At Thorpe Park, Calgary Stampede has recently closed for the season and is being deconstructed in preparation for the installation of Samurai from Chessington. Signs have gone up on the entry bridge advertising the relocated ride, which remains nameless for now. Notice the fairground style control box that was disguised [...]
On 20th August, Thorpe Park submitted a Medium Term Development Plan (MTDP) to Runnymede Council. The plan sets out the vision for development at the park until 2009, and provides the framework within which more detailed planning applications will follow. Attraction Source explores the main features of the plan and [...]
Despite various rumours over the last couple of years, it is now confirmed that Samurai, the Mondial Topscan from Chessington will be moving to Thorpe Park. The ride will replace the ageing Calgary Stampede and be themed accordingly with the Lost City. This controversial move strengthens the target markets of [...]
The Premier Screaming event and opening day were both a huge success. Friday evening was much busier than last year, and Saturday attracted over 11,000 people to the park. Nemesis Inferno's waiting time peaked at an hour and a half, while Colossus had over a three hour queue due to [...]
As the opening of Nemesis Inferno and the 2003 season approaches, here is a pre-season update. The new Extreme Games area is under construction, built on the former site of nice landscaped pirates eating area. Some of the tallest supports on Colossus have been power washed to remove the oil [...]
Colossus at Thorpe Park has recently experienced lengthy periods of downtime We believe that there must have been an incident involving clearance. Temporary looking metal plates have been added to the sides of the trains to stop guests extending their legs out. The plates do not affect the ride experience, [...]
It's certainly a busy closed season at Thorpe Park, with multiple attraction projects in progress. Colossus has now taken its first test riders as part of the commissioning process. Construction is starting to come to an end, ready for guests in March. Many areas of the park are undergoing improvements. [...]
Thorpe Park is currently a hive of construction activity, with two major attraction projects currently under construction. Recently we heard that Thorpe Park will be receiving a second major roller coaster in the space of two years. Opening in 2003, Project Calypso will be a B&M Inverted coaster, similar to [...]
Today, the last piece of track was put in to place on Colossus at Thorpe Park. Installed was the maintenance track, brake run and transfer section. There is still a lot of work to do, but this is a major milestone for the project. In other news, it has been [...]
While not advertised, there's been quite a few small events recently happening at Thorpe Park. We visited this weekend and took a few photos of the Ski Fly show at the back of the park, and the Blue's Brothers performing in Amity Cove. They certainly added to the enjoyable summer [...]
A shipment of track and supports for Project Odyssey at Thorpe Park arrived this week, with vertical construction commencing soon. The coaster has been named 'Colossus' which is strange for a ride of its type, but we assume Tussauds are basing that on the number of inversions instead of height [...]
Vortex finally arrived at Thorpe Park this morning and as of 6pm, the four legs had been bolted down and were about to be lifted up into position. We don't have any news on an opening, but there is certainly some urgency to have it up and running, as the [...]
