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Hyperia was amazing and lived up to all of my expectations. The first drop and outer bank roll were two of the craziest sensations I've ever felt on a rollercoaster, Mack profiled those to perfection. The stall dive is fantastic, the immelman is forceful, and the final two hills are very fun...

Having thankfully held out on the 13th despite thinking we would be snubbed by the Hyperia closure. We managed to go on seemingly the quietest day of the summer and maged to comfortably get two rides on the 6 hour behemoth, while having time to circle through the rest of the park! Apologies in...

We just returned from a trip today, having thankfully held out as we already had the annual leave booked off. The growing pains of getting the ride up & running have evaporated. I don't think there was a moment of downtime today, despite the crew consistently dispatching the trains fast enough...

The same goes for Zamperla, frankly. The amount that they've had to do to fulfil this project is insane. They had the task of refurbishing, repurposing, and extending one of the tallest/fastest rides ever made, with seemingly little to no assistance from the original manufacturer. All of this as...

*Insert any political joke here*

I would presume that tomorrow, a Saturday of a bank holiday weekend at the start of half term, will be when the queue setup is truly tested. Getting such a high queue on a workday is already quite a feat.

My incredibly scientific analysis of this video yields 2 findings: 1) This shows off Hyperias scale better than any static video from the ground. It's hilarious to see how much the ride overshadows the rest of the park, but other footage just didn't get that across. 2) That first drop still...

It's a mixed message within the parks. But its so refreshing to see the "this is dangerous, our parks are full of dark secrets" mantra for advertising rides be dropped, particularly for a ride where that could have been exploited the most. The ride is already scary enough in concept: it's...

Couldn't agree more. Thorpe Park works great as an amusement park. Alton Towers can naturally achieve more immersion with each land because of how enclosed they are. Whereas there's no point in pretending you're by a volcano when you can see a flooded 50s town and a zombie outpost from the...

I already rambled in a trip report about it. But I found Nemesis Reborn to be quite disappointing. The theming that has been done varies from quite good to excellent, with the general re-styling of the other buildings in the area creating a nice cohesion around the ride. However, the mud-pits...

After getting spited out of our first ride on opening day, we made our way back to give it another go and further justify our merlin passes! We were successful in getting on the new-ish ride, though I can't say we felt we got an experience worthy of the renewal.... ...aaanyway, going through...

Oh, those look lovely. It fits well with the "modernised steampunk" style that they seem to be going for.

The amount of parking is just insane. America's car laws are such an influential oddity.

Does anyone happen to know who's working on the project (eg: a UK Universal Creative branch)? Just in case their design team might looking for underqualified engineers at the moment 😅.

Personally, I think it's a great idea. They're not trying to market themselves as for thrillseekers, and it appears much more fitting for a family-oriented lineup. If the cars are comfortable, then the softer theme and shutter ride type would make it an amazing step up coaster to lead towards AT.

I hope it's KumbaK! 😜

That was surprisingly long and committed, fair play!

https://x.com/THORPEPARK/status/1773002213377663043?s=20 Hyperia opens on the 24th of May

Thorpe Park is back open! Unfortunately the rides didn't quite seem to be ready to start a new season as our day was mostly spent navigating around breakdowns. Please enjoy my thoughts, along with the mediocre pics of Hyperia from around the park! Storm surge - 6/10 It's a fun filler ride...

It's in the pull-up after the Zero-G roll. So it's one of the more forceful spots on the ride at least.