Matt N

I delved into the plans for Exodus and had a look when we might see things go vertical: https://thorpeparkmania.co.uk/news/28-08-2023/When+Might+Project+Exodus+go+Vertical
 
In short:
-Vertical construction looks set to start mid-next month
-Set to finish before Christmas
-Testing to happen from late January
-Potentially ready to open in time for Easter holidays

If it fits your plans, leave the more popular rides until lunch time, and split your refreshments into two breaks, if you must eat.
Stealth today had consistent queues of over one hour. Likewise Nemesis Inferno.
There is apparently an app. to access on the phone giving q times, but don't ask this dinosaur for more details on that.
If you are visiting on your own, try to let the staff know, it can help. Enjoy your day.
As Tactic suggests, and especially if there are plenty of coach loads, leave some of your favourites until after 4p.m..

QR code takes you here:
https://thorpe-park.leadfamly.com/project-exodus
The little fire bits floating around are called ember in the coding, I would be surprised if there was some fire in the branding considering Inferno is round the corner. Could be looking too much into things there, anyway...
 
Picture below from SLKSTN himself:

 
I don't really think "Thorpe Park" is needed on that sign - it does smack a little of a rush job, which would make sense if they couldn't register Icarus as previously mentioned...

Sorry for the double post.

Yup, Saw and/or Colossus as first ride of the day is always a good shout - they're both probably by far the coasters that get consistently large queues right from opening til' close, so makes sense to do them first imo. Stealth tends to maintain steady fairly low queues throughout the day from my own personal experience (depending on how the operations are on any given day) so doesn't really warrant to be your first ride of the day (unless you need that acceleration to wake you up!)
 
Avoid The Swarm like the plague first thing - much like Wicker Man at Towers, people tend to flock to The Swarm for the first ride of the day so your time is better spent elsewhere rather than waiting in a queue when Saw/Colossus could be a walk-on at rope drop!

I always hit saw and Colossus straight away then head to stealth after I’ve done those two. Colossus has always been a tricky one for me to get on if I don’t go on it straight away due to its abysmal capacity and inability to stay operating for more than about an hour at once 😂. 
 
I usually also leave inferno and swarm till the end of the day as by after 4 it seems both of them usually have very short queues.

I would say the Florida parks.  Haven't been since 2009.  Would love to get back out there at some point as there has been many additions since!

Thanks Josh, and others. 
There was a single riders queue on the right hand stairs a few years back, before they designated that as a "disabled access".
The stories of Rita and Stea!th being designed as one ride have some truth. Height restrictions at AT and space at TP resulted in the split. Who else feels the the drop from the top hat has wasted power/potential? So many riders go on about getting a "rollback" yet in reality it's a waste of ride time, though for those who have stood in the queue it would be like getting a double ride.

Where could a Single Rider Queue on Stealth go, out of interest?
 
In terms of removing Stealth; there are plenty of other development plots that the park could fill before touching Stealth, so unless the ride develops maintenance issues any time soon, I think we should be good for now!

As someone who's never been, Pleasurewood Hills looks broadly comparable to somewhere like Oakwood, but with weaker major coasters.
 
Don't get me wrong, I do have a soft spot for Oakwood, but I wouldn't like the park nearly as much if it didn't have a great major coaster like Megafobia at its centre and a decent-scale unique thrill coaster like Speed. It's a little hidden gem of a park, but it is definitely made by its coasters for me.
 
I could be being overly presumptuous, but to me, Pleasurewood Hills' coaster draws look vastly weaker than Oakwood's (the main draw I can think of is Wipeout, as I am mildly intrigued to ride a traditional Vekoma Boomerang, but I can get the same experience at numerous parks in Europe and ride numerous more compelling headliners in the same park). And when the park is a 4.5 hour drive away from me on a good run, it does make it a tough sell, unfortunately.

We went to Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, which is essentially just down the road and had a much better time. 
 
That place had atmosphere, a great variety of attractions and a lovely atmosphere amongst some standout rides. Even with the flume gone it was very enjoyable. 
 
