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[2024] Thorpe Park: Hyperia - Mack Hypercoaster
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KolonelKlink
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Yet I heard one of the journalists who went to the press launch on LBC News this lunchtime talking about the shutdown and calling it a “PR disaster” so you really can’t tar all the media with the same brush.I find it really interesting that the biggest news in the UK’s theme park industry is this failure, so big in fact that it has reached the front page of BBC News:
And yet, the same people who plastered social media with gushing positivity after attending the press event, all now seem to be mysteriously silent.
Hence why they didn’t want to make an announcement earlier in fear people would just demand a refund instead of re booking. They wanted the numbers through the door
Dave
TS Founding Member
Ohh give over, you really are banging on a door that doesn’t exist. It would have been better for them to have put people off coming from a PR perspective which is far more important than a single days gate take.
Fact is most people would have already committed to the journey by 8am, and they almost certainly won’t have know the extent of the issue at that time.
Craig
TS Administrator
We’re up to 12 pages of discussion since the closure of Hyperia was announced. I think we’ve said all that needs to be said or speculated about the timings of the closure being announced without ending up going round in circles about it.
Back to discussion about the ride itself and its hopeful reopening soon please
Back to discussion about the ride itself and its hopeful reopening soon please
Skyscraper
TS Member
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That's one page per every hour it operated on Friday.We’re up to 12 pages of discussion since the closure of Hyperia was announced. I think we’ve said all that needs to be said or speculated about the timings of the closure being announced without ending up going round in circles about it.
Back to discussion about the ride itself and its hopeful reopening soon please
My best friend's husband is taking their kids on Saturday and I've warned them not to expect it to be open. Keeping my fingers firmly crossed for them
Skyscraper
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- Nemesis
This is an excellent comparison video, you can see just how much Hyperia warms up as the day goes on!
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0629s5FWmY
From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0629s5FWmY
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this is intresting, i feel like both speeds has really good parts to it, the faster the train i think the better the outter bank and some of the other air time moments will be, but the slower running train looks like it stays in that hang time for a stagering amount of time.
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Surely that’s got more to do with the fact that one train has riders and one doesn’t rather than the fact that the trains been running all day?
walkerwilson4
TS Member
You're reminiscing about the good old days at Thorpe Park, with traditional meals, drinks, and entertainment. Now, you're curious about the current quality and variety of kebabs at Thorpe Park, emphasizing that while coasters are important, the food quality is your main concern.
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Craig
TS Administrator
Just another reminder that this is for discussion about Hyperia, please keep it that way as much as possible.
For trip planning, keep that in the trip planning forum. I've created a dedicated topic for those of you looking to visit later in the year
For trip planning, keep that in the trip planning forum. I've created a dedicated topic for those of you looking to visit later in the year
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Sorry craig...messing up the topics, again...
Naughty corner, whip etc...
I can get dodgy kebabs a few metres away from the Velvet, thorpe is for hyperia.
I have only visited thorpe in the last decade, health stuff means not in five years.
Never had a bad visit.
Good company, beer, social etc...
The food has always been a low priority, no traditional meals, just crap in the dome and junk elsewhere...but thorpe was my first theme park dodgy doner, so a little special.
Looking forward to my visit, in the correct topic of course.
Naughty corner, whip etc...
Not really, just pulling legs.
I can get dodgy kebabs a few metres away from the Velvet, thorpe is for hyperia.
I have only visited thorpe in the last decade, health stuff means not in five years.
Never had a bad visit.
Good company, beer, social etc...
The food has always been a low priority, no traditional meals, just crap in the dome and junk elsewhere...but thorpe was my first theme park dodgy doner, so a little special.
Looking forward to my visit, in the correct topic of course.
Mykeprime
TS Member
I'm increasingly wondering why they didn't set this as a 2025 thing. They could have had a less rushed construction/ testing (ideally avoiding the flubbed launch), and actually spent time on the theming and landscaping to make it a 'full package' experience instead of feeling half arsed. This is atrocious;
(from here)
(from here)
I'm increasingly wondering why they didn't set this as a 2025 thing. They could have had a less rushed construction/ testing (ideally avoiding the flubbed launch), and actually spent time on the theming and landscaping to make it a 'full package' experience instead of feeling half arsed. This is atrocious;
(from here)
99% of punters will not notice or care.
Looks to this gardener that all landscaping, and frame planting,has been completed...and probably sown.
Grass grows quickly, spotting some of the other planting, laurel grows very quickly...attractive views will have been set and screen planting is in place.
In my humble opinion.
There will be a more detailed assessment later in the year.
But it looks fine to me, big metal bits, sky and mud.
Fine for now.
Will look better over the next few months and years.
Give me time to get the mower out.