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Robin}
Nemesis
This
£10 million roller coaster whisks you around the track in just
90 seconds. The track includes a corkscrew at 50mph and one turn
where you feel space style weightlessness for 4 seconds! Riders
hang from underneath the track with their legs dangling in the air
below in skilift style chairs even on the vertical loop with pulls
you out of the way of a cliff and under a bridge which has a blood
river just below your feet! An extreme ride, for adrenaline seekers
only!
Ripsaw
This ride is very like a ride we
have in Dublin called the Terminator. People looking for their
thrill, sit in 2 long rows…You are hosted up over 50ft in the
air and then spun 5 stomach churning times through 360 degrees,
leaving you hanging upside down as water jets spray up at you from
below! The lack of a change of clothes gave me a good excuse to
miss this one out!
Oblivion
When I visited Alton Towers,
Oblivion was not open. But still I will tell you what I have heard
from friends and from the information I have picked up. This ride
sits it passengers in two rows of 8 and once at the edge of a 55m
drop pauses just before dropping meaning allot more suspense for
the riders. The car drops at 110km/hr into a small hole in the
ground that has smoke pouring out. At the bottom of he hill, you
will experience up to 4.5G, (9G is all a human can handle before
blacking out). Riders appear from under the ground away from the
entrance having the effect of disappearing for ever for people
standing in queue!
Black
hole
This is a roller coaster in
complete darkness. You spiral upwards and then hurtle down a drop
at 45mph for 50ft reaching 2.5G's. Good fun, exciting and
different!
Haunted House
I absolutely loved the
effects on this ride. You start off walking through corridors with
photographs with moving eyes and the floor is uneven and tilting.
There is hologram of a small girl in a doll house, it all looks
very real. Then onto a train, and you are whisked through the
house, with holographic ghosts and other such scary
sights!
Log Flume
The Alton Towers log flume has
the largest flume drop in Europe, and catches you just at that
second of terror with a camera grabs a shot of your horror. There
are portions of the ride that you go through in a low wooden
tunnel. I kept trying to duck thinking I would hit my head! It is
scary when in darkness in a low tight tunnel and you can hear water
and then you drop! Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!