the smiler advert always used to creep me out, like the concept of smiling and especially the logo scared me whenever i saw it but now i’ve been on it i love it
i love how all the ads are _aggressively_ whatever decade they’re from i also find it interesting that the earliest rides emphasize that the rides are free beyond admission price. did theme parks used to charge per ride?
1980s: Hey, come to Alton Towers! We've got good rides and entertainment and stuff at affordable prices! Now: STAY FOR DAYS, SMILE ALWAYS, IT'S FLIPPIN' CRAZY!! 𝘎𝘈𝘕𝘎𝘚𝘛𝘈 𝘎𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘕𝘠?1!?1!? C̸̣̭͖̤̒̈͊͟Ơ̷̴̪̪̝͈̥͈̆̀̚M͚͚̻͂̇͜͟͟E̢̢̻ͮͧͦ͋͞͡ ፕO̵̷̪̰ͩ͆ͅ O̵̷̪̰ͩ͆ͅꌈR̛̦̦̝̤͌̏͜͟͜ P̤̤͖ͪ͑̕͜͜Ȧ̶̵̗̳Ŗ̴̪̈̄͞K̦̖̙̱̮̐̌
I do enjoy seeing how those ads have changed over the years -- and I have to admit, I really enjoyed it when the iconic theme first showed up in an ad. :D
I mean its kind of a theme tune but not in the owning it way, its iconic at this point. you play 'in the hall of the mountain king' to any british child they will think of one of two things, the pi song or alton towers. ik i think of alton towers when u play it.
I know someone who lives about 10 minutes away from alton towers so I have seen it grow first hand through the years and I've got to say it was a thrill
@@dinonuggies1278 That’s where your wrong my friend. Octonauts superiority! Have you seen the 0-250mph launch with the 153 degree drop! It’s insane and it has 20 inversions! Who would’ve thought that a mere flat ride could overtake such intensity! (This is a joke btw lol)
In a way it is a pretty fast launch to be fair. However, when the ads say 0-100 in 2.5 seconds, I think they meant to say KPH... 0-62 doesn't sound as fun though
80's Alton Towers Ads: Enjoy our genuine historic castle, our lovely English garden, and a few thrill rides for the Brave at Heart. 2000's Alton Towers Ads: This roller coaster was designed, built, and approved by insane people...enjoy!
I actually went to alton towers last week with my 2 best friends it was really fun, and the Smiler was the best by far! Lol one of my friends had never actually been on a rollercoaster before, so he went from doing the runaway train, to the wicker man, to oblivion, and to the smiler all in one day. He went from doing nothing, to doing one of the most extreme rollercoasters!
incredibly underrated channel, i was genuinely curious about the adverts, especially the smiler one as the smiler is a ride i have not yet done but plan on it, its a big ride ive been wanting to do for years! Edit: At the time of writing this edit, I have now done smiler multiple times and it is safe to say it is one of my favourite rides of all time!
I’m an emetophobic person who’s never wanted to go on upside down roller coasters out of fear of someone throwing up or me falling out… But as soon as I saw The Smiler in action the hyperfixation started to hyperfixate ☻
and Oblivion is the only ride I ever refused to go on more than twice lmao (p.s. second time was because a mate said "It won't be as bad now we know what to expect."... he was wrong 😁)
@@imightbetash We actually found it was funnier to stand around the hole at the bottom and wave to people on the ride when it stopped briefly at the top. You'd always get one or two people who let go to wave back and the looks on their faces was priceless when it dropped while they weren't hanging on 😂 To be fair though, when you go there 28 times in a month taking coach loads of schoolkids the rides start getting boring so we had to start making our own fun. Fun times 😁
Most nostalgic.....I actually remember an even earlier Alton Towers ad from before the amusement rides started and there were just the gardens. I seem to remember an old-ish man talking to camera about the beautiful gardens of Alton Towers....between Leek and Uttoxeter....I seem to remember the theme from van Der Valk(Eye Level) was playing in the background....does anyone else remember this?
