Located in Thorpe Park in Surrey, UK is this 203ft monster of epic proportions. Place you hears back, face forwards, hold on tight and brace yourself for our Stealth Thorpe Park review.
Who Built Stealth the Ride?
Rollercoaster designer and innovator Werner Stengel designed the entire ride along with his design company Ingenieur Buro Stengel.
Stengel designed the layout, geometry, dynamics and acceleration.
Andreas Wild was an engineer at Buro Stengel and became the ride’s project manager.
The ride was known as ‘the son of ‘Kingda Ka’ a much taller Intamin acceleration coaster standing 140m high.
How Much Did Stealth Cost to Build?
A cool £12m
When Did Stealth Open at Thorpe Park?
Stealth opened at Thorpe Park on March 15th 2006.
Stealth The Ride Theming
The theming of Stealth is certainly more toned down than its intimidating vertical top hat. Themed around old school Americana. The ride features old school Americana music playing and old fashioned cars and theming throughout the queue line.
It’s certainly more of a diner welcoming experience to soothe the nerves before you buckle up for the ride ahead.
How Fast Does Stealth At Thorpe Park Go?
Stealth boasts an insane acceleration speed of 0 to 82mph in just 1.9 seconds, instantly becoming the fastest roller coaster in the country.
The Stealth Ride Experience
The queue line is nicely laid out but it is very open. On a wet day, this is one ride you wouldn’t really want to be queuing up for with hardly much cover whatsoever from the elements.
You jump into the train and pull down the over the shoulder restraint.
The track is laid out in front of you, a very simple layout. A straight shot of track like a drag strip before you shoot up vertically into the top hat.
The top hat itself is 203ft tall (62m), just 3m short of equalling the UK’s tallest coaster which is The Big One at Blackpool Pleasure Beach.
The countdown begins and in front of you is a traffic light system before your race begins.
When the light turns green the whole world turns blur as you hydraulic launch towards this giant top hat.
The whole experience goes so quickly that one minute you’re facing the sky and the next you’re at the top where for a split second the whole universe goes in slow motion as you’re facing down towards the earth.
You hit the 90 degrees turn down, shoot over an airtime hill as I checked to see if both of my testicles were still with me and then you’re back at the magnetic brake run.
Stealth Roller Coaster Overall Opinion
Stealth at Thorpe Park is insanity personified. Certainly a must-ride coaster when visiting the theme park.
It’s the most intense ride in the park by quite some distance.
From start to finish every bit of that 1.9 G-Force is felt from head to toe.
With the ride being over in a matter of seconds it’s not a ride I’d want to queue for a long time over thou, however.
Whilst it’s an incredible ride I just feel as tho it’s over too quickly. It doesn’t justify waiting in line for an hour or two when your time could be better spent around the park.
I’d highly recommend riding Stealth either right at the very start or end of your day when queues are more likely to be much smaller depending on the time you get there.
With Thorpe Park fastly approaching nearly a decade without a new coaster, it’s time for something new.
It would be nice to see a new UK’s tallest coaster introduced.
The Big One has held the title for far too long now and whilst it’s incredible that it still holds that title us Brits can do better!
