Alternative ride names

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According to the bizarre and convoluted unwritten rules of TTF meet ups, rides are not referred to by their real names wherever possible, either because people can't be bothered saying the full name, or to mock an unpopular ride.

A list of common alternative names is shown below, names that are strictly abbreviations are not included:


Alton Towers:


Thorpe Park:

  • Colossus - Colossucks, Lolossus, For-the-lossus
  • Nemesis Inferno - Nemesis Inferior, Nymphferior
  • Vortex - Bore-tex
  • Rumba Rapids - Brapids, Drybina Slumba Cr*pids
  • X:\ No Way Out - X:\WTF
  • SAW: The Ride - Snore: The Ride, SORE: The Ride
  • Rush - Thrush
  • Samurai - Scamurai, Shamurai
  • Slammer - Schwammer, Schwammy Wammy, Clamper


Chessington World of Adventures:

  • Rameses Revenge - Rammy, Rippy Ripoff, RAMMEH-WHAMMEH
  • Bubbleworks - Troubleworks, BUBBLEH-WUBBLEH
  • Vampire - CAMPire, CAMPEH-VAMPEH
  • Dragon Falls - Rascist Falls
  • Tomb Blaster - SHOOTEH-WOOTEH-BLASTEH-WASTEH
  • Rattlesnake - SNAKEH-WAKEH


Pleasure Beach Blackpool:

  • Infusion - Intrusion, Traumafusion, Confusion
  • Valhalla - Valerie
  • Steeplechase - Sleep-lechase
  • Grand National - The Nash
  • River Caves - Racist Caves
  • Rollercoaster - Rola-Cola


Drayton Manor:

  • Apocalypse - Poccy
  • Splash Canyon - Syphilis Canyon
  • G-force - G-farce


Legoland

  • Viking River Rapids - Ghetto Splash


Disneyland

  • Space Mountain - Sparse Mountain, Brace Mountain

Lightwater Valley - Shitewater Valley


Noob Names

In addition to above, there are a number of common mistakes made by theme park noobs regarding ride names. Some of the more frequent include:

  • Sonic Spinball - Pinball Wizzard
  • Squirrel Nutty - Squirrel Nutkin
  • [ride name] - The [ride name] *exception to this being anyone saying "The Blade", which is just uber-cool.
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