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 [...]
Happy Birthday Th13teen It's a year to the day that Th13teen - the world's first free fall drop roller coaster - was released to the world and, one year on, it's with a much calmer expectation that we head into the 2011 season. With no major new attractions opening this [...]
A recent press release from Alton Towers, via a partner site, has detailed a new show set for the Cloud Cuckoo Land theatre in 2011 - a colourful, energtic and cheery stage show entitled the Go!Go!Go! Show, fresh from its debut and supportive reviews in the London West End in 2010. The [...]
