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I got my 50th coaster this past week with The Wave at Drayton Manor. My first rollercoaster I ever rode was the Flying Fish at Thorpe Park. Although not a milestone coaster, my Hyperia count before the anniversary of my first ride this Saturday (14th June) was 122 rides.

Drayton Manor Trip Report The 7th June 2025, marked my first visit to Drayton Manor. I had fantastic company as I was joined with one of my best friends; @TalTheMajestic as it is their local theme park. I set off roughly at 6:30 from a rainy Surrey, picked up Tal at roughly 8:45, stopped for...

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I was quite shocked with the results of ESC this year, there were quite a few artists that were under scored by either the Jurys or the Televote. I voted for Sweden’s Bara Bada Bastu, it was easily the best performance of the night, and a mega catchy song. KAJ preformed it brilliantly.

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Paw Patrol is the confirmed IP for the replacement area of Mexicana.

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Hyperia has returned back to two train operation. Good to see that the engineering team were able to get the train back together again and signed off quickly, which will definitely help with the Easter Holidays.

The first time it happened, it was on the 19th June and it was back open on one train on the 22nd June, then the last time as mentioned above it valleyed on the 2nd October, and it was back open for the Fright Nights’ press night on Thursday 3rd October, then to the general public the next day...

The design flaw that the third element is taller than the second element would do that. (Edited due to compression: second element height: 43.9m, third element: 50.4m according to the plans) My curiosity now turns to which train was it that rolled back this time. - If it’s train 1, then it...

It got further up, the original video was recorded after the first valley it seems.

Hyperia has valleyed again empty, however this time it followed a shutdown, and had been running with riders till this moment.

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As expected, you will have needed to have climbed Colossus, Swarm or Oblivion prior to doing the Hyperia climb.

Th13teen :)