2025: General Discussion

[Mattie boy]

Rita has reopend this morning

Source, Towers Street Facebook.

Let's hope it can stay open

 

[Hid]

Rita has reopend this morning

Source, Towers Street Facebook.

Let's hope it can stay open

Good to have it back means full ride lineup is back no SBNO rides

 

[Mattie boy]

Good to have it back means full ride lineup is back no SBNO rides

Gangster granny has been off a couple of days now I understand

 

[AT86]

A fantabulous piece of Alton Towers organisation here.

Posted this morning:



By the afternoon:

 

[AltonLover123]

A fantabulous piece of Alton Towers organisation here.

Posted this morning:



By the afternoon:

Yeah, because they posted that knowing it would have to close…

 

[Hid]

A fantabulous piece of Alton Towers organisation here.

Posted this morning:



By the afternoon:

Not be shut after a safety inspection like incorrectly stored food or unhygienic tops has it?

 

[Mick]

It was closed on my last visit there a few weeks ago too.

It sort of sums up Towers that they gave Gloomy Wood a new lease of life with The Curse, the new food options and the live actors, all of which were very popular, and fast forward a couple of years and the ride remains but the area feels as lifeless as it did in the days of Duel.

 

[AT86]

Not be shut after a safety inspection like incorrectly stored food or unhygienic tops has it?

That’s a very specific thought process. What makes you think that’s the reason?

 

[Hid]

That’s a very specific thought process. What makes you think that’s the reason?

Inspections can close places if not up to code.

 

[NuttySquirrel]

Inspections can close places if not up to code.

What evidence do you have that that is the case here? As opposed to a far more likely scenario involving staff shortages or a supply issue.

Let's not jump to wild conclusions here.

 

[AT86]

Inspections can close places if not up to code.

I am aware of that. But this is one of potentially a hundred reasons why that outlet is closed.

So I was asking why you jumped to this particular reason.

 

[DiogoJ42]

I don't care what the hygiene rating is, my entire bowel twitched in horror just seeing one of those black ice creams again.

 

[VerticalLoop123]

Speaking of Gloomy Wood spotted this sign today, obviously not taken down since Scarefest last year! Did make me giggle.

 

[Jb85]

It was closed on my last visit there a few weeks ago too.

It sort of sums up Towers that they gave Gloomy Wood a new lease of life with The Curse, the new food options and the live actors, all of which were very popular, and fast forward a couple of years and the ride remains but the area feels as lifeless as it did in the days of Duel.

To be a one ride area that ride would have to be stand out in any park to keep the area busy

Whilst Curse is in my opinion a great ride I can’t help but feel it needs some support

A flat or a coaster (broomstick coaster comeback - and yes I know it was fake!

But something ….. otherwise i think we’re already at the beginning of the end for Curse and Gloomy Wood

 

[DiogoJ42]

I'd love to see some kind of flat ride in Gloomy Wood, but where could it go? The area really is just a path between KC and FV. Where the loos / Compound are? It would be very hidden if so.

 

[flyingguitar]

I'd love to see some kind of flat ride in Gloomy Wood, but where could it go? The area really is just a path between KC and FV. Where the loos / Compound are? It would be very hidden if so.

I could see something going next to curse (where the gates are, across the queue) however currently it is just the massive curse warehouse so a lot of theming (which will probably be quite difficult due to the size of the building) I could see an indoor ride (although may impact fire exits) such as a mack rides shooting theatre, etc although a lot would have to change (queue, outdoor theming, etc)

 

[DiogoJ42]

I'd be very surprised if they built a new shooty ride after just removing the guns from their last one.

 

[Poisson]

There is a protected wall and I think the trees are protected on the opposite side of Gloomy Wood to Curse. I can't see much going in.

 

[MaxPower]

It would have to go directly adjacent to the curse warehouse or the toilets if they were to install a flat ride of some kind, not that I think they will.

Plenty of other empty plots of land to be utilised first.

 

[AltonLover123]

An Intamin dynamic motion stage would work wonderfully in Gloomy Wood. There’s just no where to put it (unless the Monorail disappears and they have space to expand Gloomy Wood into its depot space)