1001 Nights
was one of Alton Towers first attractions to join the Corkscrew
in Festival Park in the early eighties.
The ride was
simple in what it did, being a large platform seating about
48 riders, attached to a long rotating arm. The arm would
rotate vertically, but the platform remained horizontal, taking
the riders 85 feet into the air, above the tree tops. The
ride would create a fantastic weightlessness feeling as it
dropped and rose in large sweeping circles.
In 1994 however,
due to its age, and probably the fact that it stuck out about
twenty or thirty feet above the trees, it was removed, and
replaced by Energizer.
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