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« 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.  Shocked Shocked

Highly recommended!!  Grin Grin

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!  Lips Sealed  Smiley
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« Reply #1 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!  Lips Sealed  Smiley"
The same sort of feeling that you get after a few Tropicoma's then!  Lips Sealed
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« Reply #2 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
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« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2006, 05:02:19 pm »

If it's anywhere close to this I owe the greatest respect...  Grin











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« Reply #4 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

Did you go on Rita - Queen of Speed. To give you an idea, that does 0 - 62.5mph in 2.5secs
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« Reply #5 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 Undecided
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« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2006, 05:11:39 pm »

If it's anywhere close to this I owe the greatest respect...  Grin

thats the dragster ride at cedar point iirc and it goes up 420ft to stealth's 205ft and gets to 120mph in 4 secs Shocked compared to stealths 80mph in 2.3 secs

http://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
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« Reply #7 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
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« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2006, 07:37:00 pm »

If it's anywhere close to this I owe the greatest respect...  Grin

I hate those rides when you get soaked as well as shaken.  Roll Eyes

I wonder what the back view looked like??  Undecided
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« Reply #9 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... Grin
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« Reply #10 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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« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2006, 11:06:06 pm »

Like this ?    Smiley


* Bungie Jump.jpg (25.08 KB, 397x293 - viewed 338 times.)
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« Reply #12 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. Grin
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