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BenjaminBubble


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This October. One of the biggest Halloween attractions in the UK. #gamechanger

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Martyn


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Sounds.....interesting.

Dunno why, but I just can't picture a halloween event at a heritage amusement park!haha

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BenjaminBubble


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YOU WAIT Martyn! So blooming excited already! :D

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Josh


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Surely, you could allow access to some of the already "haunted" areas that the girl talked of on the doc? Maybe a midnight event?

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BenjaminBubble


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Sorry I've been a little quiet on here lately - It's all getting very manic! It's amazing to be involved.

Walked round site last thing yesterday, things are now starting to move quickly! Rides are being delivered and installed every couple of days. Yesterday the A-Frame for the Giant Wheel went up. That was pretty impressive to watch! You'll be able to see the Wheel as you come over the hill to Margate!

Press coverage for Dreamland is unprecedented with all the major networks/shows/news being here for launch and leading up to launch. We're now listed in the 'Rough Guide's Top 10' best places to visit in the World (up there with the Shanghai Tower!).

This week Dreamland was the most shared story on the BBC website and trended Worldwide. The story featured a video, that for me, makes me feel proud as punch to be involved.

Link to original story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32656185

Marina & Diamonds will be headlining the opening night along with Chas & Dave and more. 

I'm Event Director for Halloween - More news to follow on Launch date, when tickets go on sale...I'm so freaking excited about this!

Here's a few photographs I took yesterday:

 



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amigaoneone


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Dreamland now have a Spinning Mouse Coaster this was on site Today.

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Martyn


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Date: 15:33 Jun 15, 2015
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So according to some news that's doing the rounds, the future of Dreamland is still up in the air.

Apparently, the Dreamland Trust don't want to be involved anymore and have found some new owners, who want the park to fail so they can build a housing estate....

I don't know if this is true or not, but it sounds absurd.



-- Edited by Martyn on Monday 15th of June 2015 03:34:26 PM

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BenjaminBubble


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Totally false Martyn. The trust started raising funds and got the project kickstarted working with TDC. Sands Heritage Limited, whom I work for; are the operators of Dreamland. It's all a bit confusing, the housing estate saga is years old as that's what the previous owners wanted to put there before TDC's compulsory purchase order of the land.

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Martyn


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Yeah I remember all that, but there's a new news article that the ECC have shared claiming what I said above. I haven't seen it myself as I'm not a member.

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Martyn


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I've found the article, Ben:

http://greentargett.com/2015/06/13/dreamland-somnabulance/



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Martyn


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So, today's the day! All the best to everyone involved, I hope they have great and emotional day!

In other news, it appears they've got hold of a Magic Mouse spinning coaster... not exactly the most traditional of coasters, but I guess they needed to get something big with the Scenic unavailable.

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amigaoneone


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Dreamland Margate now have a train on the scenic railway, only doing test runs, hope this will not be too long!

Also now have more rides

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Martyn


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What are the new rides Alan?

Great news about the Scenic!

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amigaoneone


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Martyn,
The rides are, a Orton & Spooner (1934) Speedway first time back in Kent since about 1940, Grasscutter Twist and a Austin car ride. (small children ride)

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Martyn


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Sounds good!

I just wish they'd spend the money on fixing up King Solomons Mine :(

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amigaoneone


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Martyn,

The company that had the site before TDC took over the site had damaged a number of rides stored on site, this ride was one of them, the cars are ok but not much left of the track.

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Martyn


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Date: 19:47 Jul 19, 2015
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Yeah I've heard that's what happened.

Still, the Scenic was in pretty poor shape and they sorted that out ;)

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amigaoneone


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The Scenic Railway opens Thursday for members preview and Friday the main start day, see Dreamland site for more details.

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coolskin


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The park calls in the administrators..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-36408268

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Bubbles


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Oh well that didn't last long, hope they pull through.

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quin


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well I'm sure the scenic railway could be squeezed in at pwh ;)

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Matt


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Dreamland Logo

The Multi-Award Winning Screamland 
returns as the region’s largest scare festival 

 
 

2016

 
  • The multi-award winning Screamland, the region’s largest scare festival returns for a second year running at Dreamland Margate.
  • Dubbed “The best scare event on any UK park”, Screamland will be more terrifying than ever, providing even more reason to discover the fully immersive scare experience.
  • Friday and Saturday nights from 14th October to 29th October. Early Bird Prices available.
  • All the fun of the scare, as well as unlimited use of the rides.
  • For more info, visit https://www.dreamland.co.uk/screamland

The multi-award winning Screamland is back and more terrifying than ever! “The best scare event on any UK park”, will be all the fun of the scare. For the second year in a row, Dreamland will be transformed into Screamland with fully immersive scare experiences throughout the park, as well as unlimited use of all the favourite rides.
 
Eddie Kemsley, CEO Dreamland says: 
After the phenomenal success of its first year, the multi-award winning Screamland is back, bigger and better than ever! The Dreamland programming team is once again thrilled to deliver a scare festival like no other for 2016. With more immersive mazes and attractions than you can shake a stick at, Screamland will terrify even the hardest of scare enthusiasts, making it the place to be for the Halloween season. 
 
 
Jason Karl, Creative Director of Screamland says:
We have spent the last 6 months thinking ‘out of the coffin’ to really push the envelope this coming season, with more scare attractions and entertainment than during our first year. Mixing brand new effects, technologies and live performance, there will be something to make everyone ‘scream’ with delight at Screamland 2016.
 
Screamland will run Friday and Saturday nights from 14th October to 29th October and as night falls, the park will mutate into an experience of five fully themed interactive and immersive scare mazes that are incredibly detailed, real world environments and cleverly play on the different elements of Dreamland’s history. From “Festino’s Forgotten Funhouse” based on an old style travelling freak show by a crazed showman, echoing the site’s days as Hall By The Sea, (prior to becoming Dreamland in 1920), through to through to “The Final Cut Presents – They Came From Outer Space” which places guests inside a sci-fi film fear fest, all set in Dreamland’s Dark Space under the Dreamland Cinema. 

Plus the all-new “Paradise Foundation”, which presents a sinister ‘wellness’ centre with a macabre twist…
 
More sideshows and characters will be bringing Screamland to life for the second year. Join Punchinello, the King of Halloween and his sinister seneschal, Terrorsina, as they weave their wicked magic over Dreamland, whilst The Freed Radicals will urge you to join the rebellion to “Dismiss BLISS”, the treatment in The Paradise Foundation.
 
The theatre of the event will be delivered by over 60 professional actors, trained in the art of scare acting and many of whom will be recruited locally in Thanet. Audition days will be announced shortly.


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Clarence


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Surprised they can afford it!


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