The DIFFICULT Creation of Thorpe Park: The Educational Era

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  • Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025

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  • @ExpeditionThemePark
    @ExpeditionThemePark  Год назад +141

    Are you hyped for Hyperia?

    • @Couch_potato123-w5g
      @Couch_potato123-w5g Год назад +3

      Hell yes

    • @finn.bagley
      @finn.bagley Год назад +1

      100%

    • @iMizzy777
      @iMizzy777 Год назад +1

      YEAH

    • @leslierushforth4572
      @leslierushforth4572 Год назад +5

      I am, just a little disappointed with the length.
      If Merlin spent an extra few million, they could have put a launched section building up to the epic finale.
      I absolutely love your video's and look forward to every episode. Your content is well edited, informative and I always get new information. Very well researched
      Well done and keep up the good work. You're one of the best theme park content channels out there 👍

    • @DJ-Scott-E
      @DJ-Scott-E Год назад +1

      Definitely 👍

  • @vectorwolf
    @vectorwolf Год назад +251

    As someone stateside, I always appreciate these in depth looks at the UK parks. There's hundreds of videos covering Disney and Universal, and so little about Europe at all. It's all basically new info to me, even despite my familiarity with theme parks in general. Can't wait for the continuing episodes...
    I will say it's so odd to me that UK parks, especially in recent years, lean into the horror themes so hard. Coasters like Smiler, Thirteen, Saw, that alien one I can't pull up the name of right now... Ghost Train, Black Mirror, Hex, the list just goes on and on. I admit, I'm a hair jealous.

    • @ExpeditionThemePark
      @ExpeditionThemePark  Год назад +21

      Yeah we have some unique stuff aha

    • @namugriff
      @namugriff Год назад +5

      Thinking Nemesis?

    • @rich_edwards79
      @rich_edwards79 Год назад +22

      For me, Alton Towers is the undisputed king of dark / Gothic theming. Even before Scarefest, I always liked to go in autumn and experience the wooded grounds, forbidding ruins and creepy rides under gloomy skies. With its powerful conservative-Christian lobby, here's no way that anything like it would ever fly in the US, but I love that it can thrive here.

    • @Tiggy1909
      @Tiggy1909 Год назад +10

      I think Hyperia will be interesting, as it breaks the trend and is obviously going to be one of the best rides in the UK

    • @thomasrinschler6783
      @thomasrinschler6783 Год назад +8

      @@rich_edwards79 *Some* parts of the US.

  • @kpturn42
    @kpturn42 Год назад +180

    RMC wasn't making "useless" strip mines, they were providing a vital public service. Where else would the BBC have filmed Doctor Who?? 😂

    • @ExpeditionThemePark
      @ExpeditionThemePark  Год назад +23

      It’s true!

    • @namugriff
      @namugriff Год назад +8

      And Red Dwarf

    • @octogonSmuggler
      @octogonSmuggler Год назад +2

      Imo they should have been filming the superior Hitchhikers Guide instead. But that probably won't ever happen.

    • @TheUluxian
      @TheUluxian Год назад

      Great minds..
      ..I was thinking the very same.

    • @intheskywithpie
      @intheskywithpie Год назад +1

      @@octogonSmuggler didn't they do that too?

  • @shufflecats3339
    @shufflecats3339 Год назад +60

    The reveal at the end that all of those clips were your home movies was really, really lovely! It's such a sweet, heartfelt detail for you to share your own history intertwined with the history of the park. I'm excited to see the next part, excellent work as always!

  • @babyleafsaladd5322
    @babyleafsaladd5322 Год назад +102

    This is pretty funny to me - I live near Thorpe Park and it’s got such a bad rep now amongst the locals for unruly teens and bad hygiene. The idea that it was originally intended as a relaxing educational attraction with ‘beautiful grounds’ is so different from what it is now.

    • @ExpeditionThemePark
      @ExpeditionThemePark  Год назад +14

      Yeahhhhh

    • @CharlieHC
      @CharlieHC Год назад +18

      Yeah that explains their new identity and brand change, and the millions they are spending this year to do it up! hopefully should get a better rep

    • @deananthony1000
      @deananthony1000 Год назад +3

      The original locals or the locals living far too close cus merlin sold land for housing ?

