Thorpe Park - Your Guide to the Thorpe Park Theme Park and Resort
Thorpe Park is a theme park located in Surrey, United Kingdom. It was built in 1979 on the site of a gravel pit which was partially flooded with the intention of creating a water based theme for the park.
Some of the major attractions at Thorpe Park include:
- Nemesis Inferno, Europe's first inverted roller coaster with interlocking corkscrews.
- Colossus, the world's first ten-inversion roller coaster.
- SAW: The Ride, the world's first horror movie themed roller coaster and the world's steepest freefall drop roller coaster.
- Stealth, a launched roller coaster which accelerates to 130 km/h (80 mph) in approximately 1.8 seconds.
- X:\ No Way Out, the world's first and only backwards in the dark roller coaster.
Loggers Leap, the largest log flume in the UK.
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Port Atlantis
Known more commonly as "The Dome", Port Atlantis has a marine theme. This building contains such essentials as guest services, shops, toilets, lockers, a bar and staff areas. It includes a large restaurant called 'The Glasshouse'. When the park initially opened this was known as the Mountbatten Pavilion.
Lost City
Lost City is the largest area in Thorpe Park, hosting the majority of the rides in the park. It is based around a Mayan temple/land. Home of Colossus, a roller coaster with 10 inversions built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin. Upon its opening in 2002, it broke the world record for the roller coaster with the most inversions.
Calypso Quay
Calypso Quay is home to Nemesis Inferno — a Bolliger & Mabillard inverted roller coaster. It is marketed as the 'sister' ride of the original Nemesis at Alton Towers, which is also a B&M inverted roller coaster, and a sign along the ride exit invites riders to visit Nemesis at Alton Towers. Themed as an escape from a volcano.
Canada Creek
Themed around a Canadian creek, this area is home to Loggers Leap — a log flume which is themed around logging in Canada. Features two drops (one indoors/underground). The larger of the two drops contains a straight section (double drop) which adds airtime to the ride. Currently the tallest Log Flume in the UK.
Amity Cove
Themed around a 1950s New-Hampshire fishing village devastated by a tidal wave. It has its own park radio station, WWTP radio, hosted by 'Big Bob'. Amity Cove is home to Stealth, Thorpe Park's newest roller coaster which opened in 2006. Stealth is an Accelerator Coaster designed by Intamin AG and features a hydraulic 80 mph (128 km/h) launch up a 205 ft top hat incline at approx 3gs, a vertical drop and a large "airtime" hill. Stealth has been upgraded to Stealth 1.1 for 2007. The upgrade is in the ride's acceleration. The ride now launches to 80mph in under 2 seconds as opposed to the previous 2.3 seconds at 80mph.
Ranger County
Ranger County is themed around the "Thorpe Park Rangers" mascots. Chief Ranger's Carousel is in Ranger County, containing figurines of the Thorpe Park rangers and vehicles themed as current and past rides. These include a Logger's Leap boat, a Thunder River boat, a Wicked Witches Haunt car, a Hudson River Rafters raft, a blue and green Flying Fish car, a Teacup from Teacup Twisters, a Viking Rowers boat and a Mr Elephant car (as well as traditional carousel horses). The area also contains "Calypso BBQ and Bar", a covered outdoor BBQ restaurant and "Jumpin' Juices" which sells fresh fruit juices.
Neptune's Kingdom
Themed around the mythical Neptune, this area is home to Depth Charge — a 40ft tall four lane water slide, in which riders sit in dinghies. The ride, when opened in 1991, was advertised as being the "World's First Four Lane Water Slide".
Octopus' Garden
Octopus Garden is a small aquatic-themed area with several small rides for very young children. There are currently seven rides in this area. The area also has a Donuts shop and an entrance to Thorpe Mega Store.
At Thorpe Park theme park you can unleash the dare devil within and take on the loops, spins, vertical drops and incredible speeds of some of the country’s biggest and most awesome roller coasters. Brave Stealth – Europe’s fastest and officially scariest rollercoaster – for super acceleration of 0 to 80mph in under two seconds! Colossus, the world’s first ten looping rollercoaster and Nemesis Inferno, a 4.5 G-Force experience. Get ready to venture into uncharted territories with Thorpe Park's Time Voyagers; a brand new 4-D movie experience!
Brave the unknown as you travel through time with Bix and Ting, your guides, as they pilot you into new worlds in search of a group of lost archaeologists. At Thorpe Park in Surrey you can experience all of these amazing rides and more with child, adult and family Thorpe Park tickets available here now from Computicket.co.uk. |