UK
Coverage from our home turf — planning applications read so you don’t have to.
Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Chessington, Paultons, Drayton Manor and the rest. British parks operate under some of the tightest planning constraints in the industry — which is precisely what makes them interesting. When a UK park wants to build something tall, the story starts years earlier in a council portal, and we read those documents for fun.
Coverage
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Chessington's Escape the Nether Looks Like an Intamin Multi Dimension Coaster — Here's What That Means
Chessington's Minecraft coaster Escape the Nether is listed as an Intamin Multi Dimension Coaster. Here is what that ride system does, and what is still unconfirmed.
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Paultons Park's Serpent's Curse: a Mack Water Coaster Due in 2027, and Why It Is Not a Log Flume
Paultons Park's Serpent's Curse is a custom Mack Rides water coaster due in 2027. What the figures say, what is unconfirmed, and what a water coaster actually is.
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Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Big Dipper Is Still Closed, Nine Weeks After a Timber Track Failure
Blackpool Pleasure Beach's 1923 Big Dipper remains shut nine weeks after a track failure — the engineering reason fixing a Grade II-listed wooden coaster properly takes months, not days.
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Intamin Acquires Simworx, the British Firm Behind Thorpe Park's Ghost Train, Out of Administration
Intamin's owner has bought Simworx, the UK motion-simulator specialist behind Thorpe Park's Derren Brown's Ghost Train, in a pre-pack deal after administration — its second British dark-ride buy in two years.
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Legoland Windsor Files Plans for a Mack Rides Spinning Coaster on the Viking River Splash Site
Planning documents show Legoland Windsor pursuing a Mack Rides Spinning Coaster, codenamed Project Dojo, on the old Viking River Splash plot — a third build of the ride that debuted in Korea.
