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Final corner almost done now!
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Tomahawk is getting new trains this year! (Even though its Stampida that really needed them...) They look like this, from the looks of them they are GCI millenium Flyers although I might be wrong but great news none the less
Source: https://www.facebook.com/VideoReviewParks?fref=photo
Edit: it definitely is a GCI train as it has the same wheel assembly as coastersaurus in Legoland Florida
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So I haven't got the picture but Alton Towers have said on twitter they have reconsidered the decision with Blade and it will be open until further notice.
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Some track is already up but for some reason has been encased in sheet wrap, do you think it is for dirt reason or so that nothing can damage the track and supports or because it is going indoors on those points of the ride?
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Track pieces arrived on site and being put up, I have to say, for a ride that is meant for 2016, it sure is being put up early, maybe because of the problems they had with Chiapas.
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I don't know if it has been said but Blade has been taken off the ERT list and doesn't appear on the 2015 map anymore, imminent closure perhaps?
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I have to go back! All this attention to detail is why I fell in love with Europa in the first place!!!
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I don't find Colossus rough in any row on either train, maybe that's just me though lol, I quite like the ride, its not Baco rough so I can appreciate it for what it is more lol
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I don't think nemesis alone is a stand out draw at least for a bit of the GP (of course it is for enthusiasts and for quite a few if the GP as well), as people at the moment still come for the smiler and its fandabydosie 14 inversions, all my friends in college and work just want to go for that ride my friend preferred smiler for that reason. Not saying that's my opinion because I pretty much only go for nemesis lol but yeah when ever I go Nemesis always has a small queue whereas Air's is huge, now that might be due to capacity of said rides and I'm not saying it isn't popular because it sure darn is!! but I would definitely say every time I have gone Air has been the more popular of the Forbidden Valley rides, so who knows maybe because of this maybe Merlin thinks it needs a stupid gimmick, who knows but yeah I'd rather it stay as perfect as it is now and it not be ruined...
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That's why I'm confused where this rumour is coming from as I know that is the original slogan, so I'm confused as to why people think that means something...
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Yeah I think its deffo coming from the "sit back" term used but let's hope this isn't a teaser like the swarms "sting in its tail" sort of thing. But yeah I highly doubt anything will happen, I just thought I'd bring up a rumour I had heard around lol
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I have seen a few rumours flying around that they might do a swarm type backwards conversion with this all because of a picture that said coming soon on it plus with it saying "Neme21s". I think its stupid and people are making things up but I think it would be horrid if it got a mrawS or namtaB conversion. Hopefully its just a celebratory 21st birthday cake...
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Looks quite a lot like Shambhala but perhaps even better.
I dont think it looks like Shambhala at all. It looks like a whole 2 thirds or the ride are extremely fast corners and turns until the large airtime hill, plus Shambhala is more about the airtime and this isn't, this should just make an incredibly intense low to the ground feeling type experience
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They probably will seeming its on all the new premier trains at the mo that I have seen
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Yeah I would bet on premier they are quite quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with, full throttle although it has a really pointless backwards launch, is really well liked by the gp and enthusiasts as is rides such as sky scream and superman escape at SFDK. But I'd be over the moon with intamin and B&M as well
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Breaking news is that this had planning permission but has now been stripped of its permission by the local government.
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So are these supposed to be more expensive or less?
Those specific lodges are more expensive then Splash Landings but cheaper then the Alton Towers Hotel according to this map anyway.
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Press release:
"Oblivion - The Black Hole”
the new vertical plunge rollercoaster
the first Dive Coaster in Italy and the longest one in Europe
Gardaland unveils the theming, the interactive path
and the mysterious space-time tunnel
Everything is almost ready at Gardaland. Oblivion - The Black Hole, the first Dive Coaster in Italy and the longest one in Europe is standing tall, with its magnitude, its vertical plunge and the dazzling white of its tracks, on all the Park’s attractions.
But if the track has already been completed, it’s the details of the theming that are now attracting attention, while waiting to find out what this attraction will offer in terms of emotions. Along with the vertical plunge fall inside a mysterious black hole and the incredible inversions, the added value of this sensational attraction is the theming of the area and the richness of the special effects: from the interactive path leading up to the entrance of the attraction, to the boarding stage and to the out and out rollercoaster experience. It is going to be an extraordinary, incredible journey that will ideally cross a mysterious space-time conduct, a link between planet Earth and another space and time.
