Alton Towers 2018 - Wicker Man: GCI Wooden [mild spoilers]

Dirk_Ermen wrote:

As expected, it looks like a genuinely fun ride as all the GCI's are. Nothing over the top thrilling, but definitely fun!

Anyone who was planning to go this weekend? As I heard it's currently closed due the cold temperatures.

The park was open, but with very limited rides.

[herman116]

So I think many people still have a negative opinion about Alton Towers after the Smiler crash and then they build a new wooden coaster with fire and a pre-show in which they say out loud that their objective is to kill the people riding this coaster...

Wickerman soft-opened this afternoon!

skyscraper wrote:

Wickerman soft-opened this afternoon!

120 Min. wait... No thank you. I'll ride Smiler or Nemesis instead with no wait

[mkingy]

RCT3andNL2stuff wrote:

skyscraper wrote:

Wickerman soft-opened this afternoon!

120 Min. wait... No thank you. I'll ride Smiler or Nemesis instead with no wait

Well yeah after you've ridden wickerman though right? Makes no sense to go and not bother with the new thing they built.

Remeber that the queue for the Smiler got to over 3 hours long when it first opened.

[gouldy]

I had my fears about Alton Towers building a woodie confirmed to me today by a co-worker.

I said about going to Alton Towers this weekend to ride the new coaster, and his reaction was:
"Oh yeah, I saw about that. It's wooden isn't it? Like old roller coasters? To be honest, I can't believe that after all their problems they'd build an old fashioned roller coaster. They can't build their modern ones safe, so I definitely wouldn't trust going on that one!!"

Everything that I fear about the British general public's opinion on wooden roller coasters, packed into one horrible word vomit. These are the people that Merlin build for.

^ It baffles me they can't even accept the "wooden" structures! The shock itself!

gouldy wrote:

I had my fears about Alton Towers building a woodie confirmed to me today by a co-worker.

I said about going to Alton Towers this weekend to ride the new coaster, and his reaction was:
"Oh yeah, I saw about that. It's wooden isn't it? Like old roller coasters? To be honest, I can't believe that after all their problems they'd build an old fashioned roller coaster. They can't build their modern ones safe, so I definitely wouldn't trust going on that one!!"

Everything that I fear about the British general public's opinion on wooden roller coasters, packed into one horrible word vomit. These are the people that Merlin build for.

"Let's add a monstrous spectacle of fire effects to this pile of wood too! That'll really settle the public down."

First post in a while so here it goes,
I was one of the lucky few to be at the media night on Friday and I told the designer and the park my honest opinion that its a solid ride but im not blown away by it. got some good forces in it and the wicker man is impressive however the story and theme seem to be abit lacking and standard. merlin has put a lot of theming in place for a pretty mediocre story line which could of been so much more entertaining than "you are going to be sacrificed to a god" Smiler's story was so much more involved and much more interesting.

The Public UK vision of a ride is so diverse which is really putting off some theme parks on building new roller coasters of any type especially wooden or hybrid coasters (for the love of god someone build a RMC in the UK). Icon will be the most popular this year due to it being a "technically advanced modern roller coaster" and if all runs smooth as with Mack rides it will can potentially see the death of building more woodies in the Uk.

I will be at transworld from tomorrow till Sunday so if anyone is in St. Louis or at the show look me up. I will be around wearing my immersive events hoodie

Alright, so a wooden roller coaster, which most Alton Towers GP frequenters are already uneasy about, with a giant fiery display, and the theme is "sacrificing riders to a god." I'm dying Not exactly catering to the public's sensitivity after Smiler.

[Innovtech]

Wicker Man was running all day today. A lot of stopping and starting throughout the day but we still got a good 6 rides in.

It is truly, truly gorgeous. Alton Towers has a way of making the basic look remarkable.

[mkingy]

Visually it is a fantastic coaster and theme. The Wickerman is surprisingly imposing in real life.

[Innovtech]

It does look great, the theming is fantastic & I think overall it's good solid ride with decent pacing..........but was a little bit of decent airtime too much to ask for?

I think Joris en de Draak at Efteling is very comparable and thats got a couple of good bits of airtime, so why couldn't Wicker Man have some?

[Dirk_Ermen]

I wouldn't be surprised when the ride properly breaks in, that it will have some small pops of floater airtime. Probably at some of the transitions. Give it about half a year. Was the same for Wodan, went from: "Meh..." at the start of the season to: "OMG, What happened to this ride in those few months?!"

360 POV!

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360 POV!

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Sorry for the double post, but I rode Wicker Man yesterday!
What an incredible coaster!

[Coasterkidmwm]

Glad you had fun. Nice to finally see a POV that isn't interrupted by people giving the camera a thumbs up

Will look even better in a couple of years when the trees they planted fill up the area. Should make it feel faster too