Christan the techog Got it! And the animatronic statue has better get some new movements to resemble Modern Sonic! And also hopefully Toyland Tours can return
And I’m also going to save the Sonic statue hidden in Japan’s mountains and bring it to North America and sculpt a new nose and patch up the cracks in the statue’s right arm and maybe even make a surfboard and design it and also make the torso of the statue more stronger so it can support the weight of the right arm
thats a problem the park is notorious for, Wicker Man's fire dosen't work most of the time, The Smiler's Indoor queues projections don't work and the Nemesis eyey will have problems soon
Just a small bit of Sonic still at Alton Towers is semi-obscure, the Spinball Whizzer ride, one of the bumpers on the ground still has Dr Eggman/Robotnik on it (though could only see it from above whilst on the ride)
I sure hope someone gets some video, or a picture of it somehow while it's still there, Even if something is gone forever, it's always nice to have documentation that it was there at one point.
Yeah it’s still there. I’ve seen it this year, and it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere. It would be really hard to take a photo or video of tho, due to the violent jolting and spinning at the only time you can see it.
If anyone's still interested, it was there at scarefest 2019 still so it's remained throughout the season. fingers crossed it's still there when the 2020 season starts!!
P.S. some people may have come from Slopes Game Room. Hello! This was my first proper attempt at doing a documentary check out some of my newer documentaries which have much better quality. My favourite part of this video is the Chimp.
Badnik Mechanic I have news for you! About a Sega partnership with a theme park. ( not Alton tower s). Ask me bout it if ya wanna find out more Please let me know if ur interested.
"Put on these safety fast shoes. Make sure the strap is tight and the buckles are secure, and pull the sock so it forms a double-ring shape, and run as fast as you can to the nearest exit."
I assume they did that to make sure Sonic looks right from either side (because his mouth is know to switch sides constantly), but the drawback is that Sonic's face looks freaky from the front.
Really enjoyed the video, however I noticed a lot of digital artifacting on the shown moving footage. I didn't think much of it at first, assuming it was probably old and from lesser digital cameras of the time, but then your own recording of the Sonic hotel room was shown and appeared quite distorted. Given that this footage didn't look like that when you originally uploaded it years ago, it's likely something happened during the export of this entire video to cause it to become corrupted or compressed. Might be worth re-exporting and re-uploading this video to have the picture quality you intended. You mentioned on Twitter wanting to do similar documentary type videos in the future - it would be a shame if new viewers saw this and were turned away from your channel due to the visual errors thinking the whole video itself was of lesser production quality, especially since that's not the case and the information itself was quite nicely presented.
I think I know what has caused the distortion issues now. When the video is being converted from youtube into something I can use, it's not being encoded correctly when I try to max the quality of it, and it seems to be doing it mainly with low end cameras or mobile phone video, no all of it, but a lot. Hopefully this should be resolved for future uploads.
@@BadnikMechanic just came across this video and the glitching was reeeeally hard to get through but your presentation overall had me push through. Awesome that you worked out the problem too
@@BadnikMechanic I found your statue video last night then this one tonight and am blown away by the amount of marketing sonic has had, even in the UK! Great content man
quite late, but to anyone living in the uk, the sonic statue is usally found in 'GAME' shops like literally called game, wherever ive been, theres always one so i dont think it was just made for alton towers.
The Nerd View Review if you think that, you’ve obviously never been to one. And I know you’ve said that already, if you actually DID go to Alton Towers, you’d love it.
mxblck I’ll admit to complete ignorance, family never had money travel to parks, feel I would quite enjoy it but still I stand by my thoughts in how they’re marketed, the international ones make them feel magical, ours don’t seem to share that escape from reality, they look so serious.
Alton towers is one of the few theme parks i went to, i can distinctly remember getting in the line for the sonic spinball ride but i didn't go on the ride because me and my sister realised we didn't have enough time and we had to go back home. I did however go on that charlie and the chocolate factory ride and it's insane to think that i was in a place where sonic the hedgehog had once resided... thanks for making this video, it brought back some unexpected memories.
One memory which is burned into my head from visiting Alton Towers as a child is how terrified I was of the swan boat ... literally scared the life out of me
Starting from when I was about 7, we used to take a photo of me and the sonic statue every year. Me seeing the statue as a 7 year old kickstarted my love of sonic. Obviously, when they took it down, it kind of hurt. EDIT: I stayed at the sonic room once. I loved it. Door made a ring noise every time you opened it. (Just heard it in the video... memories!) ANOTHER EDIT: (i forgot about this comment, but the final edit i made here was totally wrong. lol)
@@ThatSneakman oh, yeah, originally I was, but I was completely wrong. It's the same statue, but not _the_ same statue. The original one is still at alton towers outside a staff building. You can see it if you ride a specific Skyride route.
