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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

I’m not sure this sounds likely to be true.

Surely they can’t just take a lift hill from another already fabricated ride? These track pieces are bespokely fabricated for each installation, and seeing as the abandoned Mack coaster in Dubai is a Flash clone, if I’m not wrong, it would be about 40ft too short to be for Hyperia!

Besides, the ride is still in storage at Dubai Parks and Resorts. Some day, they might want to build it or sell it on as a whole buildable ride, and I’m sure they wouldn’t have been too happy to give Thorpe their lift hill and not the rest of it if that was the case!
 
I’m sorry, but I find the whole lift hill being from Dubai is certainly hard to believe. It’s specifically 236ft so they could spite The Big One, and the elements and supports would have been designed for Thorpe’s layout and terrain. I’m not an engineer but that sounds like something they’d obviously have to design the lift around.

There was a rumour that the lift hill motor itself was from Six Flags Dubai, therefore I assume that this is a rumour that’s been regurgitated and the host just happened to interpret it to just ‘lift hill’. Not sure if hearsay facts should be shared on a guided, paid tour as it gives a false validity to the rumour.
 
I can believe that a lift hill would be made from standardised sections. Only the length of chain fitted would need to be custom.
Further research would be needed to confirm this, though.
 
Bert2theSpark said:
I’m sorry, but I find the whole lift hill being from Dubai is certainly hard to believe. It’s specifically 236ft so they could spite The Big One, and the elements and supports would have been designed for Thorpe’s layout and terrain. I’m not an engineer but that sounds like something they’d obviously have to design the lift around.

There was a rumour that the lift hill motor itself was from Six Flags Dubai, therefore I assume that this is a rumour that’s been regurgitated and the host just happened to interpret it to just ‘lift hill’. Not sure if hearsay facts should be shared on a guided, paid tour as it gives a false validity to the rumour.
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It's 23ft taller than PMBO, that's a fair bit just to spite
 
Poisson said:
I could claim I am 47ft tall. Baseless claims are just that.
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But even still, 235ft is the Big One height a casual visitor would see marketed and likely believe.

Anyone who doesn’t look at the likes of RCDB would have no reason to disbelieve Blackpool’s 235ft claim, so had Thorpe built Hyperia shorter and claimed it was the tallest roller coaster in the UK, someone might have looked at their marketing, gone “the Big One is taller” and reported them to the ASA for false advertising or similar. (If you think someone wouldn’t report them, remember back to the whole palaver around Wicker Man’s “wood and fire” claim!)
 
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