Four Times a Roller Coaster Ride Saved a Life
Despite often having a dangerous reputation due to the media sensationalizing the rare ride incidents, roller coasters are remarkably safe. In fact, some surprising health benefits...
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Giveaway and Interview: “Making Thorpe Park” Author Chris Atkinson
Making Thorpe Park: The Complete Unofficial Story of the Theme Park dives into the history of one of the UK’s largest and most popular theme parks....
Beat the Swarm at Thorpe Park
Thorpe Park is offering guests the chance to “Beat the Swarm” for a lifetime pass to the park. © Thorpe Park For the coaster’s second season...
Thorpe Park to Open Portable Hotel
Thorpe Park announced recently that a hotel will open inside the park next season, but it’s no ordinary hotel. The Crash Pad, a portable hotel (yes,...
Amusement Parks and Viral Videos
With the extreme popularity of viral videos, it’s only natural for theme park marketers to begin creating faked viral videos to generate interest for various attractions,...
Humans vs. Thorpe Park’s Swarm
Thorpe Park posted photos of the first human “test dummies” to take on the new Swarm wingrider coaster. Judging by the expressions on the riders’ faces,...
Swarm trains unveiled
Thorpe Park posted the following photos of Swarm’s sleek trains. The attention to detail on the trains is extraordinary! You need a camera with panoramic capabilities...
The wingcoasters are rising
Two out of the three B&M wingcoasters under construction for the 2012 season are already making significant progress, and 2012 hasn’t even arrived yet. It won’t...
Announcement Week – Day One Summary
This week is announcement week in the amusement park industry and we’ve had several exciting news items today already. Thorpe Park – The Swarm First up,...
New coaster for Thorpe Park in 2012
Thorpe Park’s 2012 coaster plans have been floating around the internet and from the looks of them, 2012 (codenamed “LC12”) will be a great year for...
Two coasters for Thorpe Park within 6 years.
It’s not common to hear of parks releasing 6-year development plans, so I thought it was very interesting that Thorpe Park announced that it would build two...
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