Indy
Hyper Poster
I don't know. Fast & Furious - Supercharged exists.
Thorpe Park to retheme Derren Brown's Ghost Train
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spicy
Giga Poster
Second Poster - Canada Creek return confirmed?
Coastercal
Roller Poster
Any clues as to when this may re open?
I'veGotFourB&MsInMyGarden
Mega Poster
All we know at the moment is "Spring 2023".
Niles
Giga Poster
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Joelpagett
Mega Poster
Wonderful, another drab, dark and miserable experience. At least you hopefully won't die of boredom, unlike DBGT.
DelPiero
Strata Poster
I'm actually excited to see what they've done with it. As a people mover the tech is really interesting, I have no idea how they will fill the spaces during the movement of the carriages however.
I just hope it's spooky as a ghost train should be, and that they nail it first time, unlike the many iterations of it's former self.
I just hope it's spooky as a ghost train should be, and that they nail it first time, unlike the many iterations of it's former self.
DelPiero
Strata Poster
Don't get me wrong, I'm not booking tickets for the end of the month but I do need to take J at some point so will make sure to check it out when I do go with him.
Curious is probably the better word, but I do love an actual ghost train/theme.
UKCoasterFan
Mega Poster
Even an indoor Vekoma family boomerang would probably be better and scarier than DBGT and indeed an improvement. Or a Gerstlauer family boomerang (see the new Firle Franz ride in Bayern Park, pretty neat actually)
I didn't think DBGT was the end of the world. It was interesting doing it as a one off, but the wait was ridiculous.
Like others have hinted at, sure I'm curious about the retheme also but it's probably going to be another do it once and never again type of experience where an actual indoor track (or trackless) ride would be much better, better reliability, better re-ride-ability and people feeling less intimidated with the whole live actor thing (personally I'm not a big fan as much as the staff try).
I also don't know why Merlin constantly put their faith in the likes of Derren Brown, David Walliams and Charlie Brooker, who interestingly are all the same age. All 3 are pretty marmite type of guys and at least two of them spout constant politics.
I think these were all bad moves. Brown was already a has been around 2016, maybe 10 years before that, it would have attracted youngsters more.
Naming a whole area in a theme park after a writer seems weird to me. Even Stephen King or JK Rowling don't get that. Their creations might but not them as individuals. In this day of cancellations etc I found it dumb what they did with Walliams. Sure keep Gangsta Granny or whatever but "the wonderful world of x"? Mad and they were just asking for trouble, which they now have to a certain extent.
Good to see Chessington doing Jumani, that seems a much better idea.
If you have to go down the IP tie in route in Thorpe again, and one that isn't Universal or Disney owned and doesn't have a ride yet, something like Stranger Things would have seemed like an obvious choice to me. But even that franchise is possibly nearing the end of people caring.
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Joelpagett
Mega Poster
Stranger Things will likely be very expensive at the moment - Thorpe will pick it up in 2035 when it's cheap, and they can do the 4th iteration of X:// No Way Out.
TPoseOnTantrum
Giga Poster
Purge themed B&M mini dive on Slammer site. Been saying it for years.