Thorpe park 7/8 May - Pics included

Hi guys,
A couple of weeks ago me and a friend visited Thorpe park. We were kinda bored of the Dutch theme parks so we decided to cross the pond to the UK. And I'm glad we did, we started of at Amsterdam Intl. airport where a British airways flight was going to take us to London Heathrow, that's terminal 5, damn am I happy we didn't have any luggage except for our backpacks. When you only have that with you terminal 5 is actually quite relax.
Well Thorpe, I liked it very much. Up till now there's nothing to compare Stealths front seat with, the acceleration and speed are just phenomenal. I had the most credits on Nemesis Inferno, B&M sure squized an amazing ride in this tiny space, very forcefull and I loved it. So funny when it broke down on the first day with a huge line, everybody was walking away from it and just as we were passing by they opened it again.
colossus was a cool ride, although the barrel rolls were painfull as hell, I mean, when you're in one you just keep bouncing around in your restraints, but the overall ride was good. Then we did some of the other rides there such as Slammer, which broke down with me in it, luckely mechanics were just around the corner since it was braking down all day, so no long delays there. Rush was awesome too, too bad it has such a short program.
May 9th we decided to head over to London for a while to do some crash sight seeing. And that concluded our amazing days in England. I'll definately be back!


At Amsterdam airport.

Everybody should sleep here, why?

Because of these! [:D]

Colossus looks bad-ass from this point of view.

Cobra goodness

Happy people..

People in pain.

B&M sure knows how to built their inverts.[8D]

Alternative to a shower..

Another great part of the ride.

A well known picture but I still took it. [:D]

Emerging from the bush..

Yummy corckscrew goodness!

'Baby' droptower Detonator, still a great ride though..

Pretty place in the park.

It sure gives me a rush..!

Colossus tortureing people again.

Lifthill picture!

Colossus loopin'

I got three 'trains' in one pic..! and didn't even know when I took it.

You get screwed here..

Also loopin'

In the middle of nowhere with Loggers Leap.

Yeah... I'm running out of caps..

Good one for 'Guess the coaster' ..

I love my timing! [8)]

Zero-g awesomeness!

People soiling themselfs..

Colossus... again.

Big-ass Waterloo station.

Ben through the trees.

London Eye

Tha Thames and the other buildings and stuff..

Ben again..

Terminal 5

And that was it, back home in a loaded BA 767, lol. Flight attendents running around the plane and having to give everybody drinks and food in an half hour flight.

Well I had a great time, and I absolutely love England now, it was my first visit but I'll definately be back.

*If you happen to want a pic here only in a larger size, let me know. [;)]

Some great photos, this page takes ages to load though! In fact it still hasn't loaded.
I know what you mean about Colossus.

[TheArchitect]

shame they broke down that much! You obviously caught it on a bad day, nothings ever broken down while i've been there. Some rides havent been open on the days, but never a break down.

Glad you enjoyed it though. Hurry up with those pics!

Yeah I removed them, Ill upload some smaller ones. [;)]

//: done

can you send me the pict above, "yeah im running out of caps"? That would be awesome. austin@coastertalk.net

You should have it now. [:)]

Originally posted by Gav-

I'll definately be back.

ah crap [;)]

If this is the English hospitality I'm having second thoughts.

i'm only joking, we love you really, but not in that way..

Great [:P]

[gouldy]

The picture taken from "The Dome" looking across the park, where you've managed to capture the train on Stealh, Tidal Wave and Detonator at the same time, is a really really good photo! Not just because of getting the three trains in, but with the blue sky and stuff (probably the only blue sky seen this year in England ) Some other really nice photos too [;)]

Thanks mate. [:)]
Yeah man, it was really hot, we were just melting in the queues. But it's definately better then rain.

we had rain about 55% of the time when i was there, it was mostly the unseeable death rain which doesn't seem like much but drenches you after long enough. it was refreshing at times, i'm still annoyed that stealth, ruch and slammer were closed, the three which i really didn't want to be closed as well! but i conquered my fear of the X/:no way out restraints, which i am too thin to be safely held in, my friend was as thin as me so it was all good.

[gouldy]

Perhaps you should eat some more pies. Pies are good. Pies are the best

...Eat pies

Thorpe Park seems a great park to visit to me[:D]! I great diversity of coasters.. Nice pictures!![:D]

beautiful pics!! [:D]

Hey man, you took a lot of great pics! Thorpe looks like a lot of fun, I'm gonna have to go down and visit sometime. Also, could you send me "Also loopin'"? Thanks! montu_man889@hotmail.com

I made this crap compilation of Colossus, it isn't the best but I did't have that much material to work with. I've got tons of other footage to make a park compilation but I'll get to that some other time.


Fot better quality, click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zbpJ2Rm3mU and select high quality.
Check out my profile too, there are some random pov's to be found there. [;)]

that video was actually alright, right up 'til towards the end where it kinda ended in an anticlimactic splodge... those barrel rolls are great! so wierd and they throw you about in a good way.

i indeed need to eat more pies, perhaps i should go to the chip shop right now...

Yeah, that's where I ran out of footage. [:D]
And the barrel rolls, if you fit correctly in the restraints they are cool, but if not the bouncing around can get pretty annoying.

Eat pies, it's good.

well generally it's not my thin-ness, its that i bang my head on the restraints so i have to jam my head to one side on fast turns to avoid head trauma, or a headache the next day. corkscrew is the worst offender, this is gonna be goo- WHAMW!HAM!WHAM!WHAM! sore head+headache.

I second PIES. PIES are the best things in this country, yes.....better than Stealth.
Thorpe Park crops up a few times on the WWS UK Coaster Crew's meetings, so next time your thinking of coming, give Gazag or Rachael a shout they normally organise them.

Some awesome pictures dude, nice to see you had a good time too.

Thanks [:)]

I decided to make a park video after all, I found some time to do it. Although it's not that great I still want to share it with ya'll.



Or click here and use the high quality option, its way better then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbe31s_Ehwc