Kingda Ka and Green Lantern's removal for new 2026 record-breaking coaster

[JoshC.]

one time with the promise of refurbishment of a log flume which ended up going on a actual train in a shed instead.

This is rewriting history a fair bit.

Loggers Leap closed at the end of the 2015 season due to needing work done and there not being the maintenance budget for that year. The park certainly intended for it to reopen, with many plans in place, but the cost of doing the work and reopening it spiralled to a point where it wasn't viable.

Ghost Train opened in 2016 (so already had budget allocated to it prior to Loggers Leap's closure), and had additional money put in for 2017 because it needed it. The money was never taken away from Loggers Leap.

Whilst it's true that Thorpe, in particular, having a tick time bomb of rides in a similar way to some Six Flags parks, I'm in no way worried about Stealth.

 

[owenstreet7]

This is rewriting history a fair bit.

Loggers Leap closed at the end of the 2015 season due to needing work done and there not being the maintenance budget for that year. The park certainly intended for it to reopen, with many plans in place, but the cost of doing the work and reopening it spiralled to a point where it wasn't viable.

Ghost Train opened in 2016 (so already had budget allocated to it prior to Loggers Leap's closure), and had additional money put in for 2017 because it needed it. The money was never taken away from Loggers Leap.

Whilst it's true that Thorpe, in particular, having a tick time bomb of rides in a similar way to some Six Flags parks, I'm in no way worried about Stealth.

The point with Merlin was that rides closed after the end of the season without warning on multiple occasions including The Flume, Loggers Leap, Ripsaw, Submission and a previous attempt with Blade which is heavily rumoured for this year (I don't believe this one bit and think it's sparked as a wind up about Kingda Ka). This is very akin of what Six Flags have done. They did however warn us about the Nemesis retrack and Ramases Revenge.

I have heard a theory about Loggers Leap having it's money diverted as a result of the Ghost Train needing work to be done in 2017 for those Rise of the Demon upgrades.

I honestly am furious with the park for the way they left Loggers Leap (regardless of whether the theory was true or not) especially when the Ghost Train flopped really badly and is a white elephant at the park. Money (Operations, Maintenance, CAPEX) that could've been used for something else either way (Loggers Leap, other rides, infrastructure etc.)

Let's go back onto the Six Flags as we're now talking about rides that closed without warning like Six Flags did across the Atlantic with Merlin.