Thorpe Park’s first big thrill ride, Colossus built in 2002 is a 10 time inverting roller coaster.
I have been on the ride 3 times, once in 2010, once 2011 and once this year.
The ride queue is situated right under the ride and gives you something to watch as you queue. Unfortunately due to its popularity, the ride queue time can rise up to 3 hours. The downside of the queue being situated under the ride is that because of the age of the ride, it is quite a loud rattle and bang every time the coaster goes over your head. Although it certainly makes you eager to go on the ride. The throughput of the ride is 1050 people per hour and this just shows you that if you were queueing for 2 hours, that means that 2100 people had queued before you.
The ride starts of with a 45 degrees climb on a chain lift hill, taking you 30 meters up. The coaster rattles over the top and bends round a corner before dropping and speeding through a loop the loop, and then another one! Wow.
The ride reaches a top speed of 45 mph and has a max g-force of 4.2
Some other features of the ride includes, 5 heart line rolls (Click here for an explanation), 2 corkscrews, a cobra roll and a vertical loop.
As the ride was built in 2002, it is fairly old now, due to this it is a very rough ride and it involves quite a bit of head banging. It is a good idea to keep your head forward during the ride, this reduces head banging.
Colossus had a fabulous trick at the end that if you’re a first time rider it will take you by complete surprise. Just as you think the ride is over, the coaster does an anti-clockwise in line twist, this is my favourite part of the coaster!
Overall this is a worth while coaster, but because of its age and rough ride it is not as brilliant as it used to be. My suggestion is that if you are at Thorpe Park, go on the other four main coasters first THE SWARM, SAW, Nemesis Inferno and Stealth and then go on Colossus.