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[2024] Thorpe Park: Hyperia - Mack Hypercoaster

Mykeprime said:
Looks like they've been adding some turf around the entrance. Bland, but at least it looks a lot cleaner than last years mud/chippings
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On my one and only visit last year, one of the gardeners said the landscaping would be done "properly" in house over the closed season.
Lovely bloke, met him in the excellent sunken garden (take note Towers) by Stealth, by stealth (it was actually closed).

He found the mess of landscaping rather upsetting, considering the other excellent planting around the park.
 
djtruefitt said:
Last year when it opened and before the pass holder group got deleted they always said it was going to get a front row queue but it never appeared
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I'd be interested to know how a front-row queue would work alongside a single-rider queue; would the single riders now only be allocated to rows 2 to 10? If so, then there would be the risk of empty seats in the front row...
 
Benzin said:
Single riders would go wherever necessary. Would be rarer to get front row but still doable.
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I might be over-thinking it, but I assume that there might need to be a slight gap between the train and the front-row queue in order to allow single-riders to slip through if necessary, without them having to join the back of the queue?

I only say this because I remember sitting alone in the front-row of The Big One at Blackpool last year, even though there were 2 people behind me in the front-row queue (they wanted to sit together, so they decided to wait for the next train).
 
Secret Weapon said:
I'd be interested to know how a front-row queue would work alongside a single-rider queue; would the single riders now only be allocated to rows 2 to 10? If so, then there would be the risk of empty seats in the front row...
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Back in the lovely day, I got front seats on nemesis more than once from the exit gate single rider queue.
 
Secret Weapon said:
I might be over-thinking it, but I assume that there might need to be a slight gap between the train and the front-row queue in order to allow single-riders to slip through if necessary, without them having to join the back of the queue?

I only say this because I remember sitting alone in the front-row of The Big One at Blackpool last year, even though there were 2 people behind me in the front-row queue (they wanted to sit together, so they decided to wait for the next train).
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Depends if the front row queue is "batched" like the rest of the train is currently. Can merge then.

Though given there's only 2 queues currently after the initial batch point something is gonna go unless they move front row to another part of the building. Or add an additional claustrophobic queue.
 
I would not be surprised if the batcher role gets eliminated at some point (not necessarily this season) to reduce staffing, this would probably also involve removal of SRQ and could mean front row queue would run up the right hand side of the stairs

Assuming that doesn't happen yet, the station is big enough to run a small front row queue along the wall, accessed from inside the station without needing to rearrange the queues on the stairs. SRQ could be assigned to front row if/when spaces occur, though in practice I would imagine this would be extremely rare.
 
John said:
I would not be surprised if the batcher role gets eliminated at some point (not necessarily this season) to reduce staffing, this would probably also involve removal of SRQ and could mean front row queue would run up the right hand side of the stairs

Assuming that doesn't happen yet, the station is big enough to run a small front row queue along the wall, accessed from inside the station without needing to rearrange the queues on the stairs. SRQ could be assigned to front row if/when spaces occur, though in practice I would imagine this would be extremely rare.
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I think SRQ and batching could be closed during quiet days (similar to AT) but during busy days I think they would need the throughput.
 
Secret Weapon said:
I'd be interested to know how a front-row queue would work alongside a single-rider queue; would the single riders now only be allocated to rows 2 to 10? If so, then there would be the risk of empty seats in the front row...
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I remember that's what happens on Taron with Phantasialand. The front row is empty when a single is on there however with Europa, they will batch the SRQ wherever.

Wodan had a bad habit of batching evens to the back and odd numbers towards the front making it nearly impossible for single riders to ride row 14.

John said:
I would not be surprised if the batcher role gets eliminated at some point (not necessarily this season) to reduce staffing, this would probably also involve removal of SRQ and could mean front row queue would run up the right hand side of the stairs

Assuming that doesn't happen yet, the station is big enough to run a small front row queue along the wall, accessed from inside the station without needing to rearrange the queues on the stairs. SRQ could be assigned to front row if/when spaces occur, though in practice I would imagine this would be extremely rare.
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That would be my worry for the throughput and my reason why the backwards seat shouldn't happen.

flyingguitar said:
I think SRQ and batching could be closed during quiet days (similar to AT) but during busy days I think they would need the throughput.
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I believe the SRQ for Hyperia was designed in such a way where it could run on any day as there's one merge point for multiple queues before batching.

I'm not really sure the park are able to run it efficiently without assigned seating and not impacting the throughput too much which might be why the SRQ was added in originally. It may be as crucial for Hyperia to have it in the same way as Mandrill Mayhem.
 
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