Saturday 19th November 2011
Well its now coming up to a full two weeks of Thorpe Park being closed and we finally get conformation that all of The Swarm track has been put up. Thorpe Park have said that the site is two weeks ahead of its self construction wise meaning more time for theming. Lets hope The Swarm doesn't turn into saw the ride only doing half the theming they said they where going to do. However looking at the two photos that we have got they are doing all of the theming as we can already see the plane being made in the bottom right hand corner of the first photo. Now the developers diary has said that they are going to be doing weekly updates meaning we will be able to see what is happening when and watch out as we shall soon start to see the ride testing.
Monday 7th November 2011
Its the end of the theme park season and the last original update that we are going to have for a while In this update we see the inclined loop done and we see that the zero-g roll support is up and ready waiting for the track to make its way to the ride. Now lots of people have been talking about when are the trains going to be on site and the answer to this is no one knows but Thorpe Park but we think that its going to be around late December as every other year it has been around this time. Now in this update we don't see much change form our last update apart from lots more photos, but the site has really gone at a rockets pace as a month ago we were all saying that the site was looking behind but in fact it was running on time as seen by this last update.
Thursday 27th October 2011
Over the last few days over at Thorpe Park not a lot has been happening with The Swarm site. They are half done with the final curve and they have now started to put up the supports for the inline twist. Now since the last time we went to the park there was no track and today we were greeted into the park gate / car park entrance to see the lift hill done and the first drop done. The Swarm really does dominate the park now as you can see the ride from the whole park if you get a good enough view point. Any way The Swarm is really starting to progress now with near half the track done they have started to put the safety wire on the lift hill which is shown on the photos below. The station is starting to be all bricked up and the chain lift chain could be installed within the next month. Overall the site is really coming together now and The Swarm is looking to be just beautiful.
Monday 17th October 2011
The lift is done, the brake run is done and now work on the first drop has been started. Today re reported off a video being uploaded showing the first helix being worked on and now just 4 hours latter we have photos of the first drop being worked on now it looks like there going from the bottom upwards so we should see the first drop done by the end off this week!!! Now the second pillar has been taken out whilst the first drop is done due to the crane having to be over one off the footers which one off the pillars uses. Now the flying fish has been closed until this first drop is done so there wont be any close up photos for the next couple off days so until then enjoy and a big cheers to Dominic Povall for sending us the photos.
Tuesday 11th October 2011
The lift hill has been started on the swarm at Thorpe Park. The photos shown below have been taken from the south parks Facebook page which no longer has a website. The lift hill by the look of it look to be almost half way but still has a long way to go until it is fully done as it has to go very high to get the speed to get over the first part. Now the rest of the track like the zero g roll and that haven't been started yet but it looks like they could leave the lift hill like it is now and get the rest off the track done then leave the lift hill to be done near the end off the project?
The Swarm Track Starts To Be Installed
Saturday 8th October 2011
Construction on The Swarm (LC12) at Thorpe Park is ramping up quickly with sections of track now being installed around the station and the first section of the lift hill has been put into place! Foundations can also be seen for some theming at the bottom of what will become the first drop. Throughout the day today, the final turnaround bend has been fully installed with each piece taking around 30 minutes to be installed. Although the rest of the track won't be so easy to install it's crazy how fast the rollercoaster will go up.
Friday 7th October 2011
Track for the swarm has finally started to go up around the site. The brake run has been complete and the start of the helix which goes down into the station has been started. By the speed of the work done today it could all be done and put up by the end of the fright night event! However this probably wont happen.
Saturday 1st October 2011
Work on the station of the swarm has started and looks to be going at a steady pace! We expect over the next few days the station frame work should be complete.
Virtual Construction Begins
Thursday 8th September 2011
At the start of the day there was no track or building up however thought out the day the crane had been put up and work had been started on the new ride! Now at the moment we have the start of the lift hill being worked on and the station framing. Now the ride supports have been moved to the front of the site meaning that they are going to be put up in the new few days!
Friday 12th August 2011
Well here it is, the track is at Thorpe Park and the construction time for the track has begun. Well as that opening sentence said track for the new ride at Thorpe Park coded named LC12 otherwise known as the swarm now is now on site. And as previewed before the track spotted at the B&M plant was in fact the track that would be going to Thorpe Park. Now it is still unsure if the seats are going to be moving as B&M could of made a new way to make the seats move but it is still very unlikely that this is what is going to happen, as there is only 1 main track! We shall also be visiting Thorpe Park in the next few weeks to have a huge Thorpe Park the swarm update such as the marketing and other stuff that we have got plained for the 2012 theme park season on the website! Also a big thanks to the people over at www.coasterforce.com who have aloud us to use some of there photos on this post, a link here the post where the photos are from.
