The locals don't hate the park itself, but rather the way it is managed. Thorpe Park is due a new roller coaster, yet all that is added year to year is lacklustre attractions
Operations are better this year, but Derren Brown's Ghost Train was a failure. They should've played it safe by building a roller coaster, but here we are
Since about 2010, Thorpe has been managed so badly. Its so sad, the park has so much potential but the management are beyond stupid. They make the worst decisions ive ever seen and i cant comprehend it
It's definitely not a bad park. I'd say the most recent investments is what makes people think it's bad. But this year they've really upped their game operations wise!
@@callumj3507 Storm surge was an awful investments. Its perhaps the worst ride I've ever been on. Literally just a really slow descent down a spiralling waterslide with no theming whats so ever and most of the time you don't even get wet.
@@MrOobling it was just a transfer from the us so they just put it in Thorpe park. It shouldnt be in that place but it's not terrible. I think it's quite fun and a great laugh when your with your mates.
@@TimTam69420 I suppose the only way they can have a hyper is if they dug a hole into the ground 25m or so and that will likely cost too much for them to bother. I'm down for a RMC tho.
It's not a bad park - but Merlin just doesn't seem to know what direction it's going with the park, and it shows in lack of quality in the park investments and just general lack of care.
*Merlin* is the incorrect word to use. Merlin don't run these parks, they run themselves. Each one has a their own team of people who figure out what's next. Obviously investments have to be signed off by Merlin Executives, but it's the parks that decide what's what.
@@coasterbot Still doesn't excuse the general lack of care, does it? It's seen in all UK merlin parks. Just no push for any form of customer service or care for the properties.
To avoid the security check wait get to the park before opening, There is not much shade but it’s the UK after all (we don’t get much sun). I wouldn’t say that Thorpe is an amusement park and it has way more themed areas than just Angry Birds Land, it has Lost City, The Jungle, Old Town, Swarm island and not to forget Amity Speedway and The Dock yard. (Thorpe has lots of well themed areas) As a regular at Thorpe Park, visiting at least once a week, I can say that once you learn the ins and outs of the park you will have a great experience!
Honestly I wouldn't call Thorpe an amusement park. Amity Cove has one of the best atmospheres and theming in a UK theme park. Just listen to Big Bob Jones on WWTP radio, then y'all will understand lol
I think they have lost a lot of the themed areas over the years, the upkeep isnt all too good. And neither have they kept to them. ie, angry birds, ghost train, swarm, old town. All the areas are now very much lost due to the additional rides put in.
Fantastic review as always! 👍 I have to agree about the comment you made about the park missing that 'standout' coaster. The lineup of coasters is good, but they definitely need that '9/10 or 10/10' coaster to make the park even better 👍
Back when the Colossus was just built, that was a stand out coaster, unique in the world. However, it's been decades since Colossus was built and they've made nothing to replace it, so now it all feels like filler.
@@caitypierulestheworld6963 Also im only assuming you're suggesting this because Blackpool is your homepark so that makes the opinion very biased. Had you been to any of the other uk parks you're opinion no doubt would be far different.
Nice Video. Thorpe is my local park just an hour away, I wish Thorpe did their Security system the same as Alton Towers where they check your bag after you have gone through the turnstiles as that way is so much quicker, It does have its themed areas. Old Town, Lost City, The Jungle, Amity and Swarm Island. Some areas are great with theming and some need working on!
Taylor, you should bring back park battles because the parks you did have changed a lot and I’m positive they all received a new coaster Like if you agree
Caitypie Blackpool is a amusement park not a theme park! It’s dirty and old with a mixed matched look to all of its areas. Thorpe and Alton are 100 times better than black pool, the only good ride there is icon.
Caitypie So what about the numerous accidents and death of an 11 YEAR OLD at pleasure beach! But yeah of course Alton towers is unsafe, jog on! Alton towers and Thorpe while having mixed theming in areas, still have the best themed rides in the UK! Black pool pleasure beach is dirty and over hyped for what it is!
Caitypie I went to Blackpool pleasure beach the other day and I definitely underestimated the park. It was so fun! Icon is amazing and Valhalla is the best log flume I’ve ever been on. I was soaked all day long.
Caitypie But I have to say Alton Towers is the best park in the UK. Largest space, lots of stuff for small children to do as well as thrill seekers. Loads of games and opportunities to win prizes. World record holding coasters and their fast track is a reasonable price too! 😁 The could do better with the food in my opinion, but it’s not bad food.
"the only good ride there is icon" "Black pool pleasure beach is dirty and over hyped for what it is!" Yes, but that's only your opinion. And also, the "death of an 11 year old". Thorpe Park has had incidents before. Not fatal ones, but still. Plus, incidents don't automatically make a park bad unless they happen really frequently, and they usually don't anyway unless they're at Action Park or something. You're more likely to die on the car trip *to* the park than die *at* the park.
lucky bugger, you actually got on darren browns ghost train. i been 3 times in last year and its broke down everytime. nemesis is ageing really well, its simply getting better and better. thorpe park is just very compact. hopefully the next coaster is an rmc on the space behind swarm and it will be near complete.
