New Year, New Developments
Posted by THORPE PARK on Jan 9, 2009 in Development Diary
Friday 9th January
Well, Christmas is over and I’ve still got turkey sandwiches for lunch! Not, that I’m getting that much time to eat as we’re even busier on site this year than we were in 2008 - and we’re only 9 days into January.
THORPE PARK got a fantastic early Christmas present from Gerstlauer when we received a delivery of 4 fully themed ride cars. Obviously we were all extremely excited, well it was better than the usual socks that I get in my stocking, and put one straight on the track for a one-off test run on a rainy 13th December (the car that is not my Christmas socks!). What can I say…no really what can I say, it went round!
As I said we’ve been extremely busy recently. The installation of the compressor and pipework, which will help control the brakes and internal theming, is complete, and on the subject of theming, I can confirm that the main elements of internal theming are all now fitted and being tuned and dressed ready to scare you senseless when the ride opens. We’ve also fit two huge industrial fans which can be seen both inside and outside the station building and the disabled lift has been installed and commissioned.
Over Christmas, paving and posts were laid ready for the queue lines and we’ve almost completed construction of the main bridge entrance and water channel that will create SAW - The Ride’s unique island setting. Foundations for the ride shop have started to be laid and CCTV and audio/visual equipment is now being fitted both internally and externally.
And all this has been happening while the lakes, ground and water pipes have been freezing around us. I’m not sure how T. G. Cruse, our main contractor, have managed to work at all on the site over Christmas and New Year but they did and have done a great job in such challenging conditions. Let’s hope the weather warms up a bit soon.
Thanks,
Keith Workman
January 9th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Sounds like some really good progress! The new installations sound great, can’t wait till the ride opens
January 10th, 2009 at 12:59 am
Hey, thanks THORPE PARK for the update. I was wondering are all 8 trains going to be different colors,
or are thay all the same???. I would ask a lot more questions, but I’ll wait and see if you reply to this one lol.
P.S please can we have an update on the 13th this time, maybe showing the ride tasting!!
THANKS!!
January 10th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
heyy thorpe park, you no what, i am soo inlove with this ride, i cant wait till i see the finished product,
I was wondering, is this ride (SAW-the ride) the best coaster you have ever seen being created ?
beacuse i no i have some serous fun looking at the video’s of the ride on many sites that keep posting comment and video’s of the ride.
Oh and one more question, its not to with the ride but i was wondering, i have allways wanted to be a rollercoaster designere / engenear, and can you tell me how you became who you are know as ( what job you do ) ??
P.S. Please Please Please can you post the video of the ride’s first test around this beautiful track design
Thankyou. and please reply if you can.
January 10th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
yeahh!! thank you thorpe park can u PLEASE put a pic or vid of the ride testing. or a vid if were lucky im am going there on the 15th april my b,day i will be 14 but how old do u have to be to ride???i cant wait thank you
bye
January 10th, 2009 at 9:22 pm
THe ride is looking brilliant (AS USUAL)!!
Is that like special pain on the cars for the blood that will stay there for longer or something because it doesnt look that authentic…
I get annoyed that you don’t reveal much in your photos but it just builds up the suspense
And that car shown in the picture….Is that in the station because it looks really light around the car and I got the impression that the station would be quite dark to add to the effect so I thought that was on the transfer track.
Thanks alot for all of your updates!!
Calum (Clord0)
January 20th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Im sure they wont post a video of the first test because it will reveal too much.
They are keeping us in Suspense,
January 31st, 2009 at 8:27 pm
OMG OMG OMG only 2 months till the realease! im going to be there for 1am no doubt about it iv already made ride arrangements! i see the progress is good! is it true its going to be the best in the uk!?!?!?
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March 7th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Lukeyy, if you ever check back here the answer to your question depends on what aspect of rollercoasters you want to work on. The design/layout/theming for a coaster is all done by the rollercoaster designer but actually building it is left to different companies who specialise in engineering them. If you type in Saw: The Ride into wikipedia it will tell you the company who is building it and that could be a place to start researching roller coaster engineering.
If you want to go into this line of work you would need to be very good at physics and maths as this is fundamental for the ligistics of huge machines such as roller coasters.
April 21st, 2009 at 9:39 am
Me and my m8s went on saw and it gr8 we had a blast.
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