###################################################################### THP8 Secret Spots FAQ By Boneho Chane [email protected] January 21, 2007 Version 1.0 ###################################################################### ===================== | 1. Introduction | ===================== THP8 is absolutely my favorite game in the series. That is why It is no surprise I discuss this one with many people. Unfortunately it seems that many people have a lot of difficulty with the game and cannot seem to find a lot of help. Secret spots seem to be one of the major issues. They are hidden icons randomly scattered across Beaver Valley, the world THP8 takes place in. Collecting these icons is required to move up the ranks in the game and give you a nice achievement. Some of these are quite hard to find, so stay with me. ###################################################################### ===================== | 2. The Walkthrough| ===================== Suburbia -------- 1. Up In Tree There is a tree in the middle of the backend loop of the street. It is directly in front of you when the game begins. The secret spot icon is on top of the trunk. To get it, you must get some speed and then boneless (Up, Up, Ollie) off of the edge of the planter that surrounds it. You might need to boost your ollie or air stats a little in order to get it. If you cannot reach it otherwise, force bail (LB+RB+LT+RT) at the height of your jump. 2. Houses Roof This one is located on the roof of your house. Go to the left side of the house and you will find a blue and white awning attached to the side of a trailer. Ride up this ramp to get on the first ledge on the house. Then get off your board (LB+RB) and grab onto the edge of the roof (RB). Pull yourself up and walk collect the icon. 3. Grecian Ledge Go to the back of the house with three blue empty swimming pools that serve as bowls. The icon is located on top of the giant wall behind the pools with the paintings on them. You will need a lot of air, so spine transfer (RT) through the bowls multiple times. Once you have enough speed, ride up the side of the back bowl closest to the wall. If you get air enough you should be able to reach the icon. Skate Park ---------- 1. Roof Top View This one is on top of the green roof located in the back of the skate park nearest the school. Simply air up one of the quarter pipes below the roof and then get off your board at the height of the jump. This way you will land on the roof and can easily walk over to it. 2. To the Point This icon is located on the wire above the skate park. All you have to do is grind across the wire and there are many ways to do this. An easy way is to get back up on the green roof and grind it from there. 3. Amid the Trees This one is very hidden. Go around the side of the skatepark, up to the top of the dirt road the leads to the funpark. Once you at the very top of the hill and is looking at the side of the green funpark wall closest to Suburbia, turn around and you will see a small green island between the two roads. Jump over the guard railing and you should see the secret icon on the island. Walk over and get it. Main Street ----------- 1. Bottle Popping Get to the top of the liquor store. There are multiple ways to do this. Once here, you will notice a spiral rail going upwards on the corners of the building. The icon is located on the spiral rail on the corner closest to the giant pizza. Grind the quarter pipe connected to the rail to make your way up it. 2. Wheel of Cheese This one is located on the giant pizza. Get on top of the building next to the liquor store. Then ride toward the quarter pipe in front of the pizza. Ride up it, spine transfer, and you will get it. 3. Climb the Cup This one is located on one of the wires hanging above the walkway and streets in the middle of the street. Use one of the roofs of the building to get to a wire and then proceed to get this icon. Hilltop ------- 1. Shore Grind Go down to the shore near the capitol building. You should find a walkway that extends out toward the shore a little bit, right next to a walkway suspended in the air. Slowly walk off the edge of the shore walkway hold Y so that you will land in a grind on a hidden ledge. There is an icon here and you should be able to get it. 2. Parking Awning Right in front of the funpark is a suspended purple awning. There are multiple ways to get up to it. An easy one is probably just to wallie off of the side of the funpark. The icon is located on the edge closest to the funpark. 3. Fun Sign This icon is located on top of the giant sign in front of the hilltop. Get on top of the same purple awning described in the last goal. The same back edge of the awning curves around to the right and attaches to a thin wire. Grind the edge of the awning and onto the wire. The wire will lead upward to the very top of the sign. 4. Castle Tower Go to the left side of the hilltop and use the ramps to get up in the halfpipe-like ledge. There are two castle-like towers here. Looking toward the parking lot, you to spine transfer into the right tower. This is where the icon is located. 5. Hanging Box Go to the higher part of the construction site with wooden quarter pipes on a risen platform. From here you can see a box hanging from a crane right in front of you. Jump out to box and grind on it to get the icon. Capitol ------- 1. High Wire You must go to the hilltop and find the edge with the red railing that looks out on the capitol. There is a ramp lined up against the railing. Attached to this ramp is a wire. Use the ramp to jump up and grind on the wire. The secret icon is in the middle of it. City Park --------- 1. Picking Apples This one actually forces you to make use of the moveable objects feature. Go to the left corner of the park closest to the shore. You will find a basketball court. In the tree closest to the left of the left basketball net is a secret icon. You want to use the moveable objects feature to place either a quarter pipe or a kicker underneath the tree. Doing this easily gets you the icon. 2. High Pipe On the side of the wall of the