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Tend to being the key part of that sentance in the case of Rumba Rapids. On the topic of splashing the cash, do we think that some of the project sparkle budget could be put towards the rapids. I know the majority of the park needs work done and Thorpe don't have infinite money, but they are getting old now and could do with some refurbishment/modernising in my opinion.

To be honest, Vibes seems like it fits well with the ‘feel good thrills’ branding. I think the theme is quite good for the dome especially under the new TP brand idea so I assume it will stay as it is.

I bet the company who they hired are laughing so much right now, I can see the conversation going on in their HQ. ’Yep, they paid us £100,000 to make their new logo and guess what, I went onto google, searched up fancy font and wrote out Thorpe Park. You’ll never guess what happened too, they were happy with it!’ In all seriousness what the hell is that though. I could have done the same in photoshop in 10 mins. I like the idea of the change in vibe of the park, and was happy with the direction thorpe park were taking, but this. Nope.

I think they clarified that they are staying as Thorpe Park in the comments so no major name alternations. I think the main branding is going to move away from island theme to a feel good vibe, also straying away from extreme thrills marketing. In terms of the logo, I think anything is possible really. I feel like they may use lots of vibrant pastel colours to represent the relaxed, feel good vibe and maybe implement a piece of coaster track into the logo. In all honesty I have no idea what they could do, I was personally a fan of the island theme as it made the park unique and felt like it didn’t need changing. As they say if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. But regardless it is good to see that thorpe park are taking care in the future of their brand and identity.

I do love it when we glid across the lake!

Big Easy Boulevard is announced to take over angry birds land next season. More concept photos on Thorpe park’s instagram now

What’s the point of painting it again if part of it’s gonna be retracked anytime soon? Surely this means that they’ve given up on the retrack completely or are not gonna retrack all of the track for a while?

Lots of fancy photos! I need a trip down monks walk soon!

Thats true I guess, the transition will look good at the start but then begin to fade as it is exposed to the elements. Can Mack not make a support colour that fades and just ship that to thorpe or is this not possible?

Thorpe park have stated that it is a 'stylistic choice' to not have the colours fade on their annual pass facebook group. They also went on to say that it wasn't due to budget cuts, making it seem more obvious that they truely think that the decision to fade the colours it the correct one. Of cource they could by lying about that, but either way in my opinnion it's not the right decision. Regardless of if its due to budget cuts or not I think it will look cheap and a bit out of place without the fade.

Cool photos! Seems like they’re still getting on with it quickly. Still annoyed about the choice to not blend the 2 colours into each other though. In my opinion it will just make they ride seem like it’s cheaper.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/968596764375367/permalink/1032895311278845/?app=fbl Passholders group has more photos, seems they’ve got going fairly quickly.

Do we know if thorpe park are going to blend the 2 colours of the track/supports on hyperia like they did on stealth using paint? Watching the official pov with yesterday’s announcement, the stark difference between the white and gold track just looks really out of place.

That catchphrase just doesn’t seem to make sense grammatically to me. Hyperia isn’t an awful name though, I could probably get my head round it in a bit. Will definitely still call it exodus for a while though…

Am I going to come back tomorrow and see this post say the 4th when construction inevitably doesn't start then... 😂

I’m still not sure about thorpes approach to Colossus. Yes it’s good to see they are taking care of it with the retracking and this new possible change to the restraints but surly it would have just been easier to get now trains. I don’t even think we need lap bars, just something other than the restrictive OTSRs with no leg room that we have now.

Weather seems to have settled down a bit more in the past few days. Since JS said that construction that would start mid September surly (even with delays) construction is starting now or very, very soon. Last time I was on park (over a week ago) there were loads of supports on the island behind the swarm and the footers looked pretty much complete, so I'm slightly confused on why the supports haven't started going in yet.

Considering the track could be completed any day now(unless the rumours that the last bit of track was sent back to Ohio are true) testing could start very soon I think . But regardless, I would assume it would open with the park on opening day next season; unless there’s some big delay I don’t see it opening any later.

When I was on swarm yesterday I saw loads of gold supports, probably about 20. There were still definitively more white the gold but still a fair few gold. There was also a crane on the island behind swarm yesterday, not sure if that was for a new support delivery or if they were getting started on moving the supports to the site.

When I went at the end of August the operator was counting down on inferno, the operations were great that day, inferno didn’t stack that much at all. I’m on park today so can maybe take some reading and see if they match up with Matt N’s results from a couple of days ago.

I’m going to thorpe this coming sunday so am hoping that we may be seeing some sort of vertical construction when I’m there. But as you say this seems to be taking forever and I can’t really see anything happening in the next week really.

I would definitely prefer the name exodus too but there’s not really a theme I would associate with that name that much. Hyperia definitely gives egyptian/greek vibes, that I don’t think exodus could give to a theme. I know it’s almost certain that it’s going to be an egyptian theme but I’m just a bit skeptic about these new signs that are now apparently on park (haven’t been since they have been installed so can’t confirm yet) that show a mountain with exodus. I guess this could possibly suggest a mountain theme, which was also a contender for the theme that people were talking about.

I just can’t get my head round ghost train to be honest. I’ve ridden it maybe 5/6 times since it opened and every single time I’ve been disappointed. It’s just missing something that stops it being scary or suspenseful at all and I just can’t put my finger on what that is. The story is so predictable and pretty much revealed to you in the pre show anyway and I genuinely just don’t find the experience scary one bit. Breakout at bozos was more scary than ghost train has ever been for me and that’s meant to be a tame maze targeted at a younger audience. I just don’t get how thorpe park looked at the ride and went this is a good investment and we are proud of what we have made here. I’m sorry but it’s just a massive waste of money in my opinion.

As metal for the station is now on site do you think they will start building the station now or do they have to wait for the station track to go in first? I would like to maybe see the station go up soon so we could possibly get an idea of what the rides theming is going to be about.

Makes sense I guess yh, track deliveries will be proper exciting!