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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

Just a little food for thought for you all... when Alton Towers announced the removal of The Flume during the off-season, there were signs up around the site promoting SW8 (Wicker Man) for 2018 by the time we got into the park for the 2016 season. Could a similar thing potentially occur here, but promoting a replacement for Loggers in 2020/2021? Of course no construction (presumably) will have occurred, but Towers didn't start removing The Flume until November 2016, so anything is possible, in my eyes!
 
Matt N said:
Just a little food for thought for you all... when Alton Towers announced the removal of The Flume during the off-season, there were signs up around the site promoting SW8 (Wicker Man) for 2018 by the time we got into the park for the 2016 season. Could a similar thing potentially occur here, but promoting a replacement for Loggers in 2020/2021? Of course no construction (presumably) will have occurred, but Towers didn't start removing The Flume until November 2016, so anything is possible, in my eyes!
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I hope you're right on this one, @Matt N - I'll let you know on the 23rd March.
 
Benjsh said:
Lots of people will naturally want the RMC and I totally get it. It would be awesome. However I'd personally love a huge GCI woodie on the scale of say Mystic Timbers or Wodan.

I also kind of selfishly want the first RMC in the UK to go to Towers. It's by far my fav Merlin park, despite it's issues, and it's much closer to where I live too so I get to visit more often and quite frankly.
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Whilst I think RMC make fantastic coasters, I think they are too bloody ugly for AT
 
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I’ve never thought of them as bad looking really, actually very photogenic, especially when they’ve got some great landscaping like Wildfire at Kolmården! :)
 
Brad97 said:
Couldn't care less about aesthetics - an RMC would be the best coaster in the UK, easily. I have no idea why anyone would be opposed to one.
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Not opposed to an RMC, it would be great, but height restrictions, planning restrictions, it would suck. Let all the uglies at Thorpe have it...

An RMC needs to be more than ten feet high.

Oops just realised, this is the Thorpe Park forum.

I'm blaming the lager!

Fosters too, please forgive me, I have no taste!
 
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Altonadvocate1 said:
Not opposed to an RMC, it would be great, but height restrictions, planning restrictions, it would suck. Let all the uglies at Thorpe have it...

An RMC needs to be more than ten feet high.

Oops just realised, this is the Thorpe Park forum.

I'm blaming the lager!

Fosters too, please forgive me, I have no taste!
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In an ideal world, SW9 will be a multi launch cross valley RMC, but it'll never happen.
 
An RMC has the potential to be great, sure, but I fear that it could be utter crap and people would still face south and pray to it because it's an RMC.

They need to implement a great layout using one before they can even have a sniff of what it'd be like to have the UK's best coaster.

Besides, we all know Loggers is getting replaced with a Fortnite themed HB Leisure game stall anyway.
 
Intamin prefab please, Thorpe. Always seemingly overlooked, but they’re a stunning ride.

Plus, if Intamin are there anyway, they can take Colossus back with them.

Like when Curry’s take your old knackered washing machine away with them, when they’re delivering your new one.
 
As great as an RMC would be at Thorpe, I would personally rather a B&M hyper. Now I know that might sound a little strange, but I think a B&M hyper would be a real crowd pleaser.

Also, Thorpe is the only UK park that could feasibly provide us with this type of ride, as most other parks in Britain are constrained by either money, space or planning restrictions. With an RMC, on the other hand; there are quite a few options for UK parks that could build one of those. With some imaginative placement, Alton or Blackpool could build one, or maybe even one of the smaller to mid-level parks e.g. Paultons, Drayton, Flamingoland could afford a Raptor or something.
 
Robert.W said:
But Thorpe are constrained by money. Cause Merlin :p
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What I mean is that Thorpe are less constrained by money than other UK parks. If they could afford DBGT, they could afford a B&M hyper, couldn't they?
 
Matt N said:
Even DBGT's original budget was said to be in the region of £30m, which could definitely buy a decent-size B&M hyper.
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Which begs the question why waste £30 million+ on DBGT when they could've had literally anything else?

They HAVE money, it's knowing what to do with it which is the issue...
 
The logic behind having an indoor dark ride attraction for 2016 was sound. The choice of what actually went in it was the mistake.

Merlin's marketing policies make it so hard to get a new attraction passed without some ridiculous gimmick or "innovative" concept. Ghost Train had both. Effectively a simulator on steroids with VR and Derren Brown thrown in to be more trendy and inline with their market research (which is always interpreted in the most face value way possible for some reason).

What started as a project to build an indoor attraction for people put off by big thrill coasters turned into Derren Brown's Ghost Train, the attraction with the 'most amount of restrictions ever' and a "phycological horror" element, sure to put off anyone below the age of 10. It's the exact same policies that led to the exact same mistaken in 2018 with the 'Year of the Walking Dead'.

They hear people want to be terrified and thrilled, then take it far too literally and forget to consider the whole park as a package. A great shame really.

As a side note: if the next thrill coaster is anything less than a wooden/hybrid around the Canada Creek woods it'd be a great waste.
 
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