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OK a great day was had at Alton Towers a few weeks back but with a couple of let downs.
Pics from http://www.towerstimes.co.uk
Rita: Queen of Speed
Was not running today for 'technical reasons' which is typical on the day we choose to go, badly disappointed when I found out. It's the fastest powered launch in Europe, 0-100kph in 2.5 seconds, but not today hahaha
Don't be sad though, everything else was working and I got to ride all the others including the ones built in recent years since I have been to Alton Towers, these ones....
Oblivion
The worlds first vertical drop into a black pit. I have never felt anything like that before. Hanging on the top and then falling like that kind of feels like weightlessness and being crushed at the same time. Yaaaay we do this for fun ;D
Air
Great idea. imagine laying down, facing downwards with the coaster strapped to your back, like Superman. And it spins around so that instead of facing the ground all you can see is sky moving by as you travel along on your back. Niiiiiice even more fun ;D
Nemesis
This has been at Alton Towers for a good few years but today was my first ride. Yeeeeeeeehaaaaaah. floorless, Legs dangling, loops twists, turns and just monsterous speed. Highly recommended and the best ride of the day for sure (although the vertical drop thing was insane too). reeeeeal gooood fun ;D
The Corckscrew
The old classic, and you can tell its old too, rattles and shakes like its over twenty five years old, oh wait a minute it is hahahaaaa, alwaaaaaaaays fun ;D
So yup, it was a great day out and I also have an announcement. Jayne decided to beat her fear of rollercoasters today and she went on TWO of them... Superhero!!!
The best thing is... We both went on the Corkscrew which does go upside down and stuff but it's quite tame and there was no queue.
Then she really put on a stern face and did not hold back when it came to Nemesis. The thing is and I couldn't tell her at the time, there is little in that theme park more shocking and disturbing than Nemesis HAHAHA. I couldn't tell her. She saw the thing doing loops and she knew all about it and she was determined so I thought ok fair play let's go.
The problem arose as we found out the queue was to be around 40 minutes. We edged round it and it leads a path through the trees under the coaster, around the coaster, making sure you see everything very very clearly. I was happy shooting my video and looking at this great waterfall and deep canyon with red (blood) water. We got to around 10 mins before getting to the front of the queues and we had been watching this thing hammering around us all the time for half an hour and it was all getting real and loud and scary, this music was playing and Jayne turns to me and says "I might cry in a minute". She looked at me and bravely did not shed one tear. I felt a little bad because me with rollercoaster history completely took the whole thiing for granted. I completely forgot how daunting my first coaster was and this thing that we were queuing for is vicious to say the least LOL. I told her everything would be ok and that were about to tame this *insert expletive here* and she agreed and gave me a smile ... like this ;D
And then we were there. No fuss, no blood, no sweat, no tears, we both went round and jayne Loved every second once she had recovered her balance haha.
It was ace but there is one more bit of bad news for those that were interested. For some reason the video's that I shot do not work on my PC. They are fine in my DVD player if I use the disc direct from the camera but cant get it working on my PC which means no uploads unless I find a way when I am less tired. I did get some great pics of us on the rides and I will post our hilarious faces when they are scanned.
Pics from http://www.towerstimes.co.uk
Rita: Queen of Speed
Was not running today for 'technical reasons' which is typical on the day we choose to go, badly disappointed when I found out. It's the fastest powered launch in Europe, 0-100kph in 2.5 seconds, but not today hahaha
Don't be sad though, everything else was working and I got to ride all the others including the ones built in recent years since I have been to Alton Towers, these ones....
Oblivion
The worlds first vertical drop into a black pit. I have never felt anything like that before. Hanging on the top and then falling like that kind of feels like weightlessness and being crushed at the same time. Yaaaay we do this for fun ;D
Air
Great idea. imagine laying down, facing downwards with the coaster strapped to your back, like Superman. And it spins around so that instead of facing the ground all you can see is sky moving by as you travel along on your back. Niiiiiice even more fun ;D
Nemesis
This has been at Alton Towers for a good few years but today was my first ride. Yeeeeeeeehaaaaaah. floorless, Legs dangling, loops twists, turns and just monsterous speed. Highly recommended and the best ride of the day for sure (although the vertical drop thing was insane too). reeeeeal gooood fun ;D
The Corckscrew
The old classic, and you can tell its old too, rattles and shakes like its over twenty five years old, oh wait a minute it is hahahaaaa, alwaaaaaaaays fun ;D
So yup, it was a great day out and I also have an announcement. Jayne decided to beat her fear of rollercoasters today and she went on TWO of them... Superhero!!!
The best thing is... We both went on the Corkscrew which does go upside down and stuff but it's quite tame and there was no queue.
Then she really put on a stern face and did not hold back when it came to Nemesis. The thing is and I couldn't tell her at the time, there is little in that theme park more shocking and disturbing than Nemesis HAHAHA. I couldn't tell her. She saw the thing doing loops and she knew all about it and she was determined so I thought ok fair play let's go.
The problem arose as we found out the queue was to be around 40 minutes. We edged round it and it leads a path through the trees under the coaster, around the coaster, making sure you see everything very very clearly. I was happy shooting my video and looking at this great waterfall and deep canyon with red (blood) water. We got to around 10 mins before getting to the front of the queues and we had been watching this thing hammering around us all the time for half an hour and it was all getting real and loud and scary, this music was playing and Jayne turns to me and says "I might cry in a minute". She looked at me and bravely did not shed one tear. I felt a little bad because me with rollercoaster history completely took the whole thiing for granted. I completely forgot how daunting my first coaster was and this thing that we were queuing for is vicious to say the least LOL. I told her everything would be ok and that were about to tame this *insert expletive here* and she agreed and gave me a smile ... like this ;D
And then we were there. No fuss, no blood, no sweat, no tears, we both went round and jayne Loved every second once she had recovered her balance haha.
It was ace but there is one more bit of bad news for those that were interested. For some reason the video's that I shot do not work on my PC. They are fine in my DVD player if I use the disc direct from the camera but cant get it working on my PC which means no uploads unless I find a way when I am less tired. I did get some great pics of us on the rides and I will post our hilarious faces when they are scanned.
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