Posted July 31, 201312 yr comment_164467 Adventure World is a small theme park in Perth Australia that is getting something rather large for November this year. A Gerstlauer Eurofighter which will be almost identical in layout to Saw. The guy from Adventure World clearly loves Saw as he has ridden it a few times and feels it will offer a great thrilling experience. A little video on the new ride, some nice clips of Saw plus the music, and a look at the manufacturing process at Gerstlauer. The indoor section (I'm guessing it will be enclosed) is already complete and does replicate Saw's (pictures from Adventure World's FB page). All very interesting and if they can make it so that there is no jolt this will be a great ride (which I'm beginning to find with Saw). The theme is unknown but going by this piece of promo I'd say it will be a dark theme of some sorts. I am looking forward to see how this project progresses.
July 31, 201312 yr comment_164489 Will be interesting to see how onload/offload works. If rumours are true, some of Saw's problems derived from the dual loading / having a separate onload and offload platform, and haven't been repeated on any other Gertslauers. But with an identical indoor layout, and almost identical layout on the whole, it'll be interesting to see whether they go back to 1 onload/offload station, scrap the dual loading, or scrap the different onload and offload stations or what. Might be a step forwards for the company and future products..
August 9, 201312 yr comment_165042 They said It was an almost Identical and Love how it seems they are advertising it that They are getting an IP but yes It is nice to see Saw get it's Recognition for how well the public like it
August 9, 201312 yr comment_165047 One question: Why do they want to copy Saw's layout? It's not exactly great (imo) and Speed's is much better. Speed with Saw's indoor section - now that would be brilliant! All I can say about the advertising picture is Wrath!
August 9, 201312 yr comment_165049 It's not ACTUALLY been confirmed that they're like for like cloning Saw's layout beyond the indoor section... To be fair, Saw's indoor section is the best part of the ride...
August 9, 201312 yr comment_165051 They're not building a clone, at all. This has a cobra roll and an inclined loop!
August 22, 201312 yr comment_166594 Also, it's clearly an indoor brake run and not a booster lift hill. #geekmoment
September 15, 201311 yr comment_168458 This is Definately not a Saw Clone! Its Called Abyss. Its definately got characteristics of Saw but that's about it.
September 15, 201311 yr comment_168468 Looking at this photo makes me think we're going to get an onload and offload station, and maybe even dual loading again? Oddly, the batching procedures are the thing I'm most interested about this ride...
September 15, 201311 yr comment_168511 The lift hill Immalman and final dive loop just like saw rest of it what saw should have been IMO
September 30, 201311 yr Author comment_169592 http://abyss-the-ride.com.au/the-ride/ Abyss now has a nice little page of its own. This spectacular custom built roller coaster will feature four inversions through daylight and a secret dark section as well as a zero-g -roll, rollover loop, cobra roll, and inline loop. For those of you that don't speak roller coaster, that translates to OMGTSS (oh my God that's seriously scary) I'm not to sure where the cobra roll and inline loop are but still. Cars are now on site. The entrance is taking shape. And some theming. It is shaping up to be a decent investment for a small park and will be opening very soon!
September 30, 201311 yr comment_169594 *Insert generic 'OMG NO IT HAS OTSR' comment* ------- Looks like a decent coaster for what I guess is a small-ish park. Nice to see some theming coming along too; anyone reminded of the Th13teen marketing with those wraiths?
October 10, 201311 yr comment_170248 Test run video of the ride below. I have to say, that airtime hill looks very strong and also seems to provide a very close headchopper with the catwalk of the MCBR. However, the twisted drop off of the MCBR does look like a very sharp transition. I hope it doesn't ride badly with the OTSR's.
October 10, 201311 yr comment_170255 In summary to me, the ride looks fairly so far (bar the warehouse shed) .plus I'm certain the ride's theming seems to replicate Thi3teen's in places (in pictures 2&3 above).
October 10, 201311 yr comment_170258 In summary to me, the ride looks better than Saw so far. I'm certain the ride's theming seems to replicate Thi3teen's in places (in pictures 2&3 above). I take it you don't mean the gigantic shed ruining every photo of this supposed themed ride..
October 10, 201311 yr comment_170264 Looks far better than Saw, you can tell that the transitions are smooth rather than jolty and rough.Which begs the question - all of the Gerstlauer coasters built this year seem smooth and nice, so why is The Smiler jolty like Saw?
October 10, 201311 yr comment_170268 You can tell the ride is heavily inspired by Saw from that video. It really does look like the same ride with a few elements tweaked / moved to accommodate the space they had. Looks like a good coaster, like Saw, and hopefully due to the standard 97 degree drop it has, the infamous jolt so many complain about on Saw won't happen. Must admit, that airtime hill looks like it'll be the highlight of the ride!
October 10, 201311 yr comment_170271 Looks far better than Saw, you can tell that the transitions are smooth rather than jolty and rough. Which begs the question - all of the Gerstlauer coasters built this year seem smooth and nice, so why is The Smiler jolty like Saw? It isn't?
October 10, 201311 yr comment_170277 It isn't? Then why are there all these complaints about it? (I wasn't judging from my personal viewpoint there - I am yet to ride it!)
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