4 years ago, I'd have mental breakdowns over the THOUGHT of going towers, cause my phobia of coasters was just that bad. Now i get achey and fidgety whenever Im NOT at Towers. Ive also been on 7/8 coasters, just missing Bliv. Galactica is my favourite, not been on Nemesis enough to declare which is the best
This theme park is the definition of 'pick a lane' On one side, you have these roller coasters with these really weird backstories, like Nemesis, Smiler, Oblivion, Thirteen etc, and then on the other side you've got Cbeebies Land, and the Gangsta Granny bit.
...in the 1991 ad... did they say "enjoy whoopee!" Towards the very end? Did I hear that right? And...if I heard that right...does that mean something else over in the UK that im not aware of? 😂😅
Did I really just sit down and watch Alton Tower ads for 26 minutes.. Yes, yes I did.
Fr 😭
Yeah always I’ve watched this 10 times straight.
fr this is the 3rd time😂
fun fact about the 13 adverts. They were considered "too scary" so they were only allowed to be shown at night.
they had 2, one for before 9pm and one for after the girl in the tentacle stuff was the after 9pm version
Ah yes, show the scary ads at night
Jokes aside I understand why it’s at night
That makes it scarier though??
@@Rice_WolfYes it sorta does, but less kids are likely to awake. Or atleast most kids who’d be scared
£2.50 entrance! Let’s go!
£3000000064533
It’s like 20+ times that now lol
😂😂😂😂
@@Hannah-pg2gb depressing times :(
I wish 🤣
£2.50 entrance fee. And now it’s £68 on the day. How I wish I was alive in the 1980s.
It wasn’t as good of a park back then though
@@CookieConceptArtist True
I’ve been today it’s amazing I went on th13teen it’s so fun and the smiler has 14 loops I went on the smiler
Inflation and new rides
i had no idea it used to be £2.50, that’s insane!
the smiler advert always used to creep me out, like the concept of smiling and especially the logo scared me whenever i saw it but now i’ve been on it i love it
i love how all the ads are _aggressively_ whatever decade they’re from
i also find it interesting that the earliest rides emphasize that the rides are free beyond admission price. did theme parks used to charge per ride?
1980s: Hey, come to Alton Towers! We've got good rides and entertainment and stuff at affordable prices!
Now: STAY FOR DAYS, SMILE ALWAYS, IT'S FLIPPIN' CRAZY!! 𝘎𝘈𝘕𝘎𝘚𝘛𝘈 𝘎𝘙𝘈𝘕𝘕𝘠?1!?1!? C̸̣̭͖̤̒̈͊͟Ơ̷̴̪̪̝͈̥͈̆̀̚M͚͚̻͂̇͜͟͟E̢̢̻ͮͧͦ͋͞͡ ፕO̵̷̪̰ͩ͆ͅ O̵̷̪̰ͩ͆ͅꌈR̛̦̦̝̤͌̏͜͟͜ P̤̤͖ͪ͑̕͜͜Ȧ̶̵̗̳Ŗ̴̪̈̄͞K̦̖̙̱̮̐̌
ever been to like a beach pier? you pay entrance and also per ride :D
I do enjoy seeing how those ads have changed over the years -- and I have to admit, I really enjoyed it when the iconic theme first showed up in an ad. :D
Adverts: How many times are you gonna use the same song?!
Alton: Y E S
Well, I guess if you pay an absolute fortune for the rights to use a piece of music you're going to want to get your money's worth 🤣
@@Galerak1 The music is in the public domain now. They can use the song whenever the fuck they want lol.
It's a theme song
@@hannahbee567It’s a piece of classical music that’s been around long before Alton Towers existed named In The Hall of the Mountain King
I mean its kind of a theme tune but not in the owning it way, its iconic at this point. you play 'in the hall of the mountain king' to any british child they will think of one of two things, the pi song or alton towers. ik i think of alton towers when u play it.
