The biggest project at Chessington in 30 years comes in the form of Project Amazon and the World of Jumanji coming in 2023. The new area featuring a world first is a 20.5m investiment for the park, with a 55 foot Jaguar Shrine! This will feature the parks first roller coaster in 19 years!
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April 27th 2023
We are just a couple of weeks away from concluding our coverage of construction on the World of Jumanji. In this picture update, we take another look across the land. With signs and graphics going up across the land, it really has taken shape to how the final product will look. Signage around the entrance, height boards, and ride signs all have started to make an appearence through the trees which also continue to be planted.
A bridge entrance for Mandrill Mayhem, with the “village” area also covered up nicely to give it more of an enclosed look. Moving from the flat rides testing last time, to some close ups of Mandrill Mayhem in action. We also take a look in the shop at some of the pre-release merchandise.
April 20th 2023
What a difference a month makes, the World of Jumanji is less than a month from opening now, with progress reaching the final stages. Since our last visit, groundwork, theme, planting, queuelines and ride testing has all come along, with the area now approaching a final look. More is still to do, with planting around the fencing outskirts also taking place now. Be sure to look at our latest video to see the flat rides testing.
And of course… How good does the sign look already!
March 19th 2023
It is now the case of getting the finer details sorted in the World of Jumanji. With planting, buildings and flooring all starting to come together ahead of the 15th May. Queue lines are also now starting to be installed, down the back you can see the entrance portal to Mandrill Mayhem.
February 25th 2023
We haven’t been lucky enough to catch the coaster testing sadly, although we did wait! On site a fair few buildings have gone up as the theme starts to come together. The head of the Mamba, damaged when taken on to site has yet to be repaired.
February 16th 2023
Mandrill Mayhem is testing! Although we haven’t caught it testing or seen videos, visable wheel track marks have now appear and very clear through out the track along with “green” on the wheels. It won’t be long until this is seen on camera! Outside the site more theme is waiting to go on, along with the test seat we brought you a few weeks back.
February 4th 2023
With the Train now on site comes the completion of teh track at the back of the station, an insane looking spike! More theme can be seen in and around the station with the control cabin also now installed.
January 14th 2023
The big news is the Train has now arrived on site and sits in the ride station, unknown is the fact the back row faces backwards! More small changes around the site the expectation is the final pieces of track at the rear will now be installed.
January 1st 2023
Happy new year as we are now in the year of Jumanji at Chessington. In our first large update of the year you can really see the area has opened up with huge land clearing across the site. This has allowed much detail to be exposed along with a clear path through the land. More installation of the Ostrich Stampede as it won’t be long now until the Train arrives on site.
December 22nd 2022
Our final update of 2022 comes as the track on the main course is now complete! With installation of the turn left out for the flat ride, and the top of the ride with previously pictured topper.
Installation of the jumper ride is also complete in place as the theme matches the proposed names. More theme, more structure this update only a few days on is as big as ever!
December 17th 2022
The world of Jumanji continues at a fast pace at Chessington World of Adventures Resort with so much work completed in the past week.
With this comes entrance works with structure, new theme along with models including Croc, Gorilla and Rhino. The area is already looking fantastic with so much more left to do!
More track has been installed around the Jaguar structure, with a little now to be installed! Joining the coaster is the 2 supporting flat rides, a SBF Jolly Jump and what we believe to be an SBF Midi Top Dancer. Both are now on site being installed.
December 10th 2022
Again what a difference a week makes as works progresses on the World Of Jumanji at a fast pace. With key theme elements for the flat rides along with more track also being installed, we get to see the booster section of the ride go in at the base of the Jaguar. With much track now being moved to site the pieces are all starting to come together.
December 3rd 2022
Whilst again no more track has been installed, so much work has progressed. The station has had much work completed, including a planned fascia with stencils laid out ready to progress. Landscape complete with planting has really progressed over the past week and the “center” piece of the land is the focus point of the recent works. We bring you news first that ALL PIECES of track are now on site, with give you an extensive look at the pieces including the final piece of the tracks (indicated by the finished ends) The video really does describe whats going on and is worth a watch!
November 27th 2022
Whilst we don’t have any more track installed, much more has arrived at Chessington. With focus mainly being around the landscape itself with clear paths, planting and in particular station works really pushing forward.
November 19th 2022
We bring you FIRST, the first ever coaster inversion at Chessington! The B&M Wing coaster is now progressing, with not only more track now arrived on site but also the first inversion to grace Chessington on a roller coaster is now installed.
November 6th 2022
Track continues to arrive at Chessington as the first pieces continue to be installed, work is progressing fast on the station.
October 23rd 2022
We have some track! With some laid in the car park the station straight has been installed with the first curved piece in place waiting to be installed. 90% of the supports are now up you can expect this to go very vertical very quickly!
October 14th 2022
Much has happened over the past week with supports going up in mass all over the site. We take a look at the installed ones as well as the impressive work carried out to the Jaguar structure which nears completion.