Recent content by Nicky Borrill

I prefer Taron... Still a fantastic coaster though. :)

I present, the brand new Merlin Mascot... 🤣 Seriously though, great post, well written and I think may sum up the situation with Merlin pretty well. What you've described is what I believe they call 'a race to the bottom.' And I'm no expert, but I believe historically, in the long run, that...

I think you're spot on, compared to the way things have risen since 2019, energy 110%, minimum wage 69.45% (for 18-20) amongst other things, their prices have hardly risen at all. And yet, they're making cuts across the board, letting entertainment teams go, selling off sections of their...

This is such an important thing to point out. And part of the problem. But I don't think that it is just down to the parks, public expectations on pricing is skewed now. All I'm seeing in the comment sections, of these articles and videos on UK theme parks, is people saying they're too...

I'd be well up for that. I'm ashamed to say there's still parks in the UK I've never visited, M&D's being one of them. But other notable ones too... And even more that I haven't been to for 10 or 15+ years :/ (I'm part of the problem, that changes this year!)

So, we've been discussing the challenges faced by small UK parks this year for months on here. Sadly, we've already lost 3 in the last 5 months... I'd go further though, I don't think the challenges are unique to small parks, some big parks are going to struggle too, and they'll always be...

On my list this year, as we heed Andy Hine's call to support small UK parks this year. Be good to be reunited with the old girl once again. :)

Brown supports are definitely a suspended family coaster of some sort.

Please tell me those rgb parts are just a test sequence, looks tacky as hell… Like a 2005 gaming keyboard 🙈😂

Thanks :) So it has it's own issues, probably needs to be tweaked a little bit, but I guess that can happen with time. I don't know why they can't introduce q-bot to the other parks, to cut the fraud with paper time-outs. With a digital system like that, similar to Dar's suggestion, I wonder...

No I don't think you were stand-offish, don't worry. 👍 I just wanted to make it clear that I meant no offence to anybody that needs it, and that I think it's absolutely a vital service. It's NOT a free fast track, but sadly, that's the way those abusing it see it. :( Like Will I've no idea what...

I have first hand experience from friends and acquaintances (proud of what they do) detailing exactly how the systems are abused. I've written detailed explanations on here before, so I'm not going to go into it again. Partly because it's boring, partly because it seems to offend some people...

To be fair to Spicy, I think they meant the NLW and NI changes Aspro quoted themselves. But you're right, on both counts. Not the only factor, (especially with Oakwood) and changes to NLW and NI were needed, to begin to undo the mess of previous governments and global crises. :/ (I don't agree...

Do we know if they've even tried to sell it / find a new operator? Unless there's 'behind closed doors' plans for a totally different kind of development, it would seem odd for them not to try and recoup something from their investment, and it's much easier to sell an operating business than a...

That's two down, more to go sadly :( At least Aspro had the balls to directly call out Energy, Inflation, NLW and NI changes. Not that it will change anything now, when we're about to move towards a war time economy.