I remember the smiler ad really creeping me out as a kid 😅
SAMEE
Same lol 😂
Same
i love how the ads slowly get less and less terrifying past 2015 lmao
I know someone who lives about 10 minutes away from alton towers so I have seen it grow first hand through the years and I've got to say it was a thrill
Same I live sooo close!
Everyone gangsta till CBeebies land takes over the park
Thrills CBeebies takeovet
Get set go treetop adventures is the best ride in the whole park
@@dinonuggies1278 That’s where your wrong my friend. Octonauts superiority! Have you seen the 0-250mph launch with the 153 degree drop! It’s insane and it has 20 inversions! Who would’ve thought that a mere flat ride could overtake such intensity!
(This is a joke btw lol)
@@TheOnePinguFan can’t forget about octonauts that is an adrenaline junkies home
Lol 😂
their rollercoaster ads have always been so great
18:40 Damn I wish my local tesco could magically transport me to Alton Towers 😅
Same😂
Lol 😂
Same lol 😂
So wait. That one smiler ad is saying that if I go on the smiler it Is similar to ingesting every single drug there is? Sign me up!
Lol 😂
*the hall of the mountain king intensifies*
They made Rita look so fast. Im actually impressed 🤣
In a way it is a pretty fast launch to be fair. However, when the ads say 0-100 in 2.5 seconds, I think they meant to say KPH...
0-62 doesn't sound as fun though
@@TheWandererTravelVlogs yeah they did that to make it seem more astonishing to the gp I think
80's Alton Towers Ads: Enjoy our genuine historic castle, our lovely English garden, and a few thrill rides for the Brave at Heart.
2000's Alton Towers Ads: This roller coaster was designed, built, and approved by insane people...enjoy!
More like, 2000’s: come enjoy our thrill rides designed, built and approved by insane people. Oh yeah… and a few lame gardens
The ride after missed their chance to be a horror film maker
what does this comment mean
@@fwutig1121 the ride filmer could've been a horror movie director.
Vividly remember the 2008 alton Towers adverts. Good memories
you belong to the smiler
*10 seconds later cbeebies land ad*
perfecto
Lol 😂
CEO of alton towers probably thought the directors got a little TOO silly with the smiler ad
I actually went to alton towers last week with my 2 best friends
it was really fun, and the Smiler was the best by far!
Lol one of my friends had never actually been on a rollercoaster before, so he went from doing the runaway train, to the wicker man, to oblivion, and to the smiler all in one day. He went from doing nothing, to doing one of the most extreme rollercoasters!
smilers not that intense, many would disagree but rita and galactica are better
@@islaxcv i’ll definitely do those next time
@@millenniumgojira2024 Its very good and unique
@@millenniumgojira2024 galactica being the best over rita, since rita is quite short
@@islaxcv I did do rita, it was fast but I can agree it was short. I didn’t do galactica, so i definitely will do it next time
british ads are something else
Here in the U.S. we get some boring ads I’m kinda jealous of the U.K. Actually 😂
6:37 those were diabolical transitions💀
I swear the guy who made these ads later on missed his shot to become a horror film director
He didn’t miss his shot, he brought his talent to a place you wouldn’t expect
The smiler ad always used to creep me out when I was younger, it still does
someone I can relate too, like I hate the music and my mother plays it like every week and it freaks me out fr fr lol
They really like their in the hall of the mountain king
well it is their theme tune so...
Omg when barney came really got me lol 😂😂
The 90s is really where they made their style ngl
That was Alton Towers at its peak, went a bit downhill since cbeebies land imo bit thats where they make their money now
First advert. i wished it was £2.50 now.
We all belong to the Smiler! 😃 #JoinUs
JOIN US😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈
Of course:)
Join us :)
HELL YEAH! #JoinUs #OpenYourHeartToJoy #YouBelongToTheSmiler #ImObsessedWithTheSmilerAndThatsGreat
No I don’t 🤔💀
incredibly underrated channel, i was genuinely curious about the adverts, especially the smiler one as the smiler is a ride i have not yet done but plan on it, its a big ride ive been wanting to do for years!
