It has emerged that Intamin will be the manufacturer for the 2010 coaster project. Intamin were responsible for 2005 success Rita - Queen of Speed, and have also brought the classic Congo River Rapids to the park. It marks a departure for the park, after Nemesis, Oblivion and Air were [...]
The cost of single on ride photographs has risen at Alton Towers Resort. That picture of you hanging over the edge on Oblivion, or as you accelerate to 100km/h in 2.5 seconds on Rita will now cost £7.00 - up from £6.00. The most recent price rise for photographs was [...]
Alton Towers suffered a large power cut that affected rides and operations in certain areas of the park late on Saturday morning for around 90 minutes. Some of the park's top rides including Nemesis, Air, Ripsaw, Duel, Congo River Rapids and Runaway Mine Train were reported to be affected by [...]
When Alton Towers re-opened for the 2009 season with Cloud Cuckoo Land, it became apparant that the parks newest play facility had infact turned out as nothing more than the original Tweenies play area with a new name. After some investigating, and an announcement from the park, it was made [...]
Complaints regarding increased noise from Nemesis, the parks oldest and most celebrated thrill rollercoaster, began a fortnight ago when the famous "roar" suddenly got louder. As reported previously, a number of calls had been made to Staffordshire Moorlands District Council in Leek calling for the park to reduce the noise. [...]
Nemesis, probably Alton Towers' most famous rollercoaster, is well known to have a "roar" as it goes around the track. This is one of the unique features of the ride and partly why it has such a well regarded reputation. However, it appears that something has happened on the trains, [...]
Rita - Queen of Speed was closed on Monday (13th April) for the whole day as technical services attempted to get the ride operating again. Spinball Whizzer was also unavailable for some hours as the park saw one of it's worst days for downtime in some time. The park opened [...]
It has been revealed that Alton Towers are looking into a third resort hotel to compliment the existing Splash Landings and Alton Towers hotels in a further boost to the resort. Alton Towers opened their most recent hotel, Splash Landings, in 2003. The hotels are popular year round and even [...]
The 2009 season at Alton Towers splashed into life on Saturday, with thousands of guests enjoying the brand new attractions at the Resort. The major new attraction was Sharkbait Reef by Sea Life. Opening to the first guests just after 9am, this brand new aquarium attraction in Mutiny Bay features [...]
ERT (Early Ride Time) has been a feature of the Alton Towers theme park for many seasons now, and from 28th March it will return along with the full open season. This year, in addition to Alton Towers and/or Merlin Annual Pass holders and those with Hotel theme park packages, [...]
Alton Towers will have a new rollercoaster for the 2010 season. "Secret Weapon Six", as it has been codenamed, will replace the Corkscrew which left the park in November 2008. Staffordshire Moorlands District Council held their committee meeting today, 12th March, and approved the ride a little before 5.00pm after [...]
After a planning meeting in February recommended an extra month to investigate the proposed 2010 rollercoaster at Alton Towers, we take a look at the supplementary report which is likely to be pivotal in any decision that will be made on Thursday, 12th March: Visual and Noise concerns - A [...]