Honestly I get the "doesn't have truly standout" coaster but this place has covered a lot of spots. Wing, Invert, Intamin many inversion looper, unique stuff like darren brown's ghost train and walking dead, a lot of flat rides, Stealth. I think if they sacked the barely a waterpark they could build something like it but bigger than RMC Goliath, like something between it and upcoming Zadra. If it was as I said-in between-while personally I probably would just prefer the invert or the intamin many inversion looper, enthuasists would most likely adore it. And perhaps utilize whatever else is left land wise near or somewhere else in the park to get a mack pulsar water coaster, as it seems they have a lot of water rides and it'd fill in a bit of what they'd have to remove. That'd make the line-up past solid 4sure.
Thorpe park is my 4th favourite park that I been to only behind Alton Towers Resort Seaworld Orlando Parc asterix I wouldn’t call Thorpe park an amusement park it has amazing themed land such as amity and swarm island and amazing music The pizza and pasta buffet is also in legoland,chessington and Alton towers Also merlin just got sold to a different company so they could care about Thorpe Park more
Your point on the water park is spot on. I have never been in the water park precisely because it feels so awkward to be there with so many amusement park goers surrounding your little compound.
You ahould visit Finland one day, we have 11 different coasters in total... yeah... but we do have a mack e-motion and a new 2019 intamin blitz as well as a classic wooden coaster.
Lol, I’m late cuz I was on a plane to California and I had no WiFi 1000 ft in the air. Great video as always Taylor! I’m also going to Magic Mountain tomorrow! Can’t wait!
Energylandia in Poland also comes across as more of an "amusement" park then a "theme" park. I gotta hit that place soon! Thorp park and Alton Towers looks great 👍
Having been going to Thorpe and chessington all my life, now 33. I quite like the fact they kept amity beach, it's one of the very few remaining original parts of the park. Chessington used to be the thrill Park and thorpe the family park, with the skiing centre being joined, used to have to walk through to get to the skiing. There are things I like and things I hate, as a dad I hate the bad London teenage vibe it has, even last Monday was just hoards of groups of teens and it stank of weed everywhere, which is a shame and why we don't go often. The security bag check is rediculous, BUT where the park is located and considering 90% of the guests are teens and considering the amount of gang and knife crime in London at the moment is it a bad thing? They have made it so you can't get around it, I think it's a good thing personally. It does need some heavy investment now. But remember due to the max height on the park because of Heathrows airspace I don't think we will be seeing anything like fury 325 at anytime. It's just needs a bit of TLC, poor old slammer and loggers need pulling down now. Still I only live about 40 mins away and hope the park, along with chessington have bright future's.
Fair review. It's not great but it's not terrible. A park of all filler, no killer. Nothing standout but nothing awful. Mediocre at best and nothing that really reaches its full potential. Sadly that's Merlin all over. Always settling for mediocre because the best would reduce profits too much.
Alton Towers is waaaayyyyy better imo, but Thorpe Park is still pretty good- also, I do feel like Thorpe Park is really well themed in places- in construction of The Swarm and SAW, nearly as much was spent on theming as construction of the actual ride itself. Both of those two are themed very well. Colossus’ theming is okay, as is Stealth and Nemesis Inferno, but with the track record being that the most recent two major roller coasters are the best themed, I cannot wait to see what they have coming up next 👌🏻
Talk about it, thorpe park is a hour away from me but Alton towers is 3 and a half hours away so it's so difficult to get there but Alton towers is way better
It depends how you look at it. Alton towers is good but it doesn’t have anything unique about it. It has inverted coasters launch coasters and flying coaster which you find at most parks. Also Alton Towers basically have no flat rides anymore. Thorpe park is actually best known for the flat rides as they are way better than the actually rides. Take Samurai, when it’s operating it is amazing same with rush and vortex. Zodiac and quantum are good too however the new version is zodiac isn’t as good as the old one and quantum has so much downtime (even more than Samurai)
Matt ew no. It wouldn’t fit the theme of any areas which is why they removed it from Chessington in the first place. Alton Towers isn’t really a park for thrilling rides, it’s more focused on making the rides fun with airtime but not g force
GabesDaBomb I would disagree with that, purely on the basis that their mission statement is to appeal to ALL members of the family. So a ride like Samurai, given the blatant lack of flat rides at the park, would make total sense, bearing in mind most of the attractions at the park are aimed at younger kids, or families, with one or two aimed at the younger thrill seekers (Wicker Man and Th13teen). I reckon that Merlin could stick a ride like Samurai in an area like X-Sector, since we know they have the footprint for it with the old submission site, and we could start building the numbers back up where flats are concerned. Either way I would love to see more flats at Alton Towers, that would be the one thing I would change about it. Other than that, it’s still my favourite place in the world 😁
Kind of occurred to me that the trend is darker themes in UK parks 😂 our two biggest are Alton Towers and Thorpe Park and in both of them the rides all have a dark theme. I guess we don't really do magical and fanciful here
Thorpe park is my home park and it is decent for what they use the space for, I go every year and I still haven't rode derren Browns. I will be riding it when I go next in July
Went here for the first time this summer. Despite the long queues, I still really enjoyed it. Obviously there were restrictions because of the whole Covid thing, so queues were even longer, but still got on all the major coasters. With regards to operations, I thought they were fine. The only ride queue that dragged on a lot was Inferno, but everything else I thought was worth the wait. Overall, really solid park, not sure if I rate it over Towers yet
Fast pass is very expensive but a must have. I visited in 2009 and got three rides. Three. I visited again last year in October with Fastpass and got probably 16 rides at least
Thanks for coming and your opinions! I have been through a lot of theme parks around europe and I think they have done a good job with the space they have with a few record holder rides included. There is always room for it to improve but its one of my top 3 in europe (and in not biased as I live an hour away)
This is my local and most frequently visited park. Operations are almost always very poor, but the large amount of flats and other attractions help to keep queue times down. The walking dead also does have scare actors but only only select days (usually peak times only). Overall this is a very fair review in my opinion!
