Rides you miss/wish you could have ridden?

[Trooper Looper]

Sub Terra completely passed me by - I moved away from the local area in 2011, and moved back in 2015. The thing was built, opened and had closed again in those few years that I was no longer a regular visitor.

I’d have also liked to have experienced Ice Age and Nickelodeon while they were open - having been inside both since they closed, I can confirm that ‘SBNO’ is a very generous description

BSBNO perhaps? 'Barely standing but not operating'

 

[tech]

BSBNO perhaps? 'Barely standing but not operating'

“Both attractions are now RFP (Raided For Parts)”

 

[Tibble]

I wanted to try Sub Terra, but I hate live actors (like scare mazes) and I believe it had them? So never did it

 

[s_g_k]

Would’ve loved to have ridden The Beast and Thunder Looper. I was only 4 when Thunder Looper was removed and I’d like to say I can remember it being there but I’m probably just remembering photos / conversations about it. I was slightly too short for The Beast when it departed.

 

[blackholes crow]

I would have loved to ride the towers light railway (The loco now residing on the old kiln light railway)

Just a nice peaceful ride from gloomy wood to Katanga canyon
Trains, coasters and beautiful scenery cant think if a better day out

 

[rob666]

To bring down your dream...
The queue was long and slow.
The ride was short and slow.
There were minor changes over time.
My mum decided another cup of tea and a cake in the Swiss Cottage would have been better, I should have had another long queue for the Corkscrew.
You really didn't miss much, there are probably a hundred better mini railways in this country alone.

 

[blackholes crow]

Nothing can bring a dream down when it involves trains in my eyes

 

[Blackhole_Sun]

Black Hole...second ride I ever went on (RMT my first) and one that left a major impression on me and a love of indoor coasters, Towers needs one for the the pure uniqueness of one. Still regret passing up on a trip to go in 2004 to Towers then though I was fortunate to get a ride on Corky in her final season...also I'd love to ride the original HH as my own memories of it are sadly quite foggy.

Ride I'd wish I'd had ridden would be Thunder Looper, from all the photos and footage I've seen of that beast it certainly was quite something to behold.

Speaking of Black Hole, I'd love to see footage of the queueline for wasn't there a robot that interacted with guests briefly before being removed or am I mistaken?

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I doubt there is any footage around. It pre-dates me.

 

[Ripsaw97]

I think if there is one ride I would have loved to experience would have to have been Energizer back in 95' , From the few videos I've seen of what it could do it looked like quite the forceful ride.

 

[s_g_k]

I think if there is one ride I would have loved to experience would have to have been Energizer back in 95' , From the few videos I've seen of what it could do it looked like quite the forceful ride.

I bloody loved Energizer. I was too young to ride it when it was in Festival Park but when it relocated to X Sector for the 1998 season, I got to ride it and it quickly became my favourite flat. It then got moved to Ug Land back to its original position but it was run on a tamer cycle.

Apparently they could invert, but towers didn’t want that so never ran it on settings that made the gondola invert!

 

[Bowser]

I must have ridden Energiser as we went every year in that period and i was a teenager but have absolutely no recollection of even seeing it. Probably too busy going on Nemesis repeatedly.

 

[WillPS]

Apparently they could invert, but towers didn’t want that so never ran it on settings that made the gondola invert!

Supernovas aren't supposed to invert.

The story that goes around was that a member of staff managed to get it to do it once during its time in X-Sector, fiddling around with it on manual and without guests, and it was majorly wounded as a result. Whether there's any truth in that I don't know, I have seen reports that it ran only on the very tame cycles towards the end of its time in X-Sector but again, it's just anecdotal.

 

[Poisson]

I believe they ate gearboxes, plus relocations, made it very fragile. Think about how Ripsaw was limped most of the time towards the end.

 

[Blackhole_Sun]

Supernovas aren't supposed to invert.

The story that goes around was that a member of staff managed to get it to do it once during its time in X-Sector, fiddling around with it on manual and without guests, and it was majorly wounded as a result. Whether there's any truth in that I don't know, I have seen reports that it ran only on the very tame cycles towards the end of its time in X-Sector but again, it's just anecdotal.

Never really felt the same once it left festival park. Was tamer in X Sector and Bone Shaker was a shadow of the previous incarnation but had fantastic theming. Still my favourite flat ride Alton have ever had and I loved Ripsaw.

No chance they were meant to invert though.

 

[Zeock]

I will add Shockwave in its original form to this topic, since I was too small to ride it when I went to Drayton.

 

[GooseOnTheLoose]

I will add Shockwave in its original form to this topic, since I was too small to ride it when I went to Drayton.

A stand-up job of a coaster if ever I've ridden one...

 

[cookiee_munster]

I'd probably say Doom & Sons or ThunderLooper

EDIT - I never got to ride the beast, but wasn't that just a version of the black hole without a tent?

 

[jesterrace989]

I would've liked to have rode Toyland Tours. Apart from the Sonic themed bit which imo became dated quite quickly even for it's time, it looked very joyful and vibrant and just fun. I still miss the Flume. The meandering through the trees and the scary duck in the tunnel made it very memorable

 

[Bowser]

I'd probably say Doom & Sons or ThunderLooper

I had the "pleasure" of riding both of these! ThunderLooper seemed absolutely terrifying at the time, particularly because i'm sure it only had lap bar restraints which seems crazy in retrospect. A valuable life lesson in when you're told to hold on you should definitely do it.

 

[cookiee_munster]

I had the "pleasure" of riding both of these! ThunderLooper seemed absolutely terrifying at the time, particularly because i'm sure it only had lap bar restraints which seems crazy in retrospect. A valuable life lesson in when you're told to hold on you should definitely do it.

What did you think of Doom & Sons?