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Launching riders to 61 mph in just 2.5 seconds, this Intamin accelerator coaster certainly packs a punch. Rita, a reverse acronym for "Alton Towers Intamin Rocket", opened back in 2005 as the first coaster of its type in Europe following the stateside successes of Knott's Berry Farm's Accelerator, Cedar Point's Top Thrill Dragster and Hersheypark's Stormrunner. This made it briefly the fastest accelerating coaster in Europe before being surpassed by another coaster in the same chain - Stealth at Thorpe Park, which opened just a year later. Whilst Stealth shoots riders directly up a 205 ft top hat, the tight planning restrictions at Alton Towers once again forced the park to come up with a more creative layout. As a result, Rita offers a slightly longer ride experience than most other hydraulic launch coasters, with the ride's two trains swooping through a series of steeply banked turns and airtime hills instead. When it opened as part of the park's prehistoric themed "Ug Land" as Rita: Queen of Speed, the ride had more of a lighter racing theme. When the neighbouring Corkscrew coaster closed in 2008 to be replaced by Th13teen, the darker theme of the new coaster necessitated a retheme for the pre-existing Intamin coaster. The Queen of speed suffix was dropped and vines consumed the station building as part of the "takeover" of the Dark Forest, from which you "must escape". Scaffolding, which was intially believed to be temporary, was added a few years later to protect guests walking under the ride's launch after a series of launch cable snaps. Did you know that Heide Park, a German park also owned by Merlin Entertainments, operates a near-clone of Rita known as Desert Race?