Title copied (nearly) from Neal's facebook status 
Alton Towers times
I woke up at 06:15 along with Peter, half an hour later than anticipated. Thankfully we were both ready for 06:40, which allowed me to wake up Ciall for his 5 minutes to get ready. We then set off for Derby to pick up Neal, arrived in Derby stupidly early, leading to a half an hour wait for Neal. Eventually he arrived and by 08:45 we were on our way from Derby to Alton. Little Rot and Peter got us to Alton by about 09:15, which included an epic little road.
On arrival, it was raining quite heavily and we also noticed how empty the car park was. We took the strawberry monorail to the entrance and again it looked rather quiet. Fun times appeared to be ahead. Ciall was moaning (how unusual :roll about needing the toilet, so we stopped and had toilet talking times. We then walked outside into the rain and queued up. Wet queue times happened, made better with Neal's blue balloon that lasted a few seconds before I lost it
We were let into the park; probably about 20 minutes early, which meant we could walk up to Nemesis before opening. So naturally we walked towards Rita because we thought it would have the biggest queue throughout the day. Waited under the tyre for opening, due to excessive rain and at 10:00 we were finally walking down the queue. All 4 of us decided to do front row. Me and Peter went up first, followed by Neal and Ciall. It was fair to say we got quite wet on Rita, so we wandered off to something dry: Hex. Walked straight on, it was fairly boring: however, at least it was nice, dry and got for conversations.
After Hex we made our way to Burger King. We all got some chips except Neal, who stole a few of mine and Peter's chips. After finishing the chips, we exited BK, into a dry Alton Towers with a rather large amount of ketchup and some cream (which ended up all over the floor ) Ciall then told us his love for Charlie, so we were forced on that, walk-on again and as rubbish as usual.
Then we moved down slowly to Oblivion, doing it twice (both walk on) and both good fun. After Oblivion, we stopped off at the information building, so Ciall, Peter and myself could buy the maze tickets for later. Single rider Spinball times were now to be had, Ciall walked straight on, and we were all off in about 5 minutes. While we were in the area, I decided we would be doing Beastie. The others reluctantly agreed to join me, I got back row and had an enjoyable ride.
A leisurely stroll to Mutiny Bay via some random scarecrow benches in Towers street was to be had. The Flume was next, I decided to sit out, as I was drying out and did not want to become wetter than I was already. Well the walked straight on and I walked with them as far as I could down the exit path, then they disappeared up the lift hill and down the drop. A rather long pause of boat movement then happened. And the next thing I know is people are being evacuated from the ride. After a while, Neal, Peter and Ciall walk off with some priority passes, and I find out a tree fell on the track/water/whatever.
Haunted Hollow walking times were next. We went to Will's sex noise grave and used some of the priority passes on Duel: Live. Walked on, and found it rather boring actually, I prefer it normally. We then walked up to Forbidden Valley. We queued up together first, waited about 5 minutes and then went into the front row queue, waited about 5 trains worth of people and then got on. Was fun. So we then did single rider another 4 times. Though on my 5th ride on Nemmie, the other 3 were already off and decided to walk off to Air without telling me:evil: Fortunately I saw them passing under Air while I was on the brake run, so after the train stacked for a while and finally made it to the station and let us off, I ran towards Air and saw them walking into the single rider entrance. I ended up right behind them luckily, so that plan failed. Did Air, front row and as awful as it normally decides to be unfortunately. Lunch times then occurred.
Lunch had been consumed and back down the park we went. Stopping off at the mine train on the way, with a random 10 minute or so shower, which got us wet.
Then it was time for Terror of the Towers, queued about 20 minutes for it. Very well themed inside inside, not really the type of scares that scare me however. Very enjoyable still and one of the actors spoke to me after I told that I like coasters. Was mildly amusing. After coming out of the tunnel of piss, we made our way down to X-Sector to do Oblivion. We stopped off at Enterprise and Submission on our way, we then did Oblivion again. Fun times.
