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[2024] Thorpe Park: Hyperia - Mack Hypercoaster

rob666 said:
I think they know the issue is plain, and they intend to put things right properly in the closed season, in house, properly.
Landscaping is often last minute and cut time wise in development.
Stuff needs to grow, and needs space to grow.
As a professional part time gardener and full time thoosie of fifty years standing, I think I can honestly say that the planting and maintenance of the garden areas of thorpe are absolutely excellent compared to the state of everything at the Towers.
I did a sneaky ert of the lovely remaining sunken garden, alone and in peace, for a good hour.
Front row benches, all three, walk on, and stunning.
The garden areas around the rides, Inferno and Colossus come to mind, are excellent and well maintained, proper posh planting of warm exotics benefiting from the mild climate.
All the Hyperia planting is new, and it has been a pretty dry summer, not a time to do successful planting.
Thoosies always want things yesterday...give it time, the ride is open, just, the gardens will come on.
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Most importantly... HOW WERE THE KEBABS?
 
Hyperia was running absolutely beautifully today. It opened about 10 minutes after opening time and ran throughout the day without any downtime.

Single rider queue seemed to be longer than the main queue for a lot of the day though and the main queue was at 40-45 minutes for most of the day. Operations are as slick as usual though 👏
 
AT86 said:
Thorpe Park being best theme park is either evidence those awards are pish, or a damning indictment as to the quality of theme parks in the country.

Or both.
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I'd say it is a testament of how well they are doing (on the most part) even for a Merlin park and theme parks in this country.

Not completely defending the park as they still have loads of flaws (including scheduled on the day off peak ride closures and poor handling of restriction date upgrade tickets during Hyperia's closure period) especially ones that are atypical of Merlin. I'd give them credit for the good they've done this year.
 
AT86 said:
Thorpe Park being best theme park is either evidence those awards are pish, or a damning indictment as to the quality of theme parks in the country.

Or both.
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Now you see, we just had a fantastic day there, ok we had a long wait for the newbie, but that was completely optional.
Top notch mix of rides, flats and wet stuff, and quality operations, pretty decent staff and dodgy but fun entertainment.
Good broad selection of food and drink at bearable prices.
Some well manicured landscaping, apart from the newbie.
Easy, well managed entry and exit, no queues to leave, and an accessible site for the less mobile (75% of us)...also no litter, just happy punters.

Not saying all the parks are great, and I don't know or care about the awards, but Thorpe hit the spot very well this week for all of us thank you.
 
I'd say of all the major parks in the UK, Thorpe Park has had the strongest season this year. Alton Towers is arguably the better park but has been plagued with issues all season (poor F&B, ride availability, operational cuts), Chessington has significant capacity issues and let's not even get started on PB. In contrast, Thorpe has had a reasonable season: the new coaster has been well-received, operations and ride availability have generally been acceptable and F&B is more varied than at towers. But there is still an air of griminess around the place, theming and landscaping of Hyperia was lacklustre and poorly executed, and on more than two occasions this year reliability issues have significantly affected my day. So I think this is still a case of 'best of a bad bunch' for me.
 
Calling TP a "theme park"...?? I don't know now, but Paulton's "Peppa pig" was awesome when it opened. It seems that the UK can't do "theme". It's a shame. Most (at least Florida) parks are awesome on theme. It makes a big difference
 
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