Title: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: jpchenet on May 30, 2006, 04:18:22 pm
Took my daughter to Thorpe Park on Friday and went on the new ride, "Stealth". It accelerates you from 0 to 80mph in 2.3 seconds, then sends you vertically 205 feet into the air, before going over the brow and doing a similar sheer drop. :o :o
Highly recommended!! ;D ;D
I'd also recommend going on a day that most schools are still open (Danielle's school was closed for an inset day). Hardly any queues and we therefore managed to do far more rides than normal (Stealth twice, Colossus three times and Nemesis Inferno nine times plus other minor rides) She worked it out in the car on the way home that we'd been upside down 66 times that day! :-X :)
Highly recommended!! ;D ;D
I'd also recommend going on a day that most schools are still open (Danielle's school was closed for an inset day). Hardly any queues and we therefore managed to do far more rides than normal (Stealth twice, Colossus three times and Nemesis Inferno nine times plus other minor rides) She worked it out in the car on the way home that we'd been upside down 66 times that day! :-X :)
Title: Re: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: Snoring Rhino on May 30, 2006, 04:28:40 pm
"She worked it out in the car on the way home that we'd been upside down 66 times that day! :-X :)"
The same sort of feeling that you get after a few Tropicoma's then! :-XTitle: Re: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: Rob on May 30, 2006, 04:35:29 pm
ive been meaning to get along to thorpe park - havent been in years!
altho i did go to alton towers on easter monday - which is also a great day out
altho i did go to alton towers on easter monday - which is also a great day out
Title: Re: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: hgb on May 30, 2006, 05:02:19 pm
If it's anywhere close to this I owe the greatest respect... ;D
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Title: Re: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: jpchenet on May 30, 2006, 05:03:58 pm
ive been meaning to get along to thorpe park - havent been in years!
altho i did go to alton towers on easter monday - which is also a great day out
altho i did go to alton towers on easter monday - which is also a great day out
Did you go on Rita - Queen of Speed. To give you an idea, that does 0 - 62.5mph in 2.5secs
Title: Re: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: Rob on May 30, 2006, 05:05:48 pm
unfortunatly not, it was raining pretty hard all day, and it kept breaking/they kept shutting it down :-\
Title: Re: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: Rob on May 30, 2006, 05:11:39 pm
If it's anywhere close to this I owe the greatest respect... ;D
thats the dragster ride at cedar point iirc and it goes up 420ft to stealth's 205ft and gets to 120mph in 4 secs :o compared to stealths 80mph in 2.3 secshttp://www.cedarpoint.com/public/park/rides/coasters/top_thrill_dragster/index.cfm
http://www.thorpepark.co.uk/explore_the_park/stealth/stealth.asp?css=2
Title: Re: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: nopanic - neil on May 30, 2006, 06:45:04 pm
Went to Cedar Park 5 years ago, great rides, good fun, each year they build a bigger and better.
Worth going, even it is in the center of USA
Worth going, even it is in the center of USA
Title: Re: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: smokie on May 30, 2006, 07:37:00 pm
If it's anywhere close to this I owe the greatest respect... ;D
I hate those rides when you get soaked as well as shaken. ::)
I wonder what the back view looked like?? :-\
Title: Re: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: hgb on May 30, 2006, 08:30:02 pm
To be honest, I'm not sure the last picture belongs to the sequence above. It was sent to me this way. Actually, I doubt it but it could as well be a scene from the Poo Bar. Scary... ;D
Title: Re: 0 - 80mph in 2.3 seconds
Post by: smokie on May 30, 2006, 10:28:25 pm
I actually recall seeing a similarly distressed female on the bungee jump at LM in about 1998. The poor thing had been queueing for ages, and I guess nerves just had a bad effect. Some of the crowd got a spray they didn't expect as she bounced up and down...
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Post by: BryanC on May 31, 2006, 11:06:06 pm
Like this ? :)
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Post by: LangTall on June 01, 2006, 09:51:40 am
Now I remember why I tend to stand a bit to the side when peoaple are bungee jumping. ;D
