In 1988 Alton Towers installed The Alton Beast in an area of the
park which was located behind Talbot Street. The Alton Beast stayed
there for 4 years, the track painted green.
The journey for 12 people began with a 14 metre spiral upwards, once
at the top riders only had a few seconds to look around before they
dropped down the steep hill, the first corner at the bottom of the
drop put a massive 4G on riders, the same as Nemesis does, this
means they felt 4 times heavier than they actually were. The car
then proceeded around the rest of the 560 metre track, through many
corners, turns an helixes. The actual ride was a Schwarzkopf Jet
star 3 and at one time was said to have the steepest drop in
Britain.
In 1992 the ride was moved to Thunder Valley, painted red an renamed
The New Beast, this can be seen to the right. The new Beast stood
there until the end of the 1997 season when it was removed to make
space for Alton's next big rollercoaster which eventually arrived in
2002: Air.