This is my home park, and I’d highly recommend checking out the flat rides here. Samurai and Vortex are some of my personal favourites in the entire world
The new Project Exodus Mack hyper coaster that just got approved should serve as that “standout attraction” Thorpe Park is missing. It’s going to be short, but unique and (hopefully) FUN!
I love Thorpe park iv been there 7 times in the last 2 year’s. Chessington is my home park then Thorpe park but I tend to visit Thorpe more. My favourite ride there is stealth and sometimes Saw if it is riding good.
Last time I went to Thorpe park I queued for 2.5 hours for Collossus, hit my head on the giant restraint at the first drop, passed out and woke up in the middle of the corkscrew at the end 👌
I sometimes watch your old UK videos because that’s where I’m from, and I think it’s cool that you came here and made reviews on our parks! Thorpe Park has really gone down hill this year. Now that their season is over, we can generalise the year. It was awful. July 4th theme parks all reopened in the UK. At first, Thorpe Park handled Covid very well... for about 2 weeks. Then it really flopped. They got into trouble several times for breaking the public attraction capacity restrictions that the UK government set them. I went on September 5th and all of the big 5 coasters were a 2hr+ wait from 10:30am-5pm (closing). So pretty much all day. There was no enforcement of social distancing or hygiene rules, and all of the sanitisers were empty. Sometime relatively early on in the season, someone got a knife past the “security,” and stabbed someone on the bridge between the island and the parking lot. And on their Fright Nights event, they got into trouble AGAIN for overcrowding, not enforcing face coverings, AND several female members of staff were sexually assaulted in the mazes. Thorpe Park need to come under new management now, because it got stupid come the end of the season. Alton Towers on the other hand ran their season through Covid faultlessly! Just goes to show what two kinda similar parks can do at totally opposite ends of the same spectrum when it comes to Covid. Thorpe Park isn’t worth revisiting, because they likely won’t get a new coaster until 2023/24 and between now and then it’ll only get worse. But nonetheless I’m glad you enjoyed yourself all that time ago 😂😂
Thorpe is my closest park, been a good number of times. Was interesting hearing what you thought The limited shade is likely due to our weather being cloudy or around 20°C outside summer. Pretty good point though It doesn't really have standouts these days, but at the time the coasters opened they were record breakers or UK firsts, such as Stealth bring the fastest coaster in GB and Saw The Ride being the scariest and steepest at the time Of the flat rides, the most intense are Rush and Detonator, whilst Zodiac and Vortex are a bit for on the chill side Hopefully we'll be getting a new coaster soon, allot of people including myself hopo mg for the first British RMC where Loggers Leap (a log fluke that ceased operations in recent years) used to be
I agree with a lot of it but I disagree with the last bit saying they have no stand out rides like I think stealth is a huge stand out ride. Also I agree when you said it’s more of an amusement park then a Themepark, it’s kind of weird cuz rides are themed but not areas like most places (chessington, Alton towers etc) but definitely one of my fav parks go there every Halloween with my family and bff definitely worth a visit cheap and incredible value for money
Stealth is too short to be a standout. It would be like saying Kingda Ka is the standout ride at Great Adventure. No, El Toro is. Project Exodus should give us a good standout, though.
Other than Alton towers, Thorpe park is really the only amusement park in the UK with a considerable number of big coasters. I thought that the rides were good, but dispatch times (particularly on the swarm and colossus) were quite poor. However, there was quite good teeming on nemisis, the swarm, and saw, but it could have been better. It is a good park with good rides though, and though it is quite small it's well worth it.
when you look at huge movies and tv series with British actors like harry potter or game of thrones it makes me wonder they don't design any rides or sections around them at thorpe park or alton towers
as a local i totally agree with ur thoughts. i think alot of the dislike/hate it gets is due to merlin (owners) can’t decide which way they want to progress the park and how alot of the park doesn’t receive much tlc. e.g loads of the effects not working on rides, rides closed alot, some rides sbno. it was brought this week by the people that own the lego group so hopefully we will see alot more care taken in it
Here’s my crazy take, We actually enjoyed Thorpe more than Alton Towers. We got one day at each. Yes weather had a lot to do with it. Sunny at Thorpe; total rain out at AT. Crowd was the other huge factor. Thorpe had no lines at all and Alton had 50min queues with rain!
Honestly, i don't think Angry Birds Land is that bad. Sure, nobody plays Angry Birds anymore, but it has a few decent kids attractions (and Detonator) and is well themed and looks vibrant and colourful. Just my views on it.
You didn’t get to go on flat rides. I feel so sorry for you. If you get the chance to come back to this park you absolutely have to try Samurai! It’s my favourite ride at the park. I love it more than the rollercoasters. It’s so fun! You really feel thrown about on Samurai 😁
@@CoasterStudios I also think that Detonator (The Drop Tower at the park) might be one of your favourite drop towers because its known as the most forceful drop tower in the world at 5.5 Gs and that ride actually drop by gravity, it drops because pistons push and release it down so the drop is basically faster than gravity!