Okay, not related to this video, but I was watching this with Spotify on my living room TV, while I set up "Sonic Mania Plus" in my garage TV. I came back into the living room to find "Gangsta's Paradise" playing on Spotify. Very Sonic filled moment. This video playing on my phone, "Sonic Mania Plus" in the garage, and the song from that trailer playing in the living room.
There are still some hints to Sonic Spinball if you look closely enough: 1. The car numbers are apparently the same as Sonic Spinball, though I honestly have no clue if that's true. 2. On top of one of the theming ornaments is a picture of who I'm guessing is Doctor Eggman, but I honestly have no clue, I'm not really a Sonic fan.
@@masterknife8423 It did? I was completely unaware of that. It's just I really enjoy Sonic (a staple of my childhood and teenage years), but if the ride looks the same now as it did with it I guess I could give the ride a try (except I don't live in the UK so I'm screwed).
@@doublebaconchaseburger If you're from America you ain't missing much really. I live in the UK and I would give anything to have the likes of Disneyland or Cedar Point on my doorstep
Master Knife speaking of Disneyland. What you said about the ride being the same with or without the Sonic license reminded me of how Space Mountain became Hyperspace Mountain with the addition of the Star Wars license. Both are the same, just one has a Star Wars theme and one doesn’t.
Amazing video!! Wish I knew about the Sonic Spinball ride and could've gone to it at least once. Hopefully we'll get something similar for the series soon!
I'm fairly sure before Toyland closed they updated the Sonic section of the ride. I use to go to Alton Towers several times a year, We'd go to Mc Donalds next to Toyland Tours and then go on that ride as a way to let our stomachs settle. I remember it being a lot more bright and funky in that room.
The best part was how even before the Sonic 4 video leaks that wallpaper was correctly used to in guessing that the game would be a boostpad fest. 4’s core dna was mapped out successfully using 5 seconds of footage and wallpaper.
I remember going on this. The ride was pretty fun and I even had a photo with the Sonic mascot wondering around. Although the statues nose had broken off and I remember there being 10" Jazwares in the gift shop. The ride even played Station Squares music on a Speaker around the ride.
I don't know how I have only just seen this video but glad I finally manage to watch it. A great video with the full back story regarding Sonic and Alton Towers. Thanks! :)
You should have made a small grave at the end of the video that had the date Sonic was at Alton and when he left. It also should have had a quote that said “I checked out the consoles.”
The only strange thing in the Sonic Section to the Toyland Tours is if you looked at his head since he looked like he broke his neck and obliteratedall the bones in his neck , and he looked strange with two faces ;v;
I’m so happy I managed to see both incarnations of Sonic at Alton Towers. I loved the Toyland Tours ride when I was very young and do have memories of Sonic on it - I might even have pictures, I’ll have to check. Years later when I visited I got to go on the Spinball ride when it was Sonic themed. I have a picture next to the statue. Sadly I never got to stay in the room though.
I watched your original video on the Sonic 4 room. I was so jealous of you back then, and it’s great to see you covering Alton again! Thanks you so much for this video.
I remember going on the sonic spinball as a kid, and I remember really hating it, it spam, and it was fast. It was the first ride I went on at Alton Towers. A few years later (when it became the Spinball Whizzer again), I loved it. Not really sure what changed, but as a kid, I was really excited to go on a sonic-themed ride.
The story of Sonic at Alton Towers sounds depressing. The way every time Sega tried to have Sonic there, something would stop them like the ride malfunctioning or in the case of Sonic Spinball, a hotel room that had a lot of issues. However, I am happy that Sonic at least had some time to shine in Alton Towers from 1994-2017.
A few years ago my friend worked at Alton Towers, they confirmed for me that the Sonic Statue was still there, surrounded by LEGO statues and even some old log flume vehicles, the guy had seen better days but it was nice to know he is still there, this was in 2022. Also everyone my age still calls the ride Sonic Spinball, it's what we always knew it being afterall
Glad I went on the ride when I did! I loved it, as a Sonic fan this has made me sad. I really wanted to stay in the Sonic room but now everything is gone!!
