With rumours building about the Secret Weapon 7 plans which are currently top secret - it has come as a suprise to many that Alton Towers' forthcoming 2013 projects plans are on show - for all guests to see! Forum member, siralgenon, has posted images of the find - together [...]
The Skyride system at Alton Towers, which has been a feature of the park since 1987, has been unavailble for the past fortnight. The reason why it has been closed has not been released into the public domain although rumours on our popular discussion forum have suggested that the cable may need replacing. The [...]
Alton Towers have never been one to shy away from flaunting the female figure, with scantily clad transvestites promoting the opening of Rita - Queen of Speed in 2005, to the bra testing on the same ride some years later. They even went for a naked world record on Nemesis (for [...]
Alton Towers Resort have been celebrating the arrival of summer, with pop groups including McFly today, after the massive Alton Towers Live concert took place. With tickets initially priced around £55, it was believed that sales were steady for the family event, but there's no doubt that a great time was had by [...]
In recent weeks Alton Towers have quietly increased the cost of on the day entry tickets. This increase will only affect those who will be using promotional vouchers to enter the park. To add further confusion to an already unnecessarily complicated pricing structure the cost of entry to the park [...]
Alton Towers' most recent theme park attraction, Th13teen, has been unavailable in recent days as a technical problem has meant that the ride has been closed. The ride, which is the worlds first to use new freefall drop technology from Swiss manufacturer Intamin, was initially plagued with reliability troubles upon [...]
In recent days the Alton Towers Resort DVD shop on Towers Street has been closed with many believing that the product that offered videos of guests on some of the biggest attractions at the Resort was no longer for sale. Formally known as YourDay the product had been plagued with [...]
Nemesis makes top 10 - again! The global steel rollercoaster poll results have been posted today by the acclaimed Mitch Hawker rollercoaster poll which sees hundreds of people around the world posting ballots on their favourite rollercoasters. Nemesis, Alton Towers' legendary B&M Inverted rollercoaster, has once again found itself in [...]
Each year Mitch Hawker runs a worldwide poll to decide what are the best rollercoasters in the world. In previous years our own Nemesis has been the number one UK and B&M inverted coaster in the world but will it be able to stay in the top 10 for the [...]
From today (Saturday 2nd April), The Flume has a new minimum height limit of 1.2m when accompanied by an adult and 1.3m when unaccompanied. The ride previously operated with a minimum height limit of 0.9m accompanied and 1.1m unaccompanied. In addition, Marauder's Mayhem has also had it's minimum height limit [...]
AltonTowers.com has released information about another music concert that will take place at the Alton Towers Resort. Music megastars, The Black Eyed Peas, will be performing on Wednesday 6th July 2011. Dominique Sidley, event director of the Alton Towers Resort, said: "The Black Eyed Peas are music royalty and we are [...]
Ian Crabbe, Divisional Director of Alton Towers Resort, today revealed the scale of the plans for the new rollercoaster development, set to open for the 2013 theme park season. Expected to be the next rollercoaster in the Secret Weapon line-up, following Nemesis (1994), Oblivion (1998), Air (2002) and Th13teen (2010), the ride [...]
