Sidders
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Brilliant marketing from Thorpe. This more than counteracts from the awful Lez Cougan piss-take that occurred earlier in the week. -
And Nemesis Inferno and SAW are?
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This is going to be a very resounding win for Inferno.
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Is obsessed with Simon from Misfits.
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You're going to be popular here...
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Mark9 is cool and collected like a boss in this picture.
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Has a strange and mysterious defect that results in her fanny farting everytime a guy bites his lip in front of her
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Lauren... Topple Tower Tits.
Kevvy K go WOMP WOMP WOMP SCREEEEECH PSHHHH WOMP
Or the hair-pin dive into the second corkscrew. Or the bottom of the loop. Simply lovely elements. It's even better in the dark.
Well that's hardly large elements... But you're missing the point: Inferno has no gimmick and therefore in my opinion is a much nicer ride than any of Thorpe's others.I find Inferno intense, so don't tell me to "get real" if it's a personal experience you're not accustomed with.
Thorpe's running low on smoke machine funds then?
Just to add my opinion: Inferno's charm is not in what it tries to be on a more superficial level (what Thorpe and Merlin try to market it is), such as the link to the original Nemesis, but instead it's real beauty is in the more technical aspect of the ride and the ride experience. It's easily Thorpe's most reliable roller-coaster, not needing weeks/months of down-time a year; it's got Thorpe's best ride music; has Thorpe's best hourly throughput, is easily Thorpe's smoothest ride and, if you play it well, offers the most intense ride on park. It's simply a classy little B&M Inverted roller-coaster with no big, boastful record-holding claim to fame. It's a coaster that offers a smooth, enjoyable, well-paced ride with plenty of foot-choppers and closer contact with the scenery, without having to rely on gimmickry that's fast-expiring now that other parks are installing rides that belittle Thorpe's records. Next year, all that'll be left of Thorpe's coaster record will be an uncomfortable Intamin multi-looper, an average accelerator, and an Oblivion wannabe that got too excited for Halloween.Unlike Colossus, Stealth, Saw and even X:\No Way Out, it doesn't claim to be anything it's not, because there's no real marketing angle other than the link to Nemesis; sure it's a slightly generic coaster layout-wise, but you can't say Tussauds didn't at least try to theme it well - and it's a far more enjoyable and engrossing theme than Saw's sporadic, IP-assisted themeing. Colossus may have the most 'loops', Stealth may be the tallest and fastest or fastest accelerating or whatever; Saw may be the 'scariest', but Inferno claims to be none of those and exists as a modest little coaster simply doing the rounds for the general public with far more taste and concern for their neck and back muscles than all of Thorpe's other coasters put together.And as for Mark being able to cast a view of The Swarm without it having been built yet - well, he's on a far better ground to judge than any of us in this conversation because, you see, he's ridden Raptor.But yeah I'd also like to ask B&M if they still have the two other proposed plans for Thorpe's 2012 coaster. And is it possible that the coaster that appears on Island A on the MTDP was one of these original plans?
*imagines with corkscrew*
Got a lot of love for Theme UK with these updates.
PM an Admin (Marc or IanNem). Tell them what you'd like your new username to be and they'll change it when they have the time.
Hash-tags. Especially when people aren't on Twitter. Also, Twitter.
Who were the real masterminds behind the 'THORPE PARK Inversion'?
But they could do that with one Cougan, surely? I just don't see why they've done this all of a sudden instead of something a little more realistic. Why would the swarm want to turn victims into the same person? The one person who knows about their existence (other than the government). I liked the whole Google Earth-assisted hype video but this is incredibly cheap-looking and a tad uninventive - notice how all the Cougans appears to be squatting in the bushes at Thorpe Park?
Shame they're doing this after all the hype about Cougan being so realistic and generally going to town with the whole crack-pot in-the-know man with a few loose wires. Sure it means it's getting people involved but it strips away the realism of it all.