I remember seeing this ride, I was too scared to ride it as a kid though. I remember seeing the Sonic statue just outside the coaster, that thing towered me as a kid lol. Last time I went, the Sonic theme to the ride was just.. Gone, and I was just like 'wat, where is our boi Sonic at?'.
Finally got around to watching this, a very fascinating look into this partnership. Was aware of the Sonic Spinball and hotel room back in the day of me roaming the Sonic Stadium forums but was not aware there was an even earlier partnership featuring the blue spikeball! Gotta give this Sonic at Alton song a listen to, sounds like a bop! And as was mentioned, there was a lot of visual hiccups and even noticed that some of your audio sounded pretty muffled at times. Hopefully these will be fixed in future uploads! Great vid Dave, keep up the great work!
Yeah the audio is a bit naff at parts due to the following.... Part of it was recorded on a camcorder... Part of it was recorded on a mobile in a conservatory... The rest of it was recorded on a mobile in my room... then I realised 'Oh heck, am I holding the phone in the same way?' Come Xmas all audio will be recorded on a yeti mic so hopefully all audio issues will be resolved by then. Already working on the next big video. Mascots! Mascots... everywhere!
I absolutely adored this ride. I would always want to ride it again and again and again XD. The different cars each based on a certain Sonic character was awesome and the music that played was catchy and memorable. I was so sad when I realised the ride was gone. It will forever hold a place in my heart as one of my favourite rides of all time.
My family used to get the plane from Ireland to England and after being tired from the long drive I would be filled with joy walking through the gates I fucking love Alton towers
Really good video :) makes me feel sad to see how quick sonics involvement in the park really was. Looking back I wish I bought more merch and took more time to really appreciate that part of the park while it was there.
The preview day videos featured here pretty extensively: Part 1: th-cam.com/video/Jak1CEkYyB0/w-d-xo.html Part 2: th-cam.com/video/ZLaoE9G3cN0/w-d-xo.html And all the Sonic voice clips: th-cam.com/video/0vWUjRmoIaQ/w-d-xo.html The mural was not painted. It was a giant print stuck to the wall.
I've been on Alton towers recently, and I went on oblivion, and I went on the ride that spins 4 times and did 1 inside out loop and this ride that went like 50 mph in 1 second.
Great video, I never got to stay in the room unfortunately but I do remember being in the shop when they were getting rid of the sonic display and they let me have the header board which I still have
“The problem with the mural was that it was Sonic 4 themed” Jesus Christ dude.... I’m here as a guy who watches theme park content constantly and this is the point where I realized this was a Sonic thing way more than a theme park thing. How is a 74/100 panned? That’s well above average... it’s a beautiful mural I swear Sonic fans are bonkers.
Sonic 4 is pretty hated in the Sonic community. If you play it as a non-Sonic fan in a vacuum, it can seem okay, but to the Sonic community it’s just a shoddy mess.
KamsBizarreAdventure that’s fine but all the Sonic games are shoddy messes. Sonic 4 is ironically again one of the highest rated Sonic titles of the last two decades.
Gavin Wilson Sonic 4 Episode 2 is worse than the first 3&K are where some would say the series stopped being good. Adventure had a common clipping glitch early on in it’s first level and Adventure 2 is kind of just an awful game all around. It has like four sonic levels and then everything else is worse than the first by a mile. Generations is an hour long and meh at best. And given it came out years after Mario Galaxy it’s lack of content is embarrassing for a 360 title. Heroes is okay but it’s too button mash-y and the enemies are all so wildly uninteresting. ... Colors and Unleashed are good though. The Werehog gets too much hate considering how bad most of the other games are.
im from Mexico and I never knew that Alton Towers was a thing, but holy moly, now I only want a time machine and a ticket to the uk, just to stay 5 minutes in that room and buy the medal!!! AWESOME VIDEO!
So instead of refurbishing the Toyland Tours ride, they decided "Hey, you know that crazy tunnel scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that gives kids nightmares? Let's do that, except more boring"
@@unwelldanny7108 I've seen the 2005 movie. This looks nothing like it. If anything, this seems closer to the original book than either of the film adaptations (which is basically just code for "we were extremely cheap")
Oh wow, I had no idea about the exclusive Sonic Spinball medals. I remember grabbing mine around October time, I still have it hanging up over my mirror. The white of the design has started to discolour ever so slightly with age, but it’s still pretty awesome. I seem to remember them not being cheap either, along with the photos I got from the ride in one of the Sonic Spinball gift frames
Sadly never went Alton Towers during the Sonic partnership, but visited in 2017 and last week. If you go on the spinball whizzer at the right time, you can hear the ring collection chime occasionally while waiting, not sure if any voice lines are mistakingly played but both times I’ve been heard the ring sound a couple times. Hope Alton And Sega collobarate again one day!
