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Drayton Manor Sat 31st/ Sun 1st

TjChapperz

Mega Poster
Sat:

Who went:
Me
Laura

Didnt arrive till about half 12 was feeling lazy and as its only up the road it didnt matter that much.

Ride count
Shockwave - 1
G-force - 1
Apocalypse - 1
4D Cinema - 2 (curse of skull rock 1 - Haloween film - 1
Pirate Adventure - 1
Drayton Queen - 1
Polperro express train - 1

Didnt really ride much as it was a relaxing day looking round the zoo and just taking our time.

The haloween 4D film is alot better than the pirate one - using the effects more and the film seemed longer aswell.

The Firework Show -

To Celebrate the parks 60th Anniversary the park had a giant fireworks, lazer and fountain display.

A brief history of the park was projected onto a giant fan of water in the middle of the lake. Inbetween each piece of projection there were firework and lazer displays to different songs.

To celebrate the snake train they sent the Polperro train alongside the lake with lights on it. With "runaway train" song in the background

To celebrate the Drayton Queen they sent it around the lake lit up and with fireworks on it in time to music.

For the buffalo they sent it round the helix over the lake with fireworks on it.

For apocalypse they had a car 3/4 the way up the tower shooting fireworks off it.

Stormforce 10 they had fireballs shooting from the top of the reverser tower.

For the zoo they had jungle book music with projections onto the lake.

Thomas land they hand thomas tank music.

And finally for the 4D cinema they had the Pirates of the Caribbean theme.

During the history you meet past, present and future members of the Bryan family.

The show was very good with good use of all the effects.



Sunday 1st

Who Went
Me
Nathan

We didnt turn up till 6:45 as we didnt want to pay and were just going to watch the fireworks.

We turned up and parked by the campsite then walked down to the grass by entrance 2 to watch the fireworks.


After the fireworks we went up to the main entrance and even though there were members of staff on both sides of the entrance we walked straight in without them even asking us for a ticket.

So in the next hour before park close we managed to do

G-Force x 1
Shockwave x1
Maelstrom x 1
The bounty x1
Pandemonium x1
Apoclaypse x 1

There was no queues for anything and best thing was we didnt pay so an extra added bonus for a good weekend.

A good weekend and really enjoyed the fireworks show

I will upload photos/ videos 2moz
 

furie

SBOPD
Staff member
Administrator
Moderator
I'm going to do a full trip report soon... Honest :)

I was there on Sat and had a good day. Firework display, technically, was probably the best I've ever seen! The crown of Roman Candles on Apocalypse? Genius!

Anyway, I have my own PTR to do, and wouldn't want to issue spoilers ;) Glad you enjoyed it too though - if you saw me, you should have said "give us some of that picnic you tight scouse git!" ;)

p.s. 4D cinema film was brilliant! :)
 

TjChapperz

Mega Poster
Lol i did see you all standing by the first aid sign outside the 4D cinema but i was in the queue and didnt want to loose my place lol.
 

TjChapperz

Mega Poster
videos currently uploading to youtube so in the meantime

Photos from the saturday:

Setting up the Fireworks:
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Notice the fireworks on top of the jet tower
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Where the Fountain screen came from.
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The control room/Projector room:
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Buffalo and the show boat with laser machines on it.
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Shockwave:

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back of the rapids tunnel:
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Blast from the past - one of the old Wristband huts showing a "what charge today sign"
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G-Force
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Meerkat!
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Laura playing the fun machines:
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Thomas Land:
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New Train:
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Night Time Pics:
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Fireworks:
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The buffalo with fireworks
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More night rides:

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I will post videos when there sorted.

Edit: First Video Online:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlX7_rLu74Q
 

jokerman

Giga Poster
They look like evry impressive fireworks. It just shows us that Drayton can put the effort into something spectacular, I just wish they would keep it up.

Wish I could have seen them.
 
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