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OPINIONIs Chessington’s Halloween Event Underrated?
Scarefest and Fright Nights often steal the spotlight..but what about Chessington’s event?
GAME OVER – THEME PARK DAILY’S BIGGEST FAN BREAKS GAME!
Here at Theme Park Daily, we love seeing our community getting involved with the website, but ‘Back On Track’ has taken things to a whole new level!
ExclusiveEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: DEAN RIDES
2,300 Miles, 108 Roller Coasters and 1 World Record! Dean Rides speaks to Theme Park Daily about one of the craziest challenges in UK roller coaster history!
SillyWill Ride Comparisons Bring Back ‘What Goes Through My Mind’ This Closed Season?
With the UK theme park season winding down, could Ben bring back one of his most-loved TikTok series?
ParksScary Queues this Weekend? Here’s Our Plan to Beat Them
With Halloween hype and scare mazes reaching fever pitch, queue times are getting scary
DIGITAL DAN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW!
One of the theme park community's biggest creators has a HUGE week coming up. Theme Park Daily brings you this exclusive interview with Digital Dan just as the madness is about to commence…
VIDEOVIDEO OF THE WEEK
It’s Sunday, you know what that means…
OMG! The world’s first Flying car is here
No, it is not AI slop - this week Telsa demonstrated their new flying roadster!
CREATORCONTENT CREATOR OF THE WEEK, THEME PARK KATE
From TikTok hobby to a UK Theme Park Awards nomination, we spoke to Kate after a very busy 2026.
CreatorsTHE ULTIMATE COASTER FOOTBALL TEAM!
TikTok creator DysonnRides dropped an incredible video last week, sharing his ultimate football starting eleven made up entirely of UK roller coasters.
COMPETITIONSPOOKY SEASON PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
It’s officially the season for scare mazes, night rides and even pumpkins themed to every alton towers thrill coaster…
UpdateTheme Park Daily’s Ai Promise
With AI imagery becoming a hot theme park topic TPD makes a promise our readers.
GUESTTheme Park Dictionaries and Slang Words!-GUEST STORY
Today we’re joined by Evie (‘just a girl in a big world’ on Tiktok) who has kindly offered to write a guest story on theme park terms and slang for thoosies new to the community!
VIDEOVIDEO OF THE WEEK
Finally It’s here! Digital Dan’s Rita 100 Video.
VOTE NOWTHIS WEEKS POLL: COASTER CONFECTIONARY COMBOS!
Liked Flipzeria? You’ll love this reader poll! Hated Flipzeria? You’ll probably still love it.
New Game!CHECK OUT OUR LATEST GAME: COIN COASTER
Play Theme Park Daily’s coaster POV arcade game!
INTERVIEWCONTENT CREATOR OF THE WEEK:CJ AND POPS
It’s Thursday so that means it’s time to shout out another amazing content creator! This week we caught up with CJ and Pops,the father and son duo whose Tiktok content is going big after just 3 months of posting.
RumourUniversal UK: Exciting Harry Potter Clue!
Speculation about Hogwarts relocating to Bedford has been running rampant recently after an interesting new clue was discovered…
VOTE!HAVE YOUR SAY: THE NEW TPD COASTER VOTE IS HERE!
The Theme Park Daily interactive coaster chart is the new way for you to have your say on where rides belong in the UK rankings.
EVENTSLKSTN UNLOCKED RETURNS TO THORPE PARK FOR ITS FIFTH YEAR
Jack Silkstone is bringing SLKSTN Unlocked back to Thorpe Park on 5th November once again, giving the theme park community an evening packed with scares, immersive theming and plenty of opportunities to completely lose track of how many times you’ve ridden Hyperia.
VIDEOVIDEO OF THE WEEK
Fright nights has officially begun! An official Thorpe Park press event took place earlier this week and Jack Silkstone filmed inside the iconic ‘Survival games’ scare maze!
NEW!THEME PARK DAILY MERCH IS NOW AVAILABLE!
We’ve had loads of requests for TPD merch… and it’s finally here!
