Nemesis

Nemesis is a B&M Inverted roller coaster located in the Forbidden Valley section of the park. It opened on March 19th 1994 and was designed by John Wardley

Theming & Story
Nemesis is themed to an alien monster, which crash landed into the Staffordshire contryside and lay undisturbed for thousands of years. However, the beast was supposedly disturbed causing havoc.

Station Building
The station building is carefully made to look like a held-down version of the Nemesis monster. The inside station however has a distinctive lack of theming. The steel track is supposed to be what is used to tie the monster down, which is now ridden by the public as a roller coaster.

Additional Theming
Additional theming include's a river of blood, which used to be dark red but is now more of a pinky colour, this runs down the ravine and is kept in a large pool just under the vertical loop. There is also an over-turned bus as well as some equipment.

Ride Layout
The ride has one of the most unique layouts on any B&M inverted coaster, as it does not have an large drop or a loop straight after the drop. The first drop is very small, but still forceful. The ride then hits a mid-air corkscrew, which is quite rare. Before the zero-g roll, it then follows with an extremely intense helix into the ravine, which is followed by the zero-g roll over the station building. There is then an over banked curve built into the side of the ravine, into the vertical loop, some say the most intense part of the ride. Another over banked turn follows before the rides final inversion, a corkscrew which take it beneath the brake run. A banked turn to the right leads into the brake run, which leads directly back into the station.

Nemesis in popular culture
Nemesis, when it opened, was subject to a lot of media interest. The ride was featured in Tomorrow's World & Blue Peter for exclusive testing. Like Oblivion, the ride was also advertised on packets of Cornflakes. There was also a special Nemesis suite when the Alton Towers Hotel opened in 1996, which closed in 2006. There was a Nemesis drink, which was on sale both on-park and out of park for a large period of the 1994 season. The ride features in the opening sequence of the BBC Midlands news very briefly. A comic book was produced in 1994, detailing the story of the ride. Nemesis is still seen by many as Alton Tower's flagship attraction

Nemesis Noise
Near the start of the 2009 season, the park recieved numerous complaints from locals due to increased noise from the ride. The park blamed it on the new wheels fitted onto train 2 during the 2008 closed season.