I actually have some sort of leaflet for sonic spinball's announcement when I bought the first Sega all stars racing game for the Nintendo DS. It really brought back some memories for me.
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I feel so bad for the Sonic statue (which was an animatronic statue) for not surviving with the music from the attraction
When i grow up im going to this alton theme park and if i see that sonic staue im going to get it im going to jump off and release my parachute
@@thegreatwisebear don't forget to record it so we can see our blue boy.
Christan the techog Got it! And the animatronic statue has better get some new movements to resemble Modern Sonic! And also hopefully Toyland Tours can return
And I’m also going to save the Sonic statue hidden in Japan’s mountains and bring it to North America and sculpt a new nose and patch up the cracks in the statue’s right arm and maybe even make a surfboard and design it and also make the torso of the statue more stronger so it can support the weight of the right arm
Alexander Hale supposedly didn’t survive
Dang it!
I really wanted to *check out the CONSOLES W O A H*
Edgyface nice profile pic
Im blue and your blue
I gotta find a voice clip of *the consoles W O A H*
W O A H.exe has stoped
Check out the consoles from a drunk sonic
14:15 I know it's amazing but my god it sounded like Sonic was kind of drunk
Omg yeah 😂
Rainbow Master 64 lol he sounds drunk XD
Yeah, not only that but he even LOOKS drunk too!!!
LOL
KEeP YOur eYE oUt FOr DoCTer EggMAn...?!
>1998 Fully Operational
>Sonic’s head does a full 180
It was still fully operational in 2000
thats a problem the park is notorious for, Wicker Man's fire dosen't work most of the time, The Smiler's Indoor queues projections don't work and the Nemesis eyey will have problems soon
Spinball... noodles?
Why couldn't they go with Chili dogs? That's Sonics thing.
Chili dogs, burgers, fries, AND thick milkshakes.
That’s what I was thinking XD
@@tyshco2969**thicc**, milkshakes
[not_in_ur_proximity_quincy] Stop.
One plate of diarrhea please.
Just a small bit of Sonic still at Alton Towers is semi-obscure, the Spinball Whizzer ride, one of the bumpers on the ground still has Dr Eggman/Robotnik on it (though could only see it from above whilst on the ride)
As in, printed on it, or a physical statue sitting in it?
@@ToaKoran Printed one of the bumpers I have only gone in 2018, I believe it is still there.
I sure hope someone gets some video, or a picture of it somehow while it's still there, Even if something is gone forever, it's always nice to have documentation that it was there at one point.
Yeah it’s still there. I’ve seen it this year, and it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere. It would be really hard to take a photo or video of tho, due to the violent jolting and spinning at the only time you can see it.
If anyone's still interested, it was there at scarefest 2019 still so it's remained throughout the season. fingers crossed it's still there when the 2020 season starts!!
P.S. some people may have come from Slopes Game Room. Hello! This was my first proper attempt at doing a documentary check out some of my newer documentaries which have much better quality.
My favourite part of this video is the Chimp.
Cool
Badnik Mechanic
I have news for you! About a Sega partnership with a theme park. ( not Alton tower s).
Ask me bout it if ya wanna find out more
Please let me know if ur interested.
Chimps are terrifying.
There really needs to be more Sonic themed roller coasters and rides especially in America.
Tbh I would totally have Sonic tell me safety instructions if I ever got into a dangerous situation.
"Put on these safety fast shoes. Make sure the strap is tight and the buckles are secure, and pull the sock so it forms a double-ring shape, and run as fast as you can to the nearest exit."
It's already a thing, look up "Sonic Says".
And... Sonic has two mounths again...
I mean it was never to be seen in the front like the old Thanksgiving Parade balloon.
Did you mean to spell mouth and what do you mean again?
He would need two mouths to go tails two tails if you know what I'm saying!
@@mduke2k *WOW MY HEAD'S SPINNING*
I assume they did that to make sure Sonic looks right from either side (because his mouth is know to switch sides constantly), but the drawback is that Sonic's face looks freaky from the front.
I saw similar Sonic statue in Alton tower on japanese auction site several years ago.
Huh. What was the site name?
Link?
LINK?
LEEEEEEEENK?
