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Rebranding it as a kids ride might help, but is it really worth spending $20 million on a secondhand kids ride? The real question is whether DW is creating a genuinely compelling attraction or spending a fortune dressing up a layout that wasn't very good to begin with. DW have gone full 360 on us with this one. What they’re doing here is the complete opposite of what they did with King Claw.

Calling this ride not very good is an understatement. It’s awful. You get a launch, a brief moment of excitement, and then it dies. I’ve got no doubt DW will theme the absolute shit out of it and do a fantastic job. But you can put all the theming, theming effects and fancy scenery in the world around it, and it won’t change the fact that the ride layout sucks. $20m to put lipstick on a pig. It might end up being a very pretty pig, but it’s still a pig. 🐷

Who doesn't love a waterpark making moves?

I'm sure some people will like it, but for me, spending $20m on a mediocre ride when a ride 100 times better already exists in the same area is a waste of money.

I can’t believe how insensitive people can be posting it online.

I wish DW did this to it. MC2 is unlikely to be much better than MC1, as the track layout will still be terrible.

How have heads not rolled at Village? I believe, these shit trading hours are completely self inflicted.

What is the point of this article?

Or they want their money back before an expensive criminal case eats it all up.

From that angle I don't think MC2 is going to look that different.

It’ll feel like Christmas for everyone if WWW finally gets some love and the new future land turns out to be for WWW.

The two riders involved in the recent incidents that led to the ride’s closure reportedly had no known pre-existing conditions. Both suffered serious brain injuries involving brain bleeds. One has survived but remains on medication, while the other is still in a coma.

I agree. The GC is the best place in the world to have a theme park operating into the night. Hopefully they keep WWW open too. It's rude not to have all that GC theme parks open late in summer.

Within the CEH FY26 results presentation, it highlights an "expanded year round events calendar", and within that section was this. Could this be the first clue, DW is set to return to longer Christmas holiday trading hours or ?????????????????????????????????

@Theme Park Girl I've never read your blog, so I wouldn't know how many people have called you out over using AI. All I was saying is that Chat thinks you could be using AI, so it's not exactly far fetched to think other people might come to the same conclusion. There are probably plenty of people who either don't care if you use AI or are simply too polite to say anything. For the record, I'm not claiming you use AI and I wouldn't care if you did. I use it all the time for work. What I wouldn't do is present something generated by AI to a client as my own work, like DW did yesterday. I also asked Chat, "is she having a go at me?" Yes, I’d read that as a dig at you, although she is wrapping it in a fairly polite, indirect response. So, yes, she's having a go at you, but indirectly rather than outright attacking you. She's also trying to position herself as the reasonable one and your comment as the isolated, petty accusation. So much for "Take care all. Be nice, be kind" 🤣Chat you're so funny🤣