Ride Rita

[steve$]

Has anyone know anything about Rita, alton towers new rocket coaster :eek: opening next year. There is a website for it called http://www.riderita.com where you can choose to get mailed updates

[Gazza]

It will be in ugland, and it wont break the treeline. Another thing, were these two seperated at birth:? http://www.riderita.com/ http://www.blackstar.co.uk/img/video/cover...00/08/78/92.jpg

[T-bone]

I don't know. What is Rita going to be? Is it going to be just a new coaster, or something like TTD?

[steve$]

It must be some kind of theme for the coaster, although i cant see how she goes with a rocket coaster

[screammachine]

2 Words What the??? Screammachine

[Andy_q69]

It will be in ugland, and it wont break the treeline. Another thing, were these two seperated at birth:? http://www.riderita.com/ http://www.blackstar.co.uk/img/video/cover...00/08/78/92.jpg

LMAO. First pinball, now Kill Bill? Argh.

[Flea]

I'll be happy to ride Rita.

[Gazza]

Oh Liam you scallywag ol' chap. One thing i have heard about the ride was that it will have three barrel rolls in a row. I wonder what it will have instead of a top-hat though, maybe a big overbanked turn. Or maybe the will do a trench and have the track drop into it, then have a small kanonen style top hat. I am looking foward to seeing how this ride turns out.

[Andy_q69]

^^ That's what you call a desperate 14 year old. Anyways, so this coaster is going to be the second Storm Runner? Sounds awesome. The three barrel rolls won't compare to Colossus' ones though. >=D

[Nebuchanezzar]

Perhaps they'll just launch it into a tight brake section, then you get a massive acceleration thrill and a massive deceleration one

[steve$]

Maybe it would have a dip into a underground tunnel then blast up a hill like California Screamin at Disney. BUt then again maybe it will have a 8000 foot top hat....who knows

[StarparksEurope]

Here are some construction pics: http://www.towerstimes.co.uk/history/const...itarl/30102.jpg http://www.towerstimes.co.uk/history/const...itarl/30106.jpg (source: towerstimes.co.uk) Here you can see that the track has arrived This is what it's going to be: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/atm...TF/possible.jpg

[T-bone]

What ride is that next to it that has a white track?

[Gazza]

Its Corkscrew, its really yellow, its just the pics colours are messed up. It will be interesting to see how this gets pulled off, maybe it will have lots of turns that will give it a real race track feeling.

[steve$]

That drawing shows it just has a launched section then a loop then a turnaround and back to the station

[Gazza]

Thats just speculation though, nobody has been that accurate trying to guess how AT rides end up, just remember back to AIR.

[steve$]

dont most short launched coasters have tophats?

[Gazza]

Yeah, some do, but not all. Every rocket coaster so far has had a top hat, the problem is that Alton Towers is not allowed to build above the treeline so that means that a top hat is out of the question, unless they make the track drop into a deep trench and do a Kanonen type tophat where the height is only 25m or so. However, I expect this ride to be good, AT never seems to dissapoint when it comes to their thrill rides.

[T-bone]

Who's Designing it? I'm guessing John Wardly.

[steve$]

They might not come up with the tallest and fastest ride,but im sure it will be something unique and creative