Really enjoyed the video, however I noticed a lot of digital artifacting on the shown moving footage. I didn't think much of it at first, assuming it was probably old and from lesser digital cameras of the time, but then your own recording of the Sonic hotel room was shown and appeared quite distorted. Given that this footage didn't look like that when you originally uploaded it years ago, it's likely something happened during the export of this entire video to cause it to become corrupted or compressed.
Might be worth re-exporting and re-uploading this video to have the picture quality you intended. You mentioned on Twitter wanting to do similar documentary type videos in the future - it would be a shame if new viewers saw this and were turned away from your channel due to the visual errors thinking the whole video itself was of lesser production quality, especially since that's not the case and the information itself was quite nicely presented.
Friesnchip Yeah, I noticed that, it’s very disorienting.
I think I know what has caused the distortion issues now. When the video is being converted from youtube into something I can use, it's not being encoded correctly when I try to max the quality of it, and it seems to be doing it mainly with low end cameras or mobile phone video, no all of it, but a lot.
Hopefully this should be resolved for future uploads.
@@BadnikMechanic just came across this video and the glitching was reeeeally hard to get through but your presentation overall had me push through. Awesome that you worked out the problem too
Yeah, the glitching issue has now been completely resolved, it will not be an issue for future videos.
@@BadnikMechanic I found your statue video last night then this one tonight and am blown away by the amount of marketing sonic has had, even in the UK! Great content man
I got stuck on this ride when I was a young teenager with my friends for over an HOUR!! Such fun memories though
quite late, but to anyone living in the uk, the sonic statue is usally found in 'GAME' shops like literally called game, wherever ive been, theres always one so i dont think it was just made for alton towers.
Live in the UK and never been to Alton Towers, there’s something oddly unnerving about British theme parks, they’re look so dreary
The Nerd View Review if you think that, you’ve obviously never been to one. And I know you’ve said that already, if you actually DID go to Alton Towers, you’d love it.
mxblck I’ll admit to complete ignorance, family never had money travel to parks, feel I would quite enjoy it but still I stand by my thoughts in how they’re marketed, the international ones make them feel magical, ours don’t seem to share that escape from reality, they look so serious.
Alton towers is one of the few theme parks i went to, i can distinctly remember getting in the line for the sonic spinball ride but i didn't go on the ride because me and my sister realised we didn't have enough time and we had to go back home. I did however go on that charlie and the chocolate factory ride and it's insane to think that i was in a place where sonic the hedgehog had once resided... thanks for making this video, it brought back some unexpected memories.
I fucking adore how enthusiastic you are about this stuff man. It reminds me of why i'm a Sonic fan! This fandom needs more positivity!
real
Used to work at towers and whilst I can’t remember for sure, I think the sonic statute from toontown, or at least a replica, is inside magic HQ
One memory which is burned into my head from visiting Alton Towers as a child is how terrified I was of the swan boat ... literally scared the life out of me
Starting from when I was about 7, we used to take a photo of me and the sonic statue every year. Me seeing the statue as a 7 year old kickstarted my love of sonic. Obviously, when they took it down, it kind of hurt.
EDIT: I stayed at the sonic room once. I loved it. Door made a ring noise every time you opened it. (Just heard it in the video... memories!)
ANOTHER EDIT: (i forgot about this comment, but the final edit i made here was totally wrong. lol)
I also became a Sonic fan when I was 7, but it was from a game called "Sonic Lost in Mario World." (I live in the US.)
That statue you're talking about, you on about the Video Game Museum in Sheffield?
@@ThatSneakman oh, yeah, originally I was, but I was completely wrong. It's the same statue, but not _the_ same statue. The original one is still at alton towers outside a staff building. You can see it if you ride a specific Skyride route.
This would have been so much fun, which I could've enjoyed it. Great video!
This was a nice little history lesson for someone who lives in the United States !
Cho Soi Games AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! I HATE THE STATES!!!!! I WANNA LIVE IN THE UK!!!!!!!!!
Okay, not related to this video, but I was watching this with Spotify on my living room TV, while I set up "Sonic Mania Plus" in my garage TV. I came back into the living room to find "Gangsta's Paradise" playing on Spotify. Very Sonic filled moment. This video playing on my phone, "Sonic Mania Plus" in the garage, and the song from that trailer playing in the living room.
There are still some hints to Sonic Spinball if you look closely enough:
1. The car numbers are apparently the same as Sonic Spinball, though I honestly have no clue if that's true.
2. On top of one of the theming ornaments is a picture of who I'm guessing is Doctor Eggman, but I honestly have no clue, I'm not really a Sonic fan.
