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Wow! A map that size printed in large numbers would cost Merlin about 2p each at most. Selling them for £3.50 is seriously taking the piss.

I can't see them building outdoor thrill rides, with all the noise that comes with them, on a working film studio. The site is booked up with productions for years (they're currently making Fantastic Beasts 3 and The Flash there, among others) and they're already pissed off about the planes...

Ahhh, Mr Funshine! When I was a kid he was everywhere - and at Morecambe and Southport too, so you knew they were all the same company. They knew how to do branding in those days!

As I said in another thread, you can't directly blame Icon for this. Attendance at the Pleasure Beach fell by the same percentage as the whole of Blackpool thanks to all the transport problems and other issues such as poor weather. However, their profits actually went up so they must have done...

Robbie Williams claims The Thompson family offered to sell him Blackpool Pleasure Beach: https://www.lancs.live/whats-on/family-kids-news/blackpool-pleasure-beach-ready-go-20220523

I bet that relationship has it's ups and downs.

It may well be that Black Mirror is dumped, but it won't be to do with Netflix as they don't own the IP. It's probably more because in the last year Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones who created and make the show have left the company that owns it and signed their own production deal with Netflix...

Yeah, I watched this last night on NOW TV and thought it was OK. It was largely a list of crazy things the park did wrong, without really any context, history or what they did right (which must have been something to last so long with all those issues). I'd have liked the makers to have probed a...

To be fair to Blackpool, the closure of the train line came at the worst possible time and the whole town took a hit (Grand Theatre Panto sales were down massively, for instance). Once the trains were running again, things seemed to be picking up.

I don't really see an issue with the name, as uninspiring as it is. It should do the job to get the numbers of people they're projecting. The dictionary definition of "Resort" is "a place that is frequented for holidays or recreation or for a particular purpose" and that seems a perfectly...

I looked up “foadarche” on google and it just came back with a load of bollocks, which is apt.

Being demolished (still no planning permission for anything to replace it) https://www.lep.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/demolition-work-under-way-camelot-theme-park-charnock-richard-3061429

The Discovery Pass will be great for me. I’m a freelancer who works weekends so this is ideal.

When I designed merchandise for Merlin it was a pain in the arse as each park supplied different things in different formats. A bit of consistency would have saved me having to redraw the Nemesis logo from scratch, and whovever had designed the original logos never thought how they would be made...

I can see loads of large blue buildings - what's going to be in the aquarium? Blue Whales?

It's been a few years but when my girlfriend became disabled we looked at the options for visiting theme parks (because she doesn't want to go on many rides) and, really, for the faff and effort at Alton it's easier and cheaper to book 2-for-1 tickets. However, Chessington and Legoland were...

Resurrecting an old thread to say that if anyone has fond memories of "Mad Edgar" from Camelot in the 90s/early 2000s he won the first Britain's Got Talent semi-final on ITV last night (under his real name Steve Royle). The final's on 10th October if anyone wants to cheer him on...

Being old, as much as I enjoy Valhalla I still have fonder memories of the original Pleasure Beach Log Flume - it was long, the drops were good, but it was also (to a kid) really high up. Being several metres above the rest of Blackpool added an element few other log flumes have. But that...

Because ITOCHU put out a press release! https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/news/press/2020/200818.html Significantly, the full press release mentions Fantastic Beasts and I don't think those sets are currently on display in London. Be interesting to see if they bother to make a third FB film for when...

Bit of a difference in the 2 'behind-the-scenes' parks shows currently available. Watched Disney+ show The Imagineering Story last night, in which a DisneyWorld animator had a massive board of buttons in order to create an Abraham Lincoln figure that moved and performed like a real person and...