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18th May 2025

Paultons Park Confirm Viking’s Details

Yesterday evening at their super-fan day and via a YouTube livestream Paultons Park confirmed details about their Vikings land coming to the park in 2026 and this looks fantastic! This new land opening in 2026 will be known as Valgard and will feature 3 rides, a restaurant and play area. Where in the park will […]

14th March 2025

The Cannonball Express Roller Coaster – History and Future

In Lowestoft, Suffolk you’ll find Pleasurewood Hills, a family-theme park which has operated since 1983 and been through a variety of owners and re-brands throughout that time. In the past it’s seen visits from Noel Edmonds and Mr Blobby (including a stage show based on Noel’s House Party), has re-homed Captain Andy’s Review from Thorpe […]

21st February 2025

Alton Towers Toxicator to open 15th March

Alton Towers have today released new footage and opening date confirmation of their new Huss Top Spin ride ‘Toxicator’ which will be in the Forbidden Valley area of the park. The new ride, which has been under construction since last year will open with the start of the season on the 15th March 2025. What […]

21st February 2025

HUGE 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. […]

4th January 2025

What 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 […]

1st January 2025

Is 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 […]

31st December 2024

Can 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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