Marc

Looks like they maybe installing some water fountains in the queue maybe? (Not my photo!)

The FAQ’s mention working at 236 ft and heavy machinery maybe affecting Saw / Samurai so I would assume it’s something to do with the lift hill which they want to look at / replace. Be interesting to see if anything noticeable changes!

I don’t think it’s fair to accuse someone of lying, there is a human behind them tweets rather than “Thorpe park”, maybe the tweets should have pointed to the information in the app that states the queues will close early but don’t think it’s fair to be calling them liars. They seem to close the queue so that the ride isn’t operating too long after park close, for what ever reason that is, so I suspect that makes it very hard to actually give a time it will close, when I joined around 8:25 there was lots of people congregating around the entrance / area to try jump In for that last ride so I do see why it’s difficult in that respect to set a time well in advance.

I think if the queue is going to close early it’s not something they will ever announce a time for, for what ever reason they seem to not want it to run that long after closing time, I guess it’s just something we will have to live with this season, I’ve no doubt it will receive lots of work over winter and hopefully they will avoid things like this, as afterall Hyperia is the exception, generally the park never closes rides earlier unless they really have to.

I do think communicating it is a difficult one, they do make it clear at the park entrance, at the ride entrance and on the app / website that Hyperia queue lines will close earlier than advertised park close, it seems when they do choose to close it early they close it so the ride will clear just after park close, the last rides went around about 9:20 this evening. I get why people get upset over it but it is the exception, Thorpe as a rule never really do this so I do trust they have their reasons for not wanting it to have a huge queue at the end of the day - I suspect come next year this won’t be an issue anymore.

To be fair it was reduced to one train on press night also, then after running till 10:30 open day it didn’t open for 2 weeks! I guess maybe the maintenance to the trains is taking longer whilst it’s new, it’s also possible they are using the time to work on the trains to try improve it’s reliability / risk of stalling etc.

I wonder if it starts to get hard to get parts for Detonator we could see it get replaced with a new taller drop tower? Agree with the comments detonator is one of the better drop towers, although now it’s had its pistons which push you down removed there is a bit of a noticeable difference to how it used it be back in the day. What with Stealth and now Hyperia I wonder if they could push their luck abit and get permission to build a 200ft + tower.

It seems deliberate, there’s a huge shift in how they are communicating from the first lot of down time to now, there was a big deal and tonnes of info when it went down and again when it reopened, this time there’s just been one post about it closing and other than an unadvertised change on their website no fanfare around it reopening either. Looks like it’s been testing tonight with the train full of water dummies, last weekend its first few tests only had 3 rows of dummies. Mack really need to come up with a solution, not being able to send an empty train isn’t really a great way to operate long term.

I went down last night at around 8pm and there was lots of people around Hyperia (mostly seemed third party companies), I am assuming they were going to try get the train removed overnight but maybe didn’t manage, will be interesting to see how much of the train is left there today.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the trains taken off tonight and opens tomorrow (on one train) - but that’s just a guess. Im not surprised it stalled here - it goes very slowly since the lift has been slightly slowed down, even at 5pm after running all day an empty train is very slow round this section. Not really sure on the solution, It’s not really practical to never send an empty train, they have been doing morning tests with dummies but obviously they have to be removed before it opens. Maybe mack can work to get the lift hill up to to full speed again which does seem to make a difference.

As far as I know only inferno has seats designed for bigger chest measurements. Not actually seen anyone not get on Hyperia yet, all seats are the same size.

It’s been running flawlessly today so far, opened maybe 10/15 mins late, hasn’t had a moments down time, hopefully it continues this way! Queue is currently just within the main queue advertised at 75 mins.

I’d expect the park are hoping to reopen it tomorrow, as Josh said it was testing all day after its shutdown this morning, I think Mack may even still be around (although not certain!) - fingers crossed these are just teething issues we would have seen a few weeks ago if it didn’t have its couple of weeks down! Will say after it closed and queue was evacuated the park were pretty good at communicating, the app pinged a notification that the return guarantee had been activated and park wide announcements then followed. A couple of hours later when hyperia started to test and a crowd started to form they used the app again to send a push notification to inform everyone the ride would not reopen, obviously not good but was a good use of some of the tech they have to hand to communicate with people around the park. Does seem a decision has been made to just use pre record announcements at Hyperia - fingers crossed when it beds in it becomes less of an issue.

Seems like they are trying to replicate conditions as close to open day as they can, hopefully if all goes well will see an announcement very soon.

Plenty of people are complaining at the lack of updates on TT2 - in other words people will complaining regardless! Hopefully will open in next few days