Even in just eight years PWH has really become so dilapidated with so many areas rundown, closed or abandoned. Including the high dive show. It may be the most rundown uk park and to be fair quite a lot of our parks are. 

The park confirmed 81mph in response to someone’s tweet:
 

😂 I thought we were going to get a LITTLE more than that haha
 
 

The lack of activity on this thread doesn’t surprise me at all. 
 
Yesterday I returned to the park, 8 years since my last visit. Last time around, I kinda enjoyed the park but couldn’t say the same this time around. 
 
Lots of closed and removed rides. Galaxy dodgems, Tide Traveler, Tales Of The Coast, Fireball, rowing boats and the stunt show. All but one left empty or left to rot away. The only new rides have been a chair-swing and Rootnin Tootin (formerly Hobbs Pit). Was ok, but nothing special.
 
Park was in a shocking and rather rundown state. Miraculous how some things are still working and standing. Eggspress is just embarrassing for the park now, from feeling like a washing machine on-ride to having to be manually released. Because the locking system is broken.
 
Only real highlights was the sea lion show, which was lovely and the Jolly Rodger drop tower, which is probably my second favourite drop tower now. We all left mid afternoon with no real intentions to return and happy to leave in a way.
 
The place needs some serious investment in both new and existing ride hardware. 

From the Cred Sheet, here's all my ranked UK coasters not including Merlin parks, including their overall ranking in my list:
 
Rank Coaster Park 46 Grand National Blackpool Pleasure Beach 53 Cobra (Paultons) Paultons Park 68 Storm Chaser Paultons Park 93 Icon Blackpool Pleasure Beach 95 Velocity Flamingo Land 96 Kumali Flamingo Land 97 Wilde Maus XXL Winter Wonderland 106 Accelerator Drayton Manor 113 Avalanche Blackpool Pleasure Beach 115 Revolution (BPB) Blackpool Pleasure Beach 117 Spinning Racer Fantasy Island 118 G Force Drayton Manor 119 Velociraptor Paultons Park 126 Mumbo Jumbo Flamingo Land 136 Flight of the Pterosaur Paultons Park 147 Millenium Fantasy Island 158 Rage Adventure Island 162 Big Dipper Blackpool Pleasure Beach 163 Ice Mountain Winter Wonderland 166 Odyessy Fantasy Island 167 Big One Blackpool Pleasure Beach 169 Rhombus Rocket Fantasy Island 176 Rockin Roller Botton's Pleasure Beach 181 Infusion Blackpool Pleasure Beach 182 Olympia Looping Winter Wonderland 183 Dinosaur Valley Wicksteed Park 186 €uro Coaster Winter Wonderland 193 Shockwave Drayton Manor 199 Hero Flamingo Land
Also includes travelling coasters I've ridden in the UK, but oh well.

tl;dr - my answer is Grand National at Blackpool.

I’ve always said Rush is the best flat ride at Thorpe, but recently I’ve really missed Slammer.  It was so unique and was such an intimidating and to be honest terrifying experience.

Not yet no, however they have confirmed there are still plans to do this

Icon, Speed and Megafobia are up there. I like Shockwave but it isn't a favourite. I'll go with Icon just because its fun and accessible to a lot of people. 
 
I like the directions that Paultons and Drayton are heading in, if they could add something like Juvelen that could easily become my favourite non Merlin rollercoaster.

I’m quite partial to a bit of Rage (adventure island)

Big one most likely, though previously was Wild Mouse. 

Either Big One or Megaphobia

Mingo also has a more recent issue of removing seats off of things like Flip Flop and Pterodactyl, further reducing throughputs.
 
Guess the caravan park been a bit quiet with the poor weather. But those throughputs are god awful no matter what way its spun as "only" 40 minutes. Would've been far less and a far higher ride count if things were run even slightly better, but sounds like maintenance wise there's a lot of issues with stuff breaking down often.

It's coming back yknow 😉

If Rocky Express doesn't win this then this website deserves to be destroyed.

Things are about to pick up pace very, very quickly 😏