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THORPE PARK 2010 :
TAKING THRILLS TO
THE MAX
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NEW – SAMURAI
moves to Thorpe Park for 2004: the warlord of white
knuckle rides takes riders through plus 5gs whilst
rotating through 360 degrees
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MAXIMUM ADRENALINE
– adrenaline soaked thrill ride list including the
red hot Nemesis Inferno, record breaking
ten looping Colossus, gravity defying
Detonator and wet and wild Tidal Wave
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PLUS
loads more thrill favourites and great ticket options;
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THORPE PARK OPENS – March 2010 -
www.thorpepark.com
Opening times & travel directions
to Thorpe Park
 A
line up of buttock clenching, high-octane thrill rides
will promise a sensational 2010 season at the thrilling
Thorpe Park.
Opening on March 2009,
guests can look forward to the arrival of the
SAW - THE RIDE
plus the mighty Samurai from Chessington World of Adventures,
plus the return of the sizzling Nemesis Inferno, the
record breaking ten looping Colossus and an abundance
of adrenaline soaked sensations.
 THORPE
PARK INVESTS £13.5M IN THE WORLD’S MOST TERRIFYING AND
STEEPEST FREEFALL DROP ROLLERCOASTER - ‘SAW – THE RIDE’
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The world’s steepest freefall drop rollercoaster
that plummets people from a 100ft high 100̊ beyond
vertical drop into the the unique SAW ‘head chopper’
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Europe’s most extreme G-force experience
and first ever horror film themed rollercoaster
The UK’s thrill capital THORPE PARK has today
revealed details of its biggest ever investment in a
rollercoaster, SAW – The Ride, launching on Friday
13th March 2009.
 SAW
– The Ride
is the 4th major rollercoaster to launch
at THORPE PARK with a total investment of £13.5 million,
underlining the commitment and continuing confidence
in both the Park and its ‘thrill’ positioning by the
attraction’s owner, the Merlin Entertainments Group,
the world’s number two visitor attraction operator.
It follows the £12 million launch
of Stealth (one of Europe’s fastest rollercoasters)
in 2006, and the £10 million investment in both Colossus
(the world’s first ten looping rollercoaster) and Nemesis
Inferno (the extreme 4.5 G-force experience) in 2002
and 2003 respectively at the Park.
SAW – The Ride
is based on the most popular horror film franchise in
history, ‘SAW’, and boasts the world’s steepest freefall
drop rollercoaster that plummets people from a 100ft
high 100̊ beyond vertical drop into the nerve shredding
SAW ‘head chopper’. The ride also delivers
the biggest G-force rollercoaster experience in Europe
hitting a massive 4.0 and 4.7 G a total of six times
throughout the course of the 100 second ride duration.
Mike Vallis, Divisional Director
at THORPE PARK comments: “We’re really excited about
the launch of SAW – The Ride. The
significant financial backing we have received for the
project from Merlin means that we have been able to
develop an excellent overall ride experience both in
terms of an impressive and terrifying track as well
as top class theming.
We believe this is the year of
the ‘summer roller-day’ with many people
planning to spend their leisure pound more cost effectively
on UK based holidays over foreign breaks and more smartly
on high quality days out at theme parks such as THORPE
PARK.
THORPE PARK experienced a good increase
in footfall on the 2008 season during our special week-long
2009 half term opening and are forecasting similar uplifts
for the Easter and summer holiday periods as Brits prepare
to have some fun on home soil.”
New research recently released
by Visit London and VisitBritain showed that around
20 per cent of Brits who took a foreign holiday last
year (2008) plan to save money by choosing the UK as
their holiday destination in 2009. 51% are ‘put off’
travelling abroad by the belief that flight costs are
rising and a further 36% are concerned about the ‘unpredictability’
of tour operators.
SAW – The Ride
launches at THORPE PARK on Saturday 14th
March 2009. For further information go to
www.thorpepark.com
NEW :
SAMURAI – THE MIGHT OF THE ORIENT
The warlord of white knuckle rides, Samurai takes riders
through 360 degrees of sensational stimulation and like
the famed warriors of Japan it is capable of unleashing
mighty forces of fearsome energy. Riders are strapped
into five seater pods with their legs dangling frighteningly
free and then lifted and rotated by a giant mechanical
arm, gradually building speed and creating G-forces
of plus 5 and minus 3 as well as a centrifugal force
which sets the pods spinning 360 degrees 60 feet above
the ground. Only the truly mentally and physically
prepared should dare to attempt to transcend their fears
and take on the formidable force of the mighty Samurai.
It is guaranteed to leave the uninitiated dazed, disorientated
– and full of respect.
more info
 RED
HOT 360 DEGREES : NEMESIS INFERNO
One of the world’s most intense, disorientating, exhilarating
roller coasters with the temperature turned up, NEMESIS
INFERNO is a gut wrenching, raw adrenaline fuelled
suspended coaster and with unique volcanic theming and
effects, this white hot legs dangling experience gives
a new meaning to “hot footing it”! With their legs dangling
free, riders will swoop through over 750 metres of suspended
track, turn through gravity-defying 360 degree loops,
plunging from soaring heights to dreadful depths, at
speeds of up to 77km and G-Forces of up to 4.5, with
the heat quite literally turned up, in one of the world’s
most incredible roller coaster experiences.
THE
POWER OF TEN : COLOSSUS
 Coaster
fans can’t get enough of the world’s FIRST ten looping
roller coaster. Hurtling over 850 metres of relentlessly
twisting track at hair raising speeds of 65km, riders
will whizz through ten almighty loops.
From the sky-rocketing 360 degree
loop, to the giant flipping double cobra, the deadly
duo of spiral loops and breath-taking series of in-line
twists over water and through the air, Colossus promises
a phenomenal dizzying, disorientating experience that
will stay with you!
AND
AN ABUNDANCE OF ADRENALINE SOAKED SENSATIONS
Also on the list of “must ride” thrill sensations for
2008
is the gravity defying Detonator – an explosive,
gravity defying drop ride that winches riders 100ft
in the air before firing them back to earth at 75km
per hour with a G-Force of 5.5. Not for those
with a fear of heights is the vertigo inducing Vortex
which goes through 15 high speed rotations per minute
whilst swinging back and forth 65 feet in the air. And
strong stomachs are recommended for anyone riding
Quantum – seated on a platform, riders are lifted
high into the air to be lurched to and fro on the way
back down to the ground just to take off in the same
stomach churning movements yet again … and again … and
again!Add in Tidal Wave, one of the highest water
drop rides in Europe that plunges riders a buttock-clenching
85ft through water, the world’s first dark backwards
coaster, X:/No Way Out and the white water thrill-fest
of the adrenaline charged river ride, Ribena Rumba
Rapids and Thorpe Park is undoubtedly the park to
take thrills to the max in 2007.
Thorpe
Park Tickets and further information
Thorpe Park is open from March 2010. Advance booking
adds value – click on
www.thorpepark.com or call 0870 444 4466 for more
information and for details on ticket prices and opening
times.
NB:
Height restrictions apply.
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