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Current rumours suggest that Universal are looking at different rides and IP to differentiate the new park from the Orlando resort and avoid cannibalising their UK vacationers market. The no Orlando clones rule in particular is one that's been thrown around quite a bit. (Wrote most of this...

I'd 100% use public transport to visit parks if I could but Towers is in the middle of nowhere, and going to the 3 southern Merlin parks requires going up to London and back down vs a short stint on the M25. Since I don't drive (nor plan to), this actively discourages me from visiting parks...

Say, the now-vacant site of the Viking rapids in Legoland Windsor is awfully close to the existing Ninjago area. Don't suppose they might be planning for whatever they build here to have an equivalent over here? (I'm betting on a spinning coaster btw, just theme the vehicles to shurikens and...

Yeah, wasn't that island earmarked for the 2015/6 addition before DBGT happened? Would make sense for them to design Swarm like that if the intention was to only keep it that way for a few years, but it's now got to the point that two of the park's main attractions have been completely isolated...

It looks like someone messed up their Photoshop layers, like my brain refuses to accept that Saw should be in the front

Meanwhile, the first drop of The Swarm, the second tallest thing at Thorpe right now after Stealth, is 127ft tall. That's nearly 40ft lower than this ride's "shortest" element! This thing is gonna completely tower over the rest of the park and I cannot wait to see it completed.

Don't forget this plan dates from 2010, so before the Swarm opened, before the Shark cabins were added on the alt coaster 2 site in lieu of a proper hotel on the mainland, and before the initial plans for a 40m ride on the back island were scrapped in favour of Ghost Train. It's been over a...

This is where I'm at with Hyperia. Does it give the UK the big long traditional airtime machine it's been sorely lacking for so long? No, and while this project, with its focus on the height record, would've been the perfect opportunity to do it, I think we'll still get something like that...

Yup, there's a small car park near the Olympic Park, sandwiched between the UK's 4th biggest shopping centre and 5th busiest train station, both of which are often severely overcrowded. Perfect place for a massive arena coated in bright LED panels, surely? Still, at least there aren't any other...

I mean, if they couldn't have Icarus, choosing another Greek mythological figure that just so happens to have the coaster type in her name is not a bad alternative! Picking one of the more obscure members of the pantheon should also give them a decent degree of creative freedom (I at least...

you see, I'd be right there with you on this being a studio tour or uncharted-style intamin.. if the park didn't already have a multi-dimension coaster right down the path. Yes, it wouldn't be the most redundant addition we've seen a park make and they can certainly make the ride different...

See, I wanted this for a potential Loggers replacement years before we even had rumbling of Exodus happening. Such a shame they didn't go for that, maybe they couldn't find the space? I was always expecting this ride to have a lighter theme than most Merlin rides given its size, but if the...

We're just calling this 236 to avoid confusion right?

Was the old track so faded that they forgot what the original colour was? Anyway, the silver is nice but I hope they give everything a coat of paint when it's all done. That teal was such a lovely shade and gave the park's skyline a much-needed pop of colour.

Not to mention that Universal already has a Sesame Street area in their Japan park, so would likely have experience working/negotiating with Sesame Workshop. The resort aspect is an interesting point actually. There's that big stretch of path from the park entrances to the train station...

Is there much spare land available around Ferrari Land? If Universal want to keep PA basically as is with less IP stuff, I can see a heavy reworking and expansion to the second gate so they can still have a Universal Studios park in the resort. That said, with how the Studios parks now focus...

Brilliant! If Alton uses his role on Drag Race to their advantage, they'll finally have a use for that theatre.

Ain't that brilliant, first the UK is hosting Eurovision, then Mission Ferrari has an opening date, and now hell has literally frozen over? All of that and we *still* don't know when this thing is reopening. I bet we'll have flying pigs soon too...

Seriously. Get rid of Vortex and ring up Intamin to build a replacement. Something like Loke but swinging towards/over the lake would be fantastic.

Hope so, I'm planning to visit the park for the first time in May when I'm up that way for Eurovision in Liverpool. Would be awkward if it wasn't ready by then - imagine taking so long that the equivalent of hell freezing over happens before you're finished!