May 11, 201411 yr comment_182990 wish I remembered more of the old park all I remember is loggers leap
May 12, 201411 yr comment_182996 Wow, great vid. The tunnel of frog song is one of my strongest memories of the place back then, love it. Slides into the park from the upper level of the dome should return, that's a great way to enter a park!
February 25, 201510 yr comment_203657 Don't know if this has been shared before... But look what I found!! There's loads of different ones up from past years 2009-2012 all to different tracks, wish the park still made them as they are great!
February 25, 201510 yr comment_203661 Looked through many of these online! There are so many for Chessington as well if you look in the right places The shuffling one is still my fav where they start in a bin
June 1, 201510 yr comment_210006 Found this the other day - an old jointly branded Thorpe-Chessington leaflet picked up from my local library, from 2003. The Park had a lot of momentum 12 years ago; I remember how exciting the rapid expansion was. 3 new rides for one season! And I still quite like the old branding of this era... Interesting too that Thorpe has recently reverted to peak / off peak pricing - looking at the 2003 leaflet they had 3 tiers; off peak, peak, and standard! And an off peak ticket would cost you only £19... More in the Total Thorpe Park Archive.
June 1, 201510 yr comment_210008 That Spiderman show And I loved the Fright Nites advertising back then; those eyes and that stare really is chilling. 2003 really was a good time for Thorpe really.
June 2, 201510 yr comment_210033 I loved those years. When the MTDP for Stealth and the 2009 coaster came out it was like nothing at Thorpe was impossible. That Inferno image is just
June 2, 201510 yr comment_210034 That Spiderman show was amazing <3 Points also for that 'Premiere Screaming' event they did for Inferno... Those were certainly the days...
June 2, 201510 yr comment_210042 Whilst I didn't visit the park in 2003, it looks to me to have been one of the best years of the park overall. It had a perfect balance then of fun and thrill rides, a decent selection of shows plus lots of atmosphere on top of everything being reasonably well kept.
August 31, 20159 yr comment_216335 Atmosphere... Definitely what seems to be missing right now The chavs make the atmosphere...
September 5, 20159 yr comment_216812 On a different point, I'm not sure if people have seen it before but I found a gem of a video from 2002... Oh! That's so amazing! Wish I was old enough to have gone there during the early years, but I would have been to young to remember anything anyway! It's a shame. I never really got to see anything going on (show wise) in the Arena when I began to frequently come to Thorpe Park. Shame really that it's gone now but it wasn't getting a lot of use anyway, except for Fright Nights
September 7, 20159 yr comment_216966 That video is fab! I remember going back in 2002 and not riding Colossus (yeah, was a wimp back then despite being nearly 22) - my sister actually took a camcorder with her and we filmed some stuff but its probably busy gathering dust in some random place never to be seen again. That show in the arena looked pretty cool - I remember a show they did years ago (around 1995ish) - I'm fairly sure that a guy would climb up the top of the stairs then set himself on fire before jumping into the water - if I am completely wrong forgive me - I often dream things and convince myself they are real
September 10, 20159 yr comment_217260 I find 2002, which feels like yesterday to me, being described as 'Thorpe's old days' deeply depressing. Nice video though.
September 10, 20159 yr comment_217277 First experienced Thorpe about early to mid 80's. The only thing that was there that still is is the Dome.
September 11, 20159 yr comment_217310 Is it just me or did the thunder river (or whatever it was called) have a different layout back in the 80's? It might just be that there was less trees and shrubs around it, or that you could see more of it, but my childhood memories of it are a tad different to the layout today.
September 11, 20159 yr comment_217311 Same layout, but was rougher with more underwater agitators and a big rock before the tunnel the boats would bounce off quite harshly. It was all toned down when a led fell out of the boat and had his ear cut off by said rock. Was also a lot more open and sparse with the vegetation having not developed. It's easy to forget this really was barren pit land to start with, with no vegetation or natural landscape at all.
September 11, 20159 yr comment_217318 I find 2002, which feels like yesterday to me, being described as 'Thorpe's old days' deeply depressing. Nice video though. I still remember when Depth Charge was a brand new attraction. I guess we can just consider ourselves lucky to know what the old days actually were.
September 20, 20159 yr comment_218147 And here's a clip about the boy injured on the ride in its opening year
September 21, 20159 yr comment_218166 Was this long enough ago that I can jest about the Phantom of Liam White's ear haunting Thorpe without being a monster?Also:Wow progress.
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