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The Flume

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Alton Towers
Air
The Beastie
Congo River Rapids
Corkscrew
Duel
The Flume
Hex
Rita
Runaway Mine Train
Nemesis
Oblivion
Ripsaw
Spinball Whizzer
Submission

The queue and station has some innovative theming for a flume ride, based mainly on the fact that the sponsor of this ride makes bubble bath and shower gel. Instead of logs or boats you go round in fibreglass model baths, and the theme is bath time fun with showers, bubbles and a large number of giant  ducks providing the decoration.

It doesn't look bad from a distance, but once you get near the station area a lot of the theming does look a little tacky, with some poor decorations, and models that look like they're made from cheap plastic.

 

Once you go out the station, and up the hill lift you go down the first small drop into a wooded area, that contains almost no theming anywhere. It's then around the woods for a large amount of time where there isn't that much to see before you come to a building in the woods. This does have a dark drop, which is a nice part of the ride, before you pass another model duck, that looks so cheap and tacky I think the ride would be better off without it. You then go out the building and head to the final big drop before you're back at the station.

Overall, although it's not that bad a layout, the theming is to sparse, and what there is isn't enough to hold that much interest. It's a shame as I think the bath time fun theme is a nice original idea, but not enough has been done to pull it off to make this ride more than a space filler.