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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...

I've got limited experience to comment as I've only visited 3 times, with the fist visit being around 2016. I've never seen the park in its 'heyday' with the pay per ride system. My first two visits where on busy weekends as part of CF events, the weather was great both times and the atmosphere...

I rode it on saturday as part of the CF coverage, I had vaguely followed construction but hadn't really appreciated the level changes across the site. This lead to the coaster delivering a fair amount higher than my initial expectations. It has some really fun moments, the ride time isn't as...

'Its a hoot hoot at Paultons Park' ;) amateur!

Not necessarily a different launch type but i wonder if Nuclear powered launches could be viable. Electrical loads for launches are insanely high and themeparks in general must draw a crazy amount of power.

Unfortunately, a family gathering for my elderly grandparents planned for the bank holiday Monday has been moved to 16th April. I can't really miss this so am going to have to drop out of the Live. Have a great time all!

I often find myself reading some breaking news on SM but heading straight to the forums to read a more concise overview of said news and then read through chronological comments. I like the organisation of topics where all thoughts are collected in one space, with SM a million different people...

Quite excited to see how Thorpe manage to paper over the cracks again. What are we on now, the third or fourth refresh / update to this ride? Fully aware that I'm in the minority here but I actually liked the first VR section, if they could improve the reliability of the VR and take away its...

I will be there!

I’m in the same industry as @Hixee but my BEng was funded through sponsorship by my company. I was offered a sponsored masters but declined due to being sick of education, opting for Chartership via the non masters route. You may find a company willing to sponsor your masters later down the...

Ive no idea if the above will work but new hoarding is up at the park saying 'New ride splashing into lost kingdom 2024' Posted on Paultons official Tik tok. The location of the hoarding is where Temple Heights currently is, this backs onto the old dinosaur walkthrough which gives a...