TR- Thorpe Park 13/05/06

[Lord Kotowa]

For my sisters birthday treat i thought i would tag along and get my credit for Stealth, at last! After arriving at the park and getting my pre-booked tickets, which saved money, I walked over to the dome and met my friend Chris (aka the guy who breaks every-ride). He told me to go onto Stealth as i was to ride it with my sister, got half way there and she wussed out so i walked over to the area and instantly jumped into the single rider queue. After 40 mins of waiting and watching a ECC member looking not impressed by the ride i got on. I sat in the 4th car, so couldn't see much.

Now i must say, this ride was good, it had a good and powerful launch, the top hat was forceful and had good ejector time at the top, the airtime was great, shame about the slamming back into the seat after. But overall 9/10, puts Rita to shame

 

Afterwards i went over to a little ride called Colossus, been a while since i rode this and i heard its got rougher. So we jined the single rider queue, again, this was after we were told by Samurai operators to get single rider wristbands.... Anyway i was put in the BACK SEAT of the train, so i was scared about my life, now this ride has got so much rougher since last time, i was swearing at many points, and the heartline rolls i just gave up and slumped in my seat.

The ride gave me brusises on my arm. Ow!

 

Next we did Rush, which is a S&S Screaming Swing, and this was sooo good, i could've creamed in my boxers!!! The airtime was immense! Just so much of it, roughly all together is 10 seconds, which is ridiculous, but they were gay and only operated one arm .

 

Moved to Nemesis Inferno, that was a boring ride, never ever would i say a B&M is boring, but it is, never really liked the ride, was just "loop, zero-g-roll, wingover, turn, wingover, helix, brakes" Yawn!. Thats why my POV is boring.

After these rides we whored up them again about 3 times.

 

Stealth broke down 3 times! When i was in the queue, twice when i was in the Front Row queue, hence why i got a Priority Pass, for ANY ride, except Stealth and Depth Charge (gay isn't it?)

 

Anyway it was a great day out and i had good fun whoreing up rides.

Here are some pictures.

(well these are the better ones out of 300 pictures)

Awww, nice picture of Thorpe Park at sunset, this was attempt #13. Perfectionist here, hehe

These people i like to call C**t's, aka Queue Jumpers

And i thought KFC was greasy! Look at Stealths flywheel!

I like this picture, good angle, shame i fell into the fence when i took the picture.

Water Dummies ORGY!!!

Colossus' station, looking dismal as usual, no-one in there kinky harness, dammit!

Rush! Certainly gave me a rush! (oh the pun)

If anyone is wondering what that wire dangling from Stealth is, remember the stalling on TTD's top hat, tis incase of that happening on stealth./

Shameful! Almost no hands up!

65ft Water Ride or 208ft Intamin ride? I know my choice

[poppadoom]

I WENT thorpepark yesterday

[poppadoom]

I WENT thorpepark yesterday

[martinb]

Yet again someone else who gets airtime on Stealth, me, never, no one bit, even tried to jump in my seat as we went over the top hat, didn't really have the same effect.

 

Man I gotta disagree with you on Nemesis Inferno, IMO it rocks although its not intense at all, its such a breeze through the park.

 

I've never noticed the wire before thats hanging down from Stealth.

 

Unfortunely I am still a Rush virgin as all my visits to TP this year have been badly hit by downtime on nearly all the rides apart from Stealth (Yes that is correct).

 

-Martyn

[Tömmioh]

Good TR!! Nice photos, I especially like the last one. Glad you had a good time, and liked Stealth, I should get to TP again sometime.

[viking86]

I thought Nemesis Inferno was better than Colossus. In my opinion, Colossus has an even more boring layout. And I agree that its very uncomfortable at the moment.

 

Yngve "why am I the only one who thought Rush was rather lame?" Oestbye

[Lord Kotowa]

Thanks for the comments.

 

Its strange i just rode Nemmie and it just didn't do anything to me, i was bored sensless. It might have been the fact it was just too smooth, and too smooth rides are just boring.

 

Also here are some more random pictures from the weekend!

Another photograph taken by putting a camera over a fence, hehe.

Good angle of the top of Rush here, when the swing was over you could see all the air escaping from the tanks, was impressive.

My Stealth ORP, it was blurry because a fight broke out in the ORP area between some chavs.

I can see the staines housing plan is in action

The cattle pen of Stealth's Queue, don't you wish you bought fastrack?

This guy made me laugh, as he pulled his coat over his head because he was so scared of the ride. Great laugh when it did launch.

Picture of me, very bored as stealth has broken down for the third time.

Stealth looks big from the bottom don't it!

[Jon Sabo]

Nice pics. I'm going to ask Santa to give me round trip tickets to TP and get to have fun there. I noticed that cable on a couple of other peoples photos (Stealth) and I am curious if that is a release cable of some kind or does maintenance actually transverse that cable to the top to push the train? lol

[blackcurrent]

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/files/sv101592_116.jpg

 

This is the reason why I hate ThorpePark......

[Lord Kotowa]

Well they thought they could get on the ride quicker if they jumped in the 'empty' queue line, which in fact was the fast track queue. Loooosseeerrs!

 

The wire that hangs down from Stealths is a emergency wire incase the roller coaster train stalls at the top and also as said for matinence as well. As they left it up there from the last time they needed it.