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 [...]
With February Half Terms' brief part opening of the Theme Park over, and many enthusiast getting their Alton Towers fix after a turmoil of a closed season, the countdown now begins (with 24 days to go!) to the grand opening of the full theme park and rides on Saturday 26th [...]
Alton Towers Theme Park opens! Alton Towers Resort have re-opened the theme park for their 11-day February event. Today, Friday 18th February, sees free entry for all guests at the park - so long as they 'check in' using a Facebook application on a mobile device. Free hotel stays are [...]
Guest Services tweets into 2011! As Alton Towers continue their move into the future, with official accounts now on several major sites including Facebook and Youtube, Guest Services have even got in on the act with an official account on Twitter. Guest Services, often the first port of call in the [...]
AltonTowers.com has this morning released details about an upcoming concert to be held at the Resort on 19th June 2011. The event, to be called 'Alton Towers Live' sees top artists JLS, McFly, The Saturdays and Eliza Doolittle all playing in one concert at the Resort on the Sunday evening, with the [...]
It has been revealed on www.altontowerstrips.com, a commercial partner of Alton Towers, that Alton Towers will be adding a new addition to the Sea Life attraction in Mutiny Bay, Sharkbait Reef. Skeleton Bay will feature 12 giant Japanese Spider Crabs. In 2010, Sharkbait Reef was home to a small Japanese Spider [...]
Several curious TowersTimes members received a short lived suprise when browsing on the Alton Towers website this morning after it appeared that a new website look had been launched by the resort web design partners, headland. However with the news of the Facebook Places tie in (see todays earlier article) [...]
