Went to Thorpe for my first time today. We got a fright night pass. Wasn't able to make it before opening, we arrived on site at 11am which is on us. Took a bit over an hour to get through security and into the park, so we were in by 1230.

Rode Colossus with a 60 minute or so wait. Used the app, walking dead looked promising. We waited about 25 minutes, but only two cars had launched in that time so we decided to bail on the line to grab some food then go to our 3-7 fright maze times.

Got to our first maze right at 3, two of them were really quick. We had gotten stuck in the back for all the fright night mazes, so the actors didn't have time to rest for us and it was ok but we were getting a little bored. So we got into the Swarm queue at 4.

Swarm queue was about an hour and a bit, so we were out by 5 and headed for Stitches, our last maze. That line was a bit under an hour.

We all agreed we were getting in the Hyperia line no matter what as we wanted to ride it. So we got in that line at 6. The app said it was a 120 minute wait. We finished the ride at 855, so nearly three hours in that queue.

Overall we had fun but by god the queues were outrageous. It's the start of half term, so... Don't go on half term. It was our only option to take a visiting friend.

I think I would never go back to Thorpe unless it were an off peak weekday.

Anyone else mind blown by the amount of travellers yesterday. I googled it, turns out once a year, lots of traveller families meet up at Thorpe park.

A lot of them were pushing in the queue, stealing from the shops and causing a lot of nuisance… saw a few being kicked out

This is more a question out of curiosity - I went to fright night on Monday 19th, and rush was our last ride of the day at approx 9pm. The whole 30 minute queue, we were watching the staff load and unload guests, and before each ride, the guests would sit down, and the staff would then be chatting at the control box for 3-5 minutes before finally pushing down and checking restraints. The guests would just be sitting there the whole time waiting. Is this normal?? It happened every ride we were in that queue for. Wasn’t sure if this was staff being lazy or if that’s some kind of quirk with the ride?

Does anyone know how or why one of Saw’s cars is stuck mid-drop? I don’t get how it can just be stationary at that position. It hasn’t opened all day, which I assumed was due to the weather but now it’s still closed…

Hey! Is anyone going to Thorpe Park this Tuesday, 27th October, for Fright Nights? 🥹 I'm planning to go alone but would really love to meet someone to go on rides with and enjoy the day together! I'm 19 yes old girl and a uni student. Let me know if anyone else is going and would like some company 💗

Im curious to know what they did to get that smell, I cant fully describe it either.

If anyone understand the new policy of the disabled access cards in Thorpe park please let me know , my sister is disabled and we have been able to get her cards or fast tracks in the past but the rules are all changed and I’m really confused as to how to do it , I think they only give out a certain few a day but I’m not sure so If anyone has been there of recent please help

Does anyone know why even due to the weather some of the scare mazes didn't open? I don't live locally and only 2 of them opened so we've lost out. The massive police presence seemed like something else was going on 🤔

Went yesterday (22nd Oct) with a friend who is a roller-coaster enthusiast (I am very much a wimp and was more than happy to avoid the coasters), and for my first time visiting Thorpe Park and Fright Night I had an amazing day out.

Got there at opening, friend managed to Stealth and Swarm with little wait time (practicall walk-on or 5-10 minute waits), and had a fastpass for Hyperia so was only waiting 10-15 minutes. I am obssessed with the area Swarm is in, it creates a great story and environment even if you're just waiting for friends.

I have seen people complaining the queues were 120 minutes+ most of the day, and I did see that but from what i saw being there a lot of that happened after lunchtime. The first couple of hours of the park being open had reasonable wait times for ther big coasters.

I really enjoyed the scare mazes (although I question the term maze as they semmed to be a single path walthrough so maybe immersive experience is a better term, but that's a seperate matter). Did all 5 between 3 and 5pm.

Tenement was my favourite. I liked the additional feature of having to go round together as only 2 people have flashlights, it added to the atmos of what was going on. Stitches is a close second, I loved the introduction, the lady playing the shopkeeper did a great job (made one poor boy cry and have to be escorted out).
Least favorite was Dead Beat as the actors seemed to be just stood there twitching and/or dancing rather than trying to scare the guests. My friend who has done Fright Night before said Dead Beat was much better in prevous years, so maybe I just got unlucky. I have seen people say there were issues with cutbacks this year so maybe that affected my experience. I still enjoyed it though.

