitors and need for investment was interesting, with regards to both Paultons and The London Resort.

Agreed with what’s been said about Icon above. It actually needed that cutting edge marketability that Merlin are often chasing. They needed to go taller, faster or longer, it needed to stand out. The beach needed a big heavy hitter to buck the decline, what they got was a good coaster, but...

This looks wayyyyy better than what I originally assumed from the first set of plans released. Glad we’re getting another outdoor river rapids and 4 slides is pleasant surprise. Curious about the top slide on the plan, long straight section.

Absolutely terrifying, I imagine a catastrophic failure of the entire wheel assembly would be pretty hard to detect and mitigate against. Just a breakdown in the material over time due to repeated stress. I can’t help but feel this will mark a significant turning point in the utilisation of...

A friend of mine is at Towers today...