Alton Towers has launched into summer this week, with ride queues closing at 7:00pm between now and September 3rd - meaning plenty of extra time to get in your favourite theme park rides and attractions. The last Monorail service from the entrance plaza to the car parks/hotels is at 8:00pm. Early [...]
For a number of months it has been rumoured that an Alton Towers App for mobile devices would be created for the resort, today the app was released. Currently the free app is only available for Apple devices such as the iPhone and the iPod Touch, it is currently not [...]
The Alton Towers homepage has been advertising "All Time Greats - Which one will take the crown?" in recent days and a new TV advert, featuring the classic Alton Towers soundtrack can be viewed here which showcases the big 5 coasters at the park backed up by the classic sounds of Tom Baker (of [...]
The Black Eyed Peas, one of the biggest selling hip hop groups will be performing live at the Alton Towers Resort tonight. Preparations for the concert have been taking place over recent days after a large stage was constructed on the front lawns, at the bottom of Towers Street. Although [...]
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 [...]
