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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

Colossus is just plain unpleasant for me, to the point I don’t even bother riding anymore. Saw on the other hand is rough, but worth it.

That’s also the general consensus of the group we usually travel with.

And yes, I don’t see Merlin providing TP with an adequate budget. Having said that, there are some changes you can make with minimal cap ex. Just imagine if they spent the £40m from DBGT on general park improvements... they might even have enough money to clean the toilets properly.
 
I find Saw more unpleasant than Colossus, Colossus improved a lot a couple(?) of years ago when they put new wheels on it, havn't been recently so don't know what it's like now, may go later this week.
 
Does anyone else find Saw a bit pointless? Not dissing the ride itself but I just find it so forgettable in the lineup that Thorpe have and shows the park lacks variety a bit. Colossus does a better job of being a looping coaster and it just isn't as interesting to me. The park as well is quite small so they were to ever have a decent family coaster I think it could utilise the space a lot more. Especially considering a GCI was originally planned instead
 
As @spinball and even a member of THORPE PARK Resort staff said I'm in the minority but I prefer saw to the smiler.
(Smiler is good but it's obvious it was designed for a record not ride experience)

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ihaveaspergers said:
As @spinball and even a member of THORPE PARK Resort staff said I'm in the minority but I prefer saw to the smiler.
(Smiler is good but it's obvious it was designed for a record not ride experience)

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Indoor section, Yes
Outdoor section, No
 
I like saw inside, and in the queue there is also lots to find. I was always aware of the gunshot sound as you enter the indoor queue, but recently got hit by a blast of air, then looked up and saw the shotguns, and the blood splatter on the walls. Was pleased to see that after several years of going to Thorpe frequently there is more to find.

Couple of the saw effects seem to have not been working for a while though. Most notably the squirting 'blood' from the guy under the roll at the end of the indoor section.
 
Lurker said:
I was always aware of the gunshot sound as you enter the indoor queue, but recently got hit by a blast of air, then looked up and saw the shotguns, and the blood splatter on the walls. Was pleased to see that after several years of going to Thorpe frequently there is more to find.
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Best part of the queue! I remember that being quite fun when Saw was new. Bear in mind as a first time rider you assume that anything could be going on inside that building, it was proper intimidating. Only after you pass through that first corridor do you realise that basically it's just an empty shed with a stairwell.

They later changed the batching which meant usually people walk straight by now, so people often miss the effect or only hear the sound. Maybe that's why you didnt realise too. It used to properly get people stood underneath!!
 
I remmeber you used to occasionally get scare actors with the pig masks on the exit stairs, that was always a laugh.

As for the ride - knock it down, its gone from rough to just painful. Agree the indoor section is still brilliant though.
 
Depending on how efficient the merge host is, you still end up queueing on the stairs in Saw, we did last week but granted it was for only about 10 minutes.

The park is actually looking quiet fresh this year, new signs, cleaned up queue lines etc. operations were good too last Thirsday, despite there being so many schools on site that the coaches took up both the coach park, the drop off car park and part of the main car park the longest queue we saw was 60 minutes on Colossus, and that was a tad confusing because the "fast track" queue was out the gate while the main one was a ghost town, to me it was as if people were joining a queue without reading what one it was, so we skipped that and went on everything else.

Actually, I think it was a lemming mentality, since at the exit barriers people were doing the same thing (all queuing for a single gate, rather than going to the unused ones), you can guess what I did, much to the annoyance of some (and amusement of the staff who'd been telling them to use the other gates for ages without success).
 
Saw The Ride is grim, in particular the post drop jolt.

It sits up there with only Coaster Express as a coaster that has given me a prolonged headache.


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Benjsh said:
Ex-squeeze me?
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The Smiler is the only UK rollercoaster I've been on that comes close to unbearable. Perhaps it is the length and number of inversions, and there is possibly a difference between trains and rows - but it is a genuinely rough and unpleasant experience.
 
Tom said:
Saw is as smooth as silk compared to the Smiler.
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Even though I still found The Smiler somewhat jolty and shaky today, I'd almost argue the opposite; for me, Smiler can still be enjoyable, whereas I found Saw a little too much.
 
Tom said:
The Smiler is the only UK rollercoaster I've been on that comes close to unbearable. Perhaps it is the length and number of inversions, and there is possibly a difference between trains and rows - but it is a genuinely rough and unpleasant experience.
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It's silky smooth but for a few jolts on the last two inversions which admittedly aren't that great. However if the Smiler is the only UK rollercoaster that is close to unbearable you can't have ridden that many.

Should go and try the Ultimate. That thing will give you bruises. Hahahaha
 
I think you have to be very clear in terms of definitions when you discuss this, but it's certainly open to discussion because there are variations between trains and rows.

That said, the few times I have ridden Smiler since it reopened, it has been marred by vibrations throughout coupled with that horrible jolt as you go into the 12th inversion. Saw is smoother in terms of there being less vibration, but the jolty nature of the transitions is hugely prevalent.
 
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