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Stuff at Alton by site area

Matt N

Matt N

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Hi guys. I'm not sure if this warrants its own thread or not, but I recently installed Google Earth Pro on my computer, and I thought it might be fun to see how big the site areas of some of Alton's rides are. So for fun, I decided that using polygons, I would measure the approximate total area that some of the park's rides take up, and I thought I'd share with you guys some of what I found. For reference, these measurements include queue line and/or plaza in some cases.

Let's start with the coasters... (all measurements are to the nearest 100 square metres)
Coasters
  • Spinball Whizzer: approx. 3,300 (including plaza and queue)
  • Octonauts: approx. 1,000 (including plaza and queue)
  • Wicker Man: approx. 10,600 (including plaza and queue)
  • Smiler: approx. 5,800 (including queue)
  • Oblivion: approx. 8,000
  • Rita: approx. 9,000
  • Thirteen: approx. 8,600 (excluding queue, as this wasn't very visible on aerial view)
  • Nemesis: approx. 10,100 (including queue)
  • Galactica: approx. 13,600 (unsure whether queue included or not, but does incorporate some plaza)
  • Runaway Mine Train: approx. 5,100 (including queue and a little bit of plaza)
Now let's see how some of the non-coasters compared...
Non-Coasters
  • Congo River Rapids: approx. 17,600 (including queue and the bulk of Katanga Canyon that's integrated into the middle)
  • Duel: approx. 2,900
  • Battle Galleons: approx. 2,300 (including queue line and some of the water shooter locations)
  • Alton Towers Dungeon: approx. 3,400
  • Gangsta Granny: approx. 1,300 (including outdoor queue line)
I also did a few non-ride area measurements:
Non-Rides
  • Lawns on Towers Street side of lake: approx. 18,400 (including some path)
  • Lake: approx. 14,900
  • Lawns on Towers side of lake: approx. 19,800
  • Towers Ruins: approx. 11,800 (fully enclosed area)
  • Air car park (I thought I'd scope it out given many cite it as a potential development spot): approx. 19,700 (excluding golden path)
  • Stargazing Pods: approx. 18,600
  • Enchanted Village: approx. 32,900
  • Alton Towers Hotel: approx. 8,700 (including garden)
  • Conference Centre: approx. 2,600
  • CBeebies Land Hotel: approx. 2,100
  • Splash Landings Hotel: approx. 13,800 (including waterpark)
  • Extraordinary Golf: approx. 3,800
  • Gardens: approx. 83,400
  • Coaster Corner: approx. 11,100 (although I'm admittedly unsure on CC's scope, so this could be a conservative estimate)
I hope you find this interesting (I know I certainly did...)! Do you guys agree with my measurements? Are you surprised by anything?
 
Matt N said:
Hi guys. I'm not sure if this warrants its own thread or not, but I recently installed Google Earth Pro on my computer, and I thought it might be fun to see how big the site areas of some of Alton's rides are. So for fun, I decided that using polygons, I would measure the approximate total area that some of the park's rides take up, and I thought I'd share with you guys some of what I found. For reference, these measurements include queue line and/or plaza in some cases.

Let's start with the coasters... (all measurements are to the nearest 100 square metres)
Coasters
  • Spinball Whizzer: approx. 3,300 (including plaza and queue)
  • Octonauts: approx. 1,000 (including plaza and queue)
  • Wicker Man: approx. 10,600 (including plaza and queue)
  • Smiler: approx. 5,800 (including queue)
  • Oblivion: approx. 8,000
  • Rita: approx. 9,000
  • Thirteen: approx. 8,600 (excluding queue, as this wasn't very visible on aerial view)
  • Nemesis: approx. 10,100 (including queue)
  • Galactica: approx. 13,600 (unsure whether queue included or not, but does incorporate some plaza)
  • Runaway Mine Train: approx. 5,100 (including queue and a little bit of plaza)
Now let's see how some of the non-coasters compared...
Non-Coasters
  • Congo River Rapids: approx. 17,600 (including queue and the bulk of Katanga Canyon that's integrated into the middle)
  • Duel: approx. 2,900
  • Battle Galleons: approx. 2,300 (including queue line and some of the water shooter locations)
  • Alton Towers Dungeon: approx. 3,400
  • Gangsta Granny: approx. 1,300 (including outdoor queue line)
I also did a few non-ride area measurements:
Non-Rides
  • Lawns on Towers Street side of lake: approx. 18,400 (including some path)
  • Lake: approx. 14,900
  • Lawns on Towers side of lake: approx. 19,800
  • Towers Ruins: approx. 11,800 (fully enclosed area)
  • Air car park (I thought I'd scope it out given many cite it as a potential development spot): approx. 19,700 (excluding golden path)
  • Stargazing Pods: approx. 18,600
  • Enchanted Village: approx. 32,900
  • Alton Towers Hotel: approx. 8,700 (including garden)
  • Conference Centre: approx. 2,600
  • CBeebies Land Hotel: approx. 2,100
  • Splash Landings Hotel: approx. 13,800 (including waterpark)
  • Extraordinary Golf: approx. 3,800
  • Gardens: approx. 83,400
  • Coaster Corner: approx. 11,100 (although I'm admittedly unsure on CC's scope, so this could be a conservative estimate)
I hope you find this interesting (I know I certainly did...)! Do you guys agree with my measurements? Are you surprised by anything?
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Since we were talking about the size of the valley earlier, yeah it is. I'm surprised how small the Air Car Park is actually. I thought it was bigger than that.
 
