CWOA | Mandrill Mayhem (World of Jumanji) | B&M Wing Coaster | 2023
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witchfinder
Giga Poster
Noooo, surely they'll want to open it for Easter? I was hoping to tie in a visit with a trip to London in April
Joelpagett
Mega Poster
I believe that they will want it open for Easter - this is just for a TV advert so they could open it for Easter, get stress tested, and start advertising ready for Summer breaks.
The coaster is practically finished, and a majority of the big themeing elements are done too, so it's certainly not out of the question to get it open for Easter.
The coaster is practically finished, and a majority of the big themeing elements are done too, so it's certainly not out of the question to get it open for Easter.
emoo
Hyper Poster
Press start on World of Jumanji TOMORROW at 9.30am | By Chessington World of Adventures Resort | Facebook
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Some info tomorrow 9:30am
MLDesigns
Hyper Poster
JoshC.
Strata Poster
Concept art looks fab. And dare I say it, realistically achievable.
Mandrill Mayhem continues to confuse. That all but confirms a singular row facing the other direction, which is weird. And whilst I get what they have tried to do with the mandrills, I'm struggling to get over (my own) preconceptions that having a non-winged animal on a winged coaster just doesn't feel quite right.
On a different note, the concept art look at the train doesn't show vests, just a lap bar:
Other Merlin artwork of winged coasters has clearly shown OTSR/vests. So will be interesting to see if this is a feature of the trains for junior coasters, or just the artwork.
Mandrill Mayhem continues to confuse. That all but confirms a singular row facing the other direction, which is weird. And whilst I get what they have tried to do with the mandrills, I'm struggling to get over (my own) preconceptions that having a non-winged animal on a winged coaster just doesn't feel quite right.
On a different note, the concept art look at the train doesn't show vests, just a lap bar:
Other Merlin artwork of winged coasters has clearly shown OTSR/vests. So will be interesting to see if this is a feature of the trains for junior coasters, or just the artwork.
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Psycoshark1
Roller Poster
And backwards facing seats on the back row.
Coasterfreck
Mega Poster
Just spotted this on Chessington’s website, which suggests that the World Of Jumanji area won’t open at the start of Chessington’s main season in March.
I am glad that the coaster does atleast have seven row trains as it will potentially help improve the overall capacity, this investment is still very baffling, but at the same time I do love it.
Callum
Roller Poster
Good to see its a 1.2m height restriction. Thought it didn't make much sense to have a 1.4m at Chessington
Unpopular opinion but i'm a big fan of the backwards row facing the other way. Kids love a front row and this will essentially provide 2 very different front row experiences with it being a shuttle coaster
Unpopular opinion but i'm a big fan of the backwards row facing the other way. Kids love a front row and this will essentially provide 2 very different front row experiences with it being a shuttle coaster
Joelpagett
Mega Poster
A bit of a strange comment from the press release;
I personally wouldn't want to be highlighting that it's been 20 years since they last put in a new roller coaster. Quite a strange 'flex' and you realise how long Chessington has relied on Dragons Fury and Vampire to carry their coaster lineup.
That aside, I think the whole new area looks great, and if done right with lots of foliage will look fab. I think a 1.2 ride makes a lot more sense for the investment and will be a great first inverting coaster for many visitors I'm sure.
I personally wouldn't want to be highlighting that it's been 20 years since they last put in a new roller coaster. Quite a strange 'flex' and you realise how long Chessington has relied on Dragons Fury and Vampire to carry their coaster lineup.
That aside, I think the whole new area looks great, and if done right with lots of foliage will look fab. I think a 1.2 ride makes a lot more sense for the investment and will be a great first inverting coaster for many visitors I'm sure.
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spicy
Giga Poster
I took that as a pretty self promoting comment, rather than promoting the park
'Hey look at me Scott O'Neil the new CEO.. Nick Varney didn't do this in 20 years!'
Even though he probably had very little to do with it..
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This was my reading too. Sounds like classic CEO speak to me.
Rupert
Mega Poster
So weird that ‘welcoming’ is spelt like that in the press release…
Looks good though. Still worried about capacity but hopeful for great operations. Also I was thinking that half the train forwards and half backwards would have worked quite well - this way there could be quite a queue for the backwards seats (which don’t necessarily add very much on this kind of coaster - never make it far up the drops for example).
JoshC.
Strata Poster
Took me a bit to twig it. The first reboot of the Jumanji series is officially called Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. So it's a play on that.
MrHarrisonPearce
Roller Poster
As much as I'd love it to have lapbars, it seems unlikely. The concept art for Raptor at Gardaland also showed lapbars and Mythica Coaster at Legoland Deutschland was already been confirmed to have vests back in November sadly.Concept art looks fab. And dare I say it, realistically achievable.
Mandrill Mayhem continues to confuse. That all but confirms a singular row facing the other direction, which is weird. And whilst I get what they have tried to do with the mandrills, I'm struggling to get over (my own) preconceptions that having a non-winged animal on a winged coaster just doesn't feel quite right.
On a different note, the concept art look at the train doesn't show vests, just a lap bar:
Other Merlin artwork of winged coasters has clearly shown OTSR/vests. So will be interesting to see if this is a feature of the trains for junior coasters, or just the artwork.
https://www.parkerlebnis.de/legolan...bahn-mythica-coaster-fuer-2023-ab_153417.html
CrashCoaster
CF Legend
Like the station plans clearly showed and I had been saying all along...
Dar
Hyper Poster
There are a few videogame references in these PR dumps; "press start at 9.30am", the loading graphic and "players wanted" on the first ride opportunity. They say "Escaped from the cinema and way beyond a board game", could this be themed to a videogame version of Jumanji? Maybe a mobile app that sucks you in, with some AR in the queue to help sell it?
Crazycoaster
Giga Poster
A video game version is literally the plot of the second two films.