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Winter 2022/23

I'll kick things off in our new winter thread with this new promotion image featuring Woody Bear with a pirate outfit:

This is the first time this style Woody has been seen publicly - and you may remember than when the farmyard area opened, we gained a "farmer" Woody. So could we see a nicely completed Pirate area for 2023?

188 comments

188 Comments

coolskin

Feb 28

2023 leaflet . Doesn't say what the new look things are for new visitors or even Joe public !

Matt

Feb 28

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Great find, thanks for sharing. The "PIP" adverts are up in Great Yarmouth now too.

coolskin

Feb 28

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I always like the pips. Yet again doesn't say what has a new look...

Martyn

Feb 15

I received a generic email from PWH the other day, it didn't mention anything new, although it did say again about "other exciting changes around the park" - something they've also spoke about on Facebook. I'm intrigued to find out what this will involve.

I'm also surprised that if the circus is confirmed as returning this year, then why haven't they spoke about it? Maybe if its just returning for summer again then they won't talk about it so early in the year in case it puts people off visiting until summer...

coolskin

Feb 15

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Will just be more paint splashed around and some bins moved around. Your absolutely right about the circus 🎪

coolskin

Feb 13

Somewhat misleading as they are not actually new...just rethemed. That advert suggests 2 new attractions

james-watkins

Feb 12

Sorry if this has been touched on elsewhere, but there's a newish Looping Group video which reveals all their park's yearly visitor figures. In terms of the amusement parks, Pleasurewood Hills is second last with 180,000, only in front of Cobac Parc which gets 100,000. Drayton Manor gets 920,000, so huge jump and unfortauntely explains the under-investment in the hills. Quite an interesting watch; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L_wYWXixH8

coolskin

Feb 13

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Then why won't they invest ?

coolskin

Feb 13

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They are in my old hand book somewhere

Josh

Feb 15

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An article I found refers to 600,000 annual attendance in the late 80s.

Cameron

Feb 11

Do we know if any of the other looping parks will be receiving new rides this year or is it all focused on DM?

Martyn

Feb 11

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Not heard of much at their parks for this year at all tbh.

Hellendoorn will open their new for 2022 coaster this year.

Fort Fun is getting two new rides: a dinghy slide and a pony ride

Not heard of anything for the likes of Mer de Sable, West Midland Safari Park, Isla Magica or Bagatelle. Although Bagatelle did upload a photo recently of some mud with the caption "what's going on here"...

Cameron

Feb 11

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Seems like it’s been dragging on a bit that coaster over at Hellendoorn I thought that would have opened last seaso. Bagatelle seems to have been forgotten about in recent years there was quite a bit happening before they brought DM. Feels like they haven’t put anything new into west midland safari park

Josh

Feb 10

Love this artwork! Although a noticeably absent coaster. There are a few missing rides though.

Josh

Feb 10

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Yeah I am. Canonball is a great ride to show on something like this Though.

coolskin

Feb 10

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We've no idea if rattlesnake or pirate ship will be open for Easter as yet.

Eddie

Feb 11

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I find it interesting how the WFF boat is located right in the middle. Perhaps they are trying to capitalise on operating such a rare ride especially with GYPB closing their flume.

coolskin

Feb 10

Another fresh wave of the same comments I see..

Josh

Feb 10

well it was no surprise but I must admit the artwork looks great!

Martyn

Feb 10

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Could just be a stock image from another park. I'd be very surprised of they got new horses. They've probably just been painted so they look different/new.

Josh

Feb 10

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Yeah, I think so. I wouldn’t have put them up for needing to be replaced. The Safari cars I hope are new as they definitely need replacing,

Bubbles

Feb 10

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Yeah long over due. That name is awful.

Martyn

Feb 09

I'm genuinely looking forward to seeing the park this year. So far we know of 4 areas of the park that have been spruced up for this year; 2 rethemed rides, Moby Dick and the parrot show.

Along with the parrot show, I would now expect Woody's Emporium to also have a new look and to feature the new logo we saw the other year. This will be a huge improvement for the "first impression" when entering the park, as both buildings looked poor recently, with faded paint and old signs.

These 4 changes, plus recent updates to; Main St, Funky Flyers, both trains, pirate food kiosks, Log Flume, park entrance and the farm yard area - the park is going to be hardly recognisable to someone who hasn't been for a few years.

coolskin

Feb 10

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Perhaps..yet this is all cosmetic work that should be going on in the background anyway....it will enhance the day experience yet its not what people want and its not investment that will return profit.

Martyn

Feb 10

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You say its not what people want, but a lot of people say that park is very run down and full of old - so surely sprucing up the run down rides helps to fix that?

coolskin

Feb 10

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Maybe a little mate yet they need to invest in fixing the ops on the little rides we have too. Aswell as getting new ones in. Yes the paint will help it look brighter yet sadly the empty plots and amount of SBNO we have will offset this.

Martyn

Feb 09

Here is what Cameron is referring to:

coolskin

Feb 11

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Yes yet they will have invested by now if they wanted too. They won't listen to a solo emailer. All they need to do is look at the comments on social media from the last few years and anytime a new post is done. They know. They don't care.

Cameron

Feb 11

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Hopefully GYPB will be getting a big new coaster to replace the log flume, then hopefully Wipeout will no longer be the regions largest coaster and will push the group to invest

Martyn

Feb 11

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If you remember a few years ago there were plans to demolish the log flume and replace it with an arcade, so I wouldn't be surprised if that happened.

In an ideal world, this would be a great opportunity for them to expand the border of the park around that site and stick a few rides in there, or one major coaster.

Cameron

Feb 09

The big top circus will be returning in the summer along with a number of special events taking place over the year.

coolskin

Feb 09

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Shame the existing castle and dive show can't be used instead of being sbno.

Matt

Feb 09

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Is this official, or have you heard s rumour somewhere?

Cameron

Feb 09

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Park website sorry

Martyn

Feb 08

Very nice looking repaint of the parrot show building!

Cameron

Feb 08

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Always thought it would be nice to change it into an restaurant, move the parrots into the castle

Martyn

Feb 09

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I've kind of had a similar idea, ground floor would be seating for a restaurant, and upstairs would have like a balcony that goes around the inside perimeter, with the walls full of old pictures/memories of the park!

Cameron

Feb 09

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We need something like that, since they put the soft indoor play into the old restaurant it hasn’t felt the same for me

Martyn

Feb 07

Drayton Manor have introduced a range of new season passes, and the top tier pass includes entry into West Midland Safari Park!

Purely because of the distance between the parks I don't necessarily expect them to ever include PWH, but it would be nice to maybe offer like a 50% discount on PWH tickets, if only to help spread the word about the parks existence in that neck of the woods.