Shame you didn't go on the flats because Thorpe Park has some good flat rides imo. The themeing for saw the ride is good, other than that it's not too good. And to answer your question, Stealth IS the 'standout big ride' it's much faster and bigger than most other coasters in the UK!
@@coasterbot you must be extremely lucky to have it work flawlessly. When it works, the technology is very impressive and the way it buggers with your sense of motion is also impressive but i don't think it has any re-rideability. I've noticed multiple different VR "runs" or segment or whatever but i dont think it's enough to make me re ride every week or 2
Coaster Studios: “My favorite ride was Derren Brown’s Ghost Train”
Expedition Theme Park: * Facepalms *
"The absolute failure of Coaster studios" Expedition Theme Park
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rct3isepic LOL, that’s exactly who I was thinking of. So interesting to see such different perspectives.
@@ExpeditionThemePark Ha... HA... AAAHHAHAHAHHAH HAAAAAA!
@@ExpeditionThemePark heh, you noticed
Bit generous calling Amity Beach a waterpark 😂
True, but it's got some water chutes
This if far from a water park
true lmao. honestly believe it should be scrapped ive been to thorpe 50+ times never been to amity beach tho its not good at all
Yea
I was just about to comment this ahahahahaha
The locals don't hate the park itself, but rather the way it is managed. Thorpe Park is due a new roller coaster, yet all that is added year to year is lacklustre attractions
XplosiveGamer105 here here! Ops are terrible and I still don’t think they’ve recovered from the DBGT costly mistake...
Operations are better this year, but Derren Brown's Ghost Train was a failure. They should've played it safe by building a roller coaster, but here we are
Since about 2010, Thorpe has been managed so badly. Its so sad, the park has so much potential but the management are beyond stupid. They make the worst decisions ive ever seen and i cant comprehend it
@@TalentedTom91 how is it a mistake?
@@Oliver_T_03 how
It's definitely not a bad park. I'd say the most recent investments is what makes people think it's bad. But this year they've really upped their game operations wise!
I think the walking dead the ride was a bad investment
@@callumj3507 Storm surge was an awful investments. Its perhaps the worst ride I've ever been on. Literally just a really slow descent down a spiralling waterslide with no theming whats so ever and most of the time you don't even get wet.
@@MrOobling it was just a transfer from the us so they just put it in Thorpe park. It shouldnt be in that place but it's not terrible. I think it's quite fun and a great laugh when your with your mates.
@@MrOobling And a 27392929 hour queue to get on it
Yooo it’s Dan
Us Thorpe locals are still waiting for our Hyper or RMC. It is what Thorpe needs.
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So true
Intamin Megalite!
the park has a height limit because its so close to heathrow. no coaster there will ever be taller than stealth unfortunately
@@TimTam69420 I suppose the only way they can have a hyper is if they dug a hole into the ground 25m or so and that will likely cost too much for them to bother. I'm down for a RMC tho.
My home park!!
The shade issue really isn’t a big deal though as we don’t get to much sun in the uk
look how sunburned i am at 1:56 lol
I do seem to have posted that at a wrong time 😂😂😂
Except for British summer especially the past 3 ones we’ve had lol
"My favourite ride here is Derron Brown's Ghost Train"
NOOOOOO!!!!
Hahaha. I was like wtf
I have a disability pass to skip the queues and I still waited an hour for this ride
@@wfcmarl6066 same lmao
@@caitypierulestheworld6963 I dont care
Caitypie
You were talking about Blackpool Pleasure Beach but started to name rides at Port Aventura..
Also stop self promoting smh
It's not a bad park - but Merlin just doesn't seem to know what direction it's going with the park, and it shows in lack of quality in the park investments and just general lack of care.
*Merlin* is the incorrect word to use. Merlin don't run these parks, they run themselves. Each one has a their own team of people who figure out what's next. Obviously investments have to be signed off by Merlin Executives, but it's the parks that decide what's what.
@@coasterbot Still doesn't excuse the general lack of care, does it? It's seen in all UK merlin parks. Just no push for any form of customer service or care for the properties.
@@mitchelldoesthings7023 Thats what happens when you have a new divisional director every year.
Hopefully now lego are buying merlin there maybe an improvement
@@insanelewis21 imagine if Lego cancels the new rollercoaster, if it's in the pipeline...
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To avoid the security check wait get to the park before opening,
There is not much shade but it’s the UK after all (we don’t get much sun).
I wouldn’t say that Thorpe is an amusement park and it has way more themed areas than just Angry Birds Land,
it has Lost City, The Jungle, Old Town, Swarm island and not to forget Amity Speedway and The Dock yard. (Thorpe has lots of well themed areas)
As a regular at Thorpe Park, visiting at least once a week, I can say that once you learn the ins and outs of the park you will have a great experience!
How would you even afford to visit Thorpe Park at least once a week surely that'd be incredibly expensive?
@@kidsea13 I have a premium merlin annual pass so everything is free including entry, car parking ect. Its definitely worth buying.
fair enough
mostly the food though unless I'm misremembering how expensive the food is there
@@kidsea13 Yeah you only get 20% off food & retail. Which doesn't really make a difference because the food is still very expensive.
John Woolven Yes, although at Chessington currently the pizza place isn’t a buffet: I presume it’s the same for the other Merlin parks.
No shade in the park.
BRITAN IS USUALLY CLOUDY 😂😂😂
364 days a year shade isn’t exactly a priority.
It literally rains 300 days a year
Honestly I wouldn't call Thorpe an amusement park. Amity Cove has one of the best atmospheres and theming in a UK theme park.
