Alton Towers - Thirteen

Alton towers cannot cut down on themeing without a serious amount of their fan base getting all mad. They did that with Air in 2002 after they went over budget and it is still mentioned by many today, how Air could be so much better with the themeing that was planned for it.

Plus with a ride that uses a story like this, and is based on the actual towers themselves, they really cannot afford to cut corners on the themeing, when that is a massive part of the ride. Themeing can make a bad ride look good. Im not saying Thirteen is going to be bad, but it sure as hell isnt going to be on par with a couple of the other coasters, so it needs all the help it can get themeing wise. Themeing can work magic, look at Indiana Jones and the temple of Peril at Disneyland Paris, the basic ride is just an Intamin remodel of a Pinfari looper, but the themeing makes it look near unrecognisable.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/altontower ... 774822892/ some new pictures.

[slosprint]

if by new you mean almost five months ago then yes, those are new.

Oh i meant to post the ones of me after my breast enlargement.
Got you all excited anyway.

wow youve gone proper cornwall now. youve now lost all norhteness. are you attracted to your cousin?

Wth is that big turn in the ground then switch track with a straight track in front of it?

^after the dark ride section; it then launches backwards goes round that corner and is reversed and goes back into the station.

[Mikey]

O noes! Intiman has mastered the art of backwards velocity, were all doomed! Doomed I tell you!

[slosprint]

^^I think we should all chip in to get mikey a doctor...

[gouldy]

What amuses me; is that this isn't even close to the first time that Intamin has given a car backwards propulsion...

^why was I not informed of this?

[slosprint]

... I guess you could call any of their inverted impulse coasters like wicked twister or possessed backwards propulsion...

Originally posted by Stealthrider5583

^why was I not informed of this?

why would you need to be informed more importantly?

[Mikey]

That was my point gouldy

"We took the decision to run the Preview Weekend, the first of its kind
for the Resort, some months ago recognizing that some of you would
welcome the opportunity to experience the TH13TEEN, have a
behind-the-scenes tour and learn about how the ride was conceived and
marketed. An event of this nature takes a huge amount of organisation
and planning particularly as we wanted to make it as special and as
unique as the ride itself. As those of you who have received the email
are aware, TH13TEEN is an incredibly sophisticated ride and we have
experienced some minor technical difficulties during testing. What we
have also experienced is some incredibly bad weather over the first few
weeks of the year meaning that an enormous amount of work still has to
be completed in the TH13TEEN ride area as well as Ug Land which is being
rethemed which is why we cannot allow access to the ride area, Ug Land
or indeed Rita.

I understand your disappointment and frustration at the weekend being
cancelled but we have made this incredibly difficult decision because we
could not guarantee the access and the experience that you would expect
from Alton Towers Resort. I also understand some of you are rightly
annoyed at the short notice which has come about because I had hoped
that we would be able to show you some elements if not all - it has
become clear over the last 24 hours that this would not be possible.

Once again, please accept my apologies for the cancellation which is
totally unavoidable as I now hope you will appreciate. We will be back
in touch with those of you who had a reservation for the weekend
regarding 'An evening with John Wardley and TH13TEEN' soon".










seriously not happy with alton towers at this moment

So basically it isn't that special of a ride that was over hyped yet again.... and now its not even open to the few which got invitations...

.... yaaaay....

What do you want them to do? Snap their fingers and BAM its finished? Jesus have some patience people!

*snaps fingers*

*waits*

Damn it....

[gouldy]

As long as it's open for the 21st, they can do what they like. Right, Gaz?

[slosprint]

Man, they sure covered up all of those unicorn deaths well.

^lol, shame about the taster weekend though...

[Mikey]

Guess they fell behind.... or the train can't get up the lift.

Now that would be entertaining to watch... I really hope that the friction wheels don't mean high down time like the loopers at flamingoland...

[gouldy]

Originally posted by Mikey

Guess they fell behind.... or the train can't get up the lift.

nice.