Mr Nash
Hyper Poster
Easter Sunday trip report.
Arrived at the park around 11.15,and was greeted by a horrendous looking queue to get in,luckily enough,my friend had pre-booked his ticket online,and with my Annual Pass,we just strolled straight in. :--D
Knowing the park would be rammed,I decided to buy Fastrak tickets,the queue for this was quite long too,but about 15 mins later,we enter the park.First on the list was either Loggers or Tidal Wave,we decide on Loggers,and was quite surprised to see there was virtually no queue. :roll:.I like it,it's a nice fun ride,and the bump on the main drop litterally throws you up out the seat,and would have escaped realitively dry,apart from some horrible little brat on the water cannons getting me with a direct hit in the face. :evil:
Next up was Colossus,and we joined the Fastrak queue with about a 20 minute wait.Not sure what happened here but,it was really good.Probably the best ride I've had on it,didn't feel as rough as it normally is,and I remembered to stick my head forward,so no ear bashing whatsoever.Wow.
We then had about half an hour to kill before riding Inferno,so went to see what kind of queue Tidal Wave had.Again surprised to so no queue at all,we strolled straight into the station,and jumped on the first boat.Not sure if it matters where you sit,but we got back row,and was absolutely soaked,socks,pants the lot,I don't think there was one dry patch on me.I've got wet on it before,but never to this extent.As usual,the queue for the dryer was longer than for the ride itself,so we walked off dripping wet.
Inferno was next,and I wanted to do something at Thorpe that I had never done before.No,I don't mean enjoy myself,but ride very front row,which I did.Oh wow,it was awesome,the forces at the front were incredible.I've only ridden three Inverts,Inferno,Nemesis and Raptor,and of the three,Infernos always been in third place,but after riding front row,I'd say it's gone into second.I don't think I'd ride it in any other row again. :lol:
The last ride on our Fastrak list was XNWO,but having convinced my friend that it's a major pile of poo,we decide to do Rumba Rapids instead.I can now see what people are talking about with the water effects,they get you from all directions,it's getting almost as bad as Tidal Wave. :lol: Sometimes you can move to avoid getting hit,but not now,and especially from the waterfall over the tunnel,major soakage yet again.
So far,I'm soaked to the skin,at Thorpe park,and yet I'm having fun,serious wtf moment.........And then............
We now decide to do Stealth,the queue line is announcing a 120 minute wait,but we go ahead anyway.The queues moving quite steadily,and we are about an hour in,as I'm standing looking at my phone,the crowd starts jeering and clapping,and I hear a few "Oh knows",I look up to see Stealth has launched about 15 feet,the brake fins are up,and it's completely stopped.The usual announcements start and I can't help but laugh.I'd say we held out for about another 20 minutes,but the announcer kept saying,it's broke,don't know for how long blah blah blah,and with time running out,we abandoned the queue.
Now there was only one thing left to do,Saw.......
Got to the queue about 3.30,and noticed the board was displaying a 140 minute wait.About 20 minutes in,an announcement was made about general daily maintenence checks,and that the ride would be closed for about 5 minutes. :roll: Out comes a juggler to keep everybody entertained,(who was crap and kept dropping everything),and at least 20 minutes later,the ride restarted.I really don't know what the capicity of this ride should be,or how many cars were running,but my God,I've never been in such a slow moving queue.After queueing for about an hour and a half,and only just reaching the barbed wire fence section,there was another announcement.Because of queue jumpers,the ride was temporarily shutting down.Now seriously WTF!!!!!Yes queue jumping is bad,yes get them chucked out the park,but why shut down the ride.Had these queue jumpers got onto the tracks or something?.By this time people were getting seriously hacked off,some were kicking the fences,some were climbing up the fences to see how much queue was left,and the amount of people leaving and walking back through was huge.Although by now I'm seething,I did laugh when one girl walked back past us and said "What a complete and utter waste of two and a half ****ing hours" :lol: So another hour goes by,and we've got about as far as an asthmatic ant with heavy shopping, :lol: ,it's now six o'clock,and could see that there is at least another good hour or more of queueing,we just give up,and walk out disgusted.As much as I would have liked to ridden it,there's is no way on Earth I'm queueing four plus hours,just for a bloody Eurofighter.
