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Thorpe Park 2015 Coaster?
Alastair
TS Team
B&M 4D will be the next AT coaster. I think a hypercoaster with plenty of airtime is probably on the cards - wouldn't be anything like Stealth yet would draw in the crowds as it would be comparable in height to the PMBO. Perhaps a B&M hyper? Or a Bizarro style Intamin?
CoasterCrazyChris
TS Member
While Merlin are in charge, we will never see a proper flat ride installed again.
I don't think they see them as viable investments.
Not to mention the maintenance, a word you will never find in the Merlin ethos.
I don't think they see them as viable investments.
Not to mention the maintenance, a word you will never find in the Merlin ethos.
A
Anonymous
The development manager at Thorpe, providing he's not left, fell in love with Maverick and iSpeed when he rode them, so I would assume something along those lines from Intamin.
He was also known to like the Air Race from Zamperla, which, could make a good filler year and be tied in with The Swarm quite easily.
He was also known to like the Air Race from Zamperla, which, could make a good filler year and be tied in with The Swarm quite easily.
TheMan
TS Member
Jared said:
2 Intamin launches? They do seem very highly regarded, but again, the debate about would a wing rider and 4D look similar pales away when you put a Blitz and Stealth alongside each other.
It's quite a tough choice to get this right I think.
RustyRider
TS Member
TheMan said:
Regarding ispeed, you have a point as both stealth and ispeed have a launch and top hat. That pretty much rules out a launched blitz coaster, maverick on the other hand has a lsm lift hill which would differentiate stealth and a blitz...
Back to my egf comment.
Egf is only 170 ft, so I'd say within the Thorpe height bracket, and is regarded one of the best coasters in the world.
The park also doesn't have much budget and the operations terrible and its still phenomenal. so I'm sure it will take a lot for Merlin to cock it up
Egf clone or similar would be amazing.
Egf is only 170 ft, so I'd say within the Thorpe height bracket, and is regarded one of the best coasters in the world.
The park also doesn't have much budget and the operations terrible and its still phenomenal. so I'm sure it will take a lot for Merlin to cock it up
Egf clone or similar would be amazing.
EuroSatch
TS Member
Re: Re: Thorpe Park 2015 Coaster?
I really hope that remains rumour, as it would be completely counter productive and awful business sense. No one visiting park, so we wont pay into capital expenditure to give something for people to visit for...
That plan above doesn't make any sense - I can't work out a reference for it
Dave said:
I really hope that remains rumour, as it would be completely counter productive and awful business sense. No one visiting park, so we wont pay into capital expenditure to give something for people to visit for...
That plan above doesn't make any sense - I can't work out a reference for it
djtruefitt
TS Team
In the planning documents for the Crash Pad it stated that the next coaster had been pushed back a year. So I guess that means it would be 2016.
djtruefitt
TS Team
Infact ignore me, I think it could well have been the plans for the billboard! Stating that the Swarm hadn't been a massive success which is why they were adding the billboard, and that the next coaster was delayed.
I'm pretty sure I have read it on some Thorpe planning documents.
I'm pretty sure I have read it on some Thorpe planning documents.
RollercoasterGEEK100
TS Member
Lets hope its something, Fast, Intense and airtime!
There's a fair bit of ambiguity about whether or not the next coaster will open in 2015 or 2016 in the plans..
This is a screen cap from the Snoozebox applications.
The generally referred to (in the MTDP) "2015" coaster can go up to 50m, and would either go on Island A (next to Swarm / behing Stealth) or Island E (where the Snoozeboxes are). It does however say that the "2015" coaster on Area E may not be built until 2016.
The thing is, the Snoozeboxes are going to be there until February 2016. If a coaster was to be built for the 2016 season on Island E, it would of course be constructed during 2015 - would Snoozebox guests want to sleep on the same plot of land as a construction site? No. So, really, a coaster wouldn't open there until 2017 at the earliest.
The fact that it says the Snoozeboxes won't affect the coaster development would surely mean then that they'd want to use the island next to Swarm for the next coaster (which also makes more sense considering how obvious it is to everyone from Swarm)? There's nothing to suggest that the coaster on Island A is to be delayed per se, but it doesn't seem exactly convincing that the next coaster will be in 2015. I do remember reading somewhere else on the Snoozebox application that the park do want to focus of their accomodation strategy though, which could be a reason for delaying the coaster for a year.
The application for Swarm's billboard stated that there had been a poor response to marketing (despite actual ride reaction being positive), and so the "thrill factor" of the ride had to be increased, as so to bring more people to the park. Whilst the park aren't doing as well as they'd want to be doing, they're more pinpointing that to a poor response to marketing, as opposed to actual failures of the park itself.
As for what the next coaster will be, there's absolutely no indications whatsoever what it could be. The MTDP only shows mock layouts to give an indication of size to the council and there's no rumours really about deals with manufacturers or anything like that.
This is a screen cap from the Snoozebox applications.
The generally referred to (in the MTDP) "2015" coaster can go up to 50m, and would either go on Island A (next to Swarm / behing Stealth) or Island E (where the Snoozeboxes are). It does however say that the "2015" coaster on Area E may not be built until 2016.
The thing is, the Snoozeboxes are going to be there until February 2016. If a coaster was to be built for the 2016 season on Island E, it would of course be constructed during 2015 - would Snoozebox guests want to sleep on the same plot of land as a construction site? No. So, really, a coaster wouldn't open there until 2017 at the earliest.
The fact that it says the Snoozeboxes won't affect the coaster development would surely mean then that they'd want to use the island next to Swarm for the next coaster (which also makes more sense considering how obvious it is to everyone from Swarm)? There's nothing to suggest that the coaster on Island A is to be delayed per se, but it doesn't seem exactly convincing that the next coaster will be in 2015. I do remember reading somewhere else on the Snoozebox application that the park do want to focus of their accomodation strategy though, which could be a reason for delaying the coaster for a year.
The application for Swarm's billboard stated that there had been a poor response to marketing (despite actual ride reaction being positive), and so the "thrill factor" of the ride had to be increased, as so to bring more people to the park. Whilst the park aren't doing as well as they'd want to be doing, they're more pinpointing that to a poor response to marketing, as opposed to actual failures of the park itself.
As for what the next coaster will be, there's absolutely no indications whatsoever what it could be. The MTDP only shows mock layouts to give an indication of size to the council and there's no rumours really about deals with manufacturers or anything like that.