If nothing else this shows how insanely compact the Smiler is, three times more track than Oblivion in 2/3rds of the space is just insane
 
Matt.GC said:
Since we were talking about the size of the valley earlier, yeah it is. I'm surprised how small the Air Car Park is actually. I thought it was bigger than that.
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It could still fit 2/3 coasters in it so for the long term it's a very good site to use
 
Matt N said:
Hi guys. I'm not sure if this warrants its own thread or not, but I recently installed Google Earth Pro on my computer, and I thought it might be fun to see how big the site areas of some of Alton's rides are. So for fun, I decided that using polygons, I would measure the approximate total area that some of the park's rides take up, and I thought I'd share with you guys some of what I found. For reference, these measurements include queue line and/or plaza in some cases.

Let's start with the coasters... (all measurements are to the nearest 100 square metres)
Coasters
  • Spinball Whizzer: approx. 3,300 (including plaza and queue)
  • Octonauts: approx. 1,000 (including plaza and queue)
  • Wicker Man: approx. 10,600 (including plaza and queue)
  • Smiler: approx. 5,800 (including queue)
  • Oblivion: approx. 8,000
  • Rita: approx. 9,000
  • Thirteen: approx. 8,600 (excluding queue, as this wasn't very visible on aerial view)
  • Nemesis: approx. 10,100 (including queue)
  • Galactica: approx. 13,600 (unsure whether queue included or not, but does incorporate some plaza)
  • Runaway Mine Train: approx. 5,100 (including queue and a little bit of plaza)
Now let's see how some of the non-coasters compared...
Non-Coasters
  • Congo River Rapids: approx. 17,600 (including queue and the bulk of Katanga Canyon that's integrated into the middle)
  • Duel: approx. 2,900
  • Battle Galleons: approx. 2,300 (including queue line and some of the water shooter locations)
  • Alton Towers Dungeon: approx. 3,400
  • Gangsta Granny: approx. 1,300 (including outdoor queue line)
I also did a few non-ride area measurements:
Non-Rides
  • Lawns on Towers Street side of lake: approx. 18,400 (including some path)
  • Lake: approx. 14,900
  • Lawns on Towers side of lake: approx. 19,800
  • Towers Ruins: approx. 11,800 (fully enclosed area)
  • Air car park (I thought I'd scope it out given many cite it as a potential development spot): approx. 19,700 (excluding golden path)
  • Stargazing Pods: approx. 18,600
  • Enchanted Village: approx. 32,900
  • Alton Towers Hotel: approx. 8,700 (including garden)
  • Conference Centre: approx. 2,600
  • CBeebies Land Hotel: approx. 2,100
  • Splash Landings Hotel: approx. 13,800 (including waterpark)
  • Extraordinary Golf: approx. 3,800
  • Gardens: approx. 83,400
  • Coaster Corner: approx. 11,100 (although I'm admittedly unsure on CC's scope, so this could be a conservative estimate)
I hope you find this interesting (I know I certainly did...)! Do you guys agree with my measurements? Are you surprised by anything?
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I remember doing something similar a few years ago comparing Thorpe with Towers. And if I got my scaling right in Google Earth, Thorpe fitted into just the Garden and valley area of Towers! Can you confirm this @Matt N ?
 
@Matt N would it be possible for you to figure out how big the queue lines for the coasters are so a rough estimation could be made of how many people can fit in the queue
 
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