Altered Towers

A day of rain, a day off work. It is possible that one can more than cancel the other. Especially if you are heading out for a day of high-octane thrills (ie some rollercoasters at Alton Towers). I could go on for a while about the different rides, but I'm tired. So here instead is a pic of me and some trussed up evil beings.



I did not not truss them myself. It was done by the most brave park staff.

One thing that they do seem to have started doing is to find new ways to spruce up exisiting rides rather than just building new ones. This year this has included:

1) Taking the haunted house/ghost train and turning it into a laser gun shooting ride. Shoot the hundreds of little lights all through the ride! Get a high score! Have fun shooting your laser "accidentally" at your friends' heads! Wish you had a paintball gun instead!

2) Taking the log flume and replacing all the logs with... Fake Baths! Get sponsored by a large soap company! Remove the dinosaurs that used to be there and have Tweety Pie sitting in a tree instead (I'm not sure whether the little yellow bird was really supposed to be there or not)! Add a six foot scary jumping out bath rubber duck in the dark tunnel!

On more of a plus thing, the park was dead empty due to it being late season and a week day, so we barely had to queue for anything all day. Last time I went, we queued for three hours to get on Air (we didn't mind, as we are English and like queueing). This time, it was more like three minutes, a vast improvement.

Although I did kind of miss the queues. That mass shared feeling that you all know that it's not really worth your time to queue so long for a little ride, but since you've already paid your entry money, you may as well queue, that's what we all came for really isn't it? Isn't it?