Just listen to Big Bob Jones on WWTP radio, then y'all will understand lol
100% agreed, theming for every coaster different areas etc. i think it gets a lot of hate
Millsy agreed, swarm island’s theming is incredible.
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I would call it a "themed park" rather than a "theme park" if that makes sense
I think they have lost a lot of the themed areas over the years, the upkeep isnt all too good. And neither have they kept to them. ie, angry birds, ghost train, swarm, old town. All the areas are now very much lost due to the additional rides put in.
I completely agree with you about angry bids land 😂
Fantastic review as always! 👍 I have to agree about the comment you made about the park missing that 'standout' coaster. The lineup of coasters is good, but they definitely need that '9/10 or 10/10' coaster to make the park even better 👍
I'll have you know that The Walking Dead is a clear 12/10. Take that over steel vengeance any day 👌👌👌
I see Stealth as their "trophy" ride. Third fastest accelerating coaster in the world 'innit
Back when the Colossus was just built, that was a stand out coaster, unique in the world. However, it's been decades since Colossus was built and they've made nothing to replace it, so now it all feels like filler.
exodus is finally coming (as you definitely know lmao) and will definitely be the standout of the park
LOVE FROM THE UK!!
@@caitypierulestheworld6963 Also im only assuming you're suggesting this because Blackpool is your homepark so that makes the opinion very biased. Had you been to any of the other uk parks you're opinion no doubt would be far different.
Caitypie please tell me your joking lmao
@@jacuzziii I don't think she is, she's like 7
I love Thorpe Park and it's one of the best park in England You need to do Fright night has they do have actors walking around the park
"there's just no shade at thorpe park" 😅 Locals don't even consider this cause it's only sunny for a week a year. When it comes, we lap it up.
Americans seem to love DBGT, great to hear your thoughts on Thorpe Park 👍
Theme Park Banter Americans are really easy to please...
Yeah we don’t have really any solid dark rides here in America so it’s a fresh and surprising take 😄
Oh boo hoo god forbid somebody LIKES a ride. Geez.
"I'll probably come back when they add a new roller coaster"
Ok so never?
Thanks SO much for uploading this. Been waiting so long for this review. When is the Towers review?
Probably next, he's uploading them in the order he visited them.
I'm sure he's already done it?
I think he already did an Alton towers review? Or maybe I’m thinking of the blogs he did there..???
@@renegaderaida526 he's only done reviews on 3 of the coasters there
In the beginning of the video, I got flashbacks to La Ronde.
Same I thought it was going to be a more negative review
When Angry Birds gets it's own area in an amusement park before Halo.
Nice Video. Thorpe is my local park just an hour away, I wish Thorpe did their Security system the same as Alton Towers where they check your bag after you have gone through the turnstiles as that way is so much quicker, It does have its themed areas. Old Town, Lost City, The Jungle, Amity and Swarm Island. Some areas are great with theming and some need working on!
Taylor, you should bring back park battles because the parks you did have changed a lot and I’m positive they all received a new coaster
Like if you agree
Thorpe Park does still classify as a Theme Park resort.
Caitypie Blackpool is a amusement park not a theme park! It’s dirty and old with a mixed matched look to all of its areas. Thorpe and Alton are 100 times better than black pool, the only good ride there is icon.
Caitypie So what about the numerous accidents and death of an 11 YEAR OLD at pleasure beach! But yeah of course Alton towers is unsafe, jog on! Alton towers and Thorpe while having mixed theming in areas, still have the best themed rides in the UK! Black pool pleasure beach is dirty and over hyped for what it is!
Caitypie I went to Blackpool pleasure beach the other day and I definitely underestimated the park. It was so fun! Icon is amazing and Valhalla is the best log flume I’ve ever been on. I was soaked all day long.
Caitypie But I have to say Alton Towers is the best park in the UK. Largest space, lots of stuff for small children to do as well as thrill seekers. Loads of games and opportunities to win prizes. World record holding coasters and their fast track is a reasonable price too! 😁
The could do better with the food in my opinion, but it’s not bad food.
"the only good ride there is icon"
"Black pool pleasure beach is dirty and over hyped for what it is!"
Yes, but that's only your opinion. And also, the "death of an 11 year old". Thorpe Park has had incidents before. Not fatal ones, but still. Plus, incidents don't automatically make a park bad unless they happen really frequently, and they usually don't anyway unless they're at Action Park or something. You're more likely to die on the car trip *to* the park than die *at* the park.
Great video! The reason you had to wait so long in security is that London had had a few terror attacks so they now take extra measures on busy days.
lucky bugger, you actually got on darren browns ghost train. i been 3 times in last year and its broke down everytime. nemesis is ageing really well, its simply getting better and better. thorpe park is just very compact. hopefully the next coaster is an rmc on the space behind swarm and it will be near complete.
How about a Mack hyper 👀
@@HarryJSmith amazing to see, ngl id rather an RMC. But id defo take a Mack hyper 236ft over near any other choice.
Honestly I get the "doesn't have truly standout" coaster but this place has covered a lot of spots. Wing, Invert, Intamin many inversion looper, unique stuff like darren brown's ghost train and walking dead, a lot of flat rides, Stealth. I think if they sacked the barely a waterpark they could build something like it but bigger than RMC Goliath, like something between it and upcoming Zadra. If it was as I said-in between-while personally I probably would just prefer the invert or the intamin many inversion looper, enthuasists would most likely adore it. And perhaps utilize whatever else is left land wise near or somewhere else in the park to get a mack pulsar water coaster, as it seems they have a lot of water rides and it'd fill in a bit of what they'd have to remove. That'd make the line-up past solid 4sure.
