2023 Season: 40 Year Anniversary!

So the park have confirmed that Marble Madness will be having a much needed make over ahead of next season as i predicted, interesting that they just announced it without the usual clues could this be a sign of something much bigger on the way

What are we hoping for next season? New flat rides? Maybe a new coaster? Will the go karts make a return now that the park have a company again operating the games and arcades, I'm sure management once said that they never ran the go karts?

Will the plot op wipeout finally get filled?

Will the circus return for a 3rd season with the remaining of high dive show removed?

Both the horses on the carrousel and wave swinger look tired

What will they do with the old hyper drive plot will the static train be removed?

And if nothing new comes in would eaither Marble or Wipeout get some much needed theaming

I think the park has a busy winter with plenty of work to do

Turned out to be a lackluster year considering it was their 40th. But a few possitives such as the poney ride looks like a proper attraction now and a few other bits and bobs. Always exciting to find out what's in store for the new year, i can't imagain them not adding a new ride as it's been awhile and so many have been removed and not replaced. I wonder if getting Rattlesnake back blew their budget for a while?

Well that's a wrap! The 2023 season has came to an end, not the best experience today but the weather has an effect on that and just the general end of season feeling, fireworks were fantastic once again beleve there where more this year then the previous years. Here's to hoping for something new next season fingers crossed!

Well the season comes to an end tomorrow, as always I'll be on park for the end of season fireworks display, been a very quiet year but there has been plenty of positives. Hopefully it's a busy winter and plenty for us to talk about never say never let's hope the looping group show that they are still invested in the park long term. On another note I thought we were expecting the parks anniversary celebrations throughout September? What happened to them??

I just found a Woody bear puppet on ebay. I don't ever remember seeing theses.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175919727128?hash=item28f5a20218:g:j4oAAOSwshFlBvM8&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAA8AGdD1riUsPTaDflmPQY41MGBl18NO8fZ%2BW5JssZJU02Q2bDv1S3olmFFi6bLhB6V4y9LW8jgfYugODCYDR7sspOce9cS1JlKDpoHWf2aL8bq1pT4FpO0pfvVYK%2FBEhuOAVe4B7tQP3IyJO%2FYHIUZgIDGWgrZl2GpATO%2BYejTsOjbUlzqQFsaaSqshQMROTWjcdFTNwM6DFTddu%2FME1LEAulF9Qik7bf5%2B0U9DF5QPdHw4q0HiKGSvHxusZrfzzs9qP%2F%2FvuuQ279ZwAZpwinyy7l72LtPmZt5IN%2FW8GNuQnLp8Y96fgbBEW79fMkPrYJBQ%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4Cs6eHZYg

Brace yourself for something new for chills 2023....

As ever the usual comments starting to appear attached to their post

Updated now with details

A very interesting visit to PWH today which helped give me an insight into how the park is doing these days.

We'll start with the positives. The sun shone all day and the park was completely rammed, it's not often you see large queues forming at the park so in that regard I feel the park is successful at the moment.

It was a pleasant surprise to see the Cannonball sign was back up as well as speakers throughout the queue playing a pleasant sea shanty. However, queues never dipped below 40 minutes today and the ride obviously is in desperate need of a paint job. (You could see plenty of blue showing through parts of the queue).

It was also a pleasant shock to meet Theme Park Worldwide today and we discussed the matter of EggSpress running only one lap per cycle. After speaking to various staff members we came to the conclusion that it was due to the ride ageing badly and to ensure the longevity of the ride this was for the best. Other staff said it was for health and safety so it is hard to know for sure the reason.

I cannot justify enough my disappointment at PWHs maintenance of their newly refurbished rides. The Safari building was full of cobwebs and was not well maintained. The Eggspress looked shoddy with paint peeling and the WFF had faded signs already. It's not good enough to be honest.

Marble madness was only running three carts with a (new?) blue train! Brakes as rough as ever.

The Giddy Up attraction is excellent and as long as it is maintained then will stay as a very good ride for the park. The themeing was spot on.

Overall, I had an excellent day at PWH, all the rides were open and the sun was shining. However, I feel that now PWH have really done up enough attractions to justify the instillation of new ones, the park is in desperate need of something new and exciting.

I honestly don't believe we've ever seen such attention to detail on an attraction at PWH before.....

I was on park today for my second visit of the season, arrived around 9:50 they allowed us through the park entrance but held us all at the front of the park until 10, it felt pretty pointless as it meant there where a lot of people waiting to be allowed to leave that area.

Nice to see that the street games have returned under a new management will be a boost for the park come the end of the season for next years budget. Great to see that the new fence has been completed around the lake and the new signs that Martyn had pointed out.

Both Jolly Roger and Cannaball were out of action until around 2 they both opened at the same time, annoyed to see that it meant that 3 members of staff where just waiting outside the attractions felt like wasted wages. Marble had a lot of down time today and the eggspress was only going around once even though at times there was hardly a que.

Glad to see that Ricky has done a great job since he's been manager must be around 4 years now he's got rid off hyper drive fireball and the tide traveller all rides that needed to go. I really hope he gets the backing now from the looping group for 3 new replacements as the park really needed it today especially whilst JR and CE were closed the ques for all rides where quite busy.

Since when did smoky Joes change its menu? £3 for chips for what where served in like an Mac Donald's style no Cheesy chips so I was not happy lol. £4.75 for an refillable plastic cup when asking for an Dr Pepper I was served this option not really paying attention to the price, for an refill I think it was around £2.75 it seemed like everyone was being almost pushed to buy one considering I was assuming I would be given a bottle.

Nice to see the park busy and another nice day will be back on park next for the fireworks as usual.

Hyper Drive is no more!

It's nice to see that on the 18th and 19th of this month, the park is sold out!

I know it is going to be down to all the school trips, but I still don't recall this happening in recent memory.

Let's just hope on these days that they can provide a decent level of service so everyone leaves having had a good day!

My money would be on a return of Ronnie and Clarence. Makes sense with it being the 40 year anniversary, and with Woody getting a new look.

The park have announced on Social media that they have teamed up with a company for the return of street games, this is what the park has needed to return considering how dead it’s been in the centre of Main Street

Woodybear has a new look for Halloween this year as read from the new park website

In an unlikely turn of events, I find myself agreeing with Coolskin 😆

They need to stop with these teaser posts as the end result is always the same, a barrage of comments regarding the lack of investment.

What they did with the landscaping post the other day was the perfect way to go about it - just show what's been done to make the park a little better.

Creating the suspense of "what could it be" keeps leading to mass disappointment as there's never a new ride at the end of it all. Using the #news really made me think something new was coming for summer/or a major change of direction for the park.

Same goes for the two small retheme's for this year. They're both nicely done and they do improve the park a little, but they should have just done a post showing what they had done once it was complete. I know its good for them to have something to post about, and you'd think it gets people talking about the park, but the end result is always tons of negative comments that don't look great to any potential new visitors if they're debating whether to visit or not.

Well looks like Woodys getting a glow up, not any change, another case of PWH marketing something so small as a change worth mentioning. On the other hand he looks better but honestly I was expecting something more than that

So as expected nothing exciting. Whilst it does create a buzz and people talking these posts they do continue to do them no favours...

The same comments time and time again across forums and unofficial groups.

Still at least loopings found a few quid behind the company couch to have a new face made up.

Anyone else struggling to find recent comments on here? I can only read them on email I can’t seem to find them on here when logging in??

So with just over 5 hours to go until the big reveal, let's have your 1 guess as to what you think is going on!

For me I reckon Woody is getting a new costume.