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Best closed ride poll

Best closed ride

  • Thunder Looper

    Votes: 5 13.5%
  • Black Hole

    Votes: 9 24.3%
  • Submission

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Rip Saw

    Votes: 5 13.5%
  • Boneshaker / Energizer

    Votes: 2 5.4%
  • Original Haunted House

    Votes: 8 21.6%
  • Dynamo

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 1001 Nights

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Toyland Tours

    Votes: 4 10.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 4 10.8%

  • Total voters
    37
Imagine missing Corkscrew off this list. Although it was rough as anything.

I'll vote for Ripsaw. I also rode Toyland Tours, Haunted House, Bone Shaker and Black Hole but my memories of those are hazy as I was quite young. Ripsaw was great fun and a very different ride experience to most of the others at Towers.

Submission was awful.
 
I only visited in 2009 for the first time so the only rides i can think of that have been removed since then which i went on are Submission, Ripsaw, Sub Terra, CATCF, Twirling Toadstool and The Flume - to rank (in my opinion) I'd say:
1. Sub Terra
2. The Flume
3. Ripsaw
4. Twirling Toadstool
5. Submission
6. CATCF
 
Black Hole for me, a true classic.

Don't quite get the Ripsaw hype, the ride was pretty dull for s top spin. The sequences on Rameses Revenge were much better.
 
You missed Blackpool Mouse off the list or is that still a sore subject for some
I think it’s because it’s only Alton Towers rides we’re talking about here. I’m sure the Mouse would top a fair amount of the lists in here if we were talking more widely!

Controversially, my favourite closed Alton Towers ride, of the ones I’ve done, is actually Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! I always found it so magical, and even in its final years, it was something I really enjoyed riding! I hope that some day, a family dark ride of the same vein replaces it!
 
Following on from Heidi's post, lets have a poll of the popular closed/refurbished rides.
I feel special.

Voted Ripsaw because that and Submission are unfortunately the only ones I've actually been lucky enough to go on. I really miss the both of them. I only got to ride Submission once before it closed and it was one of the first (if not the first) "bigger" rides I ever went on since I'm pretty sure it had a lower height requirement. It gets a lot of flack on here but because of that I have a very fond memory of it! (Especially since I didn't find it nearly as scary as my sister who rode it with me and is 9 years older than me:cool:). Plus we always talk about the lack of flats. RIP Submission
 
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