    • @timecircuits88
      @timecircuits88 Год назад +3

      Merlin really did drag that park down, which is weird because they didn't do that with Alton Towers

    • @deananthony1000
      @deananthony1000 Год назад +3

      @@timecircuits88 Alton towers was advertised as 360 acres with over 80 rides and attractions. They sold land and the last time they bragged about rides and attractions it was 40 and that includes all the rides for 3 year olds in c b bees so I would argue that merlin have ruined Alton towers as well.

  • @williambroome9140
    @williambroome9140 Год назад +31

    I've missed these UK expeditions, they are always so good and hit home for me

  • @griffinlevine5228
    @griffinlevine5228 Год назад +57

    I got in my feels at the end, really glad you got to share these videos with us. There are so many stories of kids going to parks just like this and those visits turning into so much more

  • @charlottenelson-turner4638
    @charlottenelson-turner4638 Год назад +23

    Loved this video and that you added your own personal footage. Loved Thorpe Park in the 90’s

  • @steverob5
    @steverob5 Год назад +26

    This is great so far and really looking forward to the second part of this. I went to Thorpe Park in the 80's when it was still mainly educational (school trip) and then not again until the 2000's when it was a full theme park, so always wondered how the transition happened

  • @cozyburrito686
    @cozyburrito686 Год назад +45

    This was so awesome, thanks for sharing your origin story Sam! Very well done😄🙌

  • @phatmemer69
    @phatmemer69 Год назад +2

    Such an awesome video! Super interesting

  • @pluxauag7555
    @pluxauag7555 10 месяцев назад +2

    Great Video, brought back memories. Alton Towers when it had the cork screw roller coaster and Thunder Looper was my favourite moment in theme park visits.

  • @SuperBenEnd
    @SuperBenEnd 2 месяца назад +1

    I'm late to this party, huge theme park fan, hadn't really processed it beyond my religious affinity to the EPCOT concept, but the section at the end brought tears to my eyes. I too am of your generation, and memories of my father taking me to Thorpe Park throughout the 90s came flooding back. Humble, janky, and often inclement, its those rangers that broke barriers into imagination despite the lack of budgets parks in central Florida maintained, and why its equally important to my individual personality today. I particularly enjoyed this video, more so for a reminder as to why Thorpe Park was the way it was, its part of DNA, and although the ride height restrictions have increased since I was a kid, I intend to take my kids, just as my dad did thirty years ago. Thank you.

  • @mistrcarter
    @mistrcarter Год назад +6

    Oh Man This Made Me Emotional Seeing All The Footage Of You As A Child! EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON! THANK YOU AND FOR ALLOWING US INTO YOUR JOURNEY AND THANK YOUR DAD FOR BEING WHO HE WAS AND IS TO YOU 🙏🏽🎢

  • @TheKnexMaker
    @TheKnexMaker 13 дней назад

    loved this video Sam! I remember going to thorpe park when I was young, around 6-10 years old so much have been 2004-2008 time. I remember riding leggers leap, funny thing though I was very scared of rides at that age and it was not until the swarm opened that I overcame my fear! my first propper thrill coaster was the swarm backwards in 2013!.
    that changed my life forever, made me a theme park enthusiast, and paved the way for me to pick back up my knex roller coaster hobby 12+ years later in 2020.
    its crazy how places like this can shape so many people entire lives!

  • @coastermadab
    @coastermadab Год назад +5

    Sam. Thank god we have you. This is EXCELLENT.

  • @ONhistoryplus
    @ONhistoryplus Год назад +5

    This video is truely amazing. It came to me recommended. I am so glad I clicked through. I've never ever given any thought in to how theme parks came in to being. This video is an amazing insight in to a subject I knew absoultely nothing about. Thank you.

  • @katherinezimmerman6997
    @katherinezimmerman6997 8 месяцев назад +1

    I love how much you’ve connected this to your own personal history. I’d probably do the same if I ever made a video about Canobie Lake in NH. Seeing baby Sam enjoying himself was adorable!

