Posted June 5, 201312 yr comment_160177 Tripsdrill's new Gerstlauer launched coaster 'KARACHO' is looking mighty fine! The coaster has been marketed as having the lap-bar trains and features a rolling LSM launch. All images thanks to Coasterfriends.de. Looks like a nice layout, and damn, it looks like it will have some good spots of airtime... And whilst I mention that, I really think that Gerstlauer could build a really good twisty hyper coaster sometime with nothing but a range of ejector hills and curvy twists and possibly a beyond vertical drop with the vertical lift too. On all of their coasters that I've ridden, the spots of airtime combined with the dinky little trains always end up being my favourite parts of their coaster designs.
June 16, 201312 yr comment_160918 This does look great, and this makes it look even better... Lapbars! The superior restraint method. I don't know how accurate this is but it should be a pretty decent fun ride
June 17, 201312 yr comment_161122 Those lap bars remind me of the ones on a B&M hyper coaster (the clam shell I think they are called??) they remind me of the ones on Nitro. The lap bars on here don't look anything like the ones used on Iron Shark which I would have expected
June 18, 201312 yr comment_161227 Boo crap looking trains... Rather good looking trains I think. I imagine the jets will light up as it launches, nice touch.
June 18, 201312 yr comment_161239 Sexual trains that have fantastic curves. I want to touch them.. Oh sorry, I don't know what came over me.
June 18, 201312 yr comment_161241 Looking at the trains more... Great concept, bad execution... Biege? </3 Everyone and their dog are putting lights on coasters now though...
June 18, 201312 yr comment_161267 I think it looks mighty fine, will be fun to compare these to the other Gerst launch coasters!
June 19, 201312 yr comment_161334 Has been testing, clip that unfortunately has some really really bad music...
June 19, 201312 yr comment_161352 I'm sure it will be faster when it opens, probably on those testing wheels, looks awesome, although from the testing video above the train looks odd but atleast its different!
June 19, 201312 yr comment_161364 Looks quite forceless in that video, but I'm sure it will speed up with the addition of people and proper wheels etc...
June 19, 201312 yr comment_161367 You've also got to take into account how it starts on the MCBR with no speed where as during normal operation (I presume) it will be rolling through there thus carrying more speed.
June 19, 201312 yr comment_161368 Can't really judge a lot from it, due to all the reasons above, but I do like the look of the car going round the track. Looks lovely.
June 19, 201312 yr comment_161380 That's my "ride looks slow in testing video" box ticked then in new coaster bingo...
June 19, 201312 yr comment_161387 new coaster bingo...There are theme park games but I've seen it all now...
June 19, 201312 yr comment_161395 Has been testing, clip that unfortunately has some really really bad music... The trains look ugly as "The Curse's" tent during fright nights!
June 30, 201312 yr comment_162179 Each train is a different colour. We have the car we've all seen many times. The green car Red car (my favourite) The blue car which wants a race with the red car... I think red won. Love the colour of the track. All photos from Tripsdrill's FB page.
June 30, 201312 yr comment_162207 whoops, the trains look like a cross between Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Millenium Falcon; short ride lots of turns, hmmm!
July 8, 201312 yr comment_162693 Have a POV! It is, unfinished like most things seem to be when it comes to Tripsdrill (Mammut was unfinished when it opened, then had additional stuff added since)... Looks a decent ride though regardless...
July 8, 201312 yr comment_162694 That actually looks really fun, lets hope it looks nicer when they do finish it all up
July 8, 201312 yr comment_162695 Looks very good, especially the rolling launch. Shame we haven't seen one of these in the UK yet.
April 14, 20169 yr comment_232350 Shame we haven't seen one of these in the UK yet. Having recently visited Tripsdrill (trip report here), I couldn't agree more! tl;dr: it's a really lovely place, and Karacho is a stand-out ride. More Infinity coasters with clamshell restraints, please...
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