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Thirteen (roller coaster)
Thirteen (officially stylised as TH13TEEN) is a steel roller coaster at Alton Towers in England. Manufactured by Intamin, the ride opened to the public on 20 March 2010 as the world's first roller coaster to feature a vertical freefall drop, where the track and train fall approximately 5 metres (16 ft) in darkness. The ride replaced Corkscrew, which operated at Alton Towers from 1980 to 2008.
Alton Towers first revealed their plans for the ride in October 2008 when it was announced that Corkscrew would be removed. Planning permission was initially delayed due to concerns about an Iron Age hill fort in its vicinity. However, in March 2009, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council accepted planning permission for the ride (with conditions) and groundwork construction commenced about three months later. During the planning stages and construction, the ride was codenamed Secret Weapon 6.
John Wardley, a ride consultant for Merlin Entertainments, spoke about the development of Thirteen in an interview shortly after the ride's opening. The initial idea for the secret element originated from a previous rollercoaster plan that he designed for Alton Towers, in which a piece of track tilted back and forth during the ride. The ride, if it had been built, would have been similar to Winja's Fear & Force at Phantasialand, Germany.
The ageing Corkscrew roller coaster was removed ahead of the new ride's development. The coaster model was decided as an Intamin family coaster, chosen for the lightweight trains to perform the vertical drop element.
The concept and theme was produced by Merlin. In 2008, concept art showing possible themes for the new ride were leaked online but were soon deleted at Alton Towers' request.
As the train departs the station, a girl's voice is heard whispering, "If you go down to the woods today, you'd better not go alone," before the train takes a left turn out of the station and into a 60-foot (18 m) lift hill. The following drop then sends the train speeding into a wooded area at a maximum speed of 41 mph. The following layout includes several airtime hills and banked turns, before ascending a short second lift hill.
This leads the train into the upper level of the station building and a shutter closes behind the train as it comes to a halt. The sound of creaking wood is heard before the horizontal track section jolts, then free-falls vertically (together with the train and floor section) to a lower level. Here several statues light up, before the train moves backwards out of the building and descends a short drop into an underground tunnel.
The train completes a backwards helix in the tunnel, then re-emerges outside and stops. A transfer track then reverses the direction of the train, as it is propelled forwards and arrives at the offload platform.
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Thirteen (roller coaster)
Thirteen (officially stylised as TH13TEEN) is a steel roller coaster at Alton Towers in England. Manufactured by Intamin, the ride opened to the public on 20 March 2010 as the world's first roller coaster to feature a vertical freefall drop, where the track and train fall approximately 5 metres (16 ft) in darkness. The ride replaced Corkscrew, which operated at Alton Towers from 1980 to 2008.
Alton Towers first revealed their plans for the ride in October 2008 when it was announced that Corkscrew would be removed. Planning permission was initially delayed due to concerns about an Iron Age hill fort in its vicinity. However, in March 2009, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council accepted planning permission for the ride (with conditions) and groundwork construction commenced about three months later. During the planning stages and construction, the ride was codenamed Secret Weapon 6.
John Wardley, a ride consultant for Merlin Entertainments, spoke about the development of Thirteen in an interview shortly after the ride's opening. The initial idea for the secret element originated from a previous rollercoaster plan that he designed for Alton Towers, in which a piece of track tilted back and forth during the ride. The ride, if it had been built, would have been similar to Winja's Fear & Force at Phantasialand, Germany.
The ageing Corkscrew roller coaster was removed ahead of the new ride's development. The coaster model was decided as an Intamin family coaster, chosen for the lightweight trains to perform the vertical drop element.
The concept and theme was produced by Merlin. In 2008, concept art showing possible themes for the new ride were leaked online but were soon deleted at Alton Towers' request.
As the train departs the station, a girl's voice is heard whispering, "If you go down to the woods today, you'd better not go alone," before the train takes a left turn out of the station and into a 60-foot (18 m) lift hill. The following drop then sends the train speeding into a wooded area at a maximum speed of 41 mph. The following layout includes several airtime hills and banked turns, before ascending a short second lift hill.
This leads the train into the upper level of the station building and a shutter closes behind the train as it comes to a halt. The sound of creaking wood is heard before the horizontal track section jolts, then free-falls vertically (together with the train and floor section) to a lower level. Here several statues light up, before the train moves backwards out of the building and descends a short drop into an underground tunnel.
The train completes a backwards helix in the tunnel, then re-emerges outside and stops. A transfer track then reverses the direction of the train, as it is propelled forwards and arrives at the offload platform.
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