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Alton Towers Lost Media
Jimbolimboboy
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This article is probably the most detailed report of Hex, with in depth sections relating to the concept, design, Hex V1 and unused concepts.
https://darkridedatabase.com/alton-towers-hex-special-feature/
Interesting to note that the attraction went by the name of The Curse at Alton Towers during its development!
https://darkridedatabase.com/alton-towers-hex-special-feature/
Interesting to note that the attraction went by the name of The Curse at Alton Towers during its development!
Secret Weapon
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There are two pieces of lost media that I have been trying to find:-
1) There was an old semi-factual* children's show in the mid-1990s on CITV (I can't remember the name, unfortunately) about two spoiled teenagers / young-adults (a brother and a sister, I think), and I seem to remember that one of the episodes at least partially took place at Alton Towers; the reason why I wanted to re-watch it is that I seem to recall that one of the siblings went on the ride itself (Nemesis), whilst the other one sat in the control room with the operator and "made the ride go faster" whilst it was in progress (with subsequent footage of the rider's face).
For years, this single segment made me (falsely) believe that rollercoasters were powered and that their speed could be adjusted, and I'm surprised / disappointed that a semi-educational children's show was allowed to mislead its viewers in this way.
(*As I recall, the siblings were in character, but the guests who they interacted with were not)
The only other segment from the show that I remember was when they discovered that the richest man in the world was the Sultan of Brunei (this was before Bill Gates overtook him after the launch of Windows 95).
2) Everybody on the TowersStreet forum seems to disagree with me about this, but I seem to recall that Nemesis had a 1.2m height restriction when it first launched in 1994 (but everybody else says that it was always 1.4m); I have been trying to find definitive evidence of the height restriction in 1994, but I have been struggling as it doesn't appear to be written on any of the park maps that I can find, and the TV advert just says that height restrictions apply, without mentioning the specific figure.
The closest that I came was some 1994 camcorder footage on YouTube of the board by the entrance, but - unfortunately - it does not display the height requirement
(I'm not sure if it just out of shot, or whether the board never contained this information)
I'm not 100% sure how reliable a TV advert would be anyway, as I also recall that the early 1994 TV adverts for Shockwave at Drayton Manor said "1.2m", whilst adverts later in the year said "1.4m"; I'm not sure if this was because the height restriction was indeed 1.2m at the launch, or whether the early adverts were simply incorrect (in contrast to Nemesis, I only ever remember Shockwave being listed as 1.4m within the park itself - although I didn't visit until July / August 1994).
I visited both Drayton Manor and Alton Towers in 1994, and - as I recall - I was just about tall enough to ride Nemesis (staff checked my height several times whilst I queued), but not quite tall enough to ride Shockwave a few weeks later, which is why I remember Nemesis having a lower height requirement at the time.
1) There was an old semi-factual* children's show in the mid-1990s on CITV (I can't remember the name, unfortunately) about two spoiled teenagers / young-adults (a brother and a sister, I think), and I seem to remember that one of the episodes at least partially took place at Alton Towers; the reason why I wanted to re-watch it is that I seem to recall that one of the siblings went on the ride itself (Nemesis), whilst the other one sat in the control room with the operator and "made the ride go faster" whilst it was in progress (with subsequent footage of the rider's face).
For years, this single segment made me (falsely) believe that rollercoasters were powered and that their speed could be adjusted, and I'm surprised / disappointed that a semi-educational children's show was allowed to mislead its viewers in this way.
(*As I recall, the siblings were in character, but the guests who they interacted with were not)
The only other segment from the show that I remember was when they discovered that the richest man in the world was the Sultan of Brunei (this was before Bill Gates overtook him after the launch of Windows 95).
2) Everybody on the TowersStreet forum seems to disagree with me about this, but I seem to recall that Nemesis had a 1.2m height restriction when it first launched in 1994 (but everybody else says that it was always 1.4m); I have been trying to find definitive evidence of the height restriction in 1994, but I have been struggling as it doesn't appear to be written on any of the park maps that I can find, and the TV advert just says that height restrictions apply, without mentioning the specific figure.
The closest that I came was some 1994 camcorder footage on YouTube of the board by the entrance, but - unfortunately - it does not display the height requirement
(I'm not sure if it just out of shot, or whether the board never contained this information)I'm not 100% sure how reliable a TV advert would be anyway, as I also recall that the early 1994 TV adverts for Shockwave at Drayton Manor said "1.2m", whilst adverts later in the year said "1.4m"; I'm not sure if this was because the height restriction was indeed 1.2m at the launch, or whether the early adverts were simply incorrect (in contrast to Nemesis, I only ever remember Shockwave being listed as 1.4m within the park itself - although I didn't visit until July / August 1994).
I visited both Drayton Manor and Alton Towers in 1994, and - as I recall - I was just about tall enough to ride Nemesis (staff checked my height several times whilst I queued), but not quite tall enough to ride Shockwave a few weeks later, which is why I remember Nemesis having a lower height requirement at the time.
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