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Thorpe Park | Hyperia | Mack Hyper Coaster | 2024

So, assuming you've been struck with inspiration and an insatiable desire to climb Hyperia's lift with no previous climbs and no pass, you're looking at almost £280 for the climb!
Hyperia lift - £120
Colossus/Swarm lift - £56 (with a pass)
Thorpe silver annual pass - £99

I admire their skill in plucking a perceived value out of thin air, and not only have it stick, but have desperate thoosies defend their right to get fleeced!

The really sad part is that I'd almost definitely be willing to pay £120 to climb Silver Star, Voltron, or get a tour of Taron or Fly, but merlin have so thoroughly value engineered their offering that I already feel wrung dry just from walking in the gate and don't want to give them any more money after!
 
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When the park put out a "register your interest" sign up for Hyperia coaster climbs, the response was huge. I've been made aware that if everyone who responded to that ended up actively choosing to do it, there would be a 4.5 year waiting list.

So a mixture of a high price, some form of pre-requirement plus needing an Annual Pass takes the potential load off of needing a waiting list, which would probably have been met with a worst reaction than what's currently happened. Maybe those 3 things were a little unnecessary, maybe the price is a tad too high, but the park put those measures in place to allow a smooth introduction to the VIP extra.

I expect that at some point, they'll loosen those prerequisites, and maybe tweak the price (in the mid-term future) so the jump between other climbs and Hyperia's is not quite so steep.

I also know they had some concerns that if people did Hyperia as their first climb, they might freak out, not be physically fit enough, etc. Seems a bit overkill given Blackpool don't require it for Big One, but I wonder if that's just Merlin's H&S at play
 
JoshC. said:
When the park put out a "register your interest" sign up for Hyperia coaster climbs, the response was huge. I've been made aware that if everyone who responded to that ended up actively choosing to do it, there would be a 4.5 year waiting list.

So a mixture of a high price, some form of pre-requirement plus needing an Annual Pass takes the potential load off of needing a waiting list, which would probably have been met with a worst reaction than what's currently happened. Maybe those 3 things were a little unnecessary, maybe the price is a tad too high, but the park put those measures in place to allow a smooth introduction to the VIP extra.

I expect that at some point, they'll loosen those prerequisites, and maybe tweak the price (in the mid-term future) so the jump between other climbs and Hyperia's is not quite so steep.

I also know they had some concerns that if people did Hyperia as their first climb, they might freak out, not be physically fit enough, etc. Seems a bit overkill given Blackpool don't require it for Big One, but I wonder if that's just Merlin's H&S at play
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I don't have an issue with their prices. If we don't like the price we don't have to pay it. If there's a high demand for it still, at this price, I'd put it up further myself.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not paying it, not something I want to do enough to spend £120 on it, but I'd never look down my nose at anybody that does. I can guarantee we 'all' spend money on things that others would consider a waste! Instead, I'll waste my money on fast tracks the next time the park is busier than I expected. 🙈 🤣
 
How many days per week are they doing these climbs?

Because if there is such demand, surely they should be running them as close to every day as they can.
 
Jamesss said:
How many days per week are they doing these climbs?

Because if there is such demand, surely they should be running them as close to every day as they can.
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They are running them as often as they can. There's no exact number as it fits around the engineering schedules for the ride, which vary, plus them doing VIP experiences elsewhere.

I know at some points, they're doing 2 a week, other weeks, they simply can't offer it. But they haven't artificially reduced the number on offer
 
JoshC. said:
I also know they had some concerns that if people did Hyperia as their first climb, they might freak out, not be physically fit enough, etc. Seems a bit overkill given Blackpool don't require it for Big One, but I wonder if that's just Merlin's H&S at play
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It might be the steepness as well. The Big One is 30-degrees, whereas Hyperia is apparently 47-. Makes a big difference even when you're just sitting in the trains, and would probably be quite a lot more difficult to climb on foot.
 
Coasterfreck said:
Hyperia has valleyed again empty...
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That's a bit concerning, that wasn't even close to clearing the outerbank. Not like the previous times it's valleyed where it's nearly got around.

Could this have been down to the wind? Or something caught in a wheel assembly perhaps?

(edit: Just occurred to me that the train had probably been swinging back and forth a couple times before the video was taken. Ignore my rambling... 🤣)
 
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This is getting a bit ridiculous now 🤔 Surely there has to be some design flaw here as it's happened a third time now (and looks to be caused by a similar reason to the previous roll-backs).

I'm starting to think that Mack may need to add some kind of rolling launch on that section before the outer-banked element to prevent this happening again.
 
ScottLann said:
Surely there has to be some design flaw here as it's happened a third time now (and looks to be caused by a similar reason to the previous roll-backs).
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The design flaw that the third element is taller than the second element would do that.
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(Edited due to compression: second element height: 43.9m, third element: 50.4m according to the plans)

My curiosity now turns to which train was it that rolled back this time. - If it’s train 1, then it will have gained 3-0 valley advantage over train 2.
 
I was thinking about taking a day off work and heading over to the park this week because I *still* haven't had a chance to ride - despite Thorpe being literally a 30 minute drive away - due to all the engineering issues last year (it was down every single time I visited). I'd glad I didn't bother booking leave. Such a shame that it seems to be so unreliable.
 
How long is it typically closed for when it valleys?

My son has just hit 1.3m and we were considering visiting over Easter but there's so little else for him there it's probably not worth going whilst it remains this unreliable.
 
Bowser said:
How long is it typically closed for when it valleys?
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I went last October on the day it rolled back - this was a Wednesday. It was closed all day, and the majority of Thursday. They did however, manage to get it running back on 1 train for the Thursday night (which happened to be the Fright Nights Press Event). Not sure how long it took them to get the 2nd train back on however.
 
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