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Speaking of Bobbejaanland, they've pulled a major wild card out of their hat with Fury

 

When Fury leaves the station, it makes its way to a turntable, which then spins to allign with the launch track. It then proceeds to do a swing launch (one forward launch, rolls back, then a backward launch, then a forward launch into the circuit). Fairly standard.

 

But it's been revealed that Fury will give riders the option to vote on whether the train itself will face forwards or backwards for the majority of the circuit. Each lapbar will have a button to choose forwards or backwards which must be pressed between leaving the station and before going on the turntable. Whichever way has the most votes 'wins'. If it's a tie, it's decided randomly.

 

It's a crazy idea, but I love it. And the idea itself is pretty cool and opens up so many more possibilities for coasters in the future!

 

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The Polish Plopsa park, Majaland, have been making good progress with their woodie..

 

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Source: SkyScraperCity

 

Pretty much a clone of Heidi at Plopsaland (which itself is pretty much a clone of White Lightning at Fun Spot, Orlando), and will be Poland's first woodie.

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Fury at Bobbejaanland will be opening on June 22nd. Here's the state of it at the mo..

 

The park have also confirmed they will run the ride exclusively forwards for parts of each operating day, so people who don't want to ride backwards can happily ride..

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And it's what you've all been waiting for, a Taiga POV..

 

 

Today was the press event, with the ride opening tomorrow. Unsurprisingly, all reviews have been positive; good amounts of ejector airtime and some good intense moments. The stall inversion after the top hat looks bloody brilliant too.

 

And if that's not enough to whet your whistle, here's the beautiful advert...

 

Heading out here in September and I'm seriously hyped already ?

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30 minutes ago, Benin said:

Taiga looks unfortunately like a poor man's Helix based on the POV...

You say that like it's a bad thing? A poor man's Helix is still at least a good ride, possibly very good.

 

And supposedly this only cost half of what Helix cost (likely cos it isn't built on a massive hill), I'd still take that!

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Not really anywhere appropriate to put this, so this'll do:

http://igvofficial.com/german-theme-park-forced-to-shut-down-ride-resembling-nazi-swastika/

 

German theme park recently builds a Gerstlauer Sky Fly type ride, looks like two flying Swastikas. Oops. Apparently no one realised until someone posted a video online saying so. Double oops.

 

The ride is now closed and the manufacturer is redesigning the ride so it only has 3 arms on each side.

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Dreamworld Australia, the park where there was the rapids incident in 2016 killing 4, is getting a new roller coaster. The park was (and still is) rumoured to be in quite an unstable position following the incident, not helped by some stiff competition theme park-wise on the Gold Coast. So some see this as perhaps a last roll of the dice in trying to stay afloat.

 

The coaster will be a near Blue-Fire clone from Mack, but starts of with a swing launch (launch forward, backward, forwards into circuit) with a curved spike, a slightly higher top speed, and the final car will be one of Mack's Xtreme Spinning Cars (in a similar to fashion to how it was tested on the original Blue Fire a few years back):

 

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This is part of a wider AUS$70m (~£38m) expansion for the park as well, which will see a couple of smaller rides introduced, and some freshen ups of existing rides. The coaster will open in late 2020.

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In an out-of-the-blue announcement, Six Flags have announced a park for Saudia Arabia, in Riyadh, more specifically, Qiddiyah, an entertainment project trying to revolutionise the country.

 

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https://qiddiya.com/en/press-release/six-flags-qiddiya-unveils-park-design

 

The highlight of the announcement is the world's tallest, fastest and longest coaster, with the only seemingly-publicly confirmed stat bring a max speed of 156mph. Oh, and it's not a launch coaster.

The park will also include:

-A swing launch coaster

-A Vekoma Orkanen SFC

-A Mack Poseidon water coaster

-A new style GCI hybrid coaster

-Drop track coaster

-World's tallest drop tower

-And whatever else they're dreaming of.

 

The plan is for the park to open in 2023.

 

Somehow, I don't think so. But we'll see...

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10 minutes ago, CharlieN said:

In the midst of this preposterous announcement I’ve finally realised what a swing launch means! Always seemed like those triple launches should have a proper name...

Intamin call them swing launches, Mack call them halfpipe launches and Gerstlauer just call them triple launches. So take your pick!

 

I think swing launch is the most fun name so I stick with that haha

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