It is clear that Alton Towers are not interested in our "community" (i hate using that word, but I guess there's no other word...!) in the way that some other parks are.

Flamingoland are very interested in theirs, Europa-Park have an annual day where they invite fans for free to conferences, ERT, tours etc... Even Disney have various things for fans. The Customer Council was a good start, but now that's fallen flat on its face even though the park got a lot out of it!

Ah well.

TPR may well pay for that? Even so, it is a little sad that they get all that and the likes of TT can't.

wouldn't that be very expensive to rent out a ride for an hour?

TPR do get special ERT when they do their tours around their country and also european countries too.

The main TPR leaders Rob and Elissa Alvey have both worked in the themepark industry for least 16 years and 20 years working in the entertainment business developing products for Disney, Universal, Dreamworks, Paramount Pictures, MGM, Amblin Entertainment etc. So maybe they have some sort of infuence in the industry.

Rita, Air, Nemesis, Oblivion and Hex are £1,500 per hour.
Forbidden Valley, X-Sector and UG Land are £5,000 per hour.

I'll let TTF know when I win the lottery, then.

Apart from the Soakathon as far as I know, TTF has never had any ERT.

It's been in discussion, but nothing as ever happened...

If people respected the parks rules, I think we would have a good relationship with Alton Towers.

Saying that it's improved drasticly over the last year or so, without any problems.

yeah they do treat TPR well probably because they know its free promo as they take loads of pictures and also videos which gets posted on their website which probably has loads of hits everyday.

To be honest, I don't really think TTF has any genuine interest in an hours ERT on Nemesis/Rita/Oblivion etc. At the end of the day, most of us have ridden them all before - many of us many times in our lives. Had Black Hole still been in existance, a ride with the lights on may have created interest. Riding through the old Toyland Tours section of Charlie could be of interest. Exploring Hex with the lights on, the same with Duel. All these kinds of things are of interest rather than simple ride whoring which, lets be honest, you can do on a quiet day anyway.

What would interest the likes of enthusiasts the most would be some access to archives, talks etc.

They did do Behind the Scenes tours at one stage, but these priced many people out.

A documentary on Alton Towers featured the roller coaster club. It said that the park let them take over Nemesis for one day a year. I'm not sure how long this lasted though.

One whole hour on Hex, that would be amazing! I wonder if the 'walk around to the entrance to re-ride it' rule would apply still if say you rented out Nemesis for an hour!