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Was an X-Car ever planned for AT?

LordOfDarkness

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Just looking through the footage that TheThemeParkCentral uploaded of their trip through the AT Archive and at 1:45 You can see a 'Mood/Concept Board' which features an X Car on...

Here is the picture:

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This is the Video I found it in!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb3FvpH3aCQ[/youtube]
 
I believe there was one planned as a possible use for the Black Hole tent. It would have featured a launch along upside down track!
 
When we visited the archives in November there was some mood boards for an X-Car, there where no theme mood boards or plans that we saw though for an x-car so i'm not sure how advanced any x-car plan came along.

There was also mood boards for a woody, a vertical launch coaster as well as stuff for what became Th13teen.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
I believe there was one planned as a possible use for the Black Hole tent. It would have featured a launch along upside down track!
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I think it was a staff member (current or ex) who leaked the plans for the BH X Car onto TTF. They only lasted a few days before they were taken down though unfortunately.

It looked absolutely incredible though, so obscene.
 
I believe the X Car was one of the coasters considered during the Dark Forest development period (before they'd even settled on the redevelopment of Ug Land as the project area).
 
DiogoJ42 said:
I'll bet that if Towers had built it, all the hate for X-Cars would vanish overnight.
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I seem to remember that was exactly what happened when SW7 was believed to be an X-Car.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
I'll bet that if Towers had built it, all the hate for X-Cars would vanish overnight.
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Or it would have been the worst thing Towers had ever built... Upside down launch just sounds painful and wrong...
 
Sad thing about watching those videos is it would be a great excuse to restore some of the Towers and put all of that in there for public viewing instead of it just sat wasted in a store room.

The towers could for me become partly a reflection of itself and be restored to contain a museum to Alton Towers. Containing old ride cars, videos, boards, advertising all sorts.
 
Dave said:
When we visited the archives in November there was some mood boards for an X-Car, there where no theme mood boards or plans that we saw though for an x-car so i'm not sure how advanced any x-car plan came along.

There was also mood boards for a woody, a vertical launch coaster as well as stuff for what became Th13teen.
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Can anyone visit the archives? Where are they ?
 
Jb85 said:
Can anyone visit the archives? Where are they ?
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I'm afraid not, we (TT at the time) were invited to visit them back in 2011. The archives were in the Towers however I have no idea if they are still there or if they are looked after.

:)
 
Rob said:
I'm afraid not, we (TT at the time) were invited to visit them back in 2011. The archives were in the Towers however I have no idea if they are still there or if they are looked after.

:)
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Shame would be a brilliant pay extra attraction for enthusiasts
 
An enthusiast of some sort stole several collections of photographs from the archive room and sold it on ebay 4 ish years ago and since then nobody's allowed in, and no one is employed to look after it anymore anyway. A shame that its not kept in a good way really.
 
I'd love to go back, we came across the original Nemesis plans right as we were about to leave so couldn't have a proper look!

:)
 
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