April 20, 20196 yr comment_264162 I love this thread. It makes me really excited to be a European enthusiast and I can’t wait to visit some of these more obscure parks in the future.
April 24, 20196 yr comment_264211 Taiga hype: Construction time lapse featuring the ride's audio Some drone footage. The top hat into the hill thing just looks lush
May 2, 20196 yr comment_264319 Bobbejaanland's Gerstlauer is coming along... (From