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I agree, it's a shame it's only half of the beach. I can't see this being done before Fright Nights now - the plans for that will already be under way, and that would only leave them 4 months to get it finished, which is possible of course but difficult given that it's in the middle of a busy operational theme park.

Apologies, this is massively pessimistic, but I very much suspect that the people who would arrange the sort of things you've listed there have probably all been made redundant... Even things like the start of season videos etc, and all the new 'super-transparency' stuff that the new brand was all about, has all been abandoned. Unfortunately it's always that sort of stuff that goes first when it comes to cost-cutting isn't it, in any business. It seems to be back to basics, which is a shame because there was a lot of good happening there.

Is the plan still to only do one side of the beach? I feel half doing the area will just leave it feeling a bit out of place (similar to how Galactica feels in FV currently but on a smaller scale of course) and seems like almost a waste of a good idea.

It seemed fine yesterday once it opened and got going - looking at the weather in that video it may have been from earlier in the season. It did shutdown after around a hour yesterday and ended up having its queue evaced but it did reopen around 3 and seemed to run ok rest of day - fingers crossed it can get back to running normally now!

I must confess myself surprised that the park didn't really do anything to acknowledge a year since Hyperia opened beyond a social media post (and ride staff wearing gold party hats, which they likely bought themselves). I'm not saying that the park had to do anything, or that they should have done anything. But last year, the park did a few things differently, such as the opening ceremony and handing out certificates to people who rode it opening day. They then did the "Hyperia day" celebration on 23rd June (23/6). It seemed like they were going in a direction of celebrating things, or pushing Hyperia in a different way. Now whether it's the Merlin restructure has meant that there's not the capacity to do that, they've lost a bit of confidence in Hyperia with its reliability issues, or they just never planned to do anything, we'll never know. But regardless of the why behind it, there's a part of me that is surprised they didn't really do anything. --- In other (vaguely related) news, Jack Silkstone / Thorpe are releasing a Hyperia documentary. I think the original plan was to release this yesterday (I'm certain Jack even said that at one point), but obviously that didn't happen...

This was approved this week: https://www.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/index.php/2025/05/25/project-pivot-approved/ Whether they decide to try and get it ready for Fright Nights or just wait until next year is the big question now

Been like that since October last year if I remember rightly lol

I spy a broken green light again 😜

Hurrah, ah, oh, hurry.

The Hyperia splashdown makes a return once again

That’s fantastic, it’s great to see Stealth open again 😊

She's back in operation now

Take a Quick Look at this video Jax. It’s almost like it’s not building up the right pressure for the launch. 31F45C20-7E08-461B-BCE8-E34E802B8789.mov

Unfortunately it’s closed again as it nearly rolled back. Let’s hope she reopens but it doesn’t look good 😒

WOO HOO!! Booking a return trip for the first week of June!

STEALTH HAS OFFICIALLY REOPENED!!

NEMESIS at Alton Towers Documentary | Building Europe’s First Inverted Coaster Brand new documentary courtesy of Euro Theme Park Archive. Really good!

Saw it testing a few times today

Thanks James

Doesn't look like it'll be opening today. Area still barried off, couple of people milling around. The music is off and not seen it testing yet either.

LIVE from the Blue Carpet! Universal Epic Universe Grand Opening Celebration Live feed starts at 10:45 tonight!

I'm not there today, but it hasn't opened. Unsure if it's been testing but it not open.

Anybody at the park today? Any sign of action or anything?

Me too! We'll see what happens from here

That's great to hear! Fingers crossed I've been missing Stealth!