We walked back up to Ug Land to do some SW6 spying, but on the way we got distracted by a rather large actor costumed man thing. So we played with him for a bit and then walked over to Ug Land. Very quickly looked at SW6, before talking to the creature thingys of which name I cannot spell. We took some pictures of them, and I accidentally licked one of their fingers, it got angry at me then and made it's rather awesome noise. Seeing as we were in the area, we decided to single rider Rita, a nice quick 5 minute or so queue and we were on. And off, was better than usual to be honest and it gave some nice views of SW6.
Then Neal informed us of Trick or Treat doors, and we decided to do them. After a few minutes, me, Peter and Neal abandoned Ciall in the queue, so he could do it himself. We went to get some chocolate and Ciall queue, waiting for his go. Eventually he got to the front and we were hoping for a particular question to be asked, but that never happened Neal took a video of Ciall's ordeal, which was nice
It was now nearing 17:00 and we were right outside Hex, so we queued up for Hex: Live. We were eventually let in and we were in the first group. It was quite hilarious actually, and should definitely be kept, and as Neal was saying it should be permanent, as it greatly improves the pre-show. Now since the scarefest Hex exit comes out in Cloud Cuckoo land, we wandered over the Peugeot driving school to the Theatre and went in that for some reason. When in there we got talking to a ride/theatre op about Alton, and other nerdy things. Then the show started and was alright, quite random. And seeing as we hadn't done Twirling toadstool since it had moved, we did that. Was a good laugh and Neal caught a Ciall.
Very dark times were now upon us, so we set ourselves a challenge to do all the coasters at day and night. We had already done all of the coasters by day, so it was night riding times. Rita was first, but we had toilet times quickly beforehand, got on quickly. All 4 of us got paired up together, so I went with Neal, much to his dis-approval And Ciall went with Peter. We then had a look in the Rita shop, Peter bought a drink (how exciting :roll Oblivion was next in the dark. It actually had a queue though Took less than 10 minutes, but it was still a queue, we stuck it out anyway :lol: Was a good fun ride, especially since the lift hill had a great view of the moon. It started to rain during the ride which was funny, because it only lasted the duration of the ride. So we weren't too wet
We headed back down towards Spinball now, we did single rider and I literally walked on the ride. I didn't stop at all, it was made of win. We all got on, in 4 trains, which was quite handy. Then it was Beastie times, I chose to sit as close to the front as possible, and it absolutely flew round. It was stunningly good, with some great fun times.
The scarecrows sitting on the benches at the end of towers street were passed again, only this time they had mysteriously moved and they were sitting on different benches, which was quite freaky :wink: We headed towards the Runaway train through a rather awesomely lit Katanga Canyon. Neal, Ciall and Peter did the rapid because they wanted to get wet, I sat out again because I was nice and dry. Meanwhile I was looking at the lovely RMT/Rapids shop and I found a gun thing that said "The harder you pump, the faster it shoots" or similar. Childish times are fun. The others arrived back, but this time they did not get evacuated, so I was pleased. We did RMT next and we played choo choo with the ride op, Neal found this to be almost like getting her number 'Twas funny.
We then buggered off up to Forbidden Valley via a random walk in, walk out in Haunted Hollow. 3 rides of Nemmie were to be had next, first being a front row all together, then all together in other random seats. Good fun apart from one ride op who was very annoying and put all of his weight down to staple us in, and it hurt. After this we quickly popped off to Air after this, another boring ride on Air, but I like shouting at it. We had a quick stop off on Ripsaw, which was on the worst cycle known to man (it didn't flip once) and it was very poor. Two more goes were needed on Nemmie, great fun especially back row right, which gave me a stunningly good ride this time.
After coming off our 10th ride on Nemmie, we decided on Blade for random shouting at each other times. Empty boat was good (minus the one randomer in the middle of the boat :lol so we each sat in one corner of the boat, and played the shouting game. Shouting phrases included: "WE BLAME" followed by the "THE GERMANS", "Rachel" followed by "Adedeji" among others. A quick walk over to Nemmie for the last ride (2 in my case) andit was the end of the rides, but me, Peter and Ciall had the other 2 mazes left to do.