Thorpe park is my 4th favourite park that I been to only behind
Alton Towers Resort
Seaworld Orlando
Parc asterix
I wouldn’t call Thorpe park an amusement park it has amazing themed land such as amity and swarm island and amazing music
The pizza and pasta buffet is also in legoland,chessington and Alton towers
Also merlin just got sold to a different company so they could care about Thorpe Park more
The ops at Thorpe park has improved so much recently
I can back this statement
Your point on the water park is spot on. I have never been in the water park precisely because it feels so awkward to be there with so many amusement park goers surrounding your little compound.
You ahould visit Finland one day, we have 11 different coasters in total... yeah... but we do have a mack e-motion and a new 2019 intamin blitz as well as a classic wooden coaster.
And another Angry birds land can't forget that
Lol, I’m late cuz I was on a plane to California and I had no WiFi 1000 ft in the air. Great video as always Taylor! I’m also going to Magic Mountain tomorrow! Can’t wait!
That's one low flying plane! lol were you sneaking in under radar?
Energylandia in Poland also comes across as more of an "amusement" park then a "theme" park. I gotta hit that place soon! Thorp park and Alton Towers looks great 👍
It's so weird seeing an ACTUAL opinion on RUclips. Thanks Coaster studios 👍👍👍👍
Having been going to Thorpe and chessington all my life, now 33. I quite like the fact they kept amity beach, it's one of the very few remaining original parts of the park. Chessington used to be the thrill Park and thorpe the family park, with the skiing centre being joined, used to have to walk through to get to the skiing. There are things I like and things I hate, as a dad I hate the bad London teenage vibe it has, even last Monday was just hoards of groups of teens and it stank of weed everywhere, which is a shame and why we don't go often. The security bag check is rediculous, BUT where the park is located and considering 90% of the guests are teens and considering the amount of gang and knife crime in London at the moment is it a bad thing? They have made it so you can't get around it, I think it's a good thing personally. It does need some heavy investment now. But remember due to the max height on the park because of Heathrows airspace I don't think we will be seeing anything like fury 325 at anytime. It's just needs a bit of TLC, poor old slammer and loggers need pulling down now. Still I only live about 40 mins away and hope the park, along with chessington have bright future's.
I know this is an old comment, but in my recent visits to theme parks, teens have been better at social distancing that adults and families.
Fair review. It's not great but it's not terrible. A park of all filler, no killer. Nothing standout but nothing awful. Mediocre at best and nothing that really reaches its full potential. Sadly that's Merlin all over. Always settling for mediocre because the best would reduce profits too much.
Hopefully won't be an issue now lego have bought merlin
The best park in England in my opinion
... oh no, surely not ..
@@caitypierulestheworld6963 I've been there. It's the second best in England I'd say
@@insanelewis21 is that a good thing? Please explain if you have the time to
I love how the word “Stealth” never came out of his mouth, even though that’s my favorite ride at the park
Alton Towers is waaaayyyyy better imo, but Thorpe Park is still pretty good- also, I do feel like Thorpe Park is really well themed in places- in construction of The Swarm and SAW, nearly as much was spent on theming as construction of the actual ride itself. Both of those two are themed very well. Colossus’ theming is okay, as is Stealth and Nemesis Inferno, but with the track record being that the most recent two major roller coasters are the best themed, I cannot wait to see what they have coming up next 👌🏻
Talk about it, thorpe park is a hour away from me but Alton towers is 3 and a half hours away so it's so difficult to get there but Alton towers is way better
It depends how you look at it. Alton towers is good but it doesn’t have anything unique about it. It has inverted coasters launch coasters and flying coaster which you find at most parks. Also Alton Towers basically have no flat rides anymore. Thorpe park is actually best known for the flat rides as they are way better than the actually rides. Take Samurai, when it’s operating it is amazing same with rush and vortex. Zodiac and quantum are good too however the new version is zodiac isn’t as good as the old one and quantum has so much downtime (even more than Samurai)
GabesDaBomb I think samurai should be put in Alton somewhere personally 🤷🏻♂️
Matt ew no. It wouldn’t fit the theme of any areas which is why they removed it from Chessington in the first place. Alton Towers isn’t really a park for thrilling rides, it’s more focused on making the rides fun with airtime but not g force
GabesDaBomb I would disagree with that, purely on the basis that their mission statement is to appeal to ALL members of the family. So a ride like Samurai, given the blatant lack of flat rides at the park, would make total sense, bearing in mind most of the attractions at the park are aimed at younger kids, or families, with one or two aimed at the younger thrill seekers (Wicker Man and Th13teen). I reckon that Merlin could stick a ride like Samurai in an area like X-Sector, since we know they have the footprint for it with the old submission site, and we could start building the numbers back up where flats are concerned. Either way I would love to see more flats at Alton Towers, that would be the one thing I would change about it. Other than that, it’s still my favourite place in the world 😁
2:19, is it your favorite that you’ve done?
Kind of occurred to me that the trend is darker themes in UK parks 😂 our two biggest are Alton Towers and Thorpe Park and in both of them the rides all have a dark theme. I guess we don't really do magical and fanciful here
I got a merlin pass this year (unlimited access to Alton towers and Thorpe park), wish I got it last year tho so I could meet all you guys.
