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Lightwater Valley - Future?

Lightwater Valley 2025 season map. The rocking tug replacing Eagles Claw is named Spin Bug. Nothing replaces the rocket rollercoaster. Alice’s Car Ride rethemed back to Vintage Cars. New mascot merry go round in the undercover fairground area. New pop up food village next to the bigger Carousel
 

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funfairsthemeparks said:
Lightwater Valley 2025 season map. The rocking tug replacing Eagles Claw is named Spin Bug. Nothing replaces the rocket rollercoaster. Alice’s Car Ride rethemed back to Vintage Cars. New mascot merry go round in the undercover fairground area. New pop up food village next to the bigger Carousel
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Thanks for the update , looks a mess to be fair going to be a tough year for theme parks
 
funfairsthemeparks said:
Lightwater Valley 2025 season map. The rocking tug replacing Eagles Claw is named Spin Bug. Nothing replaces the rocket rollercoaster. Alice’s Car Ride rethemed back to Vintage Cars. New mascot merry go round in the undercover fairground area. New pop up food village next to the bigger Carousel
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I wonder what the impact of Eagle's Claw leaving the park will have.

The pessimist in me is thinking they're in danger and could be the next park to close in the UK.

I'd certainly imagine rides like Powder Kegs and Flying Cutlass will end up going elsewhere in the coming seasons with less thrilling rides coming in to replace them.
 
owenstreet7 said:
I wonder what the impact of Eagle's Claw leaving the park will have.

The pessimist in me is thinking they're in danger and could be the next park to close in the UK.

I'd certainly imagine rides like Powder Kegs and Flying Cutlass will end up going elsewhere in the coming seasons with less thrilling rides coming in to replace them.
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Tbh eagles claw always had a queue when I went back in 2022 & 23 it was the most popular ride on park after Splash Falls. Bizarre decision removing it imo even know they used to advertise it a lot. I noticed from comments on the page people aren’t happy
 
funfairsthemeparks said:
Tbh eagles claw always had a queue when I went back in 2022 & 23 it was the most popular ride on park after Splash Falls. Bizarre decision removing it imo even know they used to advertise it a lot. I noticed from comments on the page people aren’t happy
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I think what will end up affecting them the most is their decisions. They're not really smart decisions going forward either for the family or thrill markets.

Whilst a Zyklon would've been a smart move, it likely wasn't the smart move picking up one that was rumoured to be condemned at their previous park. It would've been smarter to go with SBF brand new. The other thing would've been looking at something else that fits that gap such as a Wild Mouse or Spinning Coaster although those are tricky with their history of Reverchon Spinning Wild Mouse coasters.

A log flume would've been a great addition to the park and I'm surprised one hasn't been added as of yet.

Getting rid of one of the park's most popular rides isn't sensible and it's going to bite them in the long run in my opinion. I think Lightwater Valley is in it's last season or two either operating as a theme park as a whole or with it's remaining bigger rides in the park where only children's rides will be available from then onwards i.e. Sundown Adventureland

I'm genuinely curious if Livingston Leisure is still running the place to be honest. 🤔
 
owenstreet7 said:
I think what will end up affecting them the most is their decisions. They're not really smart decisions going forward either for the family or thrill markets.

Whilst a Zyklon would've been a smart move, it likely wasn't the smart move picking up one that was rumoured to be condemned at their previous park. It would've been smarter to go with SBF brand new. The other thing would've been looking at something else that fits that gap such as a Wild Mouse or Spinning Coaster although those are tricky with their history of Reverchon Spinning Wild Mouse coasters.

A log flume would've been a great addition to the park and I'm surprised one hasn't been added as of yet.

Getting rid of one of the park's most popular rides isn't sensible and it's going to bite them in the long run in my opinion. I think Lightwater Valley is in it's last season or two either operating as a theme park as a whole or with it's remaining bigger rides in the park where only children's rides will be available from then onwards i.e. Sundown Adventureland

I'm genuinely curious if Livingston Leisure is still running the place to be honest. 🤔
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I was honestly up for the Brighton Pier Group to somewhat save the park but they keep doing what Livingstone did remove rides and replace them with something poor and cheap. They’ll never learn
 
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