Hyperia at Thorpe Park - Opening Info 

True, Voltron’s opening was chaos!

exactly my thoughts

particulary themepark worldwide

Glad I'm waiting til September to go to Europa. Want it to calm down a little first lol

It is 100% like that. And thank god they took measures ahead of opening to avoid this to become a day not to remember

Yeah, gonna give to some time to cool!

Likely to be an external agency... but yeah europa park worse than merlin is a first! 😂

Honestly, I understand why they're doing it like this but it just sounds like hell. No way I'm gonna stand in a cattle pen for most of the day where I need to be escorted by guards to have a pee for the privilege of riding Hyperia like...once. I'll wait a few months and come on a gloomy weekday.

I was so excited for opening day. Booked it off work and everything and then I saw this video and thought is it even worth it for one ride on a rollercoaster. No chance.

I wish I could go but bloody GCSEs had to be at the same time 😞

Learning for europa park's mistakes for sure....

Just like Europa’s 👀 🤣

@@frankthemoore3236get them GCSEs and who knows you might be designing your own rollercoasters 🤞🏻

​@louischapman1209 His options are Cookery and drama though 😂😂

Nemesis looked alright tbh, i can't say much cause i wasn't there but the only time i saw people running to it was the second the Galactica entrance opened

in voltron people actually got hurt it was that bad

@@Th3Sm1ler I think Nemesis was fine because of the distance between the entrance and the ride they could just let people figure it out themselves :D Thorpe is so much smaller it would end up worse than Voltron!

​@@Th3Sm1ler Yeah Nemesis wasn't bad tbf, people were running but they held a portion of the queue in a pen in front of the scanners, and then you had to scan in. The pen meant there was no pushing from behind. Once you were in a lot of people were running but towers street is so wide it allows them to run round rather than over people. I quick walked and there were no issues.

Can’t wait to step into the golden cattlepen

Are you still excited for the golden toilets Dom?

Good plan tbf

Good game plan.

Best handled, but unless you're TPWW it doesn't sound like much fun. Stuck in a queue for most of the day being slow marched by security and having to ask to go to the toilet. Best leave it to the really committed.

@@BlueZirnitra lol yeah im not gonna be their for that, sounds rough i was just mentioning how i love that they are making sure everyone is safe unlike the voltron opening.

Car park will be open 24hrs on opening day I believe

The only problem is that Thorpe is so small so there is still so much risk.

Is Fab parks saying something... Positive...??? About a Merlin-related thing...??? Clearly I'm in the wrong timeline, somebody come wake me up

​@MondoCoasters ahahaha. Let's be honest the whole thing has been outsourced to a crowd management consulting agency but... at least they realised they couldn't make it themeselves and asked for help 😅😅

​@@Gunner14coasterscorrect. They are now asking people not to turn up before 6am on the day. They probably realised they just moved chaos out of the park 😂😂

I can see it being operated by a load of clueless low energy teens who were roped in at the last minute but I want to be surprised. They may have pulled in an experience event management firm to help etc. we will see!

Likely where they have taken the lesson from. I suspect they haven't put this plan in place as a reaction to Voltron, the turn around was a bit quick.