I doubt they will recycle any scenes. Even when The London Dungeons moved, the majority of set pieces were new and not brought across from the old site.

With regards to The Haunting, I would put money down that this is a mirror maze. They are used in Dungeons to control guest flow as the exit is a mirror door which gives the illusion that it is a dead end until they are ready. With regards to the other boards around Alton, then yes, these could be the characters being used, but don't expect everything to be revealed in the first week. We could see other scenes added, and who is to say that the 'generic' characters can't tie in their scripts to Alton?

I am expecting the ride system in Charlie to be used as part of The Alton Towers Dungeons to be honest. It would be the second boat ride system in The Dungeons portfolio, but different enough to keep The London Dungeons, the original, unique!

I am a big fan of The Dungeons brand and I am fully behind this move! It is an excellent decision by Alton. It is also a step in the right direction to make this an all year round resort! I thing the success of House of Monsters has contributed to this move too!

As I said long before this announcement, I can see Ghost Train eventually turning into a Dungeons too!

Justin wrote:

With regards to The Haunting, I would put money down that this is a mirror maze. They are used in Dungeons to control guest flow as the exit is a mirror door which gives the illusion that it is a dead end until they are ready.

Well this explains a lot. I was in group that did a full loop of the mirror maze in London, then staff had to come get us. I assumed it was because we messed up, sounds like they just weren't ready for us.

Justin wrote:

I am expecting the ride system in Charlie to be used as part of The Alton Towers Dungeons to be honest. It would be the second boat ride system in The Dungeons portfolio, but different enough to keep The London Dungeons, the original, unique!

My real hope is that we get a ride that can be nicknamed Pirates of the Alton Towers Dungeons. Not having been in that building since it was Toyland Tours in 1994, I have no idea what space they have available. Would the entire attraction have to be just the boat ride if they didn't extend the building? Or is there already space for a Warwick Castle sized attraction?

Part of me wonders whether the Dungeons really were what Alton was referring to, when getting feedback on interest for a year-round paid-for scare attraction. Surely the project must have been sufficiently developed that any information gained couldn't be used to adjust whether it was designed as a paid-for attraction or an inclusive one. I wonder if something like House of Monsters might be used to add additional capacity during peak times, like how Saw: Alive and Living Nightmare have both been used as a simple cost-effective way of adding temporary attraction capacity at Thorpe.

They won't put a very successful brand in then to close it down a couple of seasons later. It will be here to stay and while it may only be seasonal, I do think they are looking at the parks long term future, possibly opening up the resort and selected attractions during closed season. This is already happening with Christmas, Pirates and Princess Weekends, so they are operating half of the closed season already, in some form!

With regards to Cloud Cuckoo Land, hopefully we will see a retheme very, very soon. I doubt it will be 2019 now though, so I'm looking towards 2020.

Wouldn't it also normally imply a literally separate attraction too?

Except for those two-person sling shot things, I'm struggling to think of a full-cost ticketed entry park that has an attraction with an additional cost inside it.

I still stand by the Warwick Castle Dungeons model.

Day guests will be charged
MAP = Upcharge
PMAP & VIP = Free

My thinking into why Merlin are adding a Dungeons comes down to them trying to make Alton an all year round resort.

I can see them opening The Dungeons during Christmas, Feb half terms and beyond, along with Sealife and CBeebies Land. It offers another attraction which can be ran independently from the rest of the resort's offerings.