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Nemesis 5/5 Perfect ride. After almost 20 years it is the best B&M, the best inverter and the most pure adrenaline pumping thrill I have yet to encounter, Sublime.Oblivion 5/5 Never loses the beat with its trick. It's a shame it's in the same park as Nemesis. If it was at Thorpe it would knock its four mediocre coasters out of view.Air 4/5 not as good as Manta but closer to pure flight.Rita 2/5. LAUNCH INTO A CORNER. That will always work out well won't it Intamin.Thirteen 2/5. All atmosphere, no substance. Shame as it could have rivalled Nemesis at the park.

Who have you voted?!Firmly in the Nemesis camp here.

This new advertising stuff for Alton's best ride ever is actually really brilliant. Finally focusing on the rides and not banning sexy tv from the hotels it asks for what is Alton's greatest ride out of Nemesis, Oblivion, Air, Rita and Thirteen.Great stuff, well done Alton.

So they can't have people blocking a fire escape at Vampire but it's fine at Fury's exit and Runaway Trains batch gate which are also fire escapes..

Hmmm. Do the team know of their mediocreness?

Surely no one has missed the news recently... yes the news is the news. As is described by the New York Times Love it.

Hey Hey, another Alton Towers trip report involving me. Yay Ok, so basically went to Alton Towers on Saturday. Despite the gate figures being apparently the lowest since the dawn of time this season, the park was surprisingly busy.More importantly, I want to start this trip report talking about Hex. That ride is awesome, genuinely excellent. In fact, I'm putting it out there, the best dark ride and themed experience in this country. It is so genuinely atmospheric and grand and just. yeah I know most people know about Hex but it is just not talked about enough. Here is a ride and a story that only Alton Towers can do and it's pure genius. I came off wowed. Takes a lot these days.The next best thing was the breakfast on Towers Street. I love it and for only £4.00 it was well worth the money. Lovely stuff to and I've decided how that is how I want to start every trip to Alton Towers, with a nice breakfast. After my last trip I've decided Alton is a park of two halves. The Forbidden Valley, Gloomy Wood and Katanga Canyon side is fantastic. It saw the best side of Tussauds and has rides that stand the test of time. Runaway, Nemesis, Duel and Air, are wonderful, brilliant rides.And there's the other side, absolutelly dismal. I like Hex and Oblivion but I couldn't give a toss if I rode Rita, Charlie, Submission, Enterprise, Spinball or Thirteen. Each one is just so bland and useless. Queuing 60 minutes for Rita? 70 for Spinball? No thank you. The B&M's really save Alton Towers for me these days. Nemesis is just sex in rollercoaster form. So what can you make of this trip report. I enjoyed my trip but so many rides these days in the park are on my can't be bothered to go on list I'm starting to wonder why I go.

Agred, sort it out Kraft, get your motha fuzzing best flavours out in the UK now. Yogurt, Strawberry Yogurt, Bubble, GIVE ME IT YEAH!

No.

Bitchy people. Come on, put down that facade and say how you really feel instead of pretending you're this really nice person when you're not.

Great report Daniel, and I think those are some excellent pictures.Blue Fire, yep, yep and yep. Truely one of the best rides in the world, Mack with their first attempt captured everything a launch coaster should be and easily left their competitiors in their dust. On my rides I couldn't find a single fault and it turns out neither could you. Agreed with you on Silver-Star. it's a very odd rollercoaster and totally at odds with the rest of Europa Park and yet somehow completely fits in at the same time. Euro-Mir is class every step of the way, wonderful ride.I actually think Euro-Sat is better then Space Mountain (WDW) to be honest. Euro-Sat just feels far more out of control then the American counter-part and I love the funky little trains on Sat. Both are excellent rides though. I don't really like Poseidon or Matterhorn blitz really. Aside from some funky parts, the rides feel a bit to tame and painful to me. That being said Poseidon does the coaster part far better then Journey to Atlantis.Awaiting part two, can't wait.

Someones message on Twitter to Piers Morgan@piersmorgan I'd like to regulate your face. With a train. #bbcqt

I've just re-read the letter and my faith has sort of been restored that maybe Merlin can pull the situation around at Alton Towers. Whilst I never thought the situation was as bad as Towers Times Forum was making out, I did feel that the wheels were not as tight as they should have been. One of my biggest.. reliefs I guess you could say, is that AT management know how important families are to the parks success. If you don't attract them back, you lose a lot of income and interest.. I'll be interested to see what direction the 2012 and 2013 rides go in.. and how high.

One time Nemesis had them on but they weren't fastened properly so as the train went over the first corkscrew... well lets be glad no one was injured

Good song, she has such a great voice.

I've noticed that for me, the best rides in the world are the ones that have the widest target audiences. Euro-Mir, Dragons Fury, Splash Mountain are all rides geared at families and yet are the best at creating smiles and laughs. Granted when I was 13 years old and a budding coaster boy it was rides like Nemesis and Colossus that got me interested. But 10 years later it's rides that capture my imagination that are favourable.So Question 2) Do you prefer thrill rides or experience rides?Are the two mutually exclusive? Do you like a ride regardless of its aims?

I like your mix of rides ScunnyAdz. Things like The Ultimate and Jubilee Odyssey rarely get mentioned when it comes to rides so its nice to see every ride has someone who is a fan

The only Maurer I outright dispise is G Force. So technically Maurer have a better hit rate then Intamin. Ain't even mad.

Storm Surge must come from the same cloth as any Maurer ride. Guests like it but the thing is just technologically crap.

I like it, clearly people do get lost in the hotels otherwise they wouldn't bother with a map.

Are you going then?I've no problem with them experimenting, I just think they are horible people for discriminationg the older generation

I'd go but apparently people in employment and with money to spend aren't invited.Yeah, cheers for that one Thorpe.

That fastrack queue scares me. Thorpe are like the ultimate masters of manipulation to be honest, they've managed to make fastrack irresistable to paying guests. All the credit to them for it as well. No wonder I haven't been for ages. Thanks for the report Josh, looks like you had a good day to.

See, I don't have a problem with that because even if they move up it's not as if you're going to get on the ride faster.

Same with all theme parks really.