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New development on the Slammer site at Thorpe Park?

Yeah doubt that is for Thorpe, can imagine that being for a flying theatre near the London Eye.

Soarin over London, maybe to replace the Shrek adventure.
 
On second thought, what if it's an 'open cabin' thing for the London Eye? There's a similar thing on the Wiener Prater Reisenrad where you stand on a completely open platform with only a harness stopping you from going anywhere. Would be cool.
 
Kinda sad, Slammer was an epic flat ride and I'll miss it lots. I know it had some major flaws but man, once it got up to speed, it was one hell of an adrenalin rush, especially on those forward rotations as you went over the top. One of those true 'holy crap!' moments that will live with me forever.
It also really bums me out that there aren't any more Sky Swats left out there. If there was, I'd be making a point of going to ride it.
I'd love to see S&S do a re-imagined version somehow, you know, a better one, with better restraints and a simple, quick, mechanical lift mechanism, do away with all that air-powered nonsense etc...
Surely there's gotta be a market for that somewhere, hasn't there?
 
Once upon a time it was my favourite flat ride at Thorpe. I remember my first ride in '05 or '06, I don't know if it stayed this way throughout its life but you'd do a few rotations in one direction before reversing and going the other way. I *think* if you were on the Loggers end, on the reverse section you'd flip under instead of over and that really caught my 13 year old self off guard. Absolutely f***ing terrified me. I loved it!

It was such an intimidating looking ride too. You'd always see/hear people watching it (from all over the park) and saying "nah mate. I ain't going on that" 😂

It's a shame it fell victim to Merlins we hate flat rides phase. It was also quite sad to go back to Thorpe Park last year after all those years (I think my last trip was 2015 and I can't remember if it was already dead by then) and see it sitting there abandoned.
 
JoshC. said:
Nah, it wasn't a victim of that. Thorpe and Merlin did absolutely everything they could to keep it running. But it was such a maintenance black hole in terms of money and engineering man power that there had to come a point when they gave up the ghost with it.
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I guess there's a good reason why only two were ever installed and neither of them are still operating.

Didn't the six flags one get all new restraints and still close a few years later, or have I got that wrong?
 
Nicky Borrill said:
I guess there's a good reason why only two were ever installed and neither of them are still operating.

Didn't the six flags one get all new restraints and still close a few years later, or have I got that wrong?
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Yep that's certainly what it says here:

coasterpedia.net

Catapult (Six Flags New England) - Coasterpedia - The Amusement Ride Wiki

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They were very impressive from a mechanical point of view. Slammer was definitely one of the best flats we've had in the UK although I remember it took absolutely ages between cycles.
 
Lots of seats though. Just like a pirate ship you could choose your thrill level by sitting at different distances from the centre and boy did it make a difference. Fair well Slammer and thank you for the intense memories but it's long over due to come down.
 
I agree Slammer was brilliant. I'm not a flat-ride person but it was one of the few I really enjoyed. Thrilling and scary but not too nauseating. So glad I rode it in its last year.

Shame there's none left anywhere or anything similar been built since.
 
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