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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

Colossus isn’t too bad as long as you stick your head forward a bit. Yeah, you look like a vulture in the ride photo, but it is smoother and helps my little game of trying to make the worst ride photo of all time, a game best played as a single rider. Although, I would prefer to say I am simply saving my fellow riders money on ride photos.

The trains are very small though. I don’t think anyone would particularly mind if Colossus were to leave, but I’d hope it would still be themed to Lost City, as the landscaping is very nice. Imagine a multi-launch through the jungle! Wouldn’t that be fun?
 
I haven't attempted to get on Colossus in about 10 years so can't fully comment on how it's riding.

Could it be that it just needs new trains?

Stealth seems to be clinging on at the moment. Was down until about 3pm yesterday and then eventually opened on one train.
 
The_bup said:
The trains are very small though. I don’t think anyone would particularly mind if Colossus were to leave, but I’d hope it would still be themed to Lost City, as the landscaping is very nice. Imagine a multi-launch through the jungle! Wouldn’t that be fun?
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That sounds like a good idea, although it may be constrained by the existing landscaping as it was designed exclusively for Colossus.
 
RicketyCricket said:
I haven't attempted to get on Colossus in about 10 years so can't fully comment on how it's riding.

Could it be that it just needs new trains?

Stealth seems to be clinging on at the moment. Was down until about 3pm yesterday and then eventually opened on one train.
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Most Intamin trains of the era weren't great and I'm not sure you'd get clearance with the new trains.
 
BooMT said:
I used to have Colossus/SAW down as my roughest coaster experiences, then I rode Viking at Energylandia and required weeks of chiropractor care following 😂
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After doing Goudurix, Viking and Turbo (Brighton Pier) - Colossus and Saw are not too bad for me.

Colossus and Saw for me rank above a whole load of family coasters and then it goes onto Viking, Euro Coaster, Goudurix, Infusion, Skyways (Clarence Pier) followed lastly by a very well deserved bottom ranking for Turbo.

The moral of this story is if you think Colossus and Saw are rough, Turbo is another level. I thought I was gonna get concussion from that thing 🤕
 
Matt N said:
Hero was by no means comfortable, and I did find the cars and general setup absolutely grotesque, but it wasn’t quite as rough as I anticipated.

Infusion, on the other hand… wow, that thing is a headbasher!

To steer things back to Thorpe Park: I completely agree on Hyperia’s splashdown @LF22. It had such promise as an idea, but has been a complete damp squib in terms of execution; even when it worked, it was nigh on pointless as it was hidden behind a 7ft fence!

Incidentally; what were operations and dispatches like, if you don’t mind me asking?
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Hyperia broke down when we were in the queue. Started with the back soon message then it changed to say they wouldn’t be able to fix it imminently so to go and experience their other rides. We waited it out and it worked in our favour as it reopened after about 20/30 mins and we had been able to move forward a lot due to people giving up.

Dispatches were good - I assume they are only allowed one train out at a time on Hyperia - the majority of the time the train came out of the station as soon as the other train got back.

Stealth was open in the morning - we managed to walk on but then closed for hours. They did open it again later in the day. Tidal wave was also up and down.
 
LF22 said:
I assume they are only allowed one train out at a time on Hyperia - the majority of the time the train came out of the station as soon as the other train got back.
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Last Sunday they were dispatching trains on Hyperia as soon as one of them cleared the splashdown trim. This allowed them to attain roughly 920 pph, with an average dispatch time of around 78 seconds, which is something I haven't seen them achieve since the re-opening day last year.
 
The ride can apparently do 55 dispatches an hour (1,100pph), as this was supposedly achieved when an American enthusiast group hired the ride out for ERT a couple of months back. The group leader claimed that this was a record throughput for the ride.

I wouldn’t have expected this to be possible, but the planning application did say that the throughput was 1,050pph, so maybe I’m wrong? Well, I clearly am wrong if 55 dispatches per hour was attained during this ERT session as the group leader claimed over on CoasterForce.
 
Steve74 said:
EDIT: whoever likes this post is showing their age 🤣
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Didn’t know ID forgery got this easy.
One like and I’m straight off to the off license!

Matt N said:
The ride can apparently do 55 dispatches an hour (1,100pph), as this was supposedly achieved when an American enthusiast group hired the ride out for ERT a couple of months back. The group leader claimed that this was a record throughput for the ride.
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To be fair, staff are probably on their A game when the thing is rented out, and besides, I imagine everyone there was quite well versed in how coasters work, and (as stupid as it seems) know how to get their arses in the seats - quick. At least, they are probably a lot better at it than Thorpe's usual fickle clientele, as we like to say here.

I know it’s a bit late to do anything about it, but the lack of a drive tyre between the station and final brake run is agonising. You are forced to watch it roll into the station at the speed of a dehydrated snail, and then they play the over the top disco lights like that was the coolest thing you’ll ever see in your measly, pathetic life.

Looks. Slow.
 
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