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6 years is a long time. Plenty of chance it does a London Resort.

Much excitement!!!!!

Genuinely the most exciting announcement European announcement in my lifetime. There's a long way to go of course but the prospect of this park is so exciting. I can see myself heading up there after work just to hang out in their version of city walk

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz95n2837vgo It's happening!

This is very true to be honest - Stealth has always been amazingly reliable, especially considering what it is. In fact I’d honestly say Thorpe in general have very good reliability (ignoring Hyperia of course) - their downtime only generally lasts a very short period of time doesn’t it.

It's restarted its silent protest at the removal of Kingda Ka.

They do have spare parts for certain things. But it is physically impossible for basically any park to have every spare part possible for a ride stored at the park.

It's strange that Thorpe hasn't ordered any spare sparts, as they should have done so months ago.

Yeah, no. Terrible idea. Intamin still manufacturer parts for their accelerators. And it's not like it's 'just' a piece of track, which any company can manufacturer fairly easily. Thorpe should 100% continue to order parts for Stealth from Intamin, and continue whatever maintenance programme they've followed the last few years. It's easy to forget, but it's been pretty damn reliable and consistent the past few years.

lancher the, launcher the, launcher the, STRINGS! then it's slow, and no, good, anymore, that was when you thought, what on earth, STRINGS! then downhill from then

Perhaps Taziker should make pets for Stealth, probably more for spare parts.

The downtime would imply they are waiting on a part. Was running well last Wednesday, other than a rollback in testing.

Anyone know what going on with stealth? Been down all day for the past few days now

I was lucky to experience a valley on Mandrill on Sunday, we just came to a stop at the boost launch area before the helix. I found it quite exciting as we would have to experience the rides swing launch to get it going again. I really enjoyed it as well. Mandrills launches are quite punchy as it is so going back and forth through the section was pretty satisfying. I am actually quite a big fan of Mandrill tbh, I've heard all the arguments about it being the wrong fit and whatever, however every time I go on it, it gives me a lot of joy and the queues for it never seem crazily unreasonable.The team always seem really on it when it comes to batching, loading and dispatching. It also has the B&M quirk of being incredibly reliable, 3.8% downtime for the last 7 days, and beaten only by Nemesis Reborn.

It seems to roll back more oftern at the start of the season, is there a reason for this? I remember the passholder day a couple of years ago where it rolled back twice that morning.

The usually reliable Queen seems to be having some down time... She did rollback during testing on Wednesday and then did open, but seems to have been down for the last few days.

Found an interesting YouTube channel by Disney Imagineering. Latest video here: We Call It Imagineering | Let's Ride

Got dragged/forced to the last You Me At Six gig tonight and they played The Swarm song. It amused me. Carry on.

Hyperia appears to have re-opened today on one train.

So didn't manage to get Hyperia today 😔 Had a surprisingly smooth ride on SAW. Nemesis is awesome and has aged like a fine wine. Did Stealth and Swarm, had a Burger King and a pint, and then went home. I do feel for the park, they have had issues with their last two installations (Derron and Hyperia).

That TPM article is a really good overview. I really feel for the staff at Thorpe, and the people at Mack who did all the complex work on the layout. This is clearly not what anyone wanted at all. Mistakes and unforeseen problems happen all the time. It’s unfortunate that this one has such an impact and is is so costly. I think it’s fair to say though that this has become quite urgent, and can’t continue for much longer. As has been mentioned above, brand reputation, for both Thorpe and Mack, is now on the line. Does anyone know if the train has been recovered yet?

Fingers crossed they can get the train off and reopen for tomorrow 😬

TPM post - https://www.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/index.php/2025/04/02/whats-happening-with-hyperia/ It covers all my thoughts anyway, but simply it does feel like there's some sort of miscalculation of Mack's part. That comes a little bit with the name of the game - they've pushed boundaries with the "stall" elements, and sooner or later, that was going to result in...well, stalls. But that is of course a non-engineer, non-expert opinion and could be way off what's actually happened. Whatever the cause, there's no quick fix - if there even is a fix - and it won't be cheap. I just hope that Thorpe, Merlin and Mack are able to work together to identify the issue, solution and deliver it.

What @Inferno said is spot on - Hyperia rapidly becomes known to the public as "the ride that's never open" - and then attendance falls and doesn't hit the expected returns Vs the investment, and then you end up waiting for another 12 years for the next big coaster again. Ok maybe that's an exaggeration, I think Dezza Brown the original white elephant didn't help there, but you get my point. As I said before, it really shouldn't be this much hassle getting on a sodding rollercoaster. First world problems and all that I know -June 11th and 12th 2024 is still a fresh wound 😛

It's quite apparent at this point that there is a fundamental flaw with the engineering and/or design of this ride, which falls squarely on Mack's shoulders. I certainly hope Thorpe are not paying them for any remedial action that needs to be taken.