Thorpe Park

2nd April 2025
Retro Thorpe Park Merch!

Let’s throwback to the Thorpe Park Rangers who were a staple of Thorpe Park during my childhood and some retro merch! Here we have the Thorpe Park Rangers key holder which shows the Dome and miniature Eiffel Tower in the background with (left to right) Little Bear, Mr Elephant, Mr Rabbit, Chief Ranger, Mr Giraffe […]
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 […]
22nd November 2024
Thorpe Park Submits Planning Permission to remove The Slammer

Yesterday Thorpe Park submitted planning permission to Runnymede Borough Council to remove The Slammer from the park. This follows on from Thorpe Park’s recent submission to change Amity Beach into an entertainment area (these plans haven’t made it into Runnymede’s November planning committee meeting so I expect we’ll see them discussed in December. The planning […]
7th November 2024
Amity Beach Changes Coming to Thorpe Park

Throughout Fright Nights this year people spotted some posters talking about ‘the last beach party at Amity Beach’ and some ground work tests were spotted happening on Amity Beach which closed for the season late summer. It looks like Thorpe Park have now confirmed that changes are coming to Amity Beach and a planning document […]
7th November 2024
A New Hotel for Thorpe Park?

Bear Architects, a Bournemouth-based architects firm have recently posted images on their website of a London Hotel on a page titled ‘Thorpe Park Hotel’ stating ‘Bear Architects was requested to put forward a design proposal to assist an existing London based client with a business case for a new 100 key hotel on their property […]