  • @artapples8417
    @artapples8417 Год назад +10

    I really enjoyed this thanks :)
    I grew up and still live in Staines right next door, and visited Thorpe Park regularly right from the beginning in the early 80's and later used to work there every summer during my college years too in the late 80's/early 90's, so it was lovely to have this nostalgic look back.
    For me the best years were the early years before it started to transform into a Coaster park as it has now become. The central pavilion was always under used I remember, almost felt barren inside at times and was a walk through as you entered the park. Later they added a pub and a few food places and a photo op place but it still felt like an after thought. The 180 Cinema Screen was always a highlight, the area behind which started as a wonky bike circuit thing and then every few years they tried something else there, never successfully though as often that was barren too. They had a chinese restaurant on a huge Disney type boat by the 180 Cinema but sadly that closed too soon as well. So that whole space never felt thought through but somehow always retained an affection by me for it's missteps in what it actually was supposed to be.
    I loved the model village and used to spend hours relaxing in that space. My favourite ride of the park was always that dark Phantom ride just before. I remember alongside it they had that small arcade space too. That slow water ride was lovely too and the large barn it went through at the end was surprisingly packed with tonnes of animatronic animals in such abundance that it proudly met disney standards :) Just to the left of that the North West mini expansion area they later added in the late 80's or early 90's with that new Log Flume ride was great too.
    I loved the area to the right of the pavilion where all the history exhibits were and could happily spend half a day there making your way through the various tents, seeing armour and other fascinating almost museum static displays building up to the large fort at the end. Unlike the map shown in the video I don't remember a path at the south to get to the farm. Instead you had to go north of the model village where they would later add the lovely Thunder Rapid ride on that long loop at the top past the crazy Treasure Island which always seemed isolated up there on it's own and for it's size was a quick loop around that quite barren looking island aside form that lovely broken ship where they had a cast member dressed as a pirate who would rush out too surprise you xd
    But that led to the 'odd' in my view farm as it felt so isolated and I remember getting quite bored their within five minutes of arriving. But the only reason to go would be the amazing fresh dairy ice creams they served there in fresh cones :)) which were always the food highlight of the day for me. They also had a boat taking you back and forth from the pavilion to the farm which I remember was on a long half an hour schedule so we always got impatient and just walked around past Treasure Island instead. I think they had a train ride thing doing that route too.
    The park grew beautifully in the later 80's with Thunder River, Log Flume and the area al around that too, up to Tea Cup period too, but for me when they added the large slide and beach area behind the pavilion and started to close some of the earlier parks charming rides and quirks or left them barred like the bike circuit and slowly the historical area too it was the start of the initially slow demise of the park from it's best early charming era. The modern Coaster era it is in now is totally alien to what it once was I feel.

  • @TheUluxian
    @TheUluxian Год назад +7

    That was a good one...Anxiously awaiting part II.
    Never been much of a theme park fan, but I am a HUGE Anglophile, and Alton Towers has been on my bucket list for a number of years (based in part because of this channel..thank you very much). Might have to expand my horizons and make a tour of a few different parks one of the next times I hop the pond...finger crossed. 🤞

  • @mailjimmygalaxy
    @mailjimmygalaxy Год назад +4

    Wow so excited for part 2. I got to enjoy the park as a young kid in the
    Mid 80s. Seeing those attractions brings back so many memories!

  • @AGBuchanan
    @AGBuchanan 2 месяца назад

    Can’t wait for the next era video!! I used to live about 20 minutes away from Thorpe Park and had an annual pass for many years as an adult.
    It was also a staple part of my childhood in the 90’s and it also started my love of Theme Parks.
    Love your videos!

  • @kirstenbennett7958
    @kirstenbennett7958 10 месяцев назад +2

    Loved this episode Sam! So neat to learn not only about Thorpe Park but also about the start of your theme park fandom. Now we all get to enjoy your passion, enthusiasm and talent! Thank you for sharing!💜

  • @JDWG
    @JDWG Год назад +1

    Nice video! Growing up in the 90s/early 2000s Thorpe Farm and Loggers Leap are peak nostalgia for me. Gone but never forgotten

  • @Kitcheiff
    @Kitcheiff 11 месяцев назад +1

    This video helped me understand so many of the attraction choices in Roller Coaster Tycoon. Thank you for another great episode.

