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Please, just, please, someone take this bloody project out the back and put it out of its misery.

They might as well have announced the area would be populated by Jurassic Park-like living and breathing dinosaurs, as it’s not going to happen anyway.

To be fair, wildlife enthusiasts who want to save endangered species probably can't rack their brain around the fact people are caring about an overly ambitious theme park project that's obviously dead.

I want to be annoyed that Alton Towers have borrowed a few travelling fair rides and randomly plonked them in heavily themed areas. But this retro/time bending/alternate universe theme for them is exactly the sort of thing I would've suggested to cover it up, so it's all fine by me.

Enough people have come and gone to this project with their money it probably was at one point.

This project is dead. Dead, dead, dead, dead, never gonna happen, dead. Whoever's still putting out the concept art and press releases are the theme park equivalent to those Japanese soldiers who carried on fighting in the forest 30 years after the end of World War II.

The safari parks won't be as busy after this weekend, I'm sure of it. They were packed whilst they were the only attractions open, but once other places are open these crowds will go and pack out those places instead, until the next things reopen and so on. It seems to be whenever something new...

Based on my rather limited coaster count: Coaster I like - The Big One. It looks great, the first drop is great, the way it interacts with everything is great, and I love the atmosphere that you get in the queue, a mix of people who have ridden it hundreds of times and people terrified as its...

I'm surprised it's taken Disney this long to to rebrand it. Seems a bit weird for the two most famous theme parks in the world to have one of their most famous rides themed around a film that Disney have famously tried to erase from existence because it's racist. Whilst Disney parks do preserve...

What were the crowds like?

I imagine Merlin parks and the Pleasure Beach have set 4th July as the earliest possible bookings as that's when they're allowed to reopen, personally I'm expecting them to reopen at the end of July/start of August if they even reopen at all.

Who'd have thought there'd be a slow news day in he middle of a global pandemic?

UK theme parks opening in July at the earliest, although judging by the rest of tonight's announcements, I expect July 2021 to be more likely.

Could some parks monitor visitor numbers by opening for online booked guests only, no tickets sold on the gate? Would seem like an easier way to monitor numbers, and work out who's in what group. Would also avoid any crowds forming of people waiting to buy tickets on the gate and waiting for...

Pssst...someone tell them that if they give up and cancel the project now, they can blame it on the pandemic and not make it look like a waste of time and money.

Any UK parks setting an opening date before July might as well announce a new date now to avoid the inevitable dissapointment. Even July is pushing it. Things reopening post-lockdown will be gradual, and considering they're non-essential and places where large crowds are packed into a space...

Im surprised places are still setting dates to be closed until - surely it's just easier to say closed until a new date can be decided, like Disney are doing now?

To make a rough prediction for the UK, if the most vulnerable people have to stay inside for 12 weeks, that suggests that's a rough estimate for when this should (hopefully) have brought the UK to the level China are currently at. 12 weeks = end of June, give a few extra weeks, I reckon it will...

Here in the UK, I think it's safe to say parks won't be reopening any time before the summer. Obviously there is going to be a massive impact, what with a lot of people suffering economically from all of this, but the theme park industry can hope that cancelled flights, travel bans and lack of...

They can throw out all the concept art they like, I still don't believe this will happen. Not until they've built it, opened it, I've been there and have an on ride photo to prove it will I go from "it'll never happen" to "maybe".