Nemesis Reborn vs Spinball Whizzer

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 Spinball Whizzer does win are the whole of its case.

Nemesis Reborn is a steel Inverted Coaster (full retrack of 1994 Nemesis) coaster at Alton Towers, GB, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. Spinball Whizzer is a steel Spinning Coaster (pinball theme) coaster at Alton Towers, GB, built by Maurer Rides.

Both live at Alton Towers, so this is a comparison you can settle on foot in an afternoon — and one the park itself has to answer every time someone asks which to queue for first.

Both are steel-track, so nothing here is the usual steel-versus-wood argument in disguise.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to Spinball Whizzer at 56 ft against 43 ft — well clear.
• Speed goes to Nemesis Reborn at 50 mph against 37 mph — a long way clear.
• Nemesis Reborn inverts 4 times against nothing at all from Spinball Whizzer — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to Nemesis Reborn at 1,200 rph against 950 rph — well clear.
• Build Cost goes to Nemesis Reborn at 15.2 $m against 6.4 $m — more than double.
• 20 years separate them, and because Vintage rewards age it is Spinball Whizzer (2004) that banks the point, not Nemesis Reborn (2024).