divyking Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 Well, since today was the first day of the summer holidays, and the hottest day of the year (29C), I decided to take a trip to Thorpe Park. At first when we arrived at 2pm, the car park was pretty cramed so we were like "Great, 3 hour queues", but when we got inside most of the queues were about 30/40mins despite being almost full! I put this down to the fantastic efforts of the staff, especially Stealth, which was launching a train every 50 seconds or so! The exceptions were obviously the water rides, the rapids were about 45, Loggers Leap was about 60 and Tidal Wave was 90 but other than that every thing was quite reasonable. As soon as we arrived we headed over to Stealth and since the queue was only 20mins we thought it would be fantastic to ride! Even after 50 or so rides, the launch still surprises me! My Nan who's 65 also completed her 4th/5th rides on Stealth today, she keeps her eyes closed but still loves it! I was pleased to see the smoke that appears upon launch return to the station, it was great. We thought that then it would be nice to cool down and go on a water ride so we went for the rapids - you don't normally get wet since most of the effects are normally broken, but today most were on! We got so wet it was unbelieveable. Next was Loggers Leap, again we got absolutely drenched but since it was so hot, for England, it was fine. Colossus looks so weird now with all of the nets and Rush is still closed. Overall ride count: Stealth 3 Rapids 3 Nemesis Inferno 1 Detonator 1 Time Voyagers 1 Loggers Leap 2 Anyway, heres the photos... We arrived to see this...strange, normally they oversell them so even Fastrack is unbearable Another breakdown Oohh, new maze, look out for my report in October/November for both those amazing events Heres a beautiful plant near the dome.. Don't intamin rockets and nature go hand in hand together... ...and again... Heres the view from the 'Sunken Gardens' Ohh, you want to see the ride...I see well.... ...heres the main element, 205ft of Intamin 'sexyness' But...heres what we all like, people looking ridiculous on fast rides... The front seat is just amazing Unless you're this guy who wants to shield his face Wow, we got to Canada quickly The amazing fun that is Loggers Leap Construction 100 degree drop, Canada Creek's newest coaster... I hope Samurai is rethemed next year of Canada Creek is split in half by that ugly mess... An overview of construction... 6 years on and its aged horribly Nicely photographed but horrible to ride... The perfect ride for today, 90mins though You can see why... Or...stand here and you'll cool down too Isn't it nice! Thats it... Alton Towers next week!
hemmy Posted July 24, 2008 Posted July 24, 2008 On my trip to Europe I hated that stupid roof on the splash bridge, it made me sad.
divyking Posted July 25, 2008 Author Posted July 25, 2008 Yeah...same with the plastic shields on half of the bridge - still fun to stan on though!
PoisonedPirate Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 My Nan who's 65 also completed her 4th/5th rides on Stealth today, she keeps her eyes closed but still loves it! Dude that's impressive!! I doubt that I would go on Stealth and I'm 19 - Obviously I need to step up my game! Next time I'm too chicken I'm gonna think of your nan lol!
divyking Posted July 25, 2008 Author Posted July 25, 2008 /\ lol, it always surprises me when she goes on rides, she's been on Detonator, Stealth, X:\no way out, Oblivion, Rita etc
PoisonedPirate Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 Awesome I won't even go on "dangly' coasters!
verticalzero Posted July 25, 2008 Posted July 25, 2008 Always have a great day at TP, it's just the kiddies / chav's who try to Q jump which spoils it.
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