The sun continued to shine in England after a night of thunder and lighting in my corner of the country, which did nothing to aid my sleep prior to a two-hour drive to Thorpe Park. But then Dave just had to deal with stifling heat prior to his twenty-minute drive to Thorpe Park.
The purpose of the visit – aside for meeting up for the first time after many long months of infantile online sniggering and double-entdres was to ride the new coast Stealth. Planning it on a work day during school term meant short queues of about 5 minutes or so for most rides.
Along the way we encountered many wonderful thing:
The entrance – Main Street Station it ain’t
Additional themeing past the turnstiles and down from the walkway was a random American Fire Car. Purpose unknown.
Whilst you should not go comparing a regular theme park to Disney, you just can’t help it:
Kali Lite
Burger King Frontierland Style
Main Street Emporium
Checkout the rot and decay on that sign! Also, photos can not do justice to sheer awfulness of the products available to purchase inside. The most classy thing in there was a fake dog turd.
On the plus side they have some fun coasters there:
The Protein Spill:
Nemesis Inferno was one ride we had a ten minute delay waiting to board “for cleaning purposes”. It’s a short ride, but it throws you around a lot. Dave spotted a Guinness Book Of Records Certificate in the control booth – for most naked people on a roller coaster. I don’t see that ever being beaten on Expedition Everest!
Colossus
This was the world’s first ten-inversion coaster.
There are a bunch of them here:
What really works on this corkscrew section is that is slows down for it!
This metal pyramid houses the mysteriously named “X:/ No Way Out”
It’s a coaster in the dark. But it’s no Space Mountain. The queue themeing consisted of black painted walls, scratched graffiti, little light and the odd bit of silver duct tape. The Ride itself is the “World’s Only Backwards Rollercoaster”. Sad to say, it’s just plain backwards. It starts to go then stops for no reason, then starts again and stops again about four or five times. This is NOT a malfunction, it is how it was designed.
X:\ No Way Again gets the B&O Double Thumbs Down Worst Excuse For A Roller Coaster Ever Award
The purpose of the visit – aside for meeting up for the first time after many long months of infantile online sniggering and double-entdres was to ride the new coast Stealth. Planning it on a work day during school term meant short queues of about 5 minutes or so for most rides.
Along the way we encountered many wonderful thing:
The entrance – Main Street Station it ain’t
Additional themeing past the turnstiles and down from the walkway was a random American Fire Car. Purpose unknown.
Whilst you should not go comparing a regular theme park to Disney, you just can’t help it:
Kali Lite
Burger King Frontierland Style
Main Street Emporium
Checkout the rot and decay on that sign! Also, photos can not do justice to sheer awfulness of the products available to purchase inside. The most classy thing in there was a fake dog turd.
On the plus side they have some fun coasters there:
The Protein Spill:
Nemesis Inferno was one ride we had a ten minute delay waiting to board “for cleaning purposes”. It’s a short ride, but it throws you around a lot. Dave spotted a Guinness Book Of Records Certificate in the control booth – for most naked people on a roller coaster. I don’t see that ever being beaten on Expedition Everest!
Colossus
This was the world’s first ten-inversion coaster.
There are a bunch of them here:
What really works on this corkscrew section is that is slows down for it!
This metal pyramid houses the mysteriously named “X:/ No Way Out”
It’s a coaster in the dark. But it’s no Space Mountain. The queue themeing consisted of black painted walls, scratched graffiti, little light and the odd bit of silver duct tape. The Ride itself is the “World’s Only Backwards Rollercoaster”. Sad to say, it’s just plain backwards. It starts to go then stops for no reason, then starts again and stops again about four or five times. This is NOT a malfunction, it is how it was designed.
X:\ No Way Again gets the B&O Double Thumbs Down Worst Excuse For A Roller Coaster Ever Award