  • @kellark
    @kellark Год назад +8

    Hey Sam .. its always a good day when a new Expedition Theme Park video comes out! So kewl to see videos of a little Sam and Jackie's quick cameo. Hope you and Jackie are well and uh hum "enthused". Oh and thanks for the recent Expedition Enthused podcast. Please keep them coming.

  • @pigeonpallz1733
    @pigeonpallz1733 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you for sharing your passion and love for theme parks. This is probably one of if not my favorite episodes. Thank you again

  • @dandygirl6
    @dandygirl6 9 месяцев назад

    your own family videos?! Stop the cuteness is killing me!

  • @megazw7740
    @megazw7740 3 месяца назад

    This made me so nostalgic. My family went to Thorpe Park a lot in the 90’s and is definitely my theme park fan origin story. Walking over the bridge … that place will always have my heart.

  • @Coaster_Crazy
    @Coaster_Crazy Год назад +1

    Awesome insight to a theme park I know little about in the early years, I first visited Thorpe Park in my mid 20’s when I was working in london (now in my 40’s) and I have lived it ever since !! Amazing video Sam, can’t wait to see more

  • @davidlambert8542
    @davidlambert8542 Год назад +1

    Thank you for this video, I loved every second of the history and that final sequence resonated so much with me. I visited Chessington Zoo in 1986 with my Mum and Dad and vividly remember seeing the Runaway Mine Train and Dragon River under construction, we returned the next year and that was the start of my love of theme parks. Can’t wait for the next instalment.

  • @1snoopy011
    @1snoopy011 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for producing this video and adding your personal connection to your life to the park! How special!

  • @chloepalmer5194
    @chloepalmer5194 11 месяцев назад +1

    I’ve been really ill over the last few days and I have been binge watching tour Alton Towers and Thorpe Park playlists. These videos are so well put together and informative. Definitely cheered me up and made me feel better 😊

  • @matthewbayman8024
    @matthewbayman8024 Год назад +1

    Ahh! I can see how Thorpe Park is near and dear to your heart! Your origin story! Can’t wait for part 2! I knew nothing about this park’s origins until this video. Thanks!

  • @CatsnCoasters
    @CatsnCoasters Год назад +8

    Great work as usual Sam. Hope you & Jackie can get out here this year to experience it. 👍

  • @Untamed_Mana
    @Untamed_Mana Год назад +1

    I honestly rewatch every theme park expedition over and over, its just a classic!! Keep making such informative and entertaining videos!!

  • @AudreyMealiff
    @AudreyMealiff Год назад +1

    What a lovely idea to add video clips of your childhood visits to Thorpe Park.❤ We are coming over to Thorpe from Ireland for our first ever visit this year. It's exciting to visit, especially this year!!

  • @kirstenbennett7958
    @kirstenbennett7958 10 месяцев назад +1

    Loved this video Sam! So neat to learn not only about the history of Thorpe Park but also about the start of your theme park fandom. Now we all get to enjoy your passion, enthusiasm and talent through your videos. Thank you for sharing! 💜 Hope to run into you and Jackie at a park one day.

  • @DappaPool
    @DappaPool Год назад +1

    Amazing brings back so many great memories, This park has such deep meaning to me especially after my Mums passing a couple years back, Seeing your home videos brings back lots of emotional feeling as I have the same sort of videos and pictures with my Mum, you and I must have gone around the same time as it looks just how I remember it, we’ve probably even been queueing up for the same ride lol, then later going as a teen with my friends to try out the new thrill rides, fast forward to summer 23 when I finally got to take my Daughter coming full circle making our own memories, can’t wait for pt2, thanks for doing this video as really made me appreciate this park even more ❤😊

  • @liamglenn8454
    @liamglenn8454 Год назад +1

    Nice to hear your back story in this one. We probably had a similar childhood, I’m just across the border in Oxfordshire. Every summer we would go to a couple of theme parks, sometimes with the whole extended family. Those are some of my cherished childhood memories. Now I am heading back to the same theme parks 25 years later with my kids. I am probably still the most excited one in the family.

