Hyperia

Codenamed Project Exodus during construction, Hyperia is placed in what was Old Town, which resulted in the removal of Loggers Leap along with the Canada Creek Railway. As part of the changes, Old Town is now known as Fearless Valley!

The work saw the removal of three children’s rides from Old Town, one of which can be found at Thorpe Park after a repaint and is now called High Striker. One was also moved to Chessington while the remaining has been scrapped.

On the 9th of February 2023, Thorpe Park (finally) confirmed that the new rollercoaster will be built by Mack!

Throughout the Winter 22/23 Season, plenty of work was taking place in ‘Old Town’ with the removal of the Loggers Leap station, the Canada Creek Railway Station and not only that, at the start of February they had also started work to remove Loggers Leap!

For the main 2023 season, work was taking place to prepare the ground along with the installation of the ground pins for the track supports to be installed.

On the 6th of October 2023, Thorpe Park announced that their new ride would be called Hyperia! In their announcement video, they also played music from the ride’s soundtrack! The name announcement comes as parts of the ride were moved to the construction site, ready for vertical construction!

In the 9th October 2023, Project Exodus started to go vertical, and a few days later the first parts of the track were then laid!

The biggest excitement came on the 18th April, when Hyperia was tested for the very first time. Since then, much more testing has been taking place and final work on the area to be ready for opening day!

Hyperia then had it’s grand opening on the 24th May, you can watch our vLog from opening day by clicking here.

Sadly, the opening day remained too much for Hyperia and it was unable to re-open the following day (25th May) leading to alot of disappointment.  Following work taking place on the lift hill, and then major stress testing which followed, Hyperia was able to re-open on the 12th June!

Following this and what has been seen to be some issues when Hyperia is tested without any riders or even water dummies, it has been noticed that the trains are very slow around certin parts of the track.  This became too much for Hyperia and on the 19th June during routine testing in the morning prior to opening, one train managed to stall and not making it through the outerbank causing the train to rollback and become valleyed.  Due to the nature of the ride, they are unable to get the ride going again where the train valleyed.

After managing to operate for 3 months without any issues, on the 2nd October, Hyperia valleyed again during its morning testing.  Following this it took just over a week before Hyperia was then able to operate again with two trains (12th October).