Grand National vs Nemesis Reborn


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StatGrand NationalNemesis Reborn
Height62 ft43 ft
Speed45 mph50 mph
Inversions04
Throughputest.720 rph1200 rph
Build Costest.0.2 $m15.2 $m
Vintage19352024

Vintage is the reversed stat — the older ride wins. Every number here is the same one printed on the card; see /methodology for how Build Cost and Throughput are sourced.

The verdict

Nemesis Reborn takes it 4–2, and the 2 Grand National does win are the whole of its case.

Grand National is a wooden Möbius-loop racing wooden coaster coaster at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, GB, built by Charlie Paige (in-house). Nemesis Reborn is a steel Inverted Coaster (full retrack of 1994 Nemesis) coaster at Alton Towers, GB, built by Bolliger & Mabillard.

Both are in GB, which puts them in the same conversation for anyone planning a trip there.

Stat by stat

  • Height goes to Grand National at 62 ft against 43 ft — a long way clear.
  • Speed goes to Nemesis Reborn at 50 mph against 45 mph — clearly ahead.
  • Nemesis Reborn inverts 4 times against nothing at all from Grand National — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
  • Throughput goes to Nemesis Reborn at 1,200 rph against 720 rph — nearly double.
  • Build Cost goes to Nemesis Reborn at 15.2 $m against 0.2 $m — in another class entirely.
  • Grand National predates Nemesis Reborn by 89 years — 1935 against 2024 — and on the one stat where old beats new, that is decisive.

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