Alton Towers | Wicker Man | GCI Wood

[zazobo]

Fair play to the lad, puts the graft in and always puts quantity if not always quality into his content.

Not for me though, all a bit too cringe.

Fair, bits are a bit cringe. Nice to have on in the background though, he clearly works hard on it too.

 

[Jarrett]

LOL that kid is like your equivalent of Coaster Studios! Couldn't get past two seconds! XD

 

[ThomVD]

His vids are a guilty pleasure for me. I seriously can't stand him yet I kinda enjoy watching them. Such a weird moment when he was checking my ticket when I first got into Alton Towers.

 

[CoasterB]

I kinda like his videos, bit cringe in places, but his got a bit of charisma, and he does these travel blogs where he tells you how to get to a park aboard, which train which stop etc which is actually really helpful.. I think he's just very passionate about theme parks as much as we all are here, but just shows its in a slightly different way

 

[Bert2theSpark]

The same conversation literally happened on the SW8 thread on TowersStreet and that lead to TheMossMachine being born... It's all a bit of deja vu to me! The only reason I subscribe to Shawn is so I can watch his SW8 and Icon construction updates.

 

[Brad88]

Hi, Im relatively new on this forum but I went to Alton Towers last week so feel partly qualified to comment

I think its a bit of a shame that the Flume has gone to make way for this ride as I'm not sure the rapids cuts it anymore as a decent water ride. The pathway joining the rapids area to the Mutiny Bay area, which was a bit annoying, but I presume was necessary for carrying out construction work on SW8! Im quite excited about this new ride but I just hope it isn't too tame and aimed at families, from a selfish perspective.

Looking forward to seeing the developments and maybe riding SW8 next year!

 

[Bert2theSpark]

Station is starting to fly up now....

Credit to Jonathan Dixon.

 

[Alaeriia]

Out of interest... what are peoples thoughts on TPW? I personally rather like it *ducks*...

Far better than a certain other three-letter acronym sharing two letters.

 

[elephant58]

Shared on Towers Times, shows track going through the framework for the main theming structure:

Credit goes to 'blue5onichd'.

 

[DelPiero]

Weird project, there's track up but it looks like the groundwork is still a total mess, I'm sure GCI know what they're doing but still, weird.

 

[scw55]

Ahh he's young and excitable...

My internal English teacher gets agitated by "them beams".

 

[zazobo]

My internal English teacher gets agitated by "them beams".

Yes his grammar is ****ing appalling.

 

[Bert2theSpark]

Credit MAP Facebook group.

So this is not how you build a Wickerman... Could this be supports for Rockwork? And could Towers be throwing a decoy theme for SW8?

 

[Smithy]

Yes his grammar is :emoji_zipper_mouth:ing appalling.

He's speaking Northern leave him alone you bullies.

 

[scw55]

So this is not how you build a Wickerman... Could this be supports for Rockwork? And could Towers be throwing a decoy theme for SW8?

Remember when the SW7 banners had double helix motif? And what we got was... something.
Maybe decoy theme is plausible. We expect evil forest number n and we get dragons instead.

 

[Mysterious Sue]

Did someone mention dragons? Yes please.

 

[Hixee]

^But dragons in the future, so they can still use shipping containers.

 

[jayjay]

 

[Mysterious Sue]

Dragon transport XD

 

[Lofty]

So this is not how you build a Wickerman... Could this be supports for Rockwork? And could Towers be throwing a decoy theme for SW8?

Do you know this from your previous experience of building a Wicker Man? Have you not thought that it could in fact be sculpted out of metal and rendered brown? I'm not stating this is in fact the Wicker Man model that IS going in, but just not stating it isn't.