The Walking Dead: The Ride is the world’s first roller coaster themed around the global TV phenomenon and Thorpe Park invited us along to the launch event on 29th March.

It is a complete transformation of the former roller coaster X with all new theming and effects throughout, including a pre-show, walkthrough and live actors. 

Here's our review of the new experience, with some spoilers!

Thorpe Park Resort has now announced The Walking Dead: The Ride, the world’s first roller coaster themed around the global TV phenomenon, to open this Easter.

The Walking Dead: The Ride is the latest new attraction for the Surrey based theme park and replaces previous ride X.

Thorpe Park has announced The Year of The Walking Dead, a series of new unmissable events throughout the 2018 season from when the theme park re-opens on 23rd March.

An invasion of Walkers descended upon the Island during Fright Nights last year and we thought the battle against the dead was won… we were wrong.

This season, the apocalypse is nigh at Thorpe Park with a deadly calendar of unmissable events.

The Walking Dead: Living Nightmare could return as a permanent all season attraction at Thorpe Park in 2018.

At this stage it's purely speculation on our part, as nothing has been confirmed by the park, but we think that based on what is known there is a fairly good chance of this happening.

This year The Walking Dead invade Frights Nights at Thorpe Park, and we were invited to a media event to preview the new attractions as well as some returning favourites.

SPOILER WARNING: our review does contain spoilers, so if you want your experience to be a complete surprise don't read on...