  • @GamerFlair
    @GamerFlair 11 месяцев назад +1

    I never actually knew this part of the history of the park. I grew up in the 90's, and watch the weird switch around between Thorpe Park and Chessington. It used to be that Chessington was the exciting, thrill seeker theme park, and Thorpe park was very much the chill place for families. Thats basically done a total 180 now, where Thorpe Park is very much designed to be a place for teen/young adults and thrill seekers, where as Chessington is where you go for a family outing with kids.

  • @OverBankOscar
    @OverBankOscar 9 месяцев назад

    thorpe park is my all time favourite park and seeing it so long ago makes me really emotional

  • @SaturnCanuck
    @SaturnCanuck Год назад +1

    That was great. I love the personal touch. Can't wait for Part 2....

  • @MrDanrob82
    @MrDanrob82 Год назад +1

    Absolutely loved this video. Many many memories of thorpe park.over the years foryself and my daughter. Thank you for doing this and can't wait for the next part

  • @GetBinky
    @GetBinky Год назад +1

    Outstanding!
    This brought back so many happy memories, and just like you, we visited as a kid.
    After leaving school I worked here for a season and loved every second ❤
    Thanks for taking the time to piece this all together, roll on part two 🎉🎉🎉

  • @kaivalentine8033
    @kaivalentine8033 Год назад +1

    I very rarely comment on RUclips videos but just need to say that this was an excellent watch, brilliantly produced and edited together. The reveal at the end that it was home family videos was incredible. Love it and subscribed!

  • @amandahamilton2987
    @amandahamilton2987 11 месяцев назад +1

    New subscriber here! Thanks for your hard work putting this all together, so interesting to see the history of all our favourite parks ❤cant wait to watch more! Sadly Thorpe Park wasnt local to me so the first time i went was in 2010 but still great to see how it was back in the day nonetheless

  • @Rachael8989
    @Rachael8989 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much for this video. I’ve never seen such a detailed look at the beginnings of the park. I didn’t visit in the 80s (though has some photos of my parents first visit around 1983) so it was really educational. I would have liked to have seen the park then. But oh you made me cry at the end talking about the 90s at Thorpe Park; a special place and time in my life. 😭❤️ can’t wait for the next video. (Which I will cry more at I am sure!)

  • @DiverBen116
    @DiverBen116 Год назад +1

    What a great video, having grown up nearby and visiting here often it’s great to see the background of the park and the warm feeling at the end ❤❤ this is why you guys nail what you do as it’s just so clearly part of you guys and you nail bringing over the excitement and joy going to these parks brings 🎉🎉

  • @Whiskin87
    @Whiskin87 Год назад +1

    Love your home video footage!

  • @Robert-vw3od
    @Robert-vw3od 9 месяцев назад

    Your content is the best theme park content I’ve seen, Thorpe Park for me, it’s always going to be way behind Alton Towers.

  • @hearingthesmells2500
    @hearingthesmells2500 Год назад +1

    Lovely to see your childhood memories here.. great video👍🏼

  • @chrisbaete5842
    @chrisbaete5842 Год назад +1

    This video was awesome (as they always are) and the details in this were more than expected. This is the park I have the most interest in and there were things in here that I didn't know about. I really loved the personal touch added about with your own home videos and some details about the start of your Theme Park journey- well done for such a decent video

  • @Kickz_Official
    @Kickz_Official 6 месяцев назад

    I would like to thank this channel for soothing my hyper fixation on rollercoasters specifically in the UK

  • @antoineosburn8626
    @antoineosburn8626 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great job Sam. I love your expedition videos. Keep them coming my friend.

  • @ConnorPratchett
    @ConnorPratchett 11 месяцев назад +1

    Loved this video! Can’t imagine how long it took to make. Excited for the next part!

  • @ShannonMcDowell71
    @ShannonMcDowell71 Год назад +1

    As always, thank you for your work on these videos, but also thank you for sharing personal videos of your time at Thorpe Park. Best Always!

  • @TheTransportDepot
    @TheTransportDepot 9 месяцев назад

    I remember visiting Thorpe Park on a school trip in maybe 1982/83. The skating rink was a big thing for us, as it was the first time we'd ever seen inline skates (or "tri-skates" as we called them, as they only had 3 wheels). I also remember the small boating lake that was a cordoned off area of the big lake next to the Dome. As we were pottering around in pedalos, there were tugs pushing gravel barges not far away on the same lake.

