Spinball Whizzer

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Spinball Whizzer

Location Alton Towers
Park Section Adventure Land
Type Steel - Spinning
Status Open
Opened March 27, 2004
Manufacturer Maurer Söhne
Designer Werner Stengel
Model Xtended SC 3000
Lift/launch system Chain lift hill
Height 56 ft (17.1 m)
Length 1576 ft (480.4 m)
Max speed 38 mph (61.2 km/h)
Inversions 0
Duration 1:15
Cost £3,500,000
Spinball Whizzer at RCDB
Pictures of Spinball Whizzer at RCDB


Spinball Whizzer is a steel roller coaster with spinning cars made by Maurer Söhne of Germany. The coaster is located in the Adventure Land area of Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England. It is one of the most popular rides at Alton Towers, regularly reaching queue times of over 90 minutes.

It is themed around a giant pinball machine, with the silver cars being the balls. A large variety of music can be heard from the rock 'n' roll genre whilst you are queueing up or around the ride.

When the ride ends you here a voice saying, 'Woohoo! What a ride!'

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Roller coasters at Alton Towers

Air - Beastie - Corkscrew - Nemesis - Oblivion - Rita: Queen of Speed - Runaway Mine Train - Spinball Whizzer


when you get back to the station please exit off the right hand side