Once again I was the last to ride Nemmie and the others had run off. However, this time I had not seen the others and it was dark, which meant searching for others times. It lasted about 10 minutes before I found the others. They appeared to be playing the ignore Martyn game, I did not like this game. So when we had finished the walk back to the hotel, I joined in with this game.
The time slowly crept by, and by 10, Peter was sent to find me. He found me, and we walked off to the Boiler house. Neal decided to walk off the get "acquainted" with Little Rot :? We did Boiler House, was good fun and what was in there was all very good, however it needed to be longer. And we spoke to two men outside of it and gave them our opinions.
Field of 1000 Screams was next, and funnily enough one of the men asking for our opinions walked into the queue behind us, saying he used to work on the mazes, we found out how much was spent on two of the mazes and what some of the future plans for the mazes were. Apparently Terror of the Towers had £100,000 spent on it, yet Boiler house only had £10,000 spent on it, which is why it wasn't as big. Also according to this man, next year Field of 1000 Screams will not be coming back, and Boiler House will be placed there, so it has more room and can be bigger. So Ollie, that was probably for you. Anyway we queued quite a while for Field of 1000 Screams, but we eventually got on, and it was good fun. But it could have had more actors in the first part, possibly not coming out and trying to scare, but just running around the edges making rustling noises.
Then it was finally time for home times. Did not want, but had to accept it I had a relentless shot thing and we dropped Neal off in Derby and Ciall in MK and me also in MK. I got back a about 1:30am and was tired, and I still am. Want more Alton times.
Ride Count:
Nemesis x 12
Oblivion x 4
Rita x 3
Spinball x 2
Beastie x 2
Runaway Mine train x 2
Air x 2
Hex x 1
Hex: Live x 1
Duel: live x 1
Ripsaw x 1
Blade x 1
Charlie x 1
Submission x 1
Enterprise x 1
Twirling Toadstool x 1
Cloud Cuckoo Land Theatre x 1
Monorail x 1
Flume x 1 (For the other 3)
Rapids x 1 (For the other 3)
Mazes
Terror of the Towers x 1
Boiler House x 1
Field of 1000 Screams x 1
Alton Towers times
I woke up at 06:15 along with Peter, half an hour later than anticipated. Thankfully we were both ready for 06:40, which allowed me to wake up Ciall for his 5 minutes to get ready. We then set off for Derby to pick up Neal, arrived in Derby stupidly early, leading to a half an hour wait for Neal. Eventually he arrived and by 08:45 we were on our way from Derby to Alton. Little Rot and Peter got us to Alton by about 09:15, which included an epic little road.
On arrival, it was raining quite heavily and we also noticed how empty the car park was. We took the strawberry monorail to the entrance and again it looked rather quiet. Fun times appeared to be ahead. Ciall was moaning (how unusual :roll
about needing the toilet, so we stopped and had toilet talking times. We then walked outside into the rain and queued up. Wet queue times happened, made better with Neal's blue balloon that lasted a few seconds before I lost it We were let into the park; probably about 20 minutes early, which meant we could walk up to Nemesis before opening. So naturally we walked towards Rita because we thought it would have the biggest queue throughout the day. Waited under the tyre for opening, due to excessive rain and at 10:00 we were finally walking down the queue. All 4 of us decided to do front row. Me and Peter went up first, followed by Neal and Ciall. It was fair to say we got quite wet on Rita, so we wandered off to something dry: Hex. Walked straight on, it was fairly boring: however, at least it was nice, dry and got for conversations.
After Hex we made our way to Burger King. We all got some chips except Neal, who stole a few of mine and Peter's chips. After finishing the chips, we exited BK, into a dry Alton Towers with a rather large amount of ketchup and some cream (which ended up all over the floor
) Ciall then told us his love for Charlie, so we were forced on that, walk-on again and as rubbish as usual. Then we moved down slowly to Oblivion, doing it twice (both walk on) and both good fun. After Oblivion, we stopped off at the information building, so Ciall, Peter and myself could buy the maze tickets for later. Single rider Spinball times were now to be had, Ciall walked straight on, and we were all off in about 5 minutes. While we were in the area, I decided we would be doing Beastie. The others reluctantly agreed to join me, I got back row and had an enjoyable ride.
