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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

Secret Weapon said:
Ride Comparisons said that Hyperia was only running a single train today (ouch)


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Yes it was on one train all day and it was no fun to queue for at all! We waited 100 minutes for it at the end of the day; I think we calculated something ridiculous like 400 riders per hour.

It was a pity as in all other respects today was a perfect day to be at Thorpe Park - good weather, short queues and everything operating apart from Zodiac and Vortex (which was open briefly but then closed for the day). I am not sure what's happened to the second train but I really hope they sort it soon. Hyperia does too much heavy lifting in the park to be running on reduced capacity. If today had been a peak day it would have been mayhem.
 
NuttySquirrel said:
Yes it was on one train all day and it was no fun to queue for at all! We waited 100 minutes for it at the end of the day; I think we calculated something ridiculous like 400 riders per hour.

It was a pity as in all other respects today was a perfect day to be at Thorpe Park - good weather, short queues and everything operating apart from Zodiac and Vortex (which was open briefly but then closed for the day). I am not sure what's happened to the second train but I really hope they sort it soon. Hyperia does too much heavy lifting in the park to be running on reduced capacity. If today had been a peak day it would have been mayhem.
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I really don't see how Thorpe think its acceptable to run Hyperia on 1 train, I hope its not for long....
 
Doesn't help matters when you have a huge RAP and Fasttrack queue, I wonder how much of that 400ph was main queue.

Fasttrack was basically at the entrance at one point. I imagine the passholder 1 shots and the stupid decision to reduce the price of Fasttrack to £8 (down from £20 last season) 1 shot had a huge impact on that.
 
Yikes... that isn't ideal! It was manic enough on 2 trains yesterday, holding a queue of over an hour for most of the day!

Was everything else operating well and with good throughputs @NuttySquirrel?
 
Call_um said:
Doesn't help matters when you have a huge RAP and Fasttrack queue, I wonder how much of that 400ph was main queue.

Fasttrack was basically at the entrance at one point. I imagine the passholder 1 shots and the stupid decision to reduce the price of Fasttrack to £8 (down from £20 last season) 1 shot had a huge impact on that.
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The RAP queue was extremely long today, it wouldn't surprise me if I was far off the main queues length

At that point the people in the RAP queue may aswell have waited in the main queue...
 
Call_um said:
Doesn't help matters when you have a huge RAP and Fasttrack queue, I wonder how much of that 400ph was main queue.
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We didn't brave it until ten minutes before closing so after about 25 minutes it was all main queue. Had we joined earlier in the day it would have been over 2 hours I reckon. I think they shot themselves in the foot with Fast Track today - hard to know if those in the FT queue were Platinum Passholders or had purchased one-shot, but regardless they absolutely need a way to digitally manage fast-track capacity.

Matt N said:
Was everything else operating well and with good throughputs @NuttySquirrel?
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Yep everything else was generally pretty good. Slightly bizarre batching on Nemesis Inferno, with the batcher standing at the entrance to the station rather than at the airgates - it meant people were completely missing front row queue and annoyingly we weren't swift enough to notice before being batched to row 4. The batcher on Saw seemed to be struggling a bit to manage the single rider queue as well as main, and the baggage desk ran out of wristbands, so it was all a bit chaotic.
 
_tyl35 said:
I really don't see how Thorpe think its acceptable to run Hyperia on 1 train, I hope its not for long....
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I'm sure it was down to a technical issue rather than operational cost cutting, they did have signs up notifying riders of reduced capacity. It's not great though, like I said if it had been a peak day it would have got silly. It surprised me a little just how much one-train operations impacted queue times, on what was actually a pretty quiet day for the park. Really hope they get it sorted soon.
 
It's a shame they don't have a third train on standby in case one of the other two trains fail

Granted - you could say this about every ride, but Hyperia is unusually busy and important (for the forseeable future, at least)
 
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