Does anyone know what the ride manufacturer is? It looks remarkebly like a Huss Tri-star, and yes, it is truly terrible. It ruins an otherwise nice little bit of the park.
Whilst I was riding Thunderstruck all I could here was creaking - in fact I found it quite scary to be honest! And you are right - it is so slow. There is no sensation whilst riding it and for that fact I had no desire to go on it again and I won't bother in future visits.
I don't know why they got rid of the drop ride. I absolutely love drop rides and Pleasurewood Hills should definitely invest in one. I can re-ride drop rides numerous times. But at the moment Thunderstruck does nothing at all for me!
Yes, the Fabbri drop tower "Mega Drop" or "Drop Zone" was Pleasurewood Hills' best past ride IMO, the reason they got rid of it is because it was an old smaller travelling version of Detonator at Thorpe Park, whilst a good ride, not very reliable.
the reason they got rid of it is because it was an old smaller travelling version of Detonator at Thorpe Park
Firstly, they didn't get rid of it because Thorpe Park has one!?!?!
And secondly it is exactly the same height as the Detonator at Thorpe Park, it is the exact same ride, apart from Thorpe added a custom seating arragement to it.
Yeah, but I also remember hearing that it was just on loan
It was loaned from a travelling fair company, but it did have many technical problems, so the loan was ended early.
-- Edited by Martyn on Tuesday 24th of March 2009 04:46:35 PM
Ok, thats just the way it came out as I read it. lol.
But yes it is the same height. I think Fabbri only do 2 different types of them drop towers, the 115ft version and one thats around 160ft. They used to have a really good website where you could look through all of their rides, and there were absolutely tons of them.
