Hyper Drive Dodgems - New for 2015

Bubbles · Passionate about Pleasurewood

RE: Hyper Drive Dodgems - New for 2015

Matt · pleasurewoodplace.com

Bubbles wrote:
Oh I never seen it before, and it's bigger than the Tempest?

Take a look here Bubbles... www.unofficialpleasurewood.co.uk/pleasurewood_hills_retired_rides_gallery.html

I've updated the page to include a couple of Voyager photos courtesy of Coolskin.

Bubbles · Passionate about Pleasurewood

It looks taller than the Tempest but the boat doesn't look as big.

coolskin · Passionate about Pleasurewood

It was large and very terrifying I assure you - seems only two were made

Bubbles · Passionate about Pleasurewood

Was this a rented ride then?

Juranamo · Jolly Talkative

I'm not surprised only a few were made, but 2? Wow! It looks very fairground but is clearly very large!

coolskin · Passionate about Pleasurewood

Yes this was rented, and yes as I said it was huge

Hpeek · Enigmatic Expert

My sister visited the hills this Tuesday and didn't give great feedback, she said that hyper drive felt very slow and made it near impossible to catch anyone up. She also said that there was some kind of no bumping into other people rule in place, not too sure if that's 100% true, can't see how they wouldn't allow collisions on dodgems?

coolskin · Passionate about Pleasurewood

Sadly a lot of it comes down to h+s - at a fair you may get it I will let you know at Yarmouth tonight when I go

Martyn · Passionate about Pleasurewood

Dodgems nowadays always have a written 'no bumping/no head on bumping' policy, just to cover themselves in case anyone gets injured.

Bubbles · Passionate about Pleasurewood

Kinda makes the point of a dodgem ride redundant, instead they're now a little car you ride round in circles.

mrbrightside · Exceptionally Expressive

Technically they are DODGEms rather than BUMPer cars :P

They always say no bumping, but you naturally get bumping - it's more of a legal precaution thing.

Bubbles · Passionate about Pleasurewood

Bumper cars is an American term, I guess over here we prefer not to get hit lol

quin · Enigmatic Expert

Nipped to Felixstowe today..... Pwh you know you've f****d up when mannings have a better set of dodgems than you!! (there also s**t

btw but still newer than pwh lol

-- Edited by quin on Sunday 8th of May 2016 07:42:22 PM

Connor M · Serious Squawker

They still don't have all of the sodding cars on....

On the plus side though, the working cars did seem to be a lot faster than before (referring to last Sunday compared to April and May). It was, however, very frustrating to have people hit the side of the track, get stuck then stare blankly at the ride op when they where told to "turn the wheel all the way in the other direction from the wall and accelerate", resulting in the stoppage of a ride with an already reduced capacity and the increased irritation of a queue full of people who got in line thinking "oh, that lines not too bad" who have already waited 15 minutes.

-- Edited by Connor M on Friday 30th of September 2016 07:40:06 PM

jskinner97 · Jolly Talkative

Connor M wrote:
get stuck then stare blankly at the ride op when they where told to "turn the wheel all the way in the other direction from the wall and accelerate", resulting in the stoppage of a ride

Sadly, it seems to be an issue with the cars. For some reason these cars do not reverse on full lock, unlike most other bumper cars as I found out myself in June...

Bubbles · Passionate about Pleasurewood

What are the other set of dodgems like? i haven't been on those since the first year they were opened.. lol
Could they use those cars on the new track??

Connor M · Serious Squawker

The ones by Rattlesnake? I'd say they're arguably just as good, if not better than hyperdrive. They aren't in perfect working order, a few don't work, but I don't see why they couldn't re use the majority of them.

quin · Enigmatic Expert

Its just a lost cause, who's idea was it to ever get these? They are a mess

Connor M · Serious Squawker

Don't quote me on this, but I remember someone somewhere saying something about the new park manager not giving a rats arse about the park. Didn't even know they had a new manager, must have been living under a rock. Bear with me and my lack of knowledge, when was Alexis Camelin manager? Was he the one who left and got replaced or am I just mad?

Bubbles · Passionate about Pleasurewood

Alexis left a couple of years ago, his replacement (who i forget the name of) was the guy who disliked Hobs Pit and hated the internet due to rumours regarding the refurbishment of Enigma, and i assume he's still manage today.
Can't be a coincidence that the park has been doing down hill over the past two years.

Jadam9 · Woody Wannabe

The park seriously needs someone with fresh, modern ideas. They're really wasting Enigma is the ride itself is amazing. As Cannonball, it was actually something I went to the park to ride. Now it's just dire.

Connor M · Serious Squawker

He hated the internet because of rumors about enigma, whattttt????

Bubbles · Passionate about Pleasurewood

Well there was something about him getting fed up with internet rumor and he mentioned Enigma, this is why we don't get any inside information anymore.

Martyn · Passionate about Pleasurewood

Yeah he doesn't seem the advantage of a social media presence.... which is just ridiculous in this day and age.

2012-14 the park was taking massive steps forward, but now it's slipped back into the dark ages.

Bubbles · Passionate about Pleasurewood

Is it normal for Hyperdrive to only run 6 cars?

JGroom · Serious Squawker

I have seen it with 4. The ride disco-lights no longer work and the paint is peeling on some of the cars.

They really don't treat their investments great do they?

Connor M · Serious Squawker

They have never run it on full capacity, even in the summer. I still think it was a waste of money for a 'filler attraction'. You could easily bring the chair swings under the semantic meaning of a 'filler attraction' and the chair swings is a perfect example of what a filler attraction should be because it looks good and provides a decent experience. Hyperdrive does neither of those things which begs the question, why did they buy such a sub standard attraction when they have shown that they can do a perfectly adequate job with landscaping/theming, thus making the place look shoddy and run down?

JGroom · Serious Squawker

I think they did do a good job with theming. Lights, Music and good signage. But as usual, Pleasurewood let it go to pot and now looks terrible.

Bubbles · Passionate about Pleasurewood

well maybe they've done it up?
The money could have been spend fixing the current bumper cars which are a lot better and fin anyway.. they should have moved them to the new spot and refurbished and themed it, would have been far superior.