TPGG Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 Looks gooooood, how's the other hybrid coming along? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidders Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 I think this looks way more promising. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMX166sWPjM That looks... wow. So much want. There's air-time, speed, zero-g rolls... Seems like bigger and bigger parks are coming round to the idea of hybrid coasters now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitchada04 Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 If Thorpe doesn't get one of these insane hybrids in 2015 I might cry as they look right up Thorpes street. As for Full Throttle the loop and top hat on the same spine of track looks great and if SFMM can get the timings right I think we'll see many pics of the trains crossing. The backwards launch does seem a bit why but I suppose it doesn't do much else so needs to give some sort of surprise. I'd say there'll be three trains of 18 so not too bad but for a park that seems to be obsessed with adding throughput nightmare rides not brilliant. Really was expecting more from this ride though as I was hoping for Magic Mountains version of Maverick sweeping through the mountain itself with lots of terrain hugging. Hitting the brakes straight after the top hat aswell, so much potential lost. So what it has the tallest vertical loop at 160ft, Gatekeeper has a 164ft Inverting Dive which if anythink like THE SWARM's will be brilliant. It seems SFMM have lost their way in making rides with decent length and are obsessed in keeping their Coaster Capital crown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam T Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Anyone who says the new Fantasyland will be terrible just look at the beauty and elegance of one part of it Credits to Theme Park Review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted September 2, 2012 Report Share Posted September 2, 2012 Who said it was terrible? Been following it for ages and don't have a bad word! Except maybe that it's a bit of a shame Snow White has been closed because it's a classic attraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Another day, another Intamin related incident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPGG Posted September 3, 2012 Report Share Posted September 3, 2012 Still one of my favourite rides I've been on, soooo intense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam T Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 So Knotts Berry Farm have now closed Perilous Plunge for the new coaster rumoured to be a B&M with a splashdown, but so far the removal of Perilous Plunge is going fast! Credits to Knott's Network for the image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidders Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 Awww, Perilous Plunge actually looked brilliant - so intimidating, that 75 degree drop. I remember it being one of the first big American rides I was introduced to when I had a habit of watching 90's TV programme about thrill rides (they were on repeat on some channel or other in 2008-09). And of course back then my house didn't have internet so that was as much as I got really... But yeah, definitely sad to see it go regardless of whether I rode it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jom222 Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 Was anyone injured in the Intamin accident? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted September 10, 2012 Report Share Posted September 10, 2012 And nothing of value was lost... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokesyboy Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 Was anyone injured in the Intamin accident? No one was injured, the guy that was in that seat got out ok but was very shaken. Well even more shaken than you normally get when you go on Baco! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 Was anyone injured in the Intamin accident? Which one? As for Perilous Plunge, well we have Hydro Drench if you really feel the need. I do wonder about a B&M though, Silver Bullet wasn't exactly a hit and isn't Knotts a small park and very close residents.. Benin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 Knotts isn't small (Cedar Fair owned) and nearby residents don't really affect the American parks like they do for us, especially since most of the parks are plonked in residential areas. And I liked Silver Bullet I'd like a B&M though, Intamin might be shakey considering the problems they've had. I'd half expect another Dinosaurs Alive thong though, cos Cedar Fair are crap at life... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroDan Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 Get your best team ready... IAAPA is coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted September 11, 2012 Report Share Posted September 11, 2012 That video is FANTASTIC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander Posted September 14, 2012 Report Share Posted September 14, 2012 I remember the first time I went to Knott's and I queue'd for Perilous Plunge (only for 15/20 minutes) or so, and I was so small that the straps wouldn't go tight enough on me so I wasn't allowed to ride, I was so gutted! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19660221 - Looks quite fun / scary at the same time!! pluk and Stokesyboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 FOUR hours! I think they need to rethink whatever procedures they have for getting that thing down when it breaks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted September 20, 2012 Report Share Posted September 20, 2012 I think the problem is the location of that ride in relation to others (Jaguar and Silver Bullet) doesn't particularly aid the ease of evacuating people... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c1hrisin Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 then it shouldn't have been allowed to be built? oh wait american building standards never mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 The proximity has always been an issue, it had to run on a new setting than other rides of the same type so it raised before it started swinging in order to avoid colliding with the surroundings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 It actually made no sense why they put it there, when all rumours (and logic) pointed to them removing the Observation Tower... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 Wow, I didn't even know that's where they had squeezed it in. That area of the park felt fairly cramped anyway, where as the observation tower / xcelerator / plunge / boomerang area feels fairly empty with the rides just plonked on concrete. Maybe they are saving that whole area for proper redevelopment with the death of plunge? *maybe these things are known, I don't follow American parks so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamY Posted September 21, 2012 Report Share Posted September 21, 2012 Windseekers are utterly pointless rides anyway, hence any attempt to work out answers to any of this is hopeless Gotta feel for those people though, 4 hours must have been nasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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