Thorpe Park | Hyperia | Mack Hyper Coaster | 2024

[Coasterfreck]

Fingers crossed Mack Rides and Thorpe Park work together on Hyperia over the winter to stop this from happening, or atleast work on a solution for recovering trains from this spot. It’s just awful timing falling before the start of Fright Nights.

I did fear seeing just how slow the empty the test runs were on Sunday after they had been stationary for 15 minutes, that this was going to happen again.

 

[Chris Brown]

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. It kept going down during the Live on sunday and the following empty trains would crawl over the outerbank.

 

[I'veGotFourB&MsInMyGarden]

Fingers crossed Mack Rides and Thorpe Park work together on Hyperia over the winter to stop this from happening...

New for 2025: Hyperia - The world's tallest and fastest powered coaster!

 

[oriolat2]

New for 2025: Hyperia - The world's tallest and fastest powered coaster!

Or they could install a set of stators (like on Voltron) just in case they have to get the train out of that valley using a swing launch.

 

[I'veGotFourB&MsInMyGarden]

Or they could install a set of stators (like on Voltron) just in case they have to get the train out of that valley using a swing launch.

Wouldn't that also require modifying the train's? Or do they already have the necessary components because of the magnetic breaks?

 

[JoshC.]

I said on the Live it was going to stall again soon. I hate that I was right.

Coasters run slower in poorer weather conditions, but this is a bit of a concern. Extra concerning it happened when there 3 rows of dummies on it.

 

[Flash Shift]

Yes the tests were pretty slow during the Live. We got extremely lucky with that weekend's weather being better than it had been.

It is concerning though as it's often cold here even in autumn or spring so this could be a persistent problem if not resolved in a more permanent way.

 

[spicy]

As others have said with the colder weather now this is could be a regular occurence every winter.

Pretty big deal if every time it happens they have to crane the train off the track and the coaster goes down for a few days and then down to 1 train operation for a while longer.

 

[streetmagix]

Apart from reprofiling the outerbank is there much they could do to stop this happening? As it looks like this time they had water dummies on some of the rows. I know for The Smiler they switched to running 'faster' wheels after it's valleying issues so I guess that could be an option.

I remember when we were discussing that it was running too fast and NEEDED TRIM BRAKES.