They really need to bring back the Sonic Spinball ride (just Spinball Whizzer isn’t going to cut it).
Dude Spinball Whizzer is it's original name plus when it had the Sonic branding it looked pretty much the same
@@masterknife8423 It did? I was completely unaware of that. It's just I really enjoy Sonic (a staple of my childhood and teenage years), but if the ride looks the same now as it did with it I guess I could give the ride a try (except I don't live in the UK so I'm screwed).
@@doublebaconchaseburger If you're from America you ain't missing much really. I live in the UK and I would give anything to have the likes of Disneyland or Cedar Point on my doorstep
The ride is no different. Sonic was just annoying.
Master Knife speaking of Disneyland. What you said about the ride being the same with or without the Sonic license reminded me of how Space Mountain became Hyperspace Mountain with the addition of the Star Wars license. Both are the same, just one has a Star Wars theme and one doesn’t.
I would've taken all the sonic merchandise in the room. EVERYTHING!
Christan the techog mii 2
Amazing video!! Wish I knew about the Sonic Spinball ride and could've gone to it at least once. Hopefully we'll get something similar for the series soon!
I'm fairly sure before Toyland closed they updated the Sonic section of the ride. I use to go to Alton Towers several times a year, We'd go to Mc Donalds next to Toyland Tours and then go on that ride as a way to let our stomachs settle. I remember it being a lot more bright and funky in that room.
Wait...race cars but with snails hmmmmm......THAY PREDICTED TURBOOOOO!!!!!
Oh wow
Turbo was basically DreamWorks' answer to Sonic.
@@unwelldanny7108 even Skidmark, the blue snail and movie sonic are both voiced by the same Actor (Ben Schwartz)
The best part was how even before the Sonic 4 video leaks that wallpaper was correctly used to in guessing that the game would be a boostpad fest. 4’s core dna was mapped out successfully using 5 seconds of footage and wallpaper.
@Ready Player Com This was a great little documentary good job! I would love to see more of this style of video
You can really tell you have a ton of passion for Sonic in this video! It was really informative and entertaining to watch. Great work!
Now that you mention it the bed in the Sonic room does look kinda tiny, least the room is still pretty cool
I remember going on this. The ride was pretty fun and I even had a photo with the Sonic mascot wondering around. Although the statues nose had broken off and I remember there being 10" Jazwares in the gift shop. The ride even played Station Squares music on a Speaker around the ride.
I don't know how I have only just seen this video but glad I finally manage to watch it. A great video with the full back story regarding Sonic and Alton Towers. Thanks! :)
I remember climbing the statue
IT WAS YOU!😂🤣
Classic sonic is cute.
You should have made a small grave at the end of the video that had the date Sonic was at Alton and when he left. It also should have had a quote that said “I checked out the consoles.”
BUT I WANTED TO BOOK THE ROOM!!!!!!!!!!
This channel is Evily underrated!
Please tell and share with your friends.
I remember seeing a short video of the animatronic and Jesus Christ it’s terrifying
My first theme park was actually Blackpool pleasure beach!
I actually went on Spinball whizzer last year and the one thing I noticed is that there were still pictures of Eggman on top of the giant bumpers...
The only strange thing in the Sonic Section to the Toyland Tours is if you looked at his head since he looked like he broke his neck and obliteratedall the bones in his neck , and he looked strange with two faces ;v;
I swear Sally Acorn was on the badge for this ride
"HOOBA DOOBA, WELcome to my ROOMAH-"
I’m so happy I managed to see both incarnations of Sonic at Alton Towers. I loved the Toyland Tours ride when I was very young and do have memories of Sonic on it - I might even have pictures, I’ll have to check. Years later when I visited I got to go on the Spinball ride when it was Sonic themed. I have a picture next to the statue. Sadly I never got to stay in the room though.
I found a remain of sonic spinball on spinball whizzer when you are spinning down look on one of the poles and eggman is there!
I remember going to Alton Towers on a school trip and got called a nerd for going on the Sanic ride.
I didn't even know who Sonic was.
DoodleWill that guy is probably a sonic hater
I would have loved to ride Toyland Tours with my primary school
I watched your original video on the Sonic 4 room. I was so jealous of you back then, and it’s great to see you covering Alton again! Thanks you so much for this video.
1:50 RIP Blue Sky Studios.
I remember going on the sonic spinball as a kid, and I remember really hating it, it spam, and it was fast. It was the first ride I went on at Alton Towers. A few years later (when it became the Spinball Whizzer again), I loved it. Not really sure what changed, but as a kid, I was really excited to go on a sonic-themed ride.
