This looks like it's going to be fun. Looking forward to experiencing it tomorrow.

Seems like it should be popular as they've already sold out of tickets for this weekend.

Is it me or does the third picture remind you of Shrek?

General park operations were a bit of a let down today, with the park overall not feeling like it was ready to start after the late closing yesterday.

The main gates were very late opening, causing the crowd to clog up security, as the area before the gates was completely full of people. When they did open at 9:50, for whatever reason they only opened a single gate and two turnstiles for season pass holders only.



Several rides weren't ready for operation on time, notably Colossus and Stealth took another 30-40 minutes to open. Nemesis Inferno only had one train in operation, which I managed to get the first ride of the day on, but ended with my hand covered in grease. Strangely, Stealth didn't have any wrist bands at bag drop, so you had to remember the number instead.

Nearly every construction change I saw from last week's trip, had changed again. The archway from the Platform 15 exit had been moved to Zombie Hunt, along with the full tunnel. The bamboo around the Loggers site may have been put there as part of the Zombie Hunt queue, although there are temporary trees on the other side of the fence, which I'm sure are screening for Loggers. Whilst the site next to I'm a Celebrity had changed from what was a dumping ground for site works, into the exit for Zombie Hunt and one of the most themed areas I've seen in the park! So they had been very busy this week getting it all set up!

Could see a little bit of Loggers Leap from Saw. It's still there, but the old tunnel section is completely overgrown into the Loggers channel. I haven't found a spot in the park where you can see the drop anymore.

Team Edit: Zombie Hunt topic merged to existing topic

Speaking of Zombie Hunt, I got my first run through on it today, coincidentally in the first group of the day too! Overall I found it to be one of the most lovingly crafted attractions in the park. They've been able to create their own distinct style, thrown in a lot of Easter eggs to the history of the park, employed some great actors and built some fantastic sets. Unfortunately, I found the chances to use the laser guns they gave out were fairly limited and that it was perhaps a missed opportunity on some of the interactive side.

The guns they give out are pretty sophisticated, with holographic red dot sights and some form of reload mechanism. Disappointingly these aren't pointed out and it took me a while to guess that the gun was reloading rather than just simply not working. It was also a disappointment that they weren't doing photos on this attraction, as with the guns and some aviators, you could make some fantastically cheesy pictures!

I absolutely love the style of the attraction. The zombie actors are also brilliant, but I just wish there were a few more things to shoot. It works well during the day, but I really think an evening version with more targets, some great lighting and smoke effects, could make this one of the most fun attractions in the park.

I'll put my thoughts from inside the attraction in spoiler tags.

Dan says hi wrote:

Great to hear your trip report thanks for that! Zombie Hunt sounds amazing so I’ll be sure to check that out. I’m going to TP next week and was slightly concerned to see that Vortex was closed all day today again, when I went earlier this year it was also closed (like it has been lots this year) did you see anything wrong with it?

It's definitely worth checking it out. Very different to anything else in the park.

Sadly I didn't go down into the Vortex area of the park today, as I was only there for a few hours. They only just got it running again a couple of weeks ago, so it's strange for it to close again so soon. Maybe it was just a one day thing? Or maybe the ride time listing for it broke again...?

Thorpe Park have been suffering site-wide power-cuts this afternoon, on the day of the first Love Island Lates. The online queue times suggest that around half of the rides have closed, but it's possible from online comments that the whole lot has gone down, or that there have been rolling power-cuts.

Thorpe Park stretches across the border of the area served by SSE and that served by UK Power Networks. The nearest failure listed by either is SSE, who say the power went off at 13:30, with power restoration expected at 16:30. This can be viewed at: Fault EP6643 on SSE Fault Tracker. Note: SSE is the only supplier.


Edit: Statement from Thorpe Park at 15:30.


Source: Thorpe Park on Twitter.

Edit 2: Power restored around 16:00, rides slowly coming back online again.

Edit 3: 16:30, power's gone again.

Edit 4: Power restored for second time around 18:00, and rides slowly coming back online again. Hopefully better luck this time!

I can just hear the newspapers licking their lips…

Wagstaff04 wrote:

I can just hear the newspapers licking their lips…

They already did and they did such a good job. The Sun reported that the powercut caused people to get stuck up the top of Stealth.

Correct, can't wait to ride it once again!

Did a second run of Zombie Hunt and it was far more polished. They explained the guns more and yes there is a reload button. There is also a button to change it into a shotgun, which once I found that out, well fun was had! I may have accidentally shot one of the humans, but hey, they jumped out on me .

The actors were brilliant and more used to how it all works, really reacting to every time they were hit. Didn't need to pre-purchase today, although the park was pretty empty.

Edit: Vortex looks a little unreliable still. Frequent downtime throughout the day. Could have been weather related, but everything else seemed to be running fine.

Thorpe Park appear to have a new queue jumper hotline, for reporting within the park. I'm guessing this goes to security.

Edit @5pm. They've now deleted the originally linked tweet and it's looking possibly like they gave out a wrong number from other comments. Thorpe Twitter is saying they intend to have a phone number for guests to use for reporting issues soon.

Thorpe Park had another power cut this evening, on the SSE supplied part of the park again. Looks like it was down for no more than an hour this time.

SSE seem to be having a few too many issues in that area.