Thorpe Park February 2023 Closed Season Look

The Thorpe Park closed season is almost over and the park has begun reassembling attractions throughout the park ready for its first guests of the season!

However, we know that's not the main reason you are reading this article.

Work continues at Project Exodus and the area is looking flatter each time we see it. Since our last visit in person down Monks Walk the old Canada Creek Railway station has been flattened and the concrete base of the station is nowhere to be seen.

The first lift hill of Loggers Leap has been completely removed with the base of the lift hill spotted poking out of the ground. Old Town is not how it looked when the park closed at the end of the 2022 season, no one tell the buckwheats their home has gone. Lots of land continues to be flattened for Project Exodus, but the area looks recognisable. Parts of the first lift hill can be seen throughout Old Town.

More panels of the old Platform 15 fence have been removed and black tarps have been added to the fences down near the construction site. We expect this is for health and safety reasons not just so you can't see into the park.

The Rocky Express water tower theming element has been relocated to down the monk's walk fence a bit further down towards the farm. Reunited with an old Loggers Leap boat these will probably stay here. for a while. And only 3 carriages of the Canada Creek Railway remain, the rest have been removed from the park.

With not much left to be removed in Old Town, this could be our last look at the main Loggers Leap drop. Goodbye old friend... I guess we're replacing a Mack for a Mack so it's okay.

Other bits of work spotted throughout our visit, Nemesis Inferno has one of its trains sat towards the top of the lift hill, Samurai is being reassembled and the new sections of track for Colossus have been installed. Currently painted a nice silver colour we expect that these will be repainted over the next few weeks. The Colossus lift hill is still under scaffolding and zooming in on photos it appears work on the lift hill chain is what's currently happening. Lots of shipping containers can be seen down near the Tea Cup ride, it's unknown what's going on here. The Derren Brown Ghost Train sign has also been removed. More sections of fence lining Monks Walk have also been replaced to improve site security.