Every Major Alton Towers Ride Ranked Worst To Best

So good that spawned a copy over at Thorpe Park, Nemesis is one of the UK's most beloved and famous roller coasters.

Located in the Forbidden Valley, Nemesis first opened in 1994, cost £10 million and changed the entire way theme parks in the UK went about creating thrills. Because the park was restricted to only building rides at 'tree-level' back then, Alton Towers used blast mining to carve out a literal valley in the ground to make the ride bigger and better.

Set around the theme of an excavation of a sinister monster-like creature, Nemesis was one of the pioneering forces behind the popularity of inverted 'loop-de-loop' roller coasters around the world. In total, the ride contains four inversions in total, two corkscrews, a vertical loop and a zero-g roll. Riders will experience up to three or four times the force of gravity over the course of the minute and half or so they spend on Nemesis.

Very few rides can point to the sheer amount of longevity in their popularity but, twenty-six years on from its very first opening, Nemesis still remains one of Alton Towers' most popular attractions.