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The Swarm is a steel roller coaster located at Thorpe Park in the United Kingdom. [3] The Swarm was the world's second Wing Coaster model designed by Swiss roller coaster manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and the first one located in the United Kingdom. [4] Construction commenced in May 2011, and the coaster opened on 15 March 2012. [5]
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.
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The demolition of the Thorpe Park Estate in the 1930s transformed the grounds into a gravel pit, originally owned by Ready Mixed Concrete Limited.RMC excavated gravel from the site for 30 years from 1941 until 1970 when they began to plan a transformation of the site into a leisure based visitor attraction.
Rumba Rapids (also known as Rumba RAPids or Oompah Rapids) is a rapids ride at Thorpe Park, Chertsey, Surrey.It opened in 1987 under the name of Thunder River, and is the second oldest ride currently still in service at Thorpe Park.
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.
The Swarm, a film based on a novel with bees as a menace; The Swarm (1990 film), a Soviet drama film; The Swarm (2020 film), a French fantasy drama film "The Swarm" (Star Trek: Voyager), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager; The Swarm, a 2023 European Alliance co-produced TV series based on the novel by Frank Schätzing
Colossus is a steel roller coaster at Thorpe Park in Surrey, England, and the park's first major attraction.It was built by Lichtenstein-based manufacturers Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel as an adaptation of Monte Makaya in Brazil.