Posted April 20, 201015 yr comment_90030 Continuing the series, vote for what you think of Detonator. Detonator, was one of three new rides for the 2001 season. Initially it seems small, especially when compared with Stealth, but first impressions can be deceptive!Vote and Discuss your vote here!
April 20, 201015 yr comment_90032 Excellent... The only ride that never fails to build up the tension and scare the hell out of me!
April 20, 201015 yr comment_90033 Why did these Ride _ things ever stop anyway? :DI voted Good. I would say it is an understatement (a 4.5/5 if you will), but it isn't excellent - well, this season anyway. Provides a great drop which is really fun and forceful. In fact, it is only this season I have had the guts enough to have my hands up on it all the way through the ride. The audio was very good. Note, was. Now, the audio goes 5 *dun-dun*, silence, 1 *dun-dun* Detonation! It just doesn't sound right. Half the fun of the ride was the countdown. It added so much to it. And then when it didn't work, it was just as good, as it is was a little eerier. However, now, it just seems inconsistent (I know it is meant to be) and not that well thought out. Basically, with a drop tower, I think audio and atmosphere are key. And now, the ride has been let down by that. For Detonator, either have a complete countdown, or no countdown at all.
April 20, 201015 yr comment_90037 Like others, the one ride out of all the ones I've done that scares me every single time, I don't know what it is about it, whether it's the unpredictability or just the force of the drop, but it's fantastic These rides just don't quite have the length for me to be 5/5 though.
April 21, 201015 yr Author comment_90123 I voted it excellent and it is Thorpe's only ride since it was installed, that I could continually give that score. With Stealth you know it's going to be fast and intense because of the size and speed of it. but Detonator, despite looking pint sized is so much better. I've been on 200 and 300 foot drop towers and none of them compare to the force, speed and power of Thorpe's little gem.Detonator may not have that amazing soundtrack anymore but its a sublime ride and one I will always make the effort to ride.
April 21, 201015 yr comment_90124 I have had one really bad experience on Detonator this year where it felt like it had no force at all on it! But excellent from me now!
April 21, 201015 yr comment_90128 Excellent. One of the few rides which is what makes me want to keep going back (other than the social factor of course). I also love seeing the post-ride expressions of the skeptics who under-estimate it before going on. It's also one of the only two or three rides at the park which still make me think 'Wow' whenever I get off. It also craps all over Hurrikane Condor, a ride three times the size of it.
April 23, 201015 yr comment_90329 Exilent!.Though I'm the only 1 in my family that likes it, it's still an awsome ride!
April 30, 201015 yr comment_90749 I can't stand the waiting around at the top, but it is an excellent ride.
January 25, 201114 yr comment_107496 Just looking at this ride makes my mouth water.I know that there are loads of tower rides in the world that are much higher than Detty, but imo Detty is the highest of them all.One of my favourite rides at thorpe park. Sadly it doesn't feel as forceful as it used to but it's still got a lot of rides left in it. HAIL DETTY!
March 12, 201114 yr comment_110511 Excellent, the drop scares me everytime! It's such a rush when you drop and the first time I rode it, my legs were wobbling afterwards! 5/5
June 16, 201114 yr comment_117966 It's good cause its a 1 trick pony yet somehow never gets any less scary no matter how many times you go on it, personally I tend to wimp out of this ride lol I went on it once, scared the crap out of me, almost killed me so never again! The g-force is ridiculously intense and its very deceptive, dosnt look high from below but once your up there your like "Why did I do this?" lmao
August 16, 201114 yr comment_121531 The only ride that I am scared I will return to the bottom paralysed!
August 21, 201114 yr comment_121845 Love the restraints on this, can always have them nice and loose so real floaty time out of seat on the way down. (Don't moan, it's not dangerous. There is no way someone my size is falling out the side!)
August 21, 201114 yr comment_121856 The only ride that I am scared I will return to the bottom paralysed! I missed this post... But WHAT?How the HELL can Det paralyse you? Completely lost on this...
August 21, 201114 yr comment_121859 Fear doesn't have to be rational. I'm pretty sure Mr.man meant to say that he would've been unable to move due to fear, not that Detonator could completely destroy his nervous system.
August 21, 201114 yr comment_121865 If it didn't stop at the bottom, which I guess is what generates the fear on here, I'd think you'd have a fairly destroyed nervous system.
August 22, 201114 yr comment_121906 I made the mistake of this being the first ride I ever went on at thorpe I thought it looked small, ill never make that mistake ever again :closedeyes:But seriously this has a special place in my heart and I love it its amazing.
August 23, 201114 yr comment_121975 I went on it thinking it wasn't very high but once your up the top it feels so high. Still love the ride though.
September 4, 201213 yr comment_140773 If it was a bit higher, and had a lot more theming, it would be great. It still is now but... It scares me every time.
September 15, 201212 yr comment_141242 I loved it much better then The Bounce in my local park Oakwood and the fun is that you don't know when its gonna dropped as when I went in august they dropped me at 3 which shocked the poop out of me LOL!
October 27, 201212 yr comment_143208 I get so freaked at the top- you cat hear the countdown and when it launches you down, you fly out of your seat!
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