Alton Towers - PTR - 16/02/10

[yinyang]

Some photos from my day...

Sonic Spinball Logo & Coaster:

Sonic In Person With Ride In Background:

Sonic & Spinball Area:

The Tower Gardens (Hex Exit):

Not Sure If They Show Up But It Started To Snow During The Day:

Ripsaw Was Closed:

Ripsaw Logo:

Mutiny Bay Banner:

Haunted Hollow And House Shots:

Dark Clouds Over Alton!

Hope photos aren't too bad I'm not into writing full reports yet. Enjoy...

 

[Hixee]

So Sonic Spinball is exactly the same.

****-sake Alton, why bother? I know it's me caring too much, but I really think they could've done something with it.

:roll:

 

[furie]

Yeah, they took out the 25 loop-de-loops in the re-theme plans and the huge building with virtual reality to put you actually inside a Sonic computer game :roll:

Some great shots for the report A few details of how stuff was running etc would pad it out a bit though

 

[nealbie]

So Sonic Spinball is exactly the same.

****-sake Alton, why bother? I know it's me caring too much, but I really think they could've done something with it.

They DID do something about it. But after 6 testing runs with the new virtual reality building furie has already mentioned; they found that Dr. Eggman blowing up the ride in the finale every time was getting a bit pricy and causing far too much downtime

 

[Hixee]

HAHA funny guys. :roll:

You know exactly what I mean. They haven't even made an effort.

 

[ciallkennett]

Some nice pics there.

Yep, Sonic does look like a mahoooshive disappointment

 

[yinyang]

Thanks for the comments so far guys, may even have a video up in a few days

Sonic is a good theme, but it need a lot more work, and also it still seems to be the busiest ride in the park, other rides that day were 15 minutes tops at lunch time hours but sonic was 30 mins all day practically. And with the snow they ran a 3 people per car ruling.

 

[nealbie]

That's the time to whore the single rider there though - such as today when it was snowing.

People look like they will lynch if you do it too much though :lol:

 

[ciallkennett]

^^ That, my friend, is the ONLY time I ride Spinball, single rider of course. There is always no wait, just hop straight on.

Never queued for Spinball...ever ^_^

It'd be nice to see a vid

 

[yinyang]

as requested

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNVG7nviJkI[/youtube]

enjoy.