A leisurely stroll to Mutiny Bay via some random scarecrow benches in Towers street was to be had. The Flume was next, I decided to sit out, as I was drying out and did not want to become wetter than I was already. Well the walked straight on and I walked with them as far as I could down the exit path, then they disappeared up the lift hill and down the drop. A rather long pause of boat movement then happened. And the next thing I know is people are being evacuated from the ride. After a while, Neal, Peter and Ciall walk off with some priority passes, and I find out a tree fell on the track/water/whatever.
Haunted Hollow walking times were next. We went to Will's sex noise grave and used some of the priority passes on Duel: Live. Walked on, and found it rather boring actually, I prefer it normally. We then walked up to Forbidden Valley. We queued up together first, waited about 5 minutes and then went into the front row queue, waited about 5 trains worth of people and then got on. Was fun. So we then did single rider another 4 times. Though on my 5th ride on Nemmie, the other 3 were already off and decided to walk off to Air without telling me:evil: Fortunately I saw them passing under Air while I was on the brake run, so after the train stacked for a while and finally made it to the station and let us off, I ran towards Air and saw them walking into the single rider entrance. I ended up right behind them luckily, so that plan failed. Did Air, front row and as awful as it normally decides to be unfortunately. Lunch times then occurred.
Lunch had been consumed and back down the park we went. Stopping off at the mine train on the way, with a random 10 minute or so shower, which got us wet.
Then it was time for Terror of the Towers, queued about 20 minutes for it. Very well themed inside inside, not really the type of scares that scare me however. Very enjoyable still and one of the actors spoke to me after I told that I like coasters. Was mildly amusing. After coming out of the tunnel of piss, we made our way down to X-Sector to do Oblivion. We stopped off at Enterprise and Submission on our way, we then did Oblivion again. Fun times.
We walked back up to Ug Land to do some SW6 spying, but on the way we got distracted by a rather large actor costumed man thing. So we played with him for a bit and then walked over to Ug Land. Very quickly looked at SW6, before talking to the creature thingys of which name I cannot spell. We took some pictures of them, and I accidentally licked one of their fingers, it got angry at me then and made it's rather awesome noise. Seeing as we were in the area, we decided to single rider Rita, a nice quick 5 minute or so queue and we were on. And off, was better than usual to be honest and it gave some nice views of SW6.
Then Neal informed us of Trick or Treat doors, and we decided to do them. After a few minutes, me, Peter and Neal abandoned Ciall in the queue, so he could do it himself. We went to get some chocolate and Ciall queue, waiting for his go. Eventually he got to the front and we were hoping for a particular question to be asked, but that never happened
Neal took a video of Ciall's ordeal, which was nice It was now nearing 17:00 and we were right outside Hex, so we queued up for Hex: Live. We were eventually let in and we were in the first group. It was quite hilarious actually, and should definitely be kept, and as Neal was saying it should be permanent, as it greatly improves the pre-show. Now since the scarefest Hex exit comes out in Cloud Cuckoo land, we wandered over the Peugeot driving school to the Theatre and went in that for some reason. When in there we got talking to a ride/theatre op about Alton, and other nerdy things. Then the show started and was alright, quite random. And seeing as we hadn't done Twirling toadstool since it had moved, we did that. Was a good laugh and Neal caught a Ciall.
Very dark times were now upon us, so we set ourselves a challenge to do all the coasters at day and night. We had already done all of the coasters by day, so it was night riding times. Rita was first, but we had toilet times quickly beforehand, got on quickly. All 4 of us got paired up together, so I went with Neal, much to his dis-approval
And Ciall went with Peter. We then had a look in the Rita shop, Peter bought a drink (how exciting :roll Oblivion was next in the dark. It actually had a queue though Took less than 10 minutes, but it was still a queue, we stuck it out anyway :lol: Was a good fun ride, especially since the lift hill had a great view of the moon. It started to rain during the ride which was funny, because it only lasted the duration of the ride. So we weren't too wet We headed back down towards Spinball now, we did single rider and I literally walked on the ride. I didn't stop at all, it was made of win. We all got on, in 4 trains, which was quite handy. Then it was Beastie times, I chose to sit as close to the front as possible, and it absolutely flew round. It was stunningly good, with some great fun times.
