Alton Towers: What Ever Happened to...?
- Alton Towerss
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Do you have the 2001 Alton Towers Monorail video?
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I was given a tour around some staff areas, and yes, the Daisy Train is in ruin behind Duel. It's in a bad state and it doesn't look like we'll ever be seeing it in operation again.Tom-TT wrote:I will check my photos to be sure, but I'm pretty sure that this is the one now sitting in the maintenance storage area behind Duel. Presumably it's been used for spare parts for the rest of the fleet.
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Is this the one?Muppet738 wrote:Does anyone have the music from ugland after waiting for corkscrew it would be stuck in you head for the rest of the day
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I was on park yesterday and the cow monorail train has made a reappearance, saw it a few times throughout the day and went on it at the end of the day. It's certainly the same one as I compared it to a video from 2008Tom-TT wrote:I will check my photos to be sure, but I'm pretty sure that this is the one now sitting in the maintenance storage area behind Duel. Presumably it's been used for spare parts for the rest of the fleet.
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Yeah, I believe that's the one. I was meant to check last night but didn't get around to it. Will be back on Thursday so will check then.NemesisNosh wrote:I would have assumed that by 'the daisy monorail' he would have been referring to this one
(only photo i could find of it)
I haven't seen this one for a long time
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This is a photo I took the other week. You can also see the flume cars!Delta79 wrote:If you go to the toilets on the path between duel and FV and look over the fence you will see the daisy themed train on the floor with some doors open and one of the driver cab windows missing.
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- Tom_Colling1
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The daisy monorail died:(, when the techies were getting it out onto the system they hadn't put the transfer track back up fully and it crashed into it wrecking the bottom of the monorail. Now they use the daisy one for spares for the other ones.
- ThatGalacticaFan02
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Air ride signs, anybody know their fate?
Probably behind some fence somewhere *cough* tucked away in the scrap lot *cough*
Probably behind some fence somewhere *cough* tucked away in the scrap lot *cough*
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Back before the park was owned by merlin there was a different halloween event unfortunately as I was very young I cant remember the name of it however I remember attending sometime between 2003-2005 and there being a show infront of the towers across the lake infront of a screen playing a hex style story, I distinctly remember a line about cursing one side of the audience and the finale being a firework display.
Can anyone else remember this?
Can anyone else remember this?
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Does anyone have the gif of this Ug Land advert? I had it on my old phone but I didn't transfer anything onto my new phone
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Thank you!lewis97 wrote:Ta da!KatangaZebra wrote:Does anyone have the gif of this Ug Land advert? I had it on my old phone but I didn't transfer anything onto my new phone
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It was something to do with the environment.
Although on a recent Facebook post, TowersLovingCare have said they would like to make it red again in the future!
Although on a recent Facebook post, TowersLovingCare have said they would like to make it red again in the future!
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- S.J_O'Grady
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I think I heard something about it flooding into streams in the village and turning all of Alton's water red :lol It would be great to see it back though.
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Where was Thunder Looper actually sold to? The same ride's at Knotts, don't know if it's physically the same ride though?
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Thunderlooper has changed hands several times. Indeed, Towers were the third park to have it.
It now resides as Katapul at Hopi Hari, Brazil. Montezooma's Revenge at Knott's is the same model, but not the exact same coaster.
It now resides as Katapul at Hopi Hari, Brazil. Montezooma's Revenge at Knott's is the same model, but not the exact same coaster.
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