Also the 'dead body' wrapped in barbed wire may not be the best thing for 8 year olds to see.

You could easily say that some of the mazes at Thorpe don't have that much that could scare children (just people shouting BOO essentially), but alas, they have a 13 restriction.

To be fair, if a teenage male is easily frightened by a scare maze, I'm sure a 8 year old would be terrified!

To be fair, if a teenage male is easily frightened by a scare maze, I'm sure a 8 year old would be terrified!

I was joking!

Probably should've but a smily after it actually...

Considering the OUTRAGE Thorpe had about the barrel of syringe pens, they had to heighten the limit to prevent kids from being 'scarred' by an adult rated film...

It was always a weird theme to have on what is a family thrill ride...

Personally, I'd love to see a flying coaster at Thorpe!

Swooping under that entrance bridge just before rising up and doing a pretzel loop then a high speed helix before swooping around a tight corner then whipping into a flatspin then it gradually misses the dome after it then goes into a 540 roll, then it glides around that pile of rocks near vortex with your body in the lie position then it plummets underground rises does a zero g roll another helix then it hits the break runs and back into the station.

Does it have to appeal to families though in not being overly thrilling. The number of children who get upset because they are too small for Thorpe's coasters or just in general is high. People assume that young kids don't like thrill rides, not all true. You can't know that when you don't allow small kids on thrill rides due to height restrictions. Not every child is scared off big rides that go upside down, many want to go on them and can't wait to be tall enough. So why not build a thrilling wooden or whatever and give it a 1.2 height restriction (like Wodan or Outlaw Run has) and as long as you don't give it an overly dark scary theme children of the 1.2 height will ride. With the removal of Corkscrew at Towers and so on Britain lacks thrilling rides for children and at the same time older families. The only inverting rides at Merlin parks (with the removal of Submission) for people under 1.4 metres are Zodiac and Enterprise. Not great for children who look for something thrilling that they can ride with their parents.

Thirteen is thrilling and only has a height restriction of 1.2m, the only scary thing really is the dark. X now only has a height restriction of 1m since it was changed to forward facing, only issue is that as you can't see the ride from the outside some yoinger guests may be scared of the unknown, but the actual ride is slightly thrilling but fun. Quantum also is only a 1.2m restriction and all of Thorpe's water rides are 1.2m or less.

Considering the OUTRAGE Thorpe had about the barrel of syringe pens, they had to heighten the limit to prevent kids from being 'scarred' by an adult rated film...

It was always a weird theme to have on what is a family thrill ride...

If Saw is a family thrill ride then Nemesis Inferno probably is too, Inferno only has 1 more inversion and Saw has the over vertical drop.

Swooping under that entrance bridge just before rising up and doing a pretzel loop then a high speed helix before swooping around a tight corner then whipping into a flatspin then it gradually misses the dome after it then goes into a 540 roll, then it glides around that pile of rocks near vortex with your body in the lie position then it plummets underground rises does a zero g roll another helix then it hits the break runs and back into the station.

This pretzel loop would be amazing if the base went underground

They should get the worlds tallest inverted flat ride but saying that what could they get and they would have to think about how high they can go due to an airport near by!

I think slammer is one of the tallest rides in the park

They should get the worlds tallest inverted flat ride but saying that what could they get and they would have to think about how high they can go due to an airport near by!

Tallest inverting flat ride in the world is going to be at least 200ft, surely? I really don't think a flat ride that could go that tall would suit Thorpe, and do not issues of capacity would play a part. Plus, any ride which dwarfs Stealth would have to be a no-no in my books.

Plus, I don't think it'd be that big of an appeal to guests, if we thinking in the Merlin-way. "Tallest upside non-coaster in the world" doesn't have that big of a pull-factor in my books.

I think slammer is one of the tallest rides in the park

Slammer's the 4th tallest ride on park, when it reaches maximum height, I believe. 'Tis behind Stealth, Swarm and Detonator. Even then, you're only really 'upside down' when you reach the height of the supports, so at about 60ft.

if rush looped over the top!

Yeah and if Samurai was fitted with onboard flame throwers.

Hmm something like this would fit thorpe quite nicely I think

I doubt it, the GP would think, Oh its like Colossus but less loops and no floor and merlin would want something more pizazzy.

I like the first drop on that, very sweet, particularly for a floor less type. Nice healthy B&M roar too

Never ever gonna happen at Thorpe, Alton or any other UK park unfortunately, it's just not gimmicky enough for our shores.

You know what that coaster needs? MORE CONCRETE!

Thank goodness that Merlin parks are actually bothering with a theme / theming on the major installations.

Would love to see a ride like Maverick at thorpe personally, could theme it really well, high throughput and could fit in a gimmick or so to keep the appeal to the GP.

Would love to see a ride like Maverick at thorpe personally, could theme it really well, high throughput and could fit in a gimmick or so to keep the appeal to the GP.

I think you could fit the Hunger games thing that people were saying about if they wanted to do an IP again, which seeing as they are introducing Angry Birds land this year is very likely.

You know what that coaster needs? MORE CONCRETE!

Thank goodness that Merlin parks are actually bothering with a theme / theming on the major installations.

Rest of the park looks like this though...

Why does every thing need to be world first Can we not just have a stunning coaster with no Gimmicks a wooden coaster or a nice compact floorless B&M

Why does every thing need to be world first Can we not just have a stunning coaster with no Gimmicks a wooden coaster or a nice compact floorless B&M

Cos Merlin...

That said, having another multi-looper in the park would need to either be better than Colossus or have some worthwhile difference...

An Intamin Blitz coaster with lapbars would be excellent, though not sure on the high throughput front... Though not sure if Thorpe would want to go with something that launches due to Stealth...

Hyper-Coaster it is then...

Rest of the park looks like this though...

Well that's shut me right up, hasn't it?

Still, a bit of a shame that that look couldn't have been passed onto the coaster.

People are still going to ride a ride with lots of inversions. They are not going to say its Colossus with less loops so lets not bother going on it!

People are still going to ride a ride with lots of inversions. They are not going to say its Colossus with less loops so lets not bother going on it!

Yes but like others have said its not unique enough, and if its only purpose is to be a multi looper then what's the point having it there with Colossus, unfortunately it doesnt have a unique selling point and the 2 other B&M's in the park are also floorless so to speak so it would be really pointless it being there.