factory, nearest to the left entrance are a few pipes. On the highest pipe is an icon. You wall ride from one pipe to another to get the icon. Or you can go to the right entrance of the factory and jump of the edge of the walkway and land in a grind on the pipe. 3. Buckled on edge This one is pretty easy. Go to the long emptied U-shaped pool. In between the two are four red rails. You want to use the wood boards on either side of the pool to grind the middle rail. School ------ 1. Power Run There is a wire that connects from three different places: the building with the gain slope, the facility with a bowl on top of it, and in the small tiny alley between the two tiny school facilities. Grind from either of these spots and when you reach the spot where they all connect, you will receive the icon. 2. School Roof Tower Get on top of the building with the giant slope; there is a red ladder. Go to the back wall and you will see a quarter pipe. Look out to the right of it. There is a wire suspended above the quarter pipe that is attached to the water tower. Grind the quarter pipe to the right and then jump up to the wire and grind your wall to the tower. Run into the middle of the tower and the walls will break away revealing the icon. 3. School Roof Tower 2 Get on top of the building directly across from the building with the giant slope. The easiest way to get here is to obviously use the giant slope. On the right side of this building is a bell tower with an opening. The icon is directly in front of the opening. 4. Antenna First you must get on top of the building with the glass mounds. It is the building directly to the right of the giant slope. Right along side the mounds is a quarter pipe. Right above the quarter pipe is an antenna with the icon. Use the quarter pipe to air to the top of the antenna. 5. Science Lab Grind the ENTIRE length of the piano awning and it will open up a door inside the halls of the school. Go through the door and you will find the icon. 6. School Ditch Find the bridge that connects the School to the Slums. Stand on the bridge and then jump off either side of it. You will find a large tunnel under the bridge with the icon in the middle of it. Slums ----- 1. Power Plant Remember when you went to the top of the building in the middle of the slums for the Bam Pro challenge? Well the idea is to get back up there, but not the same way Bam made you. Find the liquor store. You should see a sign in the front of the building that says L-I-Q-O-U-R. Use the quarter pipe below it to grind on the ledge holding the letters and then proceed to grind them all away. Doing so will open up a door to the top of the building. Go through it and there you go. 2. Building Teleport Go to the large back building furthest away from City Park and closest to the school. Along it you will see a large garage door. Skate up to it and it will open revealing the icon. 3. Factory Parking Lot As if this was not obvious enough, go to the parking lot in front of the factory. If you move the camera you can notice that there is a secret icon floating above the middle. Use the move the objects to place a kicker near the icon so that you can reach it. Factory ------- 1. Car Climb When you first get in the factory you will notice a bunch of jeeps suspended from two large moving conveyor belts. Use the ramp in front of the belts to hop on them and grind your way up to the top floor. As soon as you are here, you will notice two yellow railing along the side of the floor. Grind either of these rails back toward the suspended jeeps. As soon as you reach the end of one of the rails, jump and hold Y. You will land in a grind on a rail attached to the bottom of a jeep, which will send you toward the next one and the next one and so forth. Along this pattern you will get the icon. 2. Robot Arms Grind up to the top floor with the yellow rails again. As soon as you are here, face the suspended jeeps. Walk to the edge of the platform on the right and look down. Here you will see the icon. Jump down and get it. 3. Daily Grind Go to very back wall of the factory, the one closest to the shore on the outside. Along the wall you will find a large red rail. Grind up this rail to curve around the quarter pipe. From here, as soon as you come to the second slope on the rail, wallie upwards and land in a grind on the vitalization. Once you reach the end of this, jump toward the panel on the wall. You will break through the wall and collect the secret icon. Fun Park -------- 1. Dragon Breath Walk to the top of the dragon head and slowly walk off the edge of his nose. You should fall right in his mouth, where the icon is located. 2. Crows Nest This icon is located on the platform above the pirate ship in the middle of the level. The easiest way to get it is to grind around the roller coaster and to jump at it as soon as it comes in sight. 3. Sewer Tube Go to the pirate ship in the back of the level and face the shops. You will see a wooden bridge right in front of you. Stand on the bridge and then jump off either side of it. You will find a small tunnel under the bridge with the icon in the middle of it. 4. Pirate Flag Go to the same pirate ship and get on top it. You will see a large funbox in the middle of it. Ride up to the top of the funbox and look out toward the direction of the slide. You will see a rope that connects from the funbox to a pirate flag on the other side of the ship. Grind on this rope and the icon is yours. 5. Purple Arch Find the slide with the yellow rails on it and walk to the top. You will see a small passage that goes through the wall. Ride through here and you will find the icon. 6. Water Ride Find the water roller coaster in the back of the near the trident. Ride along the path of the coaster and go through the bottom passage of the ride. You will receive the icon. ###################################################################### ===================== | 3. Closing Info | ===================== If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, feedback, or corrections email at [email protected] and I will answer. Boneho Chane Copyright 2007