Thorpe Park
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22nd August 2025Will Thorpe Park be removing Rumba Rapids?
Rumba Rapids at Thorpe Park originally opened in 1987 as Thunder River and has been a staple at the park ever since, undergoing a rebrand to Ribera Rumba Rapids and eventually becoming known as Rumba Rapids as the sponsorship ended. However, over the last couple of years the ride has operated for less of the […]
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24th May 2025
Planning Updates from Thorpe Park & Chessington this week
In this last week there have been planning updates for both Chessington and Thorpe Park and whilst these aren’t huge I wanted to mention them, so here’s you’re planning update! Thorpe Park – Transformation of Amity Beach Thorpe Park submitted plans a while back to change the Depth-charge side of Amity Beach into an entertainment […]
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17th May 2025What is happening with Stealth at Thorpe Park?
Stealth is the worlds fastest accelerating coaster (regaining the title last year) and is an Intamin hydraulic launch coaster which opened in 2006 and is one of my favourite coaster in the UK but, since early April it’s been largely shut. So, what is happening with Stealth? Downtime Stealth opened with the 2025 season at […]
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2nd April 2025Retro Thorpe Park Merch!
Let’s throwback to the Thorpe Park Rangers who were a staple of Thorpe Park during my childhood and some retro merch! Here we have the Thorpe Park Rangers key holder which shows the Dome and miniature Eiffel Tower in the background with (left to right) Little Bear, Mr Elephant, Mr Rabbit, Chief Ranger, Mr Giraffe […]
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12th February 2025
What is going on with Merlin?
It’s no secret that Merlin have got some financial issues after running a huge loss, seeing lower visitors than expected at their new Korea and New York Legoland parks plus visitors spending less money when visiting their parks. In the last few days however news of further cut-backs have come for Merlin’s UK parks. In […]
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22nd November 2024Thorpe Park Submits Planning Permission to remove The Slammer
Yesterday Thorpe Park submitted planning permission to Runnymede Borough Council to remove The Slammer from the park. This follows on from Thorpe Park’s recent submission to change Amity Beach into an entertainment area (these plans haven’t made it into Runnymede’s November planning committee meeting so I expect we’ll see them discussed in December. The planning […]
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7th November 2024
Amity Beach Changes Coming to Thorpe Park
Throughout Fright Nights this year people spotted some posters talking about ‘the last beach party at Amity Beach’ and some ground work tests were spotted happening on Amity Beach which closed for the season late summer. It looks like Thorpe Park have now confirmed that changes are coming to Amity Beach and a planning document […]
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7th November 2024
A New Hotel for Thorpe Park?
Bear Architects, a Bournemouth-based architects firm have recently posted images on their website of a London Hotel on a page titled ‘Thorpe Park Hotel’ stating ‘Bear Architects was requested to put forward a design proposal to assist an existing London based client with a business case for a new 100 key hotel on their property […]
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