themagician

Other than some small kids rides in Kids WB and the Junior Driving School in 2013, the last non-DC attraction was Scooby which opened 20 years. Great to see new attractions will finally be themed to something else. I’m already thinking about how they could do this. I’d love to see the original Lethal Weapon entrance reopen. That alley becomes the yellow brick road and leads into Main Street and it create a fully immersive area with the attractions. I’d be happy to see them close the access from Superman to achieve this. That keeps the DC area seperate from this and creates an exciting journey into this new land.

This doesn’t surprise me at all, with September only 6 weeks away and there still no testing underway, I’m expecting it to be opening this Summer and at this point, I’d rather they just finish the whole thing off and do an offical opening at once rather than separate openings for Leviathan and Trident

There are also the sheds that were built for the Fright Night mazes, and you included Scooby in that footprint too. So that coaster definitely wouldn’t fit

Has anyone seen if the track removal has begun? Everything I’ve heard so far just seems to be rumours (unless I missed something)

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It would make sense for it not to reopen because there’s nothing at that station anymore

I believe the Billabong station is no more too and it’s just direct to the wildlife station and back to central

An email was sent to pass holders confirming it has reopened

@Slick you’ll be pleased to know the little train at central station is back

It’s also pretty ugly. And you have too much faith in humanity if you think people can all work together to group themselves into queues. I worked in retail for way to long and even the simplest tasks became science experiments for some.

It’s still to early for that as they are still constructing the rides, but once testing begins we will hopefully see planting go in. I don’t mind if there isn’t much theming, as long as if there is a lot of planting of all scales

Trident update

Fountain/pool/garden beds have been built either side of the entrance to the ride

Not sure if Rivals was running two trains yesterday, but it had 3-4 minute dispatch times

Can confirm they are removing the letters. On my visit today, the R was gone

From what I can see, nothing has happened. There is some construction fencing alongside the lift hill, but not sure how long that’s been there The DC Rivals track repaint has also finished for this round of maintenance. They’ve only painted the track beyond the non-inverted loop that’s along the main road

I was thinking the same, and haven’t seen or heard anything. I was probably going to go check it out this week.

Based off the concept art, they show a gondola on the same side as the lettering, so I’d say it faces west towards the highway

But the best part of drop towers, is the view and realisation of how high you actually are. If you enclose it, that takes it away and for an old ride like the GD, probably not worth the investment. They put a tunnel around TOT and that made it worse. Enclosed drop towers, in my opinion, only work if they are like Disney’s TOT. Which is about the story and the ups and down drops.

If I remember correctly, I believe the in station boxes were installed when the ride originally opened, but we’re only used for people with prescriptions glasses. I remember riding with someone who had sunglasses in their pocket they forgot about when entering the queue, remembered it when in the queue and they tried to put them in these boxes and staff refused and told them they were only for prescription glasses. Was very strange, but it wasn’t long after they could be used by anyone