Rides You Never Rode (but wish you had)

What rides and attractions do you miss? Share your memories of Alton Towers' extensive past here.
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Ritadz
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Lots, but a select few include:

The Haunted House (pre duel)
Thunder Looper
The Beast
Doom and Sons
The Park Railway
The Alpine Bobsleds
The 4 Man Bob

And i could have ridden both Toyland Tours and The Black Hole, but damn 10 year old me wanted to go to Flamingoland and The Bullet, which i must have gone on 100 times that season.
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I can actually say now that I have been on everything...except the Berry Bish Bash which I really really want to have a go in!

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I never got to go on Corkscrew sadly :/
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Thunder Looper. I was too tiny to ride it, then didn't have the bottle. And the year I had the bottle to ride it, it was gone. So long Thunder Looper.
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The black hole
Corkscrew
The haunted house
Thunder looper :(
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Around the world in 80 days I seen videos on you tube and it looks so much better than toyland tours was and now Charlie.
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I wish I had ridden submission.
Before I first went to towers my freind told me how awsome submission was. I had to ride it. I went to towers, headed straight for the x-sector. But it was gone :cry:
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Aw yeah I never rode submission either :(
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by far thunderlooper and haunted house
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This is just my point of view here, but all you missed by not going on Submission was having your thighs destroyed and blood all rushing into your head. Nothing more. I'm really not sorry to see it go.
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Around the world in 80 days :(
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Thunder loop, Corkscrew and black hole. Wish they would have an area dedicated to old rides, maybe re-build them :lol
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I hate to think of the maintenance costs of that area.
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I kinda wish I'd been on Submission. I know it was really painful, but it was an Alton Towers Flat, which is a rarity nowadays.

Also Corkscrew.
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Thunderlooper.

The first time I visited and was tall enough I chickened out, but by the time of my next visit it was gone :(
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What's really amusing for me when I read the posts in here,is that I have ridden all the rides that are mentioned :lol
Showing my age now aren't i ;)
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Definitely the corkscrew...
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I'd have really liked to do the Alton mini-railway actually. I think the route through Haunted Hollow is really nice and I'm always looking for evidence that is no longer there aha, apart from the tunnels that have been converted. There's something quite beautiful and sad about a closed railway, even if it became redundant with the monorail and skyride.
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Submission
Corkscrew
Dynamo
Energizer
Black Hole
1001 Nights
Toyland Tours
4 Man Bob
Alton Beast
Alton Mouse

(Yeah, there's a lot :yikes:)
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