  • @pokehybridtrainer
    @pokehybridtrainer Год назад +1

    Goodness. So much from one place, and your candidness to share. Thanks a bunch for all of this.

  • @stevenf9298
    @stevenf9298 10 месяцев назад +1

    I love your content so much, thanks!

  • @carljackson1608
    @carljackson1608 Год назад +1

    Another excellent video 👍🏼👍🏼 especially learning where your love for theme parks came from, Thank you 🤩

  • @JackieWohlenhaus
    @JackieWohlenhaus Год назад +2

    Nice vid. I liked the end bit. Really felt the love.

  • @automatticcomics
    @automatticcomics Год назад +1

    Another superb vid. Great work. Very personal ep indeed. Thanks. From another Wiltshire lad !!

  • @BlueJeanBaby
    @BlueJeanBaby Год назад +3

    I enjoy theme parks but haven't been to any outside the US. Your videos are so interesting and well done, I watch them all. History is fascinating.

  • @jonathandevries2828
    @jonathandevries2828 Год назад +1

    Thanks Sam, that was a good one as always

  • @m.streicher8286
    @m.streicher8286 7 месяцев назад +2

    The opening is impressive when you realize they made it happen with

  • @Steve-ej9py
    @Steve-ej9py Год назад +1

    Thank you Sam, one of the best. Look forward to the next part

  • @tropico56
    @tropico56 Год назад +1

    Always appreciate your videos! I enjoyed the peek into your past. That was heartwarming. 👏🏻

  • @AvussonSC
    @AvussonSC Год назад +1

    Thanks Sam.....great story and video! Can't wait for part two.

  • @KierenMessenger
    @KierenMessenger 11 месяцев назад

    You gotta do a video on the Thorpe Park Rangers. The Up the Chimney song has lived rent free in my head for over 30 years!

  • @greebodeet
    @greebodeet 2 месяца назад

    I love your videos, have seen many of them. I especially love the Thorpe Park one as that park means so much to me like it did you.

  • @elahrneb
    @elahrneb 11 месяцев назад

    I'm not a theme park nut, but I've been watching your videos for years the passion you put into then really comes through. So nice to see a glimpse at the origin story 😅

  • @chriskeene
    @chriskeene Год назад

    I had a memory of being in year 6 and going to a themepark but most the day was spent at a norman/saxon model village. What seems almost unbelievable now is the teachers let us all go off round the park in the last hour completely unsupervised and told us to just get back to the entrance at a certain time.
    I always wondered if i had mis-remembered - why would a theme park have a model saxon village, so thanks for explaining this. Its depressing how much councils can be against such things

  • @SergieRachmaninoff
    @SergieRachmaninoff Год назад +1

    Awesome work on this video, it really took me back

  • @chrislonghurst
    @chrislonghurst Год назад +4

    Wow. If you were there in the summer of 88 or 89 and that’s what started your theme park adventure, you would certainly have ridden a ride I was operating. I was part of the seasonal staff in both those years.

  • @MH_ZeR0
    @MH_ZeR0 Год назад +1

    Absolutely loved that! We're around the same age so seeing all that footage of your first visit brought back memories of my early visits 😁 can't wait for part 2!!

  • @KT-Kaboom
    @KT-Kaboom Год назад +1

    AWWW THAT WAS PRECIOUS AT THE END.

  • @polymogs
    @polymogs Год назад +1

    liking the new editing style, it's going in a nice direction - great work!

  • @Pelencheification
    @Pelencheification Год назад +1

    You always do just a stand out job, great video ETP!

  • @callalilycollective
    @callalilycollective 9 месяцев назад

    your conclusion on this video echoed my 90s experience with knotts berry farm. Didnt realized how spoiled I was with southern california parks, but it was knotts that made a bigger impact than disney back then.

  • @bdschannel4733
    @bdschannel4733 Год назад

    Although Thorpe Park may not be the most interesting park you've done a documentary about, this is probably your best and most interesting video. One can really feel the love you have for this place. And it makes me want to go visit it again (of course after they open Hyperia).

