I haven’t been to a terrible amount of theme parks, but the ones I have been to have usually had some fantastical, creative name like Dreamworld, Seaworld, Movieworld, Disleyland, Universal Studis and (drum roll) Adventure World. So I didn’t have high expectations of Thorpe Park, in the slightest, but I was pleasantly surprised. For a park with such a boring sounding name, it had its fair share of good roller coasters and the like.The best thing was probably the 0-80mph in 2.3s, 205 foot high twisting climb then drop called the Stealth. It’s the kind of ride, that gives you that horrible gut-wrenching feeling when for a split second you’re kind of hanging upside down with the feeling that basically nothing is holding you in the air, apart from the track, and your harness, yet the whole time its just fun as hell. But words can’t describe it, pictures and video can though:

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