ExclusiveCONTENT CREATOR OF THE WEEK: HOLLIE LOUISE
Theme parks, fashion and a serious amount of creativity come together in the work of Hollie Louise, a fashion design student and self-confessed Thoosie whose ride-inspired creations we absolutely love at Theme Park Daily! TikTok: @Hollie_louise_
EventCOMPLETE HALLOWEEN THEME PARK GUIDE 2026!
The nights are getting darker, the monsters are coming out and the UK theme parks are getting ready to scare the living daylights out of us!
EventStealth After Dark: Thorpe Park’s Special 20th Anniversary ERT
Theme Park Daily joins a night of celebration for the UK thoosie community.
INTERVIEWBACON NO 1 FAN INTERVIEW
That's right ! Everyone's favourite theme park pet Bacon the cockatoo has a clear number one fan! With over 1K followers on tiktok, they post about the paultons park bird nearly every day! So we decided to ask them a few questions..
GUEST WRITERTHE FULL RUNDOWN OF NEW ALTON TOWERS SCAREMAZE ‘THE FINAL EXHIBIT’-GUEST STORY BY TOWERS TALK
Avoid this if you don’t want spoilers! We have towers__talk on Tiktok here who went to the first night of scarefest to tell us all about long awaited scare maze ‘The final exhibit’.
BREAKING🚨 BREAKING: MASSIVE MINECRAFT WORLD UPDATE CONFIRMED!
Two huge Minecraft World updates were accounted today giving us the biggest reveal yet for Chessington’s new area for 2027. Theme Park Daily brings you the news as it breaks.
WATCH NOWVIDEO OF THE WEEK
We’re bringing VOTW a day earlier for an exciting surprise tomorrow 👀.. Check out Ride Comparisons vlog at Plopsaland Belgium!
NEWSWORLDS BIGGEST THEME PARK SHOW COMES TO LONDON
The theme park and attractions industry has descended on London this week, with IAAPA Expo Europe 2026 taking over ExCeL London from 22–24 September.
EXCLUSIVE: WHY THORPE PARK’S ZODIAC HAS BEEN CLOSED AND WHY IT’S EXPECTED BACK IN 2027 - GUEST STORY BY CJ & POPS
Zodiac has been noticeably absent throughout Thorpe Park’s 2026 season, leaving many people wondering whether we had seen the last of one of the park’s long-standing flat rides.
CONTENTCONTENT CREATOR OF THE WEEK
Surprise, surprise… TPD has our Content Creator of the Week! Who could it possibly be?!
newsMINECRAFT COASTER TRACK FINALLY GOES VERTICAL
Chessington World of Adventures has finally begun installing the outdoor track for its highly anticipated Minecraft coaster, with sections of red track now rising above the construction site.
GET THE APPHOW TO GET THE THEME PARK DAILY APP
Did you know you can put Theme Park Daily on your phone like an app? Here's exactly how to do it.
CompetitionPHOTO COMPETITION RESULTS
Check out the winners of the Theme Park Daily Photo Competition!
VIDEOVIDEO OF THE WEEK
Every Sunday Theme Park Daily brings you our favourite video of the week. CHECK IT OUT NOW!!
Vote NowVOTE: PICK YOUR THEME PARK TATTOO!
It's time to vote in another TPD Poll! This week- Theme Park tattoos.
UpdateRITA 100 UPDATE
Digital Dan scores a century!
Merlin Announces Major Ride Access Pass Overhaul
Merlin Entertainments is set to overhaul its Ride Access Pass (RAP) system across its UK theme parks, with a new virtual queuing system beginning its rollout at Alton Towers towards the end of 2026.
CONTENT CREATOR OF THE WEEK
It’s Thursday, so you know what that means. How could it be anyone else other than recent UK Theme Park Award winner for Content Creator of the Year… Coastertog!
BreakingMerlin Announces Major Ride Access Pass Overhaul
Merlin Entertainments is set to overhaul its Ride Access Pass (RAP) system across its UK theme parks, with a new virtual queuing system beginning its rollout at Alton Towers towards the end of 2026.
