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21st February 2025HUGE 2025 Ride Availability Update from Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Yesterday afternoon Blackpool Pleasure Beach updated their website with an update for the 2025 season containing some updates on rides and season closures. In this blog I’ll dive into the updates, what’s closing, what’s opening and what’s unknown. You can read the full article here Pleasure Beach start their article by saying that 2025 is […]
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20th February 2025
Chessington’s ‘Project Play’ gets the go-ahead
I reported a while back that Chessington had submitted planning permission to re-develop the Mexicana area of the park. Yesterday, that planning permission was granted by Kingston upon Thames Borough Council. You can see the full planning application here. What next? It’s been reported that some preliminary work has already started in the Mexicana area […]
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16th February 2025
Is a Universal Studios UK announcement finally going to happen?
Theme Park enthusiasts across the country have been waiting for further news on a Universal Studios UK announcement for a while now. There was initially some hope that it would be part of the Chancellor’s announcements for growth a few weeks ago but despite mentions of Bedford during the speech there was no mention of […]
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12th February 2025
What is going on with Merlin?
It’s no secret that Merlin have got some financial issues after running a huge loss, seeing lower visitors than expected at their new Korea and New York Legoland parks plus visitors spending less money when visiting their parks. In the last few days however news of further cut-backs have come for Merlin’s UK parks. In […]
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5th February 2025
Walibi Holland Announce Opening Date for Duelling RMC Single Rail Coasters
Walibi Holland have today announced on their social media platforms that their new RMC single rail coasters known as YOY will open on the 5th April 2025. What is YOY at Walibi Holland? YOY are a pair of single rail coaster opening this year at Walibi Holland Theme Park. They are manufactured by RMC (Rocky […]
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4th February 2025
Has the Eagles Claw left Lightwater Valley?
Lightwater Valley, once a fantastic park in Yorkshire has been through quite a journey over the last few years since The Brighton Pier Group took over. During that time as they have tried to refocus the struggling park to be aimed at families they have removed a number of rides but most notably The Raptor, […]
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21st January 2025
Could Universal Studios UK get the green light by the end of January?
It’s no secret that Universal Studios have purchased a huge amount of land near Bedford and have been going through a consultation process around opening a new Universal Studios Resort in the UK which is incredibly exciting, not least because the UK economy really needs it plus it would make Merlin work harder to compete. […]
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14th January 2025
Alton Towers Confirms Toxicator
In the worst kept secret name in theme park history Alton Towers confirmed yesterday that their new Top Spin ride will be called Toxicator alongside confirming a few other details. Alongside the trailer Alton Towers said: “Toxicator is ready to whip up a dizzying vortex of fear in the heart of the Forbidden Valley. Hang […]
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5th January 2025
Will Drayton Manor reopen Pirates Adventure?
Drayton Manor has had some great investments over the last few years with the opening of Vikings, the new site-down train on Shockwave (now, The Wave) and the opening of Gold Rush and the re-themeing of the area surrounding that but one area of the park remains untouched, the pirates area. In this blog I’ll […]
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4th January 2025What does Plopsa de Panne need next?
I’ve previously written about my opinion that The Ride to Happiness is overrated and that you can do a day trip to Plopsaland from the UK but in this blog I’m going to share what I think this Belgium-based theme park needs next! Plopsa de Panne is currently building some new accommodation which looks incredible […]
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1st January 2025Is the Ride to Happiness overrated?
Located within a 40 minutes drive of the car port in Calais you’ll find Plopsa De Panne, a largely family-focused park in Belgium with one coaster drawing people in from around the world, The Ride to Happiness. This extreme spinning coaster is built by Mack rides and holds the record for most inversions on a […]
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31st December 2024Can you do a day trip to Plopsa de Panne from the UK?
Situated in the Belgium town of De Panne Plopsaland is one of the various Plopsa parks located across Europe and one of the largest. The opening of The Ride to Happiness, a Mack extreme-spinning coaster, in 2021 really put this park on the map but, can you do a day trip to Plopsa de Panne […]
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