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Nemesis Inferno 
Location Thorpe Park Park section Calypso Quay Coordinates 51°24′13″N 0°30′59″W / 51.403476°N 0.516408°WCoordinates: 51°24′13″N 0°30′59″W / 51.403476°N 0.516408°W Status Operating Opened April 5, 2003 Cost £6,500,000 Type Steel - Inverted Manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard Designer Werner Stengel Model Inverted Coaster Track layout Inverted Lift/launch system Chain lift hill Height 95 ft (29 m) Drop 95 ft (29 m) Length 2,461 ft (750 m) Max speed 47 mph (76 km/h) Inversions 4 Duration 1:45 Max vertical angle 40° Capacity 1150 riders per hour Max G force 4.5 Nemesis Inferno at RCDB Pictures of Nemesis Inferno at RCDB 
Amusement Parks PortalNemesis Inferno is a steel inverted roller coaster, themed around an erupting tropical volcano, in the Thorpe Park theme park in Surrey, England, UK. It was designed by Bolliger & Mabillard of Switzerland. The name suggests that it is intended as a "sequel" or "sister" to the original Nemesis, a 1994 inverted coaster at sister park, Alton Towers, although the layout and theme are virtually entirely different.
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Ride Experience
The Logo Of The Ride
The train leaves the station with a small sharp right turn into a dark misty tunnel illuminated with red lights, through two small bends before exiting the tunnel and then into the lift hill. When it has reached the top, it makes a large swooping drop to the left, before going straight into a vertical loop. This is immediately followed by a zero-G roll and then swoops back into two interlocking corkscrews, followed by two banked turns over the paths and queue line, before finally going into the final brake run.
Storyline
The ride is themed around a volcano. The story is that Nemesis, trapped at Alton Towers, attempted to break itself free, creating an underground fracture. This fracture erupted as a volcano in Thorpe Park. The volcano was named after the creature that created it - Nemesis Inferno.[1]
Trivia
- Nemesis Inferno was previously the only inverted roller coaster to feature a set of interlocking corkscrews on a single track. It also still has the longest pre-lift section (from the station to the lift hill) of any Bolliger & Mabillard coaster in the world.
- The ride was featured in the E4 comedy program The Inbetweeners.
- The station houses three BOSE bass cannon speakers on its ceiling. These originally played a thumping bass pattern over the dispatch music as each train left the station. The dispatch theme has returned in April 2011.
References
External links
- Nemesis Inferno at Total Thorpe Park
- Nemesis Inferno at Thorpe Park Insider
- Nemesis Inferno at RCDB
- Nemesis Inferno data on Theme Park Junkies
- Nemesis Inferno at ThemeParks-UK
Rides at Thorpe Park Roller coasters X:\ No Way Out (1996) · Colossus (2002) · Nemesis Inferno (2003) · Stealth (2006) · Flying Fish (2007) · Saw – The Ride (2009) · The Swarm (2012)Other rides Water Rides Categories:- Steel roller coasters
- Inverted roller coasters
- Bolliger & Mabillard roller coasters
- Buildings and structures in Surrey
- Roller coasters in the United Kingdom
- Merlin Entertainments roller coasters
- Roller coasters introduced in 2003
- Thorpe Park
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