Well, kinda. Basically, I was at Alton Towers today and I (as usual) went on the Spinball Whizzer first. So, I queued for about 20 minutes (I generally always use the single rider queue as it’s generally quicker), got on the ride, and it starts off, round the first bend and then…..stops. On the very bottom of the lift hill.
So I wait. And wait. And wait…and eventually the one assistant girl comes over and says “sorry, someone jumped over the queue line and because of the sensors in the ride area, it automatically shut off so we have to reset the whole ride”. So I stay on it for about 10 more minutes, and eventually they come over again and say “right, we need to get you off, so, <blah blah safety info blah blah>, and then you’ll need to sign a form with your name and address on it for insurance reasons for us”. So they gave me a long explanation of how to get out the car because it was more then a 1cm drop (blame Tony Blair’s STUPID health and safety rubbish), so I ignored that and just jumped down off the car. They didn’t like that. 
Anyway, I managed to get two free passes for either Oblivion or the Spinball Whizzer to get in the priority queue, for two people, so I went with my dad on both.
Before I went on Oblivion though, I decided to do a quick ride on Enterprise, which…..broke down. So, it was about an hour and a half I had been at the park, and not ridden anything. 
Eventually though, I managed to ride most of the stuff, bar Air, Nemesis, and Rita (they ALWAYS have long queue lines), and one of the other rides, Ripsaw, broke down just as I was about to go on it…3rd time unlucky today.
I went to Alton Towers in half-term, and everything worked perfectly – apart from Spinball Whizzer! It was broken, or long queued for most of the day, but managed to ride on everything else.
Do you live close to Alton Towers? Sounds like you go there a lot, lucky!
next time do a barrel roll
@ Robert Day: I live in Stafford, so it’s about a 40 minute (22 mile) drive from my house.
Well for all they know, you could have osteoporosis..
P.S. its gorden brown now, not tony
Yeah but Tony passed all those hundreds of laws. Gordan Brown doesn’t really do anything at all.
I would’ve just told the assistant girl.
Shut the fuck up! You’re sued! XD
Sorry to hear this William, better luck next time.
Damn you must like Alton Towers LOL