Thorpe park is my home park and it is decent for what they use the space for, I go every year and I still haven't rode derren Browns. I will be riding it when I go next in July
Went here for the first time this summer. Despite the long queues, I still really enjoyed it. Obviously there were restrictions because of the whole Covid thing, so queues were even longer, but still got on all the major coasters. With regards to operations, I thought they were fine. The only ride queue that dragged on a lot was Inferno, but everything else I thought was worth the wait. Overall, really solid park, not sure if I rate it over Towers yet
How long are the queues exactly? I go there in summer. Should I buy fastpasses?
An hour long.
Fast pass is very expensive but a must have. I visited in 2009 and got three rides. Three. I visited again last year in October with Fastpass and got probably 16 rides at least
@@visionist7 ok thank you
Wow nice footage!
Love your channel a ton! But we need a lagoon update plz! Keep up the good work!!!
Bullboy I will have another Lagoon coaster construction update out at the very end of August!
My home park, think you were unlucky because Walking Dead does have live actors most of the time.
Got a question for you. What is your outro music called?
Thanks for coming and your opinions! I have been through a lot of theme parks around europe and I think they have done a good job with the space they have with a few record holder rides included. There is always room for it to improve but its one of my top 3 in europe (and in not biased as I live an hour away)
Thorpe park is my home park
This is my local and most frequently visited park. Operations are almost always very poor, but the large amount of flats and other attractions help to keep queue times down. The walking dead also does have scare actors but only only select days (usually peak times only). Overall this is a very fair review in my opinion!
This is my home park, and I’d highly recommend checking out the flat rides here. Samurai and Vortex are some of my personal favourites in the entire world
When I went on the walking dead ride there were actors there and it was pretty dark and scary.
The walking dead does actually have actors on weekends and possibly half term and holidays too.
I love thorpe park but every time I go there, I miss the log flume so much. It was my favourite in the UK.
That pizza buffet used to be a Pizza Hut too. Was so nice
The new Project Exodus Mack hyper coaster that just got approved should serve as that “standout attraction” Thorpe Park is missing. It’s going to be short, but unique and (hopefully) FUN!
When I went the other day all the queues were about 1-10 minutes it was abandoned it was great!
This is my home park and let me tell you, derren browns ghost train is almost never open, let alone all the effects working too!
Hey!
Dippiedoe,a small park at the Netherlands,also have an angry birds themed area,which is pretty neat too,but much smaller
I love Thorpe park iv been there 7 times in the last 2 year’s. Chessington is my home park then Thorpe park but I tend to visit Thorpe more. My favourite ride there is stealth and sometimes Saw if it is riding good.
0:47 welcome to Thorpe park
I also was only 1 day there... But i really enjoyed that huge amount of thrill coasters! Because i was never in an american park yet
Last time I went to Thorpe park I queued for 2.5 hours for Collossus, hit my head on the giant restraint at the first drop, passed out and woke up in the middle of the corkscrew at the end
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On nemesis inferno (the better nemesis) they have 2 more ops on the platform so dispatches are now around 1 min.
"Nemesis inferno (The better nemesis)" - Everyone disliked that
That's a ...niche... opinion lol
@@visionist7 more and more people seem to be thinking this though. This season it is running insanely fast.
Cheat63925 Yh I went on it again recently and it felt a lot more intense then I remember, even mange to hit some grass with my feet on the ride m
I’m sad he doesn’t talk about the soundtrack to Thorpe Park. The Soundtrack is an Easy 10/10
I sometimes watch your old UK videos because that’s where I’m from, and I think it’s cool that you came here and made reviews on our parks!
Thorpe Park has really gone down hill this year. Now that their season is over, we can generalise the year. It was awful. July 4th theme parks all reopened in the UK. At first, Thorpe Park handled Covid very well... for about 2 weeks.
Then it really flopped. They got into trouble several times for breaking the public attraction capacity restrictions that the UK government set them. I went on September 5th and all of the big 5 coasters were a 2hr+ wait from 10:30am-5pm (closing). So pretty much all day. There was no enforcement of social distancing or hygiene rules, and all of the sanitisers were empty. Sometime relatively early on in the season, someone got a knife past the “security,” and stabbed someone on the bridge between the island and the parking lot. And on their Fright Nights event, they got into trouble AGAIN for overcrowding, not enforcing face coverings, AND several female members of staff were sexually assaulted in the mazes. Thorpe Park need to come under new management now, because it got stupid come the end of the season.
Alton Towers on the other hand ran their season through Covid faultlessly! Just goes to show what two kinda similar parks can do at totally opposite ends of the same spectrum when it comes to Covid.
Thorpe Park isn’t worth revisiting, because they likely won’t get a new coaster until 2023/24 and between now and then it’ll only get worse. But nonetheless I’m glad you enjoyed yourself all that time ago 😂😂
I am sure coaster studios and his THOUSANDS of followers would love to have a RMC at Thorpe Park
Thorpe Park is just not great, not terrible
You didn't!
I think that they are getting a new coaster. They have lots of land and I think that soon they will get one on the island behind swarm.
