Stealth

[Tom]

^ Someone has too much time on their hands

 

(I'm just jealous you beat me to it)

[Guest]

 

Sir, this is not the ride for you.

 

not that kind of top hat

[Whatever]

Pluk was being sarcastic- it was a joke.

[pluk]

not that kind of top hat

 

[Guest]

 

 

Pluk was being sarcastic- it was a joke.

 

I know

[TPJames]

*Awkward Silence*

[Guest]

Anyway...If you could choose the colour of stealth and its supports. What colour would it be

 

I think that Stealth looks cool with its colours

[Mitchada04]

Well Stealth has a clone. Zaturn at Space World.

Uses the blue throughout the whole ride with white supports. I mean it's okay but 

I love the way Stealth fades from the blue into the white top hat. It not only blends in with the background of a grey sky (one of the reasons it's white I believe) but shows it doesn't need a bold colour to stand out. It's a very simple ride at heart, height and speed. Doesn't try do anything fancy with it, sits at the back of the park ominously, it's just an excellent ride. They can also so easily colour it when they want too...

Well if it's dark that is.

 

Stealth is the icon of the park, the one ride you will always know if it's closed because you can't go on social media without someone complaining that it isn't open (and fair enough, I'd be gutted if it was closed on my only visit of a year).

 

Good old Stealth.

[JoshC.]

Well Stealth has a clone. Zaturn at Space World.

 

Zaturn isn't technically an exact clone; it's a tiny bit taller and longer.  [/nitpick]

 

I like Stealth's colour scheme.  It's simple and works well.  I did prefer the original colour scheme, where they had the dark blue, followed by a slightly light blue on some of the supports and track, then the white - came across like there were varying water levels.  Photos to show what I mean...

 

From Stealth's minisite.

 

From TTP.

 

Only a really small point I know; shame that they decided to repaint it though!

[Ricky]

Annoyingly though, it was only the supports that where repainted! The track never changed.

[GladiatorFanKyle]

Is it true that stealth has to be white as its pushing the height limit and it has to be white to not stand out?

[JoshC.]

Is it true that stealth has to be white as its pushing the height limit and it has to be white to not stand out?

 

That's pretty much the reason- the park worked closely with the council whilst planning the ride, and it was decided that having the higher parts of the ride white would mean it wouldn't stand out too much.

[Whatever]

Should've painted it grey- British skies are always that colour.

[Kerfuffle]

not that kind of top hat

YOU KILLED THE JOKE, DUDE!

Anyway, I think the only reason I feared Stealth back in the day was because of the launch. Well, that gets anyone these days!

[Guest]

Saturn is a little bit taller than Stealth

[Tom]

*Zaturn

 

Josh has already enlightened us of this fact

 

 

Zaturn isn't technically an exact clone; it's a tiny bit taller and longer.  [/nitpick]

[Guest]

I want to go to SpaceWorld

[JoshC.]

Stealth's sign has been replaced!


 
Photo from Marc over on the live feed:  http://www.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/page/livefeed

[Ryan]

That looks so much better!

[Matt 236]

Yaaayyyy! They finally listened to me. Looks much better now.

[Benin]

A shame that they didn't repaint the sign to at least attempt to hide the original stuff...

 

Why are jobs only seemingly half done by Merlin?

[Whatever]

Still says 0-80 in 2.3 seconds. Isn't it 1.8 now?

[Coaster]

Looks pretty bad as you can still see the old writing behind it.

It's good that they are improving things but it's frustrating as it could have looked really good rather than 'passable.'

[huzzellio]

Still says 0-80 in 2.3 seconds. Isn't it 1.8 now?

The sign inside the fish and chip restaurant says 2.5 seconds lol

[Adam P]

But that isn't the old writing behind it, that's the "Stealth" logo that has always been on it, the background graphics have also been added. Looks much better.