Coaster reviews

Pace Fun

Good fun and picks up speed surprisingly well. Good variant for Pleasurebeach’ coaster lineup, and great for kids and people who don’t want as intense ride experience from a coaster.

Comfort Duration

Comfy seating and a fairly long layout, but offers no real airtime. A strong ride for the park in that it offers kids their first real rollercoaster experience, so is an essential for the park.

Capacity Fun

The weakest woodie for me at Pleasurebeach, offers slightly more airtime that Nickelodeon streak but is very short and very rough. Would be the first coaster I would look to remove to free up space at BPB for a new ride. Sometimes you end up racing Icon in on the home straight if your lucky!

Airtimes First Drop Ejectors

Certainly the best woodie at Pleasurebeach, and tied with Wickerman for me for the best woodie in the UK. The Grand National is a fantastic Ride that offers lots of airtime, really throws you out of your seat and quite literally ‘hurtles’ around the track. It is rough, but it’s worth it for the airtime and the dual racing aspect.

Lap Bar Comfort Fun Intensity

I have never got the hate towards thirteen, yes it was badly advertised but the ride itself is extremely smooth and fun with good Themeing. But the ride seriously lacks intensity and for that reason. I prefer accelerator at Drayton manor.

Launch Fun Intensity

Stealth is a brilliant coaster, with a powerful launch as well as an intense drop. Queue times are always surprisingly short, and the theming- especially the radio station with 60’s songs- fits the ride perfectly. I could ride Stealth over and over again and never get bored of that launch and top hat!

Fun Intensity Layout

Obviously not as impressive as it’s namesake at Alton Towers, this ride was still very intense and has a great layout. You can’t go wrong with a B&M invert, they are smooth yet intense. Great addition to Thorpe Park, and the third strongest in the lineup (After Stealth&Swarm) in my opinion.

First Drop Theming Intensity

I really don’t get all the hate for Infusion. Maybe I’m just the right height to not experience severe headbanging, but I’ve never found the coaster to be particularly rough. The setting, over water, is fantastic- it’s one of the most visually pleasing coasters I’ve ridden. The first drop is solid, and there is a strange airtime moment just after the butterfly loop, which is a subtle favourite part of the ride for me. Ok it’s no Nemesis, but it’s a solid invert which is a good edition to Pleasurebeach.

Headbanging Capacity Discomfort

I queued two hours for this ride, and boy what a mistake that was. Quite simply the worst rollercoaster I have ever rode, and if all coasters where like this I would have no interest in them whatsoever. The restraints are awful, I’m a 6ft guy and my neck was banged to pieces throughout the ride. If I was a few inches shorter in height, I can’t imagine the headbanging I would have experienced. I actually felt sick getting off this ride, as my neck and base of head had taken a real pounding. The ride itself is rough, and by the time I experienced the 4th?! Heartline role I just wanted the ride to end.

Fun

A solid woodie, with a great first drop. However from then on I would have liked to see more airtime. The Grand National at Blackpool is a far more intense ride, but Wickerman has it for smoothness. I couldn’t pick between them for best woodie in UK for those reasons.