[2024] Thorpe Park: Hyperia - Mack Hypercoaster

[Zeock]

I watched the video from Jack Silkstone yesterday and he has a bit where he's stood in a rideline with the fencing and it felt like he was confined in a cage. The fencing for Hyperia looks like herding animals instead of creating an atmosphere for riders as they queue.

Judging from the video alone, it looks woeful, and, in my opinion, worse than The Smiler's queue.

 

[Tom]

Not sure I want to see, if it’s anywhere near as bad as the Smiler.

 

[The_bup]

Possibly it’s the high fencing for the Dina stretch, and most of the fencing can be lower because it’s not under the ride area. Colossus gets away with a lot in that regard

 

[Sharko]

I don't mind the fencing if it is a safety requirement to have it, the issue is they let it rot and dont get the jet wash out every so often.

 

[Benzin]

This is the problem with vlogs being the current method of news sharing, you either have to watch the thing or wait for someone to screenshot the issue people are discussing.

 

[Mark0097]

Trains Delivered…

 

[BooMT]

Potential Hyperia train posted on Twitter (without context) all wrapped up - not much to see overall but hopefully means we'll get a nice reveal soon! **have just seen your post @Mark0097 **

Spoiler

Also, the queueline in its current form for those who don't want to watch Vlogs!

 

[xtpower]

I'm really not going to enjoy being packed in like sardines.

 

[Ryan]

Also, the queueline in its current form for those who don't want to watch Vlogs!

The "What would Merlin do? Challenge!"

1. Separate ride area fences and queue fences to provide a pleasant queuing experience

2. Combine both, making guests feel like cattle

One is cheaper.

Vote now.

 

[Tom]

Potential Hyperia train posted on Twitter (without context) all wrapped up - not much to see overall but hopefully means we'll get a nice reveal soon! **have just seen your post @Mark0097 **

Spoiler

Also, the queueline in its current form for those who don't want to watch Vlogs!

Utterly awful.

What is the logic for the high fences anyway? Will they be covered over like the Smiler cages?

 

[John_P]

Sadly I imagine the park probably don't want guests getting hit by loose items (or small children) falling 236 foot onto them. Also the fences are to stop the British public from stupidly trying to enter the ride area, most likely trying to retrieve the loose items they previously showered the queue line with.

Probably should've worked out how to build a queue that doesn't go under the lift hill and into the ride area.

 

[Johnny Rocket]

If only there was space to build a nice long queue line looping round the back of the ride and the lovely lake to avoid a squeezed in cattle pen under the front of the ride.

 

[Ryan]

Remember when we used to avoid things falling on to our heads by building things under the potentially falling item, as opposed to just above the head?

I remember. We called them, mets? Neps?

'Cage' the massive dangerous machine, not the people.

Can we just take this all the way to it's logical conclusion and hardhat the queuing public?

 

[Burner]

Potential Hyperia train posted on Twitter (without context) all wrapped up - not much to see overall but hopefully means we'll get a nice reveal soon! **have just seen your post @Mark0097 **

Spoiler

Also, the queueline in its current form for those who don't want to watch Vlogs!

I'm hyperventilating out of claustrophobia just looking at that photo.

 

[benpicko]

That is atrocious

 

[BigShadowtinytree]

Great, another queue to dread waiting in. As if The Smiler’s wasn’t bad enough.

 

[John]

Astonishing how bad Merlin are at queue design. If you're going to be spending an hour or more waiting for a ride, you have to try not to make every second of the experience a waking nightmare.

 

[Blackhole_Sun]

Awful awful queueline.

You can plant as many trees around it, won’t mask the fact that it looks so bad to wait in.

 

[The_bup]

Okay, okay. Ooooorr, this will just be for the final stretch of the queue. Maybe most of if won’t be like this

 

[Tom]

Astonishing how bad Merlin are at queue design.

*Design*? Unless there's sadism involved, surely no one put creative thought into that.