Park Updates > Thorpe Park - Construction Update
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Thorpe Park's new for 2009 roller coaster, Saw: the Ride is a Gerstlauer Eurofighter with a trademark vertical lift hill and beyond-vertical drop.
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A view from the Colossus area - the 100ft drop leads straight into an Immelmann inversion
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Before all of that though, Saw: the Ride has an extensive indoor section. This building, constructed on reclaimed land from Thorpe Park's lake, features the ride's station and pre-lift course, containing an inline twist, which leads into the outdoor segment as seen.
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The Samurai entrance provides a good view of the 100-degree first drop and subsequent inversion.
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Exiting the Immelmann, the track heads behind Samurai before negotiating this heavily-overbanked diving turn. From here the track heads up into a bunnyhop, running parallel to part of Thorpe Park's log flume, Loggers Leap.
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After a turnaround, the track drops from a block brake into a third inversion - a very tight Immelmann, dwarfed by the adjacent overbanked turn. From here, the track twists up into the final brake run.





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