
Thorpe Park 2019 Closed Season Roundup
Its crunch time at Thorpe Park, the rides have been stripped down for winter checks and have been reassembled. Staff have started training on the finished rides with some not quite ready yet.

Its crunch time at Thorpe Park, the rides have been stripped down for winter checks and have been reassembled. Staff have started training on the finished rides with some not quite ready yet.

Thorpe Park have today confirmed on their social media channels that Loggers Leap will not be returning! It has rumoured that the ride will not return for the past few years with enthusiasts and guests always left asking would it return.

Thorpe Park have this morning updated their website with this years theme park opening times and dates. The start of the season begins on 29th March 10am - 5pm and then ends on 31st October.

2 months into the closed season some of the TPG team decided to take a drive down to Thorpe Park and check out some of the work going on behind closed doors.

Tonight at 10 pm Thorpe Park Resort closed its doors to guest on the 2018 theme park season. Thorpe Park is the first of the Merlin parks to close for the end of the season.

Fright Nights begins in 12 days, with the Annual Pass Preview for the event being hosted next Saturday there is still a lot of work to do before the event begins.

Fright Nights 2018 is just a few weeks away and with the park being closed for 3 days this week the park has taken advantage of these closed days and had the cranes in to start construction on one of the new mazes The Walking Dead, Do or Die.

In mid-July, we reported that Thorpe Park had chosen to install new self-service stations for Picsolve on ride photos at selected rollercoasters. After being installed and inactive for a number of weeks the units have now been turned on.

Thorpe Park has announced the full line up for its Fright Nights 2018 Halloween event. This years event is set to be the biggest ever, with six new live action horror mazes and scare zone announced.

With 2 days left until the full line up for Fright Nights, 2018 is announced preparation for the event is going on around the park for this year's event!

After the rapids accident at Drayton Manor last year Merlin has taken the decision to install additional safety measures on all water rapids rides.