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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

I’m not sure this sounds likely to be true.

Surely they can’t just take a lift hill from another already fabricated ride? These track pieces are bespokely fabricated for each installation, and seeing as the abandoned Mack coaster in Dubai is a Flash clone, if I’m not wrong, it would be about 40ft too short to be for Hyperia!

Besides, the ride is still in storage at Dubai Parks and Resorts. Some day, they might want to build it or sell it on as a whole buildable ride, and I’m sure they wouldn’t have been too happy to give Thorpe their lift hill and not the rest of it if that was the case!
 
I’m sorry, but I find the whole lift hill being from Dubai is certainly hard to believe. It’s specifically 236ft so they could spite The Big One, and the elements and supports would have been designed for Thorpe’s layout and terrain. I’m not an engineer but that sounds like something they’d obviously have to design the lift around.

There was a rumour that the lift hill motor itself was from Six Flags Dubai, therefore I assume that this is a rumour that’s been regurgitated and the host just happened to interpret it to just ‘lift hill’. Not sure if hearsay facts should be shared on a guided, paid tour as it gives a false validity to the rumour.
 
Bert2theSpark said:
I’m sorry, but I find the whole lift hill being from Dubai is certainly hard to believe. It’s specifically 236ft so they could spite The Big One, and the elements and supports would have been designed for Thorpe’s layout and terrain. I’m not an engineer but that sounds like something they’d obviously have to design the lift around.

There was a rumour that the lift hill motor itself was from Six Flags Dubai, therefore I assume that this is a rumour that’s been regurgitated and the host just happened to interpret it to just ‘lift hill’. Not sure if hearsay facts should be shared on a guided, paid tour as it gives a false validity to the rumour.
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It's 23ft taller than PMBO, that's a fair bit just to spite
 
Poisson said:
I could claim I am 47ft tall. Baseless claims are just that.
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But even still, 235ft is the Big One height a casual visitor would see marketed and likely believe.

Anyone who doesn’t look at the likes of RCDB would have no reason to disbelieve Blackpool’s 235ft claim, so had Thorpe built Hyperia shorter and claimed it was the tallest roller coaster in the UK, someone might have looked at their marketing, gone “the Big One is taller” and reported them to the ASA for false advertising or similar. (If you think someone wouldn’t report them, remember back to the whole palaver around Wicker Man’s “wood and fire” claim!)
 
Thorpe wouldn't have anything to fear in that scenario, they'd have been entirely truthful and in no way misleading. Whilst choosing to build a 236ft tall coaster is arguably a spite move I'm not sure if wouldn't have been much more so if they'd gone for something like 225ft and heavily pushed the UKs tallest marketing angle whilst repeatedly stating the height, essentially goading BPB into a response whilst safe in the knowledge that everything they were saying was 100% true.
 
John said:
Thorpe wouldn't have anything to fear in that scenario, they'd have been entirely truthful and in no way misleading. Whilst choosing to build a 236ft tall coaster is arguably a spite move I'm not sure if wouldn't have been much more so if they'd gone for something like 225ft and heavily pushed the UKs tallest marketing angle whilst repeatedly stating the height, essentially goading BPB into a response whilst safe in the knowledge that everything they were saying was 100% true.
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Really Pleasure Beach should be leaning into Big One is the longest coaster which is factually true something Thorpe cannot compete with
 
Do we have the layout of the scrapped coaster? If the lift hills were at different angles, we can throw out the stair theory - the stairs wouldn’t be level on Hyperia if so, and they of course, must be level.

They wouldn’t install wonky steps on.
 
The photo shown of Hyperia is from what looks like a handrail on the catwalk.

The photo a few posts later, showing coaster track sitting on the ground, also has white catwalks and handrails....

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Even if it was from that ride, which it probably isnt. The fact that Hyperias paint and primer has worn away on that specific part, to show some of the undercoat red primer proves nothing, because the catwalks on the cancelled coaster were white anyway. As the picture above shows.

The internet makes my brain hurt sometimes.
 
Stealth has been added once again to the ride availability page, and is set to be closed 6,7,8th August.

It’s been having a few issues this season, just like Rita.

Was having issues when I went Saturday. Kept opening and closing in the morning. We waited for it to open at lunch, it opened and we got on the 2nd train, they sent one more train and it broke again. and we got evac from queue. Opened about 2 hours later on 1 train for the rest of the day.
 
djtruefitt said:
Stealth has been added once again to the ride availability page, and is set to be closed 6,7,8th August.

It’s been having a few issues this season, just like Rita.

Was having issues when I went Saturday. Kept opening and closing in the morning. We waited for it to open at lunch, it opened and we got on the 2nd train, they sent one more train and it broke again. and we got evac from queue. Opened about 2 hours later on 1 train for the rest of the day.
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Similar story when I was there Saturday and Sunday last week.
 
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