Unfortunately it is Merlin that won't give the parks the correct budgets. Perhaps this is to change if Wicker Man is seen as a success for Alton Towers Resort and the wider Merlin group.

That new logo works quite nicely in my opinion!

Bob? Wicker Man related?

Its better than nothing

I didn't think that picture was real for a minute...

Justin wrote:

That is the trouble with collecting badges. I don't take my lanyard now, due to the fear of losing one!

I tend to put mine in my bag prior to riding.

The vault needs some lighting and sound work too.

With Galactica the reason I found for the slow moving queue was indeed the demand for it. The queue was going up past the VR no VR merge (which was very close to the station) so once we got to the merge point and noticed that non VR was walk on we were left a little disappointed due to this.

Seems to be something less long term which is a problem with lift 2 TVs as they were on yesterday.

When I went yesterday a train or two were roaring (like in 2013) and the others were quieter. Does anyone know if the trains have different wheel compounds for a particular reason?

Walliam's books seem to cover a wide audience of readers and would be the bridging gap between CBeebies Land and some of the other areas of the park! This could be very interesting stuff!

You might have gotten lucky, or I unlucky. Think I queued from about the same pace, took 50 minutes. We were moving fairly steadily at the start, but had slowed greatly by the time we reached the shop. We joined 20 minutes before ride close and they seemed to want to get it moving as fast as possib...

Indeed all the TVs were back on, some had dead pixels etc, the inncoculator didn’t operate yesterday, and I did see the strobe in the projection room. These are steps in the right direction, but I was just saying that the ride is still in a very tired state.

I am sorry to tell you guys but The Smiler unfortunately still looks like it is in a horrible state, although giving a smooth back row ride! I was surprised to see it operating on 4 trains today today and whether it helped to speed the queue up or not I am not sure as I always used the single rider ...

Aha I was there today. Stay tuned for a review soon but operations were bad on opening with it breaking down before 10:00 and again at around 10:50ish. The flames were working at the start of the day however soon stopped and later in the day it was only out of one shoulder. Dispatches were fast too!...

Does Wickerman offer one shot Fastracks? It hasn't been advertised as doing so but neither were DBGT's...

There was talk of something being in the works for 2019.

My friend went to Thorpe in the holidays. He said it was fairly quiet and queue 15 minutes for TWDTR and he said it was 'sick', which shows that some of the target market GP like it.

Its a shame because a lot of people theses days go to places through packages.

Disneyland Paris have done it with 'Disney Illuminations: Presented by Pandora'. Which I think is a good example about what you said about finding relevant brands to sponsor things with.