  • @O.G.R.
    @O.G.R. Год назад +1

    We always enjoy your videos and as a kid in the 90s I loved Thorpe park too. Great video cant wait for the next instalment!

  • @nicktrains2234
    @nicktrains2234 Год назад +1

    Always love your UK videos, keep them coming!

  • @stevesayer3239
    @stevesayer3239 Год назад +1

    Very good video Sam. That brought back a few memories.

  • @trackfactz
    @trackfactz Год назад +2

    Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy a full 20 min video on thorpe!

  • @petermc7098
    @petermc7098 Год назад +1

    Hi There, an informative and very well explained Video of Thorpe Park's past history, keep up the good work! Cheers Peter :)

  • @teamwolfyta
    @teamwolfyta 10 месяцев назад

    That USB disconnect noise gave me a heart attack, Was like "not this s**t again". Awesome videos by the way.

  • @ThemeParkCrazy
    @ThemeParkCrazy Год назад

    The idea of this park being family-friendly before later holding a urine-odor contest and having an orgasm advert is honestly hysterical. Great vid as usual!

    • @ExpeditionThemePark
      @ExpeditionThemePark  Год назад

      Aha crazy right? Thanks!

    • @Metal_Maxine
      @Metal_Maxine Год назад

      😮 WTF? I had a giraffe ranger hat - I think you just broke my childhood

  • @tufab3494
    @tufab3494 Год назад +6

    I'm full of work today and all I needed was a mini doc about Theme Parks to watch during my breaks. I'm glad ETP heard me xD
    Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷🙌

  • @lucasjakobi3783
    @lucasjakobi3783 Год назад

    I love how you tied this into your childhood! Disneyland is that park for me. Definitely got me into theme parks and roller coasters as a little kid. Great video as always! Cheers from LA

  • @weaseal
    @weaseal Год назад

    This was my park growing up, the same era as yourself and likely many watching this video. Watching the old footage, it might as well have been me XD Can't wait for the next part!

  • @callegok7441
    @callegok7441 Год назад +1

    Was not expecting the Lochness Monster to make it into this video!

  • @Gabriel_OGDC
    @Gabriel_OGDC Год назад +1

    Just that theme tune at the beginning made me feel as if it was summer again...
    I haven't been to the park since 2021, used to go at least once a year but then my dad had a stroke and could no longer drive... I'm hoping to go this year (via some mangled form of public transport...) since I heard about Hyperia... I mean the last new coaster the park got (and I mean a proper new rollercoaster, not just a re-theme like TWD (I still miss X...), or an experience like Black Mirror or that ghost train thing) was swarm in 2012, it's been sooooo long

  • @simonpowell9975
    @simonpowell9975 Год назад

    Your love for Thorpe Park has been evident for a while and it's lovely to see how much your 'home' park has influenced you!

  • @TheGuvzilla
    @TheGuvzilla Год назад

    Facinating video Sam, i feel like thorpe park needs a large amount of investment and with what has been going on over the winter hopefully it is getting it.

  • @FerreTrip
    @FerreTrip 6 месяцев назад

    Oh my goodness, that was an adorable twist at the end! ^^ You'd been waiting to make a video on Thorpe Park for a long, long time, hadn't you?

  • @chackbro1
    @chackbro1 8 месяцев назад

    That ending made my day

  • @CarletonTorpin
    @CarletonTorpin Год назад +1

    Great to see the park that started this whole Expedition!

  • @ForeverNeverwhere1
    @ForeverNeverwhere1 Год назад

    I used to be a local, my parents even took me to the first water ski competition you mentioned, as well as an airshow, I still remember a DH super chipmunk fly low and inverted down the lake, below the bank sides where the crowd were sat, and the pilot slid back the canopy and waved, sadly he died a few months later in another airshow. Blue with stars on it.
    Anyway, my parents would often take us when it opened properly, and as it was being built we would cycle over and sneak in.
    Locals got a season ticket for a heavy discount, and the roller rink was the place to be for all the kids.
    Once it got more theme parky I never went back.
    Anyway, thanks for all the home movie clips, that was a real journey down memory lane.

  • @scottishpig
    @scottishpig 6 месяцев назад

    That ending was very personal and sweet. Thanks! I hope to ride Hyperia someday.