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New Flat Rides At Alton?

a shot 'n' drop tower (like Ice Blast at BPB and Cliffhanger at FL) would fit that criteria -, they don't take long to load/unload, have a short ride cycle and pack a punch- but AT wouldn't be able to get one unless it was partly in a hole in the ground, due to the height restrictions (hence why Nemesis was built in a pit).
Yeah a Shot and drop would be theoretically perfect. (If only the council would change the planning rules, maybe that's AT why that have given up on Flats as it's to hard to have small footprint but large and intense rides).
Sticking with the pit theme they could have it where you start of in the pit (underground bunker maybe ?)and the ground shaking as the Nemesis creature moves is enough to propel you from the underground pit into the sky. But the digging pit defeats the idea of the flat ride being a cheap and easy addition to the park.
 
it's really hard to think of flat rides that have a small footprint, aren't too tall, have a short ride cycle and are intense. maybe a company could design a new flat ride type specifically for AT, using the above criteria?
 
Yeah it would be neat if such a project was commissioned. The costs of pioneering a new flat ride concept may be off-putting however.

On another note a Simulation Flat like Star tours. Would be cool, forgive me if I am wrong but the UK has no sim rides to the standard of ST (lots of mobile plane like ones but no big fixed ones) so it would be a draw.
 
Yeah it would be neat if such a project was commissioned. The costs of pioneering a new flat ride concept may be off-putting however.

On another note a Simulation Flat like Star tours. Would be cool, forgive me if I am wrong but the UK has no sim rides to the standard of ST (lots of mobile plane like ones but no big fixed ones) so it would be a draw.
yeah, i don't think there's one like ST in the UK yet, but an attraction like that would take up a lot of space, though.
 
Another Sky Swat by S&S Power would be cool (aka The Slammer).
Location: X Sector
Theme: Sanctuary Correctional Machine
Name: The Whirligiggler
 
KMG Afterburner with as many lights on as possible
Dark Forest
Battle between the Dark and Light of the dark forest.
The Illuminator
 
Ride - Huss breakdance (or something else, I've given up serching manufacturers websites)
Area - Dark forest
Theme - a machine designed to tear trees out of the dark forest to banish the evil power of the curse... forever*
Name - chainsaw

Come on, at least towers could claim that felling trees adds to the theming of dark 'forrest'.

*I think we can all agree that DF would have made much more sense if it was based around the legend of hex, the storyline isn't far off as it is.
 
Ride type - Same as Jukebox at Liseberg
Area - Dark Forest
Theme - Forest taking over - maybe carry on from Rita's theme with cars, I would say theme the area the same foresty theme, but the story as a race track taken over by the forest seeing as Rita is already that way.. Trunk in the middle, Branches to the cars and then the cars in Dark Green, Black and dark grey with a rustic tint, and vines wrapped around it.

Not too tall, quite compact, very fun and would actually fit in.

can't think of a name though, I'm stumped :p
 
Liseberg's Jukebox is the Gerstlauer Polyp mentioned by Burbs on the first page. That makes at least three of us that want one in Dark Forest! It's a fantastic machine that would suit Towers down to the ground; bags of fun, suitable for families, uses a fraction of the staff required for something like Sub-Terra, and pretty high capacity even with a decent length cycle. I've been jokingly banging on about the idea on TS meets for ages, referring to it as 'Vine Twist', which isn't particularly original, but would be somewhat to the point if it had the whirling, writhing sentient vegetation theme I'd be rooting for (pun intended) yet slightly creeped out by if it came to fruition.

The only problem I see with this type of ride is that it's basically the current generation of a polyp/monster/octopus family that stretches back into a few decades of ride history. Towers had at least one similar ride back in the '80s, so Marketing might well just think it's old hat and too difficult to sell as something fancy. The answer is the same as it should be for new coasters! Tell them to take a running jump and add simple but superb rides, trade on the fact that Alton Towers is still a household name and just say something new is opening, then let intrigued guests give it a try and go home to tell people how good it is. The park might not be like people tell me it was in the '90s any more, but I still maintain that it should be a lot easier to sell than Merlin-style marketing somehow manages to make it.
 
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