Design a Rollercoaster Competition 2025
- Tuesday July 1st 2025
- Merlin Annual Pass
The Kids Design a Rollercoaster competition is back! Last year we had so many incredible entries and it was fantastic to see so much creativity and passion from young Passholders.
This year you can enter into one of two categories in the “design a rollercoaster competition.”
1. Design a rollercoaster (digital)
This is the category for computer whizzes who wish to create their design in digital programmes like Planet Coaster or Minecraft.
2. Design a rollercoaster (craft)
This is the category for children, (like last year’s winner Heath) who wish to create their coaster using incredible craft skills! This could include papier-mâché, LEGO® building, drawing, painting and so much more.
Enter Competition
Top Tips
Try to include as much information as you can. You can do this by explaining over a voice-over/ presenting in a video, by writing down the information, or even by creating a short PowerPoint with images explaining the theming.
The design is very important, but so is the story and theming that goes with your ride! So, try to answer the following questions.
- What inspired your design?
- Is there a lore or backstory to your coaster?
- What’s the theme of your coaster?
- What type of soundtrack will your ride have?
- What other theming elements might it have, and why?
- Which theme park would your ride be added to?
- Will there be special effects or actors around the rollercoaster?
- What might you find in the queue-line of your rollercoaster?
- You must be under 15 years old to enter.
- You must have a valid Merlin Annual Pass to enter.
- You must have permission from your parent or guardian to enter.
- You must have submitted your entry by 11th August 23:59 GMT.
- The winner will be announced via social media & the email provided in the competition entry form.
- Any designs may be posted to social media including any photos attached to the competition entry form.
- Prize cannot be exchanged for any other event or for any monetary value.
- The Promoter of this competition is Merlin Entertainments Limited, a global entertainments company, with its principal office at: Link House, 25 West St, Poole BH15 1LD
- Winning Entrants will be chosen by the Promoter at random from valid entries submitted. The Promoter’s choice of winning entrant is final. No correspondence will be entered into and no process of appeal is available to Entrants. Only the Winning Entrant will be contacted. The Promoter reserves the right to redistribute the prize if a Winning Entrant does not reply by 11.00am on the [third] working day after the day on which they are notified.
- The Promoter reserves the right to check the validity of any entry. Entries failing to comply with these rules will not be accepted.
- Details of Merlin Annual Pass’s privacy notice can be found at the following link: https://www.merlinannualpass.co.uk/information/privacy-notice. This sets out how the Promoter will use the personal data it collects during the competition.
- No purchase is necessary to enter the competition.
- The Promoter takes no responsibility for any costs, expenses, loss or damage suffered by the Winning Entrant arising out of the use of the prize, except where it is caused by the negligence of the Promoter or that of its employees. Your statutory rights are not affected.
- The prize is non-refundable.
- Entry implies acceptance of these rules.
- These terms and conditions shall be governed by English law and the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes arising under these terms and conditions.
- The Promoter reserves the right to hold void, suspend, cancel or amend this competition where it becomes necessary to do so.