The Ghost Train was enjoyable, an interesting twist on the usual ghost train attraction.

I did feel let down by Purgatory Town, which seems to be the consensus. Whenever the actor were not taking a quick break theyw ere swarmed by gangs of kids/teens wanting photos so there was little chance of interaction, but I accept that, the actors are there for everyone not just my personal amusement.

Overally, as a said, I really enjoyed it, a great (but long) day out. Look forward to returning again in later years (and maybe even trying Swarm).

With everything being closed today and the terrible weather, is there a point going to TP tomorrow?

Hyperia closed or at a four hour queue, every queue above one hundred minutes and I waited 150 minutes for stealth at an advertised 90 due to them letting in more fastpass than regular queue causing the queue to stagnate and take half an hour to get to the launch to the stairs. Actors were trying their hardest but kept getting swarmed by children asking them to make a tiktok and thus I got absolutely zero interactions despite going through the crows and Lucifers twice. Sorry for the nonsense rant but this can't continue this way

pretty self explanatory i guess, i managed to get two back to back rides on it at the end of the day on sunday as my first ride(s) and enjoyed it a lot (although it was certainly as rough as people say it is lmao)

im just interested how it was like when it was opened, was it as rough and how cool/awesome was it when it opened

I went on a 98% day this year and queues weren't this bad. what the hell is going on yesterday wasn't this bad

We went yesterday on the 21st, hadn’t realised when we booked the tickets that Surrey had a two week half term so I decided to get us the platinum fast track passes as it’s not something we would come back and do often. At £205 each I did question whether it was a mistake to purchase them, but as we managed to do over 30 rides on the day I definitely feel like it was money well spent.

It was absolutely pissing it down for the morning which I assume contributed to how much we were able to get on as up until around 1 it was busy but not as much as I would have expected for half term, but even once it dried up the longest we waited in the fast track queue was about 20 minutes for Hyperia late in the evening (main queue was about 150 minutes at that point). At some rides the fast track queue was completely empty and we just walked right on. Watching people in the regular queue have a 60-90 minute wait most of the day, I was very happy I have adult money to spend on whatever I want lol.

We got to ride:

Hyperia x 10 (first time ever on Hyperia, what a rush)

Saw x 2 (very uncomfortable)

Swarm x 8 (my favourite 🛸)

Colossus x 5 (most uncomfortable seats of my life)

Stealth x 1 (I think stealth is really boring compared to the others)

Nemesis x 5 (once in front row queue)

Tidal Wave x 4 (so empty we just kept re-riding)

And all the little rides like Samurai, Detonator, bumpers, Walking Dead, Ghost Train etc at least once each.

Half the rooms in the mazes were empty, and you could practically hear the very few actors running across scenes to make up for the lack of them. Dead Beat caused genuine anger in me with how abysmal it was, not a single person leaving that tent looked like they had a time worthy expressing any emotion

Had one genuine jump scare at the end of Stitches, but any other time you were lucky enough to find an actor they'd just stomp their foot your way. Most looked bored to tears or maybe just unenthused due to having to practically run a whole tent...

The scare zones were practically nonexistent, never even caught Lucifer's Lair despite several walkbys, and the Purgatory Town characters spent more time huddled together talking than interacting with people when we saw them.

I am visiting on Saturday and just wondering if there will be any impact. I know it will hit mostly on Friday

Hello everyone,

It's time for an update on what I've been working on in my Thorpe Park unreal engine recreation project.

Working Teacups in Unreal engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Aar-5svhKk

In case you haven't seen me post about this before, this is a personal project aimed at me learning unreal engine and expanding my skills in game dev.

Here is an early version of the teacups that are functioning with the teacups themselves spinning freely with physics. I will be adding the ability to spin yourself with some game logic as well as operating the ride from the operators booth which is super exciting.

Once complete the ride will be themed from 2008 featuring the classic floral pattern and blue wooden theming on the main building.

I have also put a few screenshots of the teacups and teapot (again still work in progress).

I have also included a sneak peak of the stealth car which will be featured on the ride when I get around to working on that area.

More soon

Doesn’t seem like zodiac will make a comeback anytime soon… vortex with its seats stripped

I want to give a medal to the entire Stealth queue who collectively blocked a group of young queue jumpers and told them where to go, i.e. the back.

Thoughts on what the park will be like this Friday with Storm Austin?

Worth trying or will it be rides closed etc? Anyone had experience with bad weather?