Storm Surge (ride)
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Storm Surge is a 'Spinning Rapids' water ride at Thorpe Park
, Surrey
, United Kingdom
manufactured by WhiteWater West. It is located in the Amity Cove area of the park, which is based around the park's Tidal Wave-themed ride. The ride opened in March 2011 and is themed around a fairground ride built to make use of the Tidal Wave water which has washed into Amity Cove, as the town enters the 1970s
. The ride contains a 19.5 metre lift hill, and gradually 'spins' to the bottom of the slide, as velcro has been added to make the model of ride, which is usually marketed towards the family, more intense, to suit the park's own target audience. As the ride itself does not get riders very wet, various water features have been added, including guest-operated water guns, overhead showers, sprinklers, and geysers.
The ride area also includes the park's main gift and snack shop, the 'Thorpe Mega Store', which houses designer clothing brands, many different souvenirs, including shirts, hoodies, trophies, etc., and snacks, as well as 'Doughnut Shack', a small snack kiosk which sells refreshments. A bucking bronco-style fun ride is also located outside the ride, but is designed to look like a hammerhead shark
rather than a bull.
The 1996 ride, 'X:\ No Way Out', a Vekoma
-manufactured backwards-travelling dark ride, is located behind the ride, but, despite having to enter Amity Cove to access the ride's entrance, is in fact in Lost City.
Thorpe Park
Thorpe Park is a theme park located in Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK. It was built in 1979 on the site of a gravel pit which was partially flooded, the intention of creating a water based theme for the park. The park's first large roller coaster, Colossus, was added in 2002...
, Surrey
Surrey
Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...
, United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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manufactured by WhiteWater West. It is located in the Amity Cove area of the park, which is based around the park's Tidal Wave-themed ride. The ride opened in March 2011 and is themed around a fairground ride built to make use of the Tidal Wave water which has washed into Amity Cove, as the town enters the 1970s
1970s
File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil...
. The ride contains a 19.5 metre lift hill, and gradually 'spins' to the bottom of the slide, as velcro has been added to make the model of ride, which is usually marketed towards the family, more intense, to suit the park's own target audience. As the ride itself does not get riders very wet, various water features have been added, including guest-operated water guns, overhead showers, sprinklers, and geysers.
The ride area also includes the park's main gift and snack shop, the 'Thorpe Mega Store', which houses designer clothing brands, many different souvenirs, including shirts, hoodies, trophies, etc., and snacks, as well as 'Doughnut Shack', a small snack kiosk which sells refreshments. A bucking bronco-style fun ride is also located outside the ride, but is designed to look like a hammerhead shark
Hammerhead shark
The hammerhead sharks are a group of sharks in the family Sphyrnidae, so named for the unusual and distinctive structure of their heads, which are flattened and laterally extended into a "hammer" shape called a "cephalofoil". Most hammerhead species are placed in the genus Sphyrna while the...
rather than a bull.
The 1996 ride, 'X:\ No Way Out', a Vekoma
Vekoma
Vekoma Rides Manufacturing B.V. is a roller coaster and thrill ride designer with its facilities based in the Netherlands. The company was founded in 1926 by Hendrik op het Veld under the name "Veld Koning Machinefabriek" and had first manufactured agricultural machinery and mining equipment...
-manufactured backwards-travelling dark ride, is located behind the ride, but, despite having to enter Amity Cove to access the ride's entrance, is in fact in Lost City.