I never been to Alton towers oh well the giant version of the master system and Genesis looks so cool
The story of Sonic at Alton Towers sounds depressing. The way every time Sega tried to have Sonic there, something would stop them like the ride malfunctioning or in the case of Sonic Spinball, a hotel room that had a lot of issues. However, I am happy that Sonic at least had some time to shine in Alton Towers from 1994-2017.
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15:50 ChEcK oUt ThE cOnSoLeS! WoOoAhH!!!
A few years ago my friend worked at Alton Towers, they confirmed for me that the Sonic Statue was still there, surrounded by LEGO statues and even some old log flume vehicles, the guy had seen better days but it was nice to know he is still there, this was in 2022.
Also everyone my age still calls the ride Sonic Spinball, it's what we always knew it being afterall
That sonic remix actually gave me chills!
Glad I went on the ride when I did! I loved it, as a Sonic fan this has made me sad. I really wanted to stay in the Sonic room but now everything is gone!!
I remember seeing this ride, I was too scared to ride it as a kid though. I remember seeing the Sonic statue just outside the coaster, that thing towered me as a kid lol. Last time I went, the Sonic theme to the ride was just.. Gone, and I was just like 'wat, where is our boi Sonic at?'.
Finally got around to watching this, a very fascinating look into this partnership. Was aware of the Sonic Spinball and hotel room back in the day of me roaming the Sonic Stadium forums but was not aware there was an even earlier partnership featuring the blue spikeball! Gotta give this Sonic at Alton song a listen to, sounds like a bop!
And as was mentioned, there was a lot of visual hiccups and even noticed that some of your audio sounded pretty muffled at times. Hopefully these will be fixed in future uploads!
Great vid Dave, keep up the great work!
Yeah the audio is a bit naff at parts due to the following....
Part of it was recorded on a camcorder...
Part of it was recorded on a mobile in a conservatory...
The rest of it was recorded on a mobile in my room... then I realised 'Oh heck, am I holding the phone in the same way?'
Come Xmas all audio will be recorded on a yeti mic so hopefully all audio issues will be resolved by then.
Already working on the next big video. Mascots! Mascots... everywhere!
@@BadnikMechanic Oh boy, that's a lot of mascots!
While I do like the Yeti mic, it sure can't beat a Zeti mic.
Me: Where is the Sonic theming at your park?
Alton Towers: Gone, reduced to atoms.
Back then
I went on the ride
I met sonic
He signed my sonic book
Childhood complete
you still have the book????
I absolutely adored this ride. I would always want to ride it again and again and again XD. The different cars each based on a certain Sonic character was awesome and the music that played was catchy and memorable. I was so sad when I realised the ride was gone. It will forever hold a place in my heart as one of my favourite rides of all time.
My family used to get the plane from Ireland to England and after being tired from the long drive I would be filled with joy walking through the gates I fucking love Alton towers
Really good video :) makes me feel sad to see how quick sonics involvement in the park really was.
Looking back I wish I bought more merch and took more time to really appreciate that part of the park while it was there.
I want to ride ALL the Sonic rides AND stay in that suite for the rest of my life
checK oUt thEE coOOOOONsOOlleSS
*wooAAAAHhhhh*
The preview day videos featured here pretty extensively:
Part 1: th-cam.com/video/Jak1CEkYyB0/w-d-xo.html
Part 2: th-cam.com/video/ZLaoE9G3cN0/w-d-xo.html
And all the Sonic voice clips: th-cam.com/video/0vWUjRmoIaQ/w-d-xo.html
The mural was not painted. It was a giant print stuck to the wall.
I've been on Alton towers recently, and I went on oblivion, and I went on the ride that spins 4 times and did 1 inside out loop and this ride that went like 50 mph in 1 second.
I'm A Huge Sonic The Hegrehog Fan. Thanks Mate. X
Great video, I never got to stay in the room unfortunately but I do remember being in the shop when they were getting rid of the sonic display and they let me have the header board which I still have
That animotronic is horrifying. He has 2 mouths and he just looks creepy also he just sits in the dark surrounded by water
I went on the sonic spinball ride, it was one of my favorites when I went to Alton towers.
That sonic remix was absolutely fantastic
Instead of a volume warning, how about leveling the audio? It wasn't even that loud lol!
Great video! Would love to see a video on Sega world in London
“The problem with the mural was that it was Sonic 4 themed”
Jesus Christ dude....
