
Wicker Man at Alton Towers to receive British Gas sponsorship
Wicker Man at Alton Towers is set to receive sponsorship from today. The sponsor of the ride will be British Gas, a major gas, and electric company.

Wicker Man at Alton Towers is set to receive sponsorship from today. The sponsor of the ride will be British Gas, a major gas, and electric company.

After the original open day for the Wicker Man cancelled due to extremely cold temperatures and snowfall. Today Wicker Man has officially opened to guests. With a few.

The map for the 2018 theme park season at Alton Towers has been released in the hotels prior to the park opening tomorrow! On the front of the map is a nice graphic of the wicker man ride.

An opening date for the Wicker Man at Alton Towers has now been announced, via a newsletter published by the park the ride will be opening to the public on Saturday 17th March. "Wicker Man New for 2018, Opens Saturday 17th March

In an article posted by ITV News an opening date for Wicker Man has been confirmed. The ride will be opening on 17th March 2018 the first day of the theme park season.

Earlier this week Alton Towers updated their website with news about the park opening different attractions are various points in the day. This news of the theme park slow opening was met with negative responses on the parks social media channels.

Alton Towers have now announced the Early Ride Time (ERT) line up for 2018. Early Ride Time will include Spinball Whizzer, Cbeebies Land and surprisingly Wicker Man for early riding from 9:30am. As like previous years, the same rules apply for ERT:

After last year’s events around the world, Merlin Entertainments is taking guest security very serious. Large concrete blocks were put outside the entrance to Legoland Windsor last year along with bag searches implemented at all Merlin Theme Parks in the UK.

Alton Towers recently announced a new Season Pass for the 2018 Season, For the price of a standard admission ticket (£55) you can visit for the rest of the 2018 season. Stated in the press release:

Alton Towers have now confirmed that new for 2018 will be "Wicker Man"

For the past two years the Nemesis station has been repainted and given some extra tlc and it would appear that this year the maintenance and repainting of the station continues.