Alton Towers - Wicker Man

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Alton Towers are set to open a new wooden rollercoaster this year... the Wicker Man.

https://www.wickerman.com/

Oooo how spooooOooooOOoky. Looks fun! I, for one, shall be riding.

In b4 injury lawyers 4 u.

Also, AT’s hotel website is unspeakably bad. As is their hotel, actually.
 
I'm looking forward to this one. I went in the summer last year and saw it being built, the footprint looked quite impressive at the time. I'll have to see who I can drag down with me! :)
 
I don't think it's the material per se that makes them so popular. It's that they generally don't have inversions, so they have a lap bar, and it's old school. Since they don't have inversions, the track layout is a totally different ride to most new coasters. I think coaster nuts also like the noise the trains make due to the materials used in the track.
 
The best wooden coaster I've been on was Stampida in Spain - literally so fast and shaky that a few goes resulted in a headache (and a lost phone). Sounds awful but you literally felt like the whole thing was out of control for 50% of the ride.
 
jimjamuk said:
The best wooden coaster I've been on was Stampida in Spain - literally so fast and shaky that a few goes resulted in a headache (and a lost phone). Sounds awful but you literally felt like the whole thing was out of control for 50% of the ride.
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I think that's the main appeal - the adrenaline rush of feeling like it's about to collapse!

adam cool dude said:
They replaced the log flume for this which including the removal of ripsaw means no way to cool down in the blistering heat of summer!
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Battle Galleons?
 
I remember going on the wooden coaster at Busch Gardens in Florida - Gwazi. The experience was ridiculous - so fast, bumping around everywhere and not strapped in.
 
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