Edit: At the time of writing this edit, I have now done smiler multiple times and it is safe to say it is one of my favourite rides of all time!
It's really weird seeing all the very old adverts of this place 😮🙃
I’m an emetophobic person who’s never wanted to go on upside down roller coasters out of fear of someone throwing up or me falling out… But as soon as I saw The Smiler in action the hyperfixation started to hyperfixate ☻
OMG FELLOW EMETOPHOBE
Sending big love (With no vomit lol) 🙃
It’s like the old adds are for a new park
Well if basically was😂
@@tobym1348 true have you heard about project exodus?
@@godbrush1792 that’s Thorpe Park mate
*Ads
Galactic in 2016: rollercoasters are changing forever
3 years later, it’s back to normal.
Pretty sure they used the same song for at least 75% of the ads
Yeah and the others are the remixes of the song. 😂
lolLoLoLolOlL😂😂😂😂
The 2010 ones aware scary as heck man
Good god the Secret Weapon's ads are fever dreams.
omg i did the smiler advert in school for persuasive writing, safe to say i had nightmares for the rest of the school term XD
I'm old enough to have been to Alton towers before there were ANY fairground rides...... God I feel old now 🤣🤣🤣
and Oblivion is the only ride I ever refused to go on more than twice lmao
(p.s. second time was because a mate said "It won't be as bad now we know what to expect."... he was wrong 😁)
@@Galerak1 oblivion is quite gentle
@@timothywait9457 wtf r u on about mate
@@Galerak1 thats crazy, oblivion was my first ever rollercoaster, like ever
@@imightbetash We actually found it was funnier to stand around the hole at the bottom and wave to people on the ride when it stopped briefly at the top. You'd always get one or two people who let go to wave back and the looks on their faces was priceless when it dropped while they weren't hanging on 😂
To be fair though, when you go there 28 times in a month taking coach loads of schoolkids the rides start getting boring so we had to start making our own fun.
Fun times 😁
THEY JUST GET CRAZIER AND WEIRDER
Most nostalgic.....I actually remember an even earlier Alton Towers ad from before the amusement rides started and there were just the gardens.
I seem to remember an old-ish man talking to camera about the beautiful gardens of Alton Towers....between Leek and Uttoxeter....I seem to remember the theme from van Der Valk(Eye Level) was playing in the background....does anyone else remember this?
2.50 to get in... Now it's 57.00 for 1 person! 💀 I think more-less
49
went the toher day, paid 65 quid 😨 The hotel alone was 600 for 2 nights
i CANT stop watching the smiler advert
Them just casually changing rita to camilla 😂
I lovethat their adds are either for kids and adorable or saw inspired for teens
damn 2.50 enterance.. no wonder the old people keep dismissing our money problems everything was cheap and easy for them
well £2.50 was the same to £15 of todays money
4 years ago, I'd have mental breakdowns over the THOUGHT of going towers, cause my phobia of coasters was just that bad. Now i get achey and fidgety whenever Im NOT at Towers.
Ive also been on 7/8 coasters, just missing Bliv. Galactica is my favourite, not been on Nemesis enough to declare which is the best
The smiler is nearly 10 years old? what.
Well what a history it had through those 10 years
It takes over a few months ago apparently 💀💀💀
Part of me wants to go on the smiler, the other part of me wants to go on the in the night garden ride🤣
Octonaughts tgthe???
@@Eliza-vg5yy OMG YESSS
be honest
when you went into the x sector of alton towers
sh#t just got real
This theme park is the definition of 'pick a lane'
On one side, you have these roller coasters with these really weird backstories, like Nemesis, Smiler, Oblivion, Thirteen etc, and then on the other side you've got Cbeebies Land, and the Gangsta Granny bit.
the smiler ad used to give me nightmares
it used to be funny to me dunno why
Smiler is my favourite ride BABY!! Come on it has to be your favourite ride to it is AMAZING 🤩
It is
Go to Alton towers, go on a roller coaster and don’t put your seatbelts on and you will die! :D
Wow £2.50 entrance. What is it now like £60?
