The outside doesn't give me a great first impression as it is. Given all previous attractions here have had fairly substantial external theming, it's currently quite disappointing. But, they still have a week and a half to go.

Interestingly, there are still tickets available for all time slots on opening day (note 11am-12pm has never been available for opening day). Will be intriguing to see just what level of interest this receives, and whether people will just get tickets on the day rather than pre-booking.

Well done everyone for getting it ready for immediately after the embargo lifted.

It looks like they're working very close to the deadline. Having only had 6 months to work on the project, in comparison to a normal 18 months, I fear is going to show. Not having fully themed rooms, but rather a 3-wall set, I hope won't detract from everything when it's up and running. More positively, they do seem to have put a lot of effort into ensuring the acting will be extremely high quality.

We now know the capacity of the attraction, and it turns out it's slightly worse than my calculation a few pages back. There will be 8 groups an hour, for 6 hours a day, with 27 people per group. Grand total: 216 people an hour; and 1,296 people per day. So about 10% of guests in any given day will be able to experience the dungeon. I struggle to see how this works within a theme park.

Slightly negative post, but it looks like the attraction will be entertaining for those who get to experience it.

Just finished watching it. Gives a great insight into the passion and hardwork that the team has been through to get the attraction delivered (well almost delivered at this point in time).

Would love to know how this thing came to be, if it only got executive sign off 6 months ago! A fairly huge task to ask of the development team, even if they can draw on a lot of experience from within Merlin.

lewis97 wrote:

Would fit with the rumoured David Walliams attraction/area not working out, by which point the building may have already been gutted and so an opportunity to add the Dungeon was spotted...?

That is quite possible. A significant change in direction if it is the case.

DerpyQuark wrote:

I kind of like this Dungeon. It looks like MMM put a lot of effort into theming this attraction in the space of 6 months.
However, I am slightly disappointed they didn't make it into a new Toyland Tours, or something that fitted into the CCL area.

From the Meet the Makers video, it certainly shows a lot of passion went into the project. Perhaps it is a bit of a shame that this passion wasn't used to make a lighter and more CCL relevant attraction, with a longer development time.