At the same time, a prehistoric family moved into the tunnel section of the ride.Д«y the early 2000s, the Log Flume was starting to look rather tired and the wooden cladding was starting to look rather too rustic. In 1984 the Log Flume received some new guests as dinosaurs were added throughout the woodland section of the ride, having been displaced from Dinosaur Land which had closed the previous season to make way for the Black Hole. By 1983 the ride had also started to transition to the more traditional name of The Log Flume. The Park Railway originally bordered the attraction on two sides, which meant access the ride was via a railway bridge over the tracks, but the popularity of the flume meant that by 1982 the Park Railway had been shortened to open up the ride area to the rest of the Ingestre Centre. The flume was one of the first attractions in the park to have an on-ride photo and during the ride each log would stop briefly at the top of the last lift hill where one of the ride's attendants waited in a small cabin and would present a ticket to guests on the log to be exchanged for a photo taken during the final drop. On opening, the ride went by the name of the Wild Water Flume and its 2600ft waterway meandered from the station into the woods at the outer limits of the Gardens, where guests could enjoy views of the Park Railway and Temple Lake whilst taking on three drops and two tunnels during the five-minute ride. For its second season, the park was ready to embark on its first large-scale engineering project - to create the longest flume ride in the world.ДЄ five-and-a-half acre field to the East of the Ingestre Centre was transformed into a purpose-built reservoir to provide the ride's water supply, whist at the edge of the new lake a large turntable structure housed the white geometric station. In the Summer of 1980 the transformation of Alton Towers into an amusement park was already proving popular, but John Broome knew further investment was needed to keep guests coming back.

Log flume ride at the end drop