It’s really interesting seeing someone praise merlin’s use of scary themed rides
Tbh, over here in the uk it’s so prevalent that it’s getting tired
Yeah the scary theme to rides is getting a bit boring they need to go in a different direction now
Dollywood tips? I’m really nervous about Lightning Rod opening
Go for at least two days for a better chance
Thorpe is my closest park, been a good number of times. Was interesting hearing what you thought
The limited shade is likely due to our weather being cloudy or around 20°C outside summer. Pretty good point though
It doesn't really have standouts these days, but at the time the coasters opened they were record breakers or UK firsts, such as Stealth bring the fastest coaster in GB and Saw The Ride being the scariest and steepest at the time
Of the flat rides, the most intense are Rush and Detonator, whilst Zodiac and Vortex are a bit for on the chill side
Hopefully we'll be getting a new coaster soon, allot of people including myself hopo mg for the first British RMC where Loggers Leap (a log fluke that ceased operations in recent years) used to be
There is actually 2 burger kings in thorpe park, you must have gone on a busy day as I usually go during the week and it's walk on to 10 mins queues
Taylor out here dissing Angry Birds
Last time I went to Thorpe Park (May 2018) the Walking Dead Ride had scare actors - best queue ever! Does it not have them anymore?
*YES!*
I agree with a lot of it but I disagree with the last bit saying they have no stand out rides like I think stealth is a huge stand out ride. Also I agree when you said it’s more of an amusement park then a Themepark, it’s kind of weird cuz rides are themed but not areas like most places (chessington, Alton towers etc) but definitely one of my fav parks go there every Halloween with my family and bff definitely worth a visit cheap and incredible value for money
Stealth is too short to be a standout.
It would be like saying Kingda Ka is the standout ride at Great Adventure. No, El Toro is.
Project Exodus should give us a good standout, though.
I'm sure someone's already said it, but there used to be actors in TWD ride. They ditched them after it's first season. Presumably too expensive...
Other than Alton towers, Thorpe park is really the only amusement park in the UK with a considerable number of big coasters. I thought that the rides were good, but dispatch times (particularly on the swarm and colossus) were quite poor. However, there was quite good teeming on nemisis, the swarm, and saw, but it could have been better. It is a good park with good rides though, and though it is quite small it's well worth it.
when you look at huge movies and tv series with British actors like harry potter or game of thrones it makes me wonder they don't design any rides or sections around them at thorpe park or alton towers
I had fun at Thorpe Park. Especially the Colossus because its a world record holder or at least it was when I went back in 2013
It lost the record to The Smiler in 2013.
Colossus has 10 upside-down moments, The Smiler has 14.
as a local i totally agree with ur thoughts. i think alot of the dislike/hate it gets is due to merlin (owners) can’t decide which way they want to progress the park and how alot of the park doesn’t receive much tlc. e.g loads of the effects not working on rides, rides closed alot, some rides sbno. it was brought this week by the people that own the lego group so hopefully we will see alot more care taken in it
My home park!
The question is do they have fish and chips with malt vinegar?
do u remember me i saw u at busch gardens at the boat dock. thank u so much for the picture
Well...the stand out coaster is on its way 🎉
In UK for the first time this week! Trying to make my way out there
Here’s my crazy take, We actually enjoyed Thorpe more than Alton Towers. We got one day at each. Yes weather had a lot to do with it. Sunny at Thorpe; total rain out at AT. Crowd was the other huge factor. Thorpe had no lines at all and Alton had 50min queues with rain!
Derren Brown’s Ghost Train is REMOVED 🎉🎉🎉 😂😂😂
I go Thorpe park every two weeks with my mates and there dispatch time is much better now you have 30 seconds or it leave without you
Honestly, i don't think Angry Birds Land is that bad. Sure, nobody plays Angry Birds anymore, but it has a few decent kids attractions (and Detonator) and is well themed and looks vibrant and colourful. Just my views on it.
You didn’t get to go on flat rides. I feel so sorry for you. If you get the chance to come back to this park you absolutely have to try Samurai!
It’s my favourite ride at the park. I love it more than the rollercoasters. It’s so fun! You really feel thrown about on Samurai 😁
I have ridden tons of exact clones of Samurai around the world. They’re all the same.
@@CoasterStudios I also think that Detonator (The Drop Tower at the park) might be one of your favourite drop towers because its known as the most forceful drop tower in the world at 5.5 Gs and that ride actually drop by gravity, it drops because pistons push and release it down so the drop is basically faster than gravity!
Shame you didn't go on the flats because Thorpe Park has some good flat rides imo. The themeing for saw the ride is good, other than that it's not too good. And to answer your question, Stealth IS the 'standout big ride' it's much faster and bigger than most other coasters in the UK!
Kek very true, I can see how Stealth can be seen as that stand out coaster.
Haven't been and would love to go!! I love amusement and theme parks!!!! I really have no preference. I just want to have a good time with my family.
ok but having your favourite ride as derren brown's ghost train is a literal crime
How did you like derren browns ghost train!?
Because it's actually a good ride
@@coasterbot it broke down the 4 times I've been on it
@@coasterbot you must be extremely lucky to have it work flawlessly. When it works, the technology is very impressive and the way it buggers with your sense of motion is also impressive but i don't think it has any re-rideability. I've noticed multiple different VR "runs" or segment or whatever but i dont think it's enough to make me re ride every week or 2
Best ride in whole the uk and not sure if its still around but the buddle works at chestigton zoo
I been there yesterday. The waiting times are ridiculous. Average 60 75 per ride. Rediculous.
When can we expect a review of Blackpool Pleasure Beach?
Tomorrow!