The scarecrows sitting on the benches at the end of towers street were passed again, only this time they had mysteriously moved and they were sitting on different benches, which was quite freaky :wink: We headed towards the Runaway train through a rather awesomely lit Katanga Canyon. Neal, Ciall and Peter did the rapid because they wanted to get wet, I sat out again because I was nice and dry. Meanwhile I was looking at the lovely RMT/Rapids shop and I found a gun thing that said "The harder you pump, the faster it shoots" or similar. Childish times are fun. The others arrived back, but this time they did not get evacuated, so I was pleased. We did RMT next and we played choo choo with the ride op, Neal found this to be almost like getting her number
'Twas funny.We then buggered off up to Forbidden Valley via a random walk in, walk out in Haunted Hollow. 3 rides of Nemmie were to be had next, first being a front row all together, then all together in other random seats. Good fun apart from one ride op who was very annoying and put all of his weight down to staple us in, and it hurt. After this we quickly popped off to Air after this, another boring ride on Air, but I like shouting at it. We had a quick stop off on Ripsaw, which was on the worst cycle known to man (it didn't flip once) and it was very poor. Two more goes were needed on Nemmie, great fun especially back row right, which gave me a stunningly good ride this time.
After coming off our 10th ride on Nemmie, we decided on Blade for random shouting at each other times. Empty boat was good (minus the one randomer in the middle of the boat :lol
so we each sat in one corner of the boat, and played the shouting game. Shouting phrases included: "WE BLAME" followed by the "THE GERMANS", "Rachel" followed by "Adedeji" among others. A quick walk over to Nemmie for the last ride (2 in my case) andit was the end of the rides, but me, Peter and Ciall had the other 2 mazes left to do.Once again I was the last to ride Nemmie and the others had run off. However, this time I had not seen the others and it was dark, which meant searching for others times. It lasted about 10 minutes before I found the others. They appeared to be playing the ignore Martyn game, I did not like this game. So when we had finished the walk back to the hotel, I joined in with this game.
The time slowly crept by, and by 10, Peter was sent to find me. He found me, and we walked off to the Boiler house. Neal decided to walk off the get "acquainted" with Little Rot :? We did Boiler House, was good fun and what was in there was all very good, however it needed to be longer. And we spoke to two men outside of it and gave them our opinions.
Field of 1000 Screams was next, and funnily enough one of the men asking for our opinions walked into the queue behind us, saying he used to work on the mazes, we found out how much was spent on two of the mazes and what some of the future plans for the mazes were. Apparently Terror of the Towers had £100,000 spent on it, yet Boiler house only had £10,000 spent on it, which is why it wasn't as big. Also according to this man, next year Field of 1000 Screams will not be coming back, and Boiler House will be placed there, so it has more room and can be bigger. So Ollie, that was probably for you. Anyway we queued quite a while for Field of 1000 Screams, but we eventually got on, and it was good fun. But it could have had more actors in the first part, possibly not coming out and trying to scare, but just running around the edges making rustling noises.
Then it was finally time for home times. Did not want, but had to accept it
I had a relentless shot thing and we dropped Neal off in Derby and Ciall in MK and me also in MK. I got back a about 1:30am and was tired, and I still am. Want more Alton times. Ride Count:
Nemesis x 12
Oblivion x 4
Rita x 3
Spinball x 2
Beastie x 2
Runaway Mine train x 2
Air x 2
Hex x 1
Hex: Live x 1
Duel: live x 1
Ripsaw x 1
Blade x 1
Charlie x 1
Submission x 1
Enterprise x 1
Twirling Toadstool x 1
Cloud Cuckoo Land Theatre x 1
Monorail x 1
Flume x 1 (For the other 3)
Rapids x 1 (For the other 3)
Mazes
Terror of the Towers x 1
Boiler House x 1
Field of 1000 Screams x 1
