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Thorpe park construction - 2015 attraction

I think this is hilarious. Thorpe Park are like the ITV of theme parks, so it makes perfect sense for them to put money into such tripe.

I love how Thorpe are desperately trying to regain a family friendly image, but theme their new attraction to a tacky post-Watershed tv show!

Also, did they not learn from their mistakes from opening a year-round, actor-led walk through with Saw: (no longer) Alive? It will most-likely be costly to run and have terrible throughput.

It reeks of 'rushed-idea-comes-to-fruition-in-panic-that-they-have-no-new-attractions for 2015.' I reckon they've simply moved miscellaneous bits of themeing into the Studio 13 building and stuck the cheapest IP they could find on it.

For example:

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The "jungle themeing" looks just like the plant room from their 'Cabin in The Woods' maze.

And "Final Bush Tucker Trial dares contestants to face 56 mph winds" - that'll just be the Hurricane Simulator from The Dome.

"Innovative technology simulates the feeling of being covered in bugs" - that'll be the leg ticklers from Angry Birds 4D.

(I am joking of course, but when you look at it like this, a lot of what this "world's first" attraction offers is hardly even new to the park)


I'm assuming the "critters" won't be real, as the press release refers to them in inverted commas?
Either way, I don't know anyone who still watches I'm A Celeb! I can't imagine who this attraction is supposed to draw to the park?
I bet it only lasts for the 2015 season.

It'll probably be a great laugh to walk through once with CF though <3
 
Thorpe's choices are so corny. It's just so blatantly obvious they're going for what's cheapest and most marketable. Not saying this won't be good but it seems like they don't really care whether it's actually a good attraction or not.
 
^This.

I didn't bother with this season (well, 2014's anyway) because I'd only heard of a couple, and Craig Charles left after 2 days. They're such has-been celebrities and it is always so repetitive and not really entertaining...perfect for Thorpe then ;)

I hadn't considered how well this would actually fit in at Chessington really. But it is a jungle theme and Chessington has that sort of area. It would be perfect. Ugh Merlin. Can we do GF at other parks? ;)
 
I love how Thorpe are desperately trying to regain a family friendly image, but theme their new attraction to a tacky post-Watershed tv show!
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This is exactly what I thought when they decided to retheme the most scary ride in the park with a 1.3m height restriction to Angry Birds. It just doesn't make any sense at all.

I get the feeling that the company as a whole doesn't know what to do with Thorpe. It's funny, because just as they seem to have Chessington figured out, Thorpe's audience comes into question. How many times has this pattern repeated itself?

I remember - gosh, prob 10 years ago now - people on here talking about how Thorpe's teen/young adult focus was unsustainable. If you look around the world, all the super successful parks are family orientated, and the ones more akin to Thorpe seem to suffer hardest.

So I get why Thorpe has to change - I understand and I'm in favour of it. I just don't understand the way it's being done? The 2016 dark ride is an interesting turn of events and I wait with baited breath. I don't even care how good it'll be anymore, I'm just fascinated how it'll be received, ya know? Given the history of these things and the British public.

I presume, and hope, that people higher up in Merlin as a company won't just LET people who know what they're doing get on with it. Everything's gotta have a damned IP, everything's gotta have a tiny budget and everything's gotta be a world's damn first.

Small budgets and creativity... Awesome! There's a chance it'll be really good. Small budgets and an IP? 100% failure fate. You end up with out of date irrelevant bollocks and next to no funding for theming or hardware. And by using actors, it's fobbing off those lack of costs onto Thorpe's staffing budget.
 
I agree with pretty much everything that people have said about this so far regarding it being a bit off or disappointing. I think we knew that it was going to be a relatively quiet year though. The fact that an attraction is being themed on a reality TV show at all is pretty cringeworthy.

Can anyone remember whether I'm a Celebrity was a featured answer in that IP marketing quiz that they sent out a few months back? I can't remember for sure but I think that it might have been on there. If so, this looks like a direct consequence of that. It could have just been the IP that was the cheapest or easiest to recreate rather than the most popular though.

Good to see that it looks like they've steered clear of using any live animals (or at least not any within reach of the public) but aren't animals in about 70% of the trials on the TV? As they can't use animals, do any food trials or height challenges it makes you wonder what parts of the show they can actually use for inspiration! Seems a bit limiting.
 
Put your hand in a hole, get some air blasted on it. F**king awesome.
 
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