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Just driven past Dreamland at midday today. Absolutely empty....shame TV opportunities were missed. Those who have been to Dreamland, are you allowed to walk round without buying tokens?
Hope business picks up, or TDC will use the failure as a reason to sell the site off..

FRom what i understand you need tokens to enter the park...if you go and dont use them all, you need 2 tokens to get back in

yes thats right you need to buy tokens and then they will give you a white token what gives you access 2 the park. By the way most people don't know but once your inside the park they will take £5 for 10 tokens (not sure if they do so outside the park). View the link below for full details:

http://www.dreamlandfunpark.co.uk/index ... age=Prices

I like the website. It is really taking shape.

I wanna take my camcorder down to Dreamland and film the rides when I go. (I have filmed footage on my last 2 visits)

Would love to transfer the footage into .mpg or .avi for inclusion on the website but I don't know if I have the facilities. (I don't have a firewire interface and the analogue interface keeps skipping frames - any ideas anyone?). One of my favourite websites is www.europeanrides.com as it has lots of videoclips of different rides.

The problem that Dreamland has now is that it has been run down for so long that it will take a while to build up its reputation. It needs remarketing - a complete relaunch.

This sort of investment will never happen under a short-term operator. It is only half a park at the moment -as the area in front of the scenic has been sold off and remains cleared.

The only reason Mr G has allowed rides on the park for the next 2 years is so that he can make some money on it instead of having it sit idle.

I've used one of these (when Aldi or Lidl had them at £30) and they seem OK, depends on the spec of your PC though as the the Mpeg encoding is done in software. Also needs USB2 to get a decent rate, so again depends how old your machine is.
http://www.rlsupplies.co.uk/products/product.asp?id=1510

Otherwise I have a Firewire card you can have for the postage cost, no software with it though - came in my machine and I've upgrade to a combined USB2/Firewire board (they are around £11 on ebay) which came with software as well.

Cheers for the help.
My machine is around 4 yrs old running at 1GHz - It definitely has USB1 and so my options may be limited.

I will probably go down the Firewire card route.
I believe I may have some software to do the job, my problem is capturing it. If I had a Firewire card this should overcome this! (I hope).

Thanks for the offer of the Firewire card. Email me and we can do business.

RowBot wrote:yes thats right you need to buy tokens and then they will give you a white token what gives you access 2 the park. By the way most people don't know but once your inside the park they will take £5 for 10 tokens (not sure if they do so outside the park). View the link below for full details:

http://www.dreamlandfunpark.co.uk/index ... age=Prices

hi all

Just came back from a great day at dreamland even the wheather held up i was shocked by the state of the s/railway but the ride ran as good as ever i got to ride it all on my own shows you how dead the park was. The token system is very confusin but i will try to explain a little more that i found out. £10=20 tokens £20=40 tokens+5 free blue ones. But be warned blue tokens are a pain you can only use one blue token per rider per ride so for instance if 2 people ride a ride that costs 3 tokens each you will have to give 4 red and 2 blue. I can also confirm once in the park you can buy as many tickets as you like they are 50p each from the ticket kiosk near the punch ball. they will even let you have one if you wish. Also to gain readmision you need to have a least 2 tokens PER PERSON to get in. On the whole it was good to see the park open i found the park very expensive but i must admit there rides are great and very well looked after.

I hope this helps....

john