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Is Hyperia your top UK coaster?

Is Hyperia your top UK coaster?

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Deffo the best I've been on in the UK.
Nemesis Reborn, Smiler, Icon, Stealth, Wicker Man, Oblivion, The Swarm, The Big One, Colossus have all had their day in the sun but feel like Hyperia is going up up the coaster game in this country. A Steel Vengeance ride at BPB would be perfect. A Taron style ride in place of Rita at AT too. I feel Thorpe needs to either build a water park or do away with the beach stuff and build some kind of indoor coaster. Preferably a crushers coaster type would be great.
 
I think it's probably my second favourite. It's got some amazing elements and is really quite intense (I rode the swarm after a few rides in hyperia and it felt very chill in comparison). The restraints are very freeing and it feels more like flying to me than air ever did. However the general theming and aesthetics are dreadful (think someone here said it looks like a giant cigarette, and I agree). The trim brakes are a bit jarring too. Nemesis has excellent theming and also a really good well paced and intense layout so it's still my fav.
 
Nemesis
Wild Mouse (Removed)
The Ultimate (Removed)
Wicker Man
Dragon's Fury
Spinball Whizzer
The Swarm
Nemesis Inferno
The Smiler
Spinning Racer (Relocated)
Grand National
Rita
Stealth
Hyperia

My rough UK rankings to Hyperia. Probably going to be around 55-65 in my overall rankings out of 375.
 
First train of the day today and 3 more consecutive rides straight after via single rider. After riding all over the train, it’s definitely firmly placed itself as my UK no.1.

Nemesis has sentimentality for me, as does wickerman having followed it so closely throughout its construction. But this thing just does things to your body that nothing else in the UK can do. That outerbank and stall is up there as the best one two punch I’ve ever experienced. Really do love this coaster.
 
Wow. Rode this for the first time and it is just a mind blowing coaster. I have never been so surprised on a coaster, you just can't guess how the elements are going to feel without riding.

Is it a perfect fantasy coaster that we would like to design? No. Will it age well, maybe not? Would we like it to be longer, of course yes, but so what. Right now I simply have more excitement for re-riding it than anything else by a long way. In time I might feel that it is not as consistent from dispatch to brake run as nemesis or saw, but I can't ever see myself tiring of the first drop and the outer bank exit which are like nothing else in the UK.

I was actually wondering if they had dialled back the trim brakes now that the splashdown seems to have been abandoned so that the final sequence is actually decent?

I'm also not a big fan of theming rides and prefer to let the ride speak for itself so Hyperia with it's understated theme works for me.

So number one for Hyperia by a good margin then Swarm and Nemesis Reborn for me.
 
I went on it a few weeks back, and managed to get on it in 3 positions, 2nd row, midway down and the back row,
The first time I went on it was the back row, and throughout the layout, the airtime/hangtime is amazing, and I have never been on a ride similar, I definatly enjoyed the layout, and I honestly prefer it over the b and m hyper I have been on (mako), when I went on mako I recall it having airtime, but for me the layout felt a bit repetitive, with it being just hill after hill, with a few turns, but hyperia's layout felt much more unique and it all felt very differnt, but worked really well.
I don't really have a number 1 coaster as I like differnt parts of each coaster and I find that depending on the day can depend how much I enjoy a certain coaster depending also on what I feel like, but I would say it is definatly up there near the top.
 
I do wonder if the trims can actually be turned off or massively turned down, which would allow the returning trains to hit the final brakes much quicker, hopefully eliminating the issue of trains taking an age to crawl back to the station, or if it would just tear the track/train apart.
 
Poisson said:
I do wonder if the trims can actually be turned off or massively turned down, which would allow the returning trains to hit the final brakes much quicker, hopefully eliminating the issue of trains taking an age to crawl back to the station, or if it would just tear the track/train apart.
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From what i have seen they can be reduced, but not actively since there is no way for the ride computer to rase/lower the fins, but the brake fins could be removed by maitanence reducing the amount of braking. They probably could do something similar on the brake run (although there is probably a reason they have so many brake fins and mack would have to approve the removal of them)
 
Now I've ridden Hyperia, I'm changing my answer to an emphatic yes! No other UK coaster provides sustained weightlessness quite like that, and some of those elements are something to behold; the first drop, the non-inverting Immelmann and the outerbank into the inversion are three absolutely world-class elements, and as a sequence, that successive trio of elements is absolute perfection!

Yes, it's not the longest coaster in the world, but the length didn't bother me one bit. The negative g-forces and speed are so, so good on there, and the fact that every element hits and hits hard makes Hyperia an absolutely sublime coaster for me! It's easily my favourite UK coaster, and it sits in my overall top 5! We're lucky to have such a phenomenal ride in this country!
 
A couple of better *rides* but not sure about rollercoasters. Nemesis and Grand National would be the only two contenders - and maybe they just draw level.
 
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Poisson said:
floater airtime does nothing,
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The final air time hill and the stall are the only elements that fall into the 'floater/flojector' category, the rest is ejector and sideways ejector

The outer bank, according to one reading has rider's experience -1.4G
 
No. It's top 3 but unfortunately it's too short (for the ride type and the speed). The rubbish theming and finish to the ride area detracts from it also.
 
Hyperia is awesome with its smooth, high-speed thrills and those crazy airtime moments. If you love intense coasters, it’s a must-ride.
 
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