JoelAllen

Whoa! Poor Stealth, get better soon 😭

She's had a few test runs today. Looking quite promising. The launch bunker doors were open the other day. Perhaps they've done a cable change too.

Though a different situation to last year (where Stealth effectively opened weeks into the season), it must be a concern for the park that for the second year running they've had early-season issues with Stealth.

The issues with hydraulic launches are well documented now. And one as powerful as Stealth will add to that complexity.

At the same time, Thorpe are well-versed in dealing with complex, unique and temperamental rides (for better or worse). So hopefully they're not thinking of giving it up yet. But equally, from a purely business perspective, if this keeps happening, one has to expect they'll at least consider changes to it.

Closed all day again today, no train on the track, a sign in the plaza and a member of staff letting people know, but that’s it 😭

It looks like Stealth has been having a few issues recently. It's not looking great. Hopefully it isn't too bad and the engineers have her fixed soon enough.

Something I've noticed with Zodiac testing is that its actually reaching the full 90 degrees height and staying at full height for a few seconds before it starts to lower again.

Haven't seen it reach full height in years! Will be interesting to see if it does that when it opens or if its just engineers running it in manual.

Zodiac has been doing a lot of testing so far this season so will likely re-open soon.

I do agree with your point though. I’d love to see Thorpe add some new flats rather than slowly losing them like we’ve seen at other parks.

Completely agree. Overall the park looks pretty fresh and they're on form operationally as we've come to expect the last few years. I'm disappointed the Colossus repaint wasn't finished though.

I know Thorpe had Hyperia but it does feel Thorpe has lacked ££ out of the merlin parks.

- Chessington has had a serious amount of investment the last few years. Jumanji, Paw Patrol land, and minecraft land next year.
- Towers has had Nemmy retrack, Toxicator, millions on skyride refurb, and new family coaster within the last 3 years.

Would love to see a new flat on the Slammer site next season to complement Hyperia, and a new major investment on the Rumba site or island behind Swarm before universal opening in 2031 would be fab.

I agree it is a huge shame that there is quite literally nothing going on.

Although to be fair over the last decade there has been a lot of rubbish advertised as “new” - the various year-round mazes and some of the events for example. The absence of those sort of things isn’t that bad in my opinion, and realistically something new isn’t needed every year. Not many parks do that do they.

In recent years they have also made a lot of improvements to the areas other than the rides - the toilets to name one example.
Thorpe is probably one of the (if not THE) best Merlin park in terms of general upkeep.

I agree though that it is a shame there doesn’t appear to be anything at all happening again. It’s been a few years now since they’ve been able to boast anything notably new.

I wonder if Colossus will finally be finished in the next couple of months at least? Despite all the cuts to spending at Merlin I’d at least expect that to be done before opening, as well as Zodoac getting sorted.

I wonder if the beach project will ever happen now? I can’t help but think the money would be better put towards a larger project.

Thanks for that, they were awaiting test and inspection on Wednesday.
 
Yesterday it was running.pretty well though at least three hiccups due to sensor issues.
 
All rides suspended in anticipation of a thunderstorm, which materialized mid afternoon.

Stealth is back open today 😃

Stealth is back open today 😃

Stealth is back open today 😃

First not-too-good day at Thorpe in a while it appears today.

Colossus is closed all day, and was yesterday.
Nemesis Inferno closed all day.
Stealth on one train.

Well having it closed will do no 'arm to the line up.

STEALTH HAS OFFICIALLY REOPENED!!

Saw it testing a few times today 

Me too! We'll see what happens from here

Good news! It's been testing consistently today (6 times)

Considering Rita took another 5 days or so to open after it was first testing again, I expect Stealth could be similar. It's encouraging to hear it testing on Saturday though!

Just to make it clear, Intamin have in no way stopped providing support for their Accelerators. Whilst it's true they don't offer the model any more (or at least, no one has considered doing so for over a decade), it in no way means they've washed their hands of it.
 
Thorpe/Merlin and Intamin maintain a respectable working relationship, and that is also related to the current issue(s).

SAW's station now has a brand new pre-boarding video on the TV. No longer loops Rules Of The Game like it used to.

For sure! Hopefully it’ll be back within the next few weeks

So to bring some additional clarity to the situation...
 
-The park are awaiting a part. This is evident by the fact staff aren't working on it actively. This means it'll be closed a while. Even when the part arrives, they will require time to test it. 
 
-It is likely a bigger / more expensive / specialist part, hence why the park didn't have one already. This takes time to acquire; it's not like they ring up Intamin and say "Can we have 1 [thing from catalogue] please?" and Intamin ship it out the next day from their warehouse either. 
 
-Time frame is unclear at the moment. How long is a piece of string. 
 
-Thorpe have no intention of getting rid of Stealth. 

Doesn’t look like it opened at all again today. Am going to the park tomorrow, so will take a look then