Nemesis Reborn vs Wicker Man

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

Honours end even at 3–3, which is the awkward kind of matchup: whoever calls the stat decides the round.

Nemesis Reborn is a steel Inverted Coaster (full retrack of 1994 Nemesis) coaster at Alton Towers, GB, built by Bolliger & Mabillard. Wicker Man is a wooden Wooden coaster with fire-effect pass-throughs coaster at Alton Towers, GB, built by Great Coasters International.

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.

Stat by stat

• Height goes to Wicker Man at 72 ft against 43 ft — nearly double.
• Speed goes to Nemesis Reborn at 50 mph against 43 mph — well clear.
• Nemesis Reborn inverts 4 times against nothing at all from Wicker Man — the widest kind of gap there is on this stat.
• Throughput goes to Nemesis Reborn at 1,200 rph against 952 rph — well clear.
• Build Cost goes to Wicker Man at 21.3 $m against 15.2 $m — a long way clear.
• Vintage is reversed, so Wicker Man's 2018 takes it from Nemesis Reborn's 2024 — 6 years in it.