I’m here as a guy who watches theme park content constantly and this is the point where I realized this was a Sonic thing way more than a theme park thing.
How is a 74/100 panned? That’s well above average... it’s a beautiful mural I swear Sonic fans are bonkers.
This video is 27 min long. The line you quoted is at 22 min. I guess I didn't do too badly then...
Sonic 4 is pretty hated in the Sonic community. If you play it as a non-Sonic fan in a vacuum, it can seem okay, but to the Sonic community it’s just a shoddy mess.
KamsBizarreAdventure that’s fine but all the Sonic games are shoddy messes.
Sonic 4 is ironically again one of the highest rated Sonic titles of the last two decades.
@@TheRealAmericanMan Sonic 2? 3&K? CD?The adveture games? Heroes? Colors? The daytime stages in Unleased? Episode 2 in sonic 4? Generations? Mania?
Gavin Wilson Sonic 4 Episode 2 is worse than the first
3&K are where some would say the series stopped being good. Adventure had a common clipping glitch early on in it’s first level and Adventure 2 is kind of just an awful game all around. It has like four sonic levels and then everything else is worse than the first by a mile. Generations is an hour long and meh at best. And given it came out years after Mario Galaxy it’s lack of content is embarrassing for a 360 title.
Heroes is okay but it’s too button mash-y and the enemies are all so wildly uninteresting.
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Colors and Unleashed are good though.
The Werehog gets too much hate considering how bad most of the other games are.
SONIC IS COOL AND RIP ALTON TOWERS
When did Alton towers die?
im from Mexico and I never knew that Alton Towers was a thing, but holy moly, now I only want a time machine and a ticket to the uk, just to stay 5 minutes in that room and buy the medal!!! AWESOME VIDEO!
I love Sonic 4. Nice game in my opinion, I Hope Sega decides to finish tha saga with Sonic 4 EP 3. Because I still consider it canon
Very good video, loved it!
He is still outside magic HQ we saw him there today and caught a video of him there 💕
Before Nintendoland...
If only that was a thing
@CCuppy no I meant a Nintendo theme park
SegaLand
@@thegamingdoggo9519 Universal Japan?
@@thegamingdoggo9519 Watch the new direct :)
i remember this ride, went on it when i was around 9-10 i believe, quite fun from what i remember of it, the sonic mascot was a nice touch too
I remember being 10 when that sonic commerical came out. That was a big surprise. Sadly i've only went to Drayton Manor and not Alton Towers.
The noodles were AMAZING! I wish they could bring those back...
So instead of refurbishing the Toyland Tours ride, they decided "Hey, you know that crazy tunnel scene from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory that gives kids nightmares? Let's do that, except more boring"
That ride was based on the 2005 movie, which had a less scarier tunnel scene.
@@unwelldanny7108 I've seen the 2005 movie. This looks nothing like it. If anything, this seems closer to the original book than either of the film adaptations (which is basically just code for "we were extremely cheap")
Oh wow, I had no idea about the exclusive Sonic Spinball medals. I remember grabbing mine around October time, I still have it hanging up over my mirror. The white of the design has started to discolour ever so slightly with age, but it’s still pretty awesome. I seem to remember them not being cheap either, along with the photos I got from the ride in one of the Sonic Spinball gift frames
I remember whaching my family going there at halloween
Oh boy if only you know how much I HATE animatroniks and then I see my favourite blue hedgehog being a total creep around the ride... EW ! >M
Sadly never went Alton Towers during the Sonic partnership, but visited in 2017 and last week. If you go on the spinball whizzer at the right time, you can hear the ring collection chime occasionally while waiting, not sure if any voice lines are mistakingly played but both times I’ve been heard the ring sound a couple times. Hope Alton And Sega collobarate again one day!
Staying at a Sonic theme hotel room seems so cool. Even if the games they had there were super outdated, I would still enjoy it.
I went to Butlins in 2013, I could have sworn I saw something related there. :)
I actually have some sort of leaflet for sonic spinball's announcement when I bought the first Sega all stars racing game for the Nintendo DS. It really brought back some memories for me.
"hEy HeY WeLcOmE To My RoOm" is... Is Sonic trying to seduce me MTV Cribs style?
Lol
Looking at that animatronic statue of sonic front facing kinda looks terrifying
Slopes game room bought me here and I'm glad he did.
He did!?
Was a good documentary, extensive look at the history and heck, I didn't know a lot of this. Good job man, would like to see more if you have ideas.
Well, we can wait for Sonic Ride at the Universal studios.