So it was a good start,ruined by a bad finish.All those hours wasted queueing for Stealth and then Saw,and still not got on them,when I could have re-ridden Inferno front row again. :lol:
Ride Count
Loggers Leap x1
Colossus x1
Inferno x1
Rumba Rapids x1
Tidal Wave x1
Arrived at the park around 11.15,and was greeted by a horrendous looking queue to get in,luckily enough,my friend had pre-booked his ticket online,and with my Annual Pass,we just strolled straight in. :--D
Knowing the park would be rammed,I decided to buy Fastrak tickets,the queue for this was quite long too,but about 15 mins later,we enter the park.First on the list was either Loggers or Tidal Wave,we decide on Loggers,and was quite surprised to see there was virtually no queue. :roll:.I like it,it's a nice fun ride,and the bump on the main drop litterally throws you up out the seat,and would have escaped realitively dry,apart from some horrible little brat on the water cannons getting me with a direct hit in the face. :evil:
Next up was Colossus,and we joined the Fastrak queue with about a 20 minute wait.Not sure what happened here but,it was really good.Probably the best ride I've had on it,didn't feel as rough as it normally is,and I remembered to stick my head forward,so no ear bashing whatsoever.Wow.
We then had about half an hour to kill before riding Inferno,so went to see what kind of queue Tidal Wave had.Again surprised to so no queue at all,we strolled straight into the station,and jumped on the first boat.Not sure if it matters where you sit,but we got back row,and was absolutely soaked,socks,pants the lot,I don't think there was one dry patch on me.I've got wet on it before,but never to this extent.As usual,the queue for the dryer was longer than for the ride itself,so we walked off dripping wet.
Inferno was next,and I wanted to do something at Thorpe that I had never done before.No,I don't mean enjoy myself,but ride very front row,which I did.Oh wow,it was awesome,the forces at the front were incredible.I've only ridden three Inverts,Inferno,Nemesis and Raptor,and of the three,Infernos always been in third place,but after riding front row,I'd say it's gone into second.I don't think I'd ride it in any other row again. :lol:
The last ride on our Fastrak list was XNWO,but having convinced my friend that it's a major pile of poo,we decide to do Rumba Rapids instead.I can now see what people are talking about with the water effects,they get you from all directions,it's getting almost as bad as Tidal Wave. :lol: Sometimes you can move to avoid getting hit,but not now,and especially from the waterfall over the tunnel,major soakage yet again.
So far,I'm soaked to the skin,at Thorpe park,and yet I'm having fun,serious wtf moment.........And then............
We now decide to do Stealth,the queue line is announcing a 120 minute wait,but we go ahead anyway.The queues moving quite steadily,and we are about an hour in,as I'm standing looking at my phone,the crowd starts jeering and clapping,and I hear a few "Oh knows",I look up to see Stealth has launched about 15 feet,the brake fins are up,and it's completely stopped.The usual announcements start and I can't help but laugh.I'd say we held out for about another 20 minutes,but the announcer kept saying,it's broke,don't know for how long blah blah blah,and with time running out,we abandoned the queue.
Now there was only one thing left to do,Saw.......
Got to the queue about 3.30,and noticed the board was displaying a 140 minute wait.About 20 minutes in,an announcement was made about general daily maintenence checks,and that the ride would be closed for about 5 minutes. :roll: Out comes a juggler to keep everybody entertained,(who was crap and kept dropping everything),and at least 20 minutes later,the ride restarted.I really don't know what the capicity of this ride should be,or how many cars were running,but my God,I've never been in such a slow moving queue.After queueing for about an hour and a half,and only just reaching the barbed wire fence section,there was another announcement.Because of queue jumpers,the ride was temporarily shutting down.Now seriously WTF!!!!!Yes queue jumping is bad,yes get them chucked out the park,but why shut down the ride.Had these queue jumpers got onto the tracks or something?.By this time people were getting seriously hacked off,some were kicking the fences,some were climbing up the fences to see how much queue was left,and the amount of people leaving and walking back through was huge.Although by now I'm seething,I did laugh when one girl walked back past us and said "What a complete and utter waste of two and a half ****ing hours" :lol: So another hour goes by,and we've got about as far as an asthmatic ant with heavy shopping, :lol: ,it's now six o'clock,and could see that there is at least another good hour or more of queueing,we just give up,and walk out disgusted.As much as I would have liked to ridden it,there's is no way on Earth I'm queueing four plus hours,just for a bloody Eurofighter.
So it was a good start,ruined by a bad finish.All those hours wasted queueing for Stealth and then Saw,and still not got on them,when I could have re-ridden Inferno front row again. :lol:
Ride Count
Loggers Leap x1
Colossus x1
Inferno x1
Rumba Rapids x1
Tidal Wave x1