I’m going next week and it’s like £68 per person- mental
Al i heard when i woke up after watching this on loop. “Prepare for ⭐️ a. i. r. ⭐️”
Lol 😂
23:05 drip 😎
Galactica used to be named... ''Air'' 🤭🤭
😂😂
Haha just watch the price get higher and higher
Ive been going since the late 80's brings back some great memories
Nice to see that it’s not just me buzzing off the £2.50 entrance fee
i have been to Alton Towers and it is surely amazing my favourite ride is galatica but the smiler and nemisis are really good😃
everyone in the uk has been to alton towers
I couldn't go on galactic it was closed like rita
@@_aur3liai haven't 😅
@@astr0jam your missing out it’s so good 😭😭
W
First it was a 14 looping roller coaster which *literally made you smile* then to a little kids area in Alton Towers
Alton Towers got too silly ☠️
Barney Really Does Love Alton Towers if He Calls It 'Home '
I went to Alton towers yesterday it’s so fun
IT USED TO BE £2.50?!
yes how much inflamation, developed its become….
Random fact: the old caterpillar rollercoaster is now at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, i've been on that thing thousands of times as a kid
In preparation for my Alton trip in a few months
I love that from 1992 that they started using that iconic theme
It’s so awesome-
I’m going next week lol
Bro that 1991 advert is mad
Who loves Alton towers ❤
I love it
At ALToN TOwErS
Me
They sure love using king of the mountain hall😂
Wicker man is THE goated wooden roller coaster
Now it’s finished, ride it. 😏 At Alton towers!
Maybe you could do one from 1980 to 2023 when they release more adverts
It missed 1995 days of oblivion
The sharp view cam, fly in on your chopper in a beige suit ride on the river rapids and go home.
The Rita one made me cry a bit
£2.50! I remember the corkscrew. Liked that one!
quite a shame that nemesis will be closed for the next year
Wait really?
@@TB_Bird yes on the 6th of November for track maintenance opens in 2024 again
@@TB_Bird Just a track replacement. But you knew that.
a shame but at least it will make the ride more enjoyable x
@@rubyclark7949 It was already enjoyable. The beast needs to keep her roar though.
I can’t believe oblivion is going! I need to ride it before it closes!!! (End of November!) everyone give oblivion one last ride!
It isnt
@@Ethancoasters I didn’t realise at the time it was a joke lol
17:32 this is where it gets good but it gets even better here 20:08
I’m going to Alton towers in a few weeks time and my dad is being forced to ride wickerman with me 🤭😈
Wickerman is definitely one the best rides there. if you haven’t you should definitely ride Th13teen.
@@aztec_anna I’m gonna do all the big roller coasters, sad I have never been on nemesis 😭✨
@@Toca4eva nemesis is a fun one for sure
Lol 😂
Could be worse, I’m going next week and forcing my dad and my friends to come in the smiler with me
Heheheheheheheheheheh
20:12 bro a lollipop turned into a person wth 😂
first time i went to Alton towers i rode the smiler 4 times
does that mean im marmalised
Do you feel marmalised is the question?
@@TheOnePinguFan no
@@SmileAlways7144 there’s your answer then. N o
Every time I think of the word marmalized I think of Paddington 😂
Prolly lmao
You can tell Alton Towers is a big fan of In the Hall of The Mountain King lol
I would really like to go there but I’m going to Florida in 9 days ❤🎉
Nemesis is flying with galactica
I love alton towers
The smiler❤
❤that ride❤
THE NOSTALGA 😭😭😭😭
The phone number charged like 4 times
I live in America and it’s like $1000 to fly to the UK rn. 😭
...in the 1991 ad... did they say "enjoy whoopee!" Towards the very end? Did I hear that right? And...if I heard that right...does that mean something else over in the UK that im not aware of? 😂😅
Alton towers is the best
Prepare for air is wild
9:36
Take me there Now
4:08 never forget the runaway mine train going “chooo chooo”