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Ignore the dodgy Photoshopping.

@MickeyD not everything is AI. This is just a drone shot that was taken with a wide angle lens pre-AI. If you know the history of the park, then you’d know that that the larger white building in the park hasn’t looked like that since COVID

Dark ride please! Plenty of room over Blue Lagoon way, unless it's been reserved for something else? An arm ride or trackless cars ride would be amazing, but any dark ride would do. Plenty of room as well at Rocky Hollow and if they re-jigged GD's queue to get rid of the elevated areas. Rainforest would be my pick if it had to be a nature theme. As @wikiverse said, pulling out Gold Coaster and everything from Kickback Cove through to the edge of Tailspin (I threw arcade in because it needs to go), would lend itself to a lot of land to play with. I'd regret seeing the demise of Thunderbolt's station, but that may be inevitable. I've not highlighted that station in this image: Reef would be interesting, and fits the Ocean Parade area. I've been in places that have glass bottomed water features above you, and having an area you can walk that's "under water" would be unique - especially if they did it before Seaworld. Like this but themed to a reef around you, with larger water windows above. Creates cool effects on the ground/"ocean floor". IMG_6739 - Copy.MOV

My hot take (which I've said before) is that Gold Coaster needs to go and the entire end of Ocean Parade needs redeveloping from Wipeout to Kevil Hill. That is an enormous amount of land which includes Trolls Village area and Thunderbolt plot, as well as the exhibition centre. It could accommodate waterpark expansion, but given the WWW is closed for half the year, that seems like a poor use of land. The exhibition centre could be replaced with a much better auditorium space built in the redevelopment at the other end of the park which would be more than just a shed - especially if a hotel is planned. This would free up that building for rides/show spaces within the park footprint. I'm fairly agnostic about ride types. But DW's line up is definitely short of a major high-thrill coaster, a small thrill coaster (eg. mad mouse, axis, 4D free-spin), a dark ride and a water ride (which could be combined into one great ride). Flats wise they have a lot of spinning rides, so I'd like to see some more gentle options, like Zamperla Big Wavez or Nebulaz (or both) which aren't very thrilling but are good rides to fill the gap between K&B dreamland and the big thrill rides. They're also visually impressive. I would fix that end of the park first before expanding into Blue Lagoon. It is an eye-sore and a dead-end currently, and the connection between the wet and dry parks needs to be addressed.