Thorpe Park: General Discussion

[Thameslink Rail]

Just been looking on the Thorpe Park app and seen this photo: https://postimg.cc/p5DWmjJF is that Diana and Harry?

 

[Hid]

Were you there when Hyperia opened? What a shambles! There were SO many people and security came down and decided a plan of action but it didn’t help as everyone still pushed and shoved and ran. Surely they should just have the cattle pen fencing out for anyone that would like to queue/wait to see if it will open. It would be much fairer and safer.

It was the right decision for us to wait as we only waited 20 mins in the actual queue (around 40 mins for them to finish testing in the big crowd). The queue then jumped to 2.5 hours!

We tried to wait at the end of the day to see if we could get a ride in the dusk but at exactly 6pm it went down because of the wind. They did eventually get 2 more trains out but then had to stop again. 45 mins later they made an announcement that they weren’t going to attempt reopening.

Im sure I’ve read before about them walking you to another ride in that circumstance but no such luck today!

I think they handled Hypetia opening day pretty well they knew it would very popular so constructed a temporary line from Entrance to Hyperia I remember that day well. It was well organised unlike some opening Towers was charging of the bulls and Europa Parks Voltron opening was handled poorly having blocked off path allowed for bottle neck and lots of pushing

 

[GooseOnTheLoose]

Just been looking on the Thorpe Park app and seen this photo: https://postimg.cc/p5DWmjJF is that Diana and Harry?

On the Princess Diana Memorial Slide, yes.

 

[Matt N]

Were you there when Hyperia opened? What a shambles! There were SO many people and security came down and decided a plan of action but it didn’t help as everyone still pushed and shoved and ran. Surely they should just have the cattle pen fencing out for anyone that would like to queue/wait to see if it will open. It would be much fairer and safer.

It was the right decision for us to wait as we only waited 20 mins in the actual queue (around 40 mins for them to finish testing in the big crowd). The queue then jumped to 2.5 hours!

We tried to wait at the end of the day to see if we could get a ride in the dusk but at exactly 6pm it went down because of the wind. They did eventually get 2 more trains out but then had to stop again. 45 mins later they made an announcement that they weren’t going to attempt reopening.

Im sure I’ve read before about them walking you to another ride in that circumstance but no such luck today!

I arrived at Hyperia just before 2pm, and I did see it test with the water dummies spilling everywhere. I did notice it took an oddly long time for us to enter the actual queue when it opened… the disorganisation you describe would explain that!

I think I was a bit later than you (I saw it test from near Stealth after finishing a Burger King lunch and made a rushed beeline!). By the time I crossed the threshold of the entrance, the advertised queue time was 110 minutes, and from when the ride opened at around 2:10pm, I waited roughly 80 minutes in single rider (if you add on the time I watched it test for before it opened, this probably increases to 90-95 minutes; I was on the ride at about 3:30pm). As mentioned in here earlier, the ride briefly shut for wind for about 10-15 minutes, so I had that added element of jeopardy!

This is where I learned that Apple Weather is complete rubbish, because when Hyperia shut for wind while I was waiting for my first ride, Apple Weather said that gusts were 26mph, yet when I queued for a reride later on and Apple Weather said gusts were 36mph, Hyperia operated the whole time with only vague threats of “potential closure”… go figure!

I was a little luckier than you in reriding later on, though. I got on for a reride at about 5:50pm/5:55pm, and I was originally thinking of reriding something else and coming back to Hyperia at the very end… it sounds like I made the right call going straight there at just gone 4:30pm, even if I did wait 75 minutes in single rider for the reride! They were making vague threats about shutting while I was in the queue, but these never amounted to anything in my time around there.