Alton Towers Wiki Explore. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Edit source History Talk 0. Rita is one of the major rides at Alton Towers that opened on April 1st Two years after the opening of Rita, Heide Park in Germany also owned by Merlin Entertainments opened a nearly identical roller coaster called Desert Race.
Following the launch track is a series of curves shaped like a figure-eight when viewed overhead, which contains three airtime hills. Rita has separate areas for loading and unloading. The cable used to launch the train snapped during an early morning test run on July 24, She looks stunning in ruby red!
Looking towards Corkscrew with Rita in the foreground. January 12th The launch section of track, still being worked on. New and old — here we see Corkscrew and Rita. Footers ready to receive metalwork. A building, possibly to contain the hydraulics. A general view of the site with Corkscrew in the background. Another general view of the site. A crane working on the track. Again, new and old — Rita and Corkscrew.
More Corkscrew and Rita. Yes, you guessed it, Corkscrew and Rita. A view of the site, looking back towards the towers. The site where the Boneshaker once stood, behind the big tree.
More track and supports in the car park. February 9th Rita from Fountain Square. The first airtime hill from a distance. Looking past the old Ug-Land sign. February 15th Scenery objects are arriving — this is the queue line entrance. A part-train is on the tracks! February 19th Another shot of a part-complete Rita train that we saw on the 15th.
In this photo, we can clearly see the flame theming. February 20th The last turn of Rita, with the partially constructed train on it. The front of a Rita train! Looks a bit like an old American Dragster. The ride control panel. There is a lift up to the loading platform for disabled guests. The couple in front, Emma and Paul, say they got engaged on the ride. The Big One is an incitement to odd behaviour.
I'm not sure what their crime was. Impeding a rollercoaster? I attempt Blackpool's other coasters except a dead skeleton of a coaster, a hulk of rotting rust. There are ancient woodies, cream and peeling, smelling of salt and built when Lenin was alive.
I try the indoor coaster Space Invader, where you travel through an alien landscape, fretted with stick-on stars. The Wild Mouse is horrendous, a nasty little bastard of a coaster. The turns are too sharp and I bang my elbows; perhaps it is my fault for lying down. Revolution, featured on Jim'll Fix It in the one with the boy scouts is far better: a single degree turn and you return to base backwards. But excess breeds indifference. By the end of coaster gorge at Blackpool I have lost the ability to produce adrenaline.
And I have rollercoaster name fatigue. Why don't they build a rollercoaster called Dysentery? Athlete's Foot? What is the star rollercoaster of the UK? Who takes the rattle-clatter bow? The latest generation of coasters are largely risk-free; they are so constrained in their saccharine danger, so health-and-safety sensitive, you are in more peril on a camel. As for rating them - how do you review a punch-up in a pub? Was the rabbit punch to the liver more dazzling than the deft kick to the ear?
An autopsy might know. Rita is a Mercedes of a ride; G Force a cute bite on the arse. The ancient woodies of Blackpool have history in their aching wheels. But for me, Oblivion is sweetest. It's so nice to be dropped down a hole to forget. So this is meant to be fun?
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