The white colour of the track- a very original choice for a rollercoaster – was chosen to harmonise the attraction with the vast themed area – which also includes Space Vertigo and Flying Island – and to offer an atmosphere NASA style. The fearless ones who will dart aboard lightning-fast trains, devised and made to resemble space vehicles, experiencing a journey like the ones we dream of as children. And who has never dreamt, even if for just a second, of being an astronaut? Who knows, maybe a future Samantha Cristoforetti, the young Italian astronaut, will also climb aboard Oblivion - The Black Hole, ready for the fantastic emotion of a “launch” into space…
But on top of the space inspiration, Guests will be attracted by the crux of the Oblivion experience - The Black Hole: a hole with enough gravitational field to attract and suck in everything. Besides the mouth of the tunnel there will indeed be unusual elements, completely distorted and sucked in; it will feel like being “dragged” inside the conduct, almost like being “swallowed”: part of the roof of a saloon, a windmill, a little cart, a water tank, 3 TV aerials and the van of a TV crew which had arrived to document the strange phenomenon…
Everything will appear deformed by the powerful gravitational forced generated by the “black hole”.
But this is not all, because another captivating characteristic of Oblivion - The Black Hole is the interactive path preceding the boarding of the new rollercoaster. The waiting line will be, in itself, an unforgettable experience! The path will indeed start inside a technological training centre where, through advanced software that enrich sensorial perception – you will be able to immerse yourself in the adrenaline-filled experience that leads to the train. Special effects, sounds, light games and innumerable new gen LED screens will open the way to the overwhelming and sensational journey. But will everybody be capable to climb aboard? To erase any doubt, the fearless visitors, during the wait, will face tests and pass trials; a voice will guide them through each required action. A mission in perfect NASA style: from the feeling of being launched inside a tunnel, to the balance test, to the mind-blowing 3D optical effects and the out and out boarding, inside the station. The Oblivion - The Black Hole shuttle is ready to welcome all passengers! Then, between sky and earth, among twists, turns and unexpected obstacles the extraordinary and exciting rollercoaster will bring the most fearless passengers to fall from vertiginous height, at mad speed, in a vertical plunge into oblivion, through the mysterious space-time conduct on the way to a new dimension. And contact with reality will inexplicably vanish…
“We began from the concept one year ago, moving from a planning-creative phase to the realisation of important sculptures that we are currently positioning in the area. Specific professional positions where needed for this project: architects, planners, sculptors audio/video technicians, carpenters, painters, experts in iron manufacturing… a coral organisation of many companies for the development of this great new area” - says Gianluca Ghedini, Gardaland Division Creative Manager.
42.5 metres high, 87 degrees of inclination and a speed of 100km/h: those are the numbers of Oblivion - The Black Hole, the first Dive Coaster in Italy and the longest one in Europe.
Only for true daredevils, from 140 cm in height to 99 years of age!Plus more pictures of themeing which I think looks quite promising
This coaster has gone from, secret government based, to space theme to weird distorted wild west stuff, bit confused but looks quite good
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Here is the logo trademarked to Phantasialand.
Source: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/markeFullImageHABM?AKZ=013638961Looking very Wodan-esque.
Plus according to screamscape this is what their source said about the layout... Obviously do read into it too much yet...
Our source says that the layout they saw had the coaster leave the station and go through a short dark-ride style indoor section before hitting a launch track and going outside and into a figure-8 style element labeled the "Panorama Curve", which is said to look a lot like the elevated figure-8 element on Cheetah Hunt. From here the train will drop into a series of S-curves before entering a building for another dark ride section that looked to include a 10-meter free-fall drop track element, much like Thirteen. Leaving here, the train appeared to load into a tilt-track style element, much like the one on Escape from Gringotts, dropping the train down and into a second launch track, into an Immelman style inversion, a series of overbanked curves, an into either a corkscrew or zero-g-roll inversion before sliding back into the station one again.
Our source also described the trains as looking quite a bit like Skyrush at Hersheypark, seating 4 across with the outer two seats hanging out over the edge of the track. The trains wont be very long however, featuring just 2 cars per train, and each car only having 2 rows, for a total of 16 riders per train.
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And Track is complete!!