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It's still showing in Extreme Thrills for me? Would have thought it should have been in Thrilling and Fun anyway!

May timeish... Could open early and act as a big suprise to the media if they get it open before then Doubt it though...

Here's the latest construction image of the Smiler posted by Alton Towers on Twitter.

Interesting to see what they'll do with it!

Wish we could see some more of Oblivion's repaint on that ariel shot!

I hope they've added a near miss like this... Think it'd look awesome but don't quite know where they would put it!

Wouldn't really be much point in turning Oblivion backwards as the whole idea of "Don't Look Down" wouldn't be visible or effective, still the same could be said about The Swarm's near misses etc. I'm still going for the Ministry of Sound re theme of X: No Way out to be mentioned soon!

I doubt that they would give it away as easy as that. It'll be ashame if they give away the element before anyone's got to ride it and it just being unveiled on some mobile game!

Great find! This is brilliant haha!

Latest clue! THORPE PARK Official Here's the second clue about our surprise plans for this year. Can you guess what we're doing?The sting is in the tail...

I think someone mentioned elsewhere that it could also be the frost on the track?

Anyone else think they should stick one of those smiler faces on top of where the fanta bit is atm? I think that would look pretty good as you would see it from Oblivion aswell!

For those of you on about the advert here it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGwRcq3psoE

Apparently if you ring up advanced bookings now they are saying that SW7 isn't scheduled to be open on time? ... I haven't actually rung myself but a friend has let me know!

I think The Sanctuary is all still up from what I've heard from various people who've been visiting the towers dailyish!

The website has been updated : http://www.altontowers.com/2013/

Hopefully this is the start of many little hints etc, can't wait to see what they do with it... Also is it just me or has the yellow changed to green on the faces?

Got to agree with you!

As for the name "The Smiler" I think Alton Towers have been using that as the name for the Smiley face thingys rather than the actual ride itself.

So yeah, the track from another angle

Not sure where to put this topic but going to put it here for now anyway! Was reading around on some other forums and a discussion started about whether you think there should be or shouldn't be actors for SW7? Personally I think I'd like to see roaming area actors rather than queueline actors similiar to what Thorpe Park did with The Swarm on the first couple of opening days. With The Swarm actors it really created an atompsphere when you walked up to the island and had army officers shouting at you and you had the vicar walking around and of course the injured people. I'm not sure what they could do with SW7 though other than what they did at Scarefest with the Dr walking around with his two nurses but even so that might help build up the atompsphere? Do you think that the ride staff should wear some sort of costume/uniform that links to the ride similiar to what happens over on Nemesis: Sub Terra? What do you think?

I can't wait for this now, these trucks look brilliant and just as JoshC put it very much like the concept art!

Yep that was the ones! I only saw the one but thanks for sharing! As for the element, I'm in the same boat as you... I want to know but I also like not knowing what it is and will await the suprise when it opens!

Suprised no one has posted the picture up yet of the track that has gone "vertical" seen it floating around on facebook this afternoon

I've got a fair few from 1998 and 1999 at PA might upload them a bit later on.