(Like for instance are you saing that one of the Waterbridge staff tipped water down the sign a year ago to make the sign rot, just to get back at you? - No, so it's not personal!)
Perhaps not, but I'm reluctant to take their word for it, I'd be happier if someone more independant was overseeing it. Firstly clearly if this was happening at a successful amusement park it's have been done in the closed season. Secondly if an amusement park with a committed owner emcountered the same problem they would pop the letters back up again until the new sign was made. Afterall if they were taken down in a few hours then it wouldn't take that long to put them up again. Over the past 3 years I've gradually become more cynical.
Perhaps the fires were all genuine accidents and nothing to do with the owner.
Perhaps there was a genuine mistake and Waterbridge didn't know that the large pallisade fence needed planning permission.
Perhaps when Mr Hunter made his statement about Dreamland and said thyat they had made no planning applications he really wasn't aware about an attempt to build a fence along the North of the park
Perhaps Mr Hunter really did misunderstand Nick and think he was saying that the Big Wheel is a bad thing.
Perhaps there was a genuine reason why the sign couldn't be soughted in the closed season, that they actually thought they could get it fixed, that now they kknow they can't they won't put the old sign back up. After all most parks have a full time maintanence person who's responsible for this sought of thing. According to someone who works for Flamingoland a lot of people did over time to get the area around the new coaster Kumali in a respectable state in time. They seems to have full time maintance people and presumably would not have made such a cock up of the sign.
In terms on the owners Jimmy Godden still owns a large atake in the park. Perhaps if he had done something about the sign sooner the rotting could have been prevented.
There are also other promises which have been broken and perhaps more promises that will be broken.
Perhaps the reason that over the past few years TV companies such as news teams have not been allowed to film on the site is to protect shy visitors whoi don't want to be on TV. Perhaps...
I guess at the end of the day none of us can know the real reason and perhaps I should be more willing to give the benefit of the doubt. I am though, worried that in a recent letter I recieved from Roger Gale he mentioned that visitor numbers have been falling and as such he implies this is a good enough reason to removed Dreamland. I can't help wondering whether there is a connection here.
No I don't believe that the sign was delibertaely ruined, but I don't feel the situation is being handled that well.
They probably took the sign down in a bid to get it working (isn't this the lighting that we were saying was part of the listed building and should be reinstated), and it is very likely that serious rot would only be discovered once the signs were down.
Which is precisely why this shouldn't happen in the park season. Also if all the letters are rotten they could have taken one down, and then found out what the state was and when they found out it was rotten put it back up until new letters could be produced. I realise that this takes more effort, but none of the successful theme parks got where they are by taking the easiest route.
Again I suppose something, like this is a matter of opinion and maybe I should be less hard on Waterbridge. Hey they may get this new sign made sooner than I think. Nevertheless judging by how long it took to get the fence application in I'm pessimistic. Maybe the word personal was the wrong one to use, as I suppose you can't get personal with an entire company, however I do feel that to degrees some aspects of this are calculated.