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Thorpe Park's old logo (2008–2023). In preparation for the opening of Hyperia, Merlin announced major new investment for the older areas of the park to get them up to standard ready for the record breaking new rollercoaster. This began on the 30 October 2023 when Thorpe Park announced that Angry Birds Land would be permanently closing.
In March 2012, Thorpe Park announced they contacted You Me at Six to create the world's first roller coaster single for the launch of The Swarm. The song was released to iTunes on 18 March 2012, a few days after the opening of the coaster.
The ride opened as X:\ No Way Out on July 1, 1996, as Thorpe Park's first non-powered roller coaster. It was marketed as the "world's first backwards roller coaster in the dark" and featured an elaborate queue system through multiple interactive themed rooms, such as a trommel tunnel, "decontamination" area and illusionary rooms.
Nemesis Inferno is an inverted roller coaster at the Thorpe Park theme park in Surrey, England, UK. The ride was manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, the same Swiss firm that built the Nemesis inverted roller coaster at Alton Towers. The 750-metre-long (2,460 ft) Nemesis Inferno is themed around an erupting tropical volcano.
Since the official closure, however, Thorpe Park stated on their website in 2019 that "situations can change and as plans develop they often move in different directions". They followed by stating that "the area that Logger's Leap once dominated will be forming part of our long term development plans."
In January 2013, Thorpe Park announced that the last two rows on The Swarm would be rotated to face backwards for 2013, a first for a Wing Coaster. The park's tag line for this experience is 'THE SWARM- Brave It Backwards'. The park additionally announced that they were adding a damaged, mangled billboard, which the train travels through.
This marked the decision to maintain the ride as a permanent installation, though an incident during the 2001 season, in which a gondola became partially detached from the main frame of the ride, leading to the park owners being fined for £65,000 in 2004, [1] necessitated that the ride be replaced.
The ride is set in a 1960s New England–style fishing village "Amity Cove", which appears to have been hit by a tidal wave.Throughout Amity Cove, a pastiche radio station named "WWTP Radio" plays rock and roll and surf music from the era (for example The Beach Boys and Elvis Presley), along with parody advertisements, news reports and interviews with village characters.