WHAT I WOULD DO WITH AN UNLIMITED BUDGET AT ALTON TOWERS
We've all daydreamed about all the changes we'd make to our local parks. And don't get me wrong, Alton Towers is an amazing park... but everyone wants something different — so here's what my ideal Alton Towers would look like!
20 Years of Stealth: The Ultimate Night Ride
Thorpe Park has just released details of its latest Stealth after-dark event.
MINECRAFT WORLD: WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON AT CHESSINGTON?
Chessington's £50 million Minecraft project is starting to take shape, but there are still plenty of questions around exactly what we're getting.
UK ENTHUSIAST BUILDING HIS OWN SCAREMAZE?!
With spooky season just round the corner, the UK theme park community is getting excited for the many Halloween events! But one enthusiast is bringing the scares locally!
THANK YOU FROM THEME PARK DAILY!
Theme Park Daily has been live for a little over a week now, and we wanted to take the time to thank all our readers.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Every Sunday, Theme Park Daily will drop the favourite video the team watched that week. CHECK IT OUT NOW!
WHAT I HOPE FOR UNIVERSAL UK
The UK is getting a Universal theme park in Bedford in 2031. Here's what one thoosie is hoping to see when the gates finally open.
NEW THEME PARK DAILY GAME!
Forget GTA VI, our new game DROP TOWER MADNESS has just, well... dropped. Go get yourself on the High Score Leaderboard.
THE UK THEME PARK AWARDS — HERE'S WHAT YOU (MAYBE) MISSED
Yesterday the most major awards a UK theme park or content creator can get were announced, so here's what you missed…
VOTE: PICK NEW THEMED AREA FOR YOUR LOCAL PARK
It's time to vote in the Theme Park Daily poll.
CONTENT CREATOR OF THE WEEK
Every Thursday, we're celebrating a theme park content creator we love. First up: TikToker @subbyspins.
PROJECT HORIZON: RUMOUR RECAP
Alton Towers' mysterious indoor coaster project has been rumbling away for years. But the original black-hole concept may now be consigned to the history books, according to a leading theme park podcaster.
GUEST STORY: STUCK ON THE SMILER — BY @subbyspins
My second ride of the day on The Smiler, and everything was going perfectly — until we reached the bottom of the vertical lift hill for the second half of the ride.
WICKER MAN: THE LOST FOOTAGE
In 2018, Channel 4's Inside Alton Towers gave millions of viewers unprecedented access to the construction of Wicker Man. Then the documentary vanished. We dig into one of UK theme park history's strangest disappearances.
THEME PARK DAILY LAUNCHES PHOTO COMPETITION!
Grab your camera roll — the first-ever Theme Park Daily Photo Competition is open. Two photos per thoosie, any park in the world, entries close 20 September 2026.
GOLDEN TIME FOR THOOSIES!
September. Midweek. Term time. Welcome to the glorious little window when the crowds disappear and Theme Park Golden Time begins.
VOTE: What's the Most Rides You've Done in a Single Day?
No adding an extra 20 rides just to look like the biggest thoosie in the comments. Be honest — what's your personal record? Vote in our fan poll.
RITA 100: IMPORTANT UPDATE from Digital Dan…
Digital Dan has dropped an important update on his biggest ever challenge — the Rita 100 for charity. Here's what you need to know.
PAULTONS PARK ANNOUCE SPOOKTACULAR
It's that time of year again… Paultons Park is getting spooky! The Halloween Spooktacular returns from 9 October to 2 November 2026.
Thorpe Park Reveals More Fright Nights 2026 Details
Thorpe Park has revealed more details about Fright Nights 2026, including the new Tenement maze, returning scare zones and the full ticket breakdown.
Win Merch in our Exclusive Launch Giveaway!
Theme Park Daily is officially live. To celebrate, we are giving away official Merlin Blindbag pins to three lucky readers — just leave a comment in any chat room to enter.
theme park penguin imposters
Robot penguins are swimming with real ones in Japan, robot parks are opening in Korea, and the machines are officially coming for theme parks.
Stealth vs F1 : Which is actually faster?
We built a model, raced Stealth against Lando Norris's 2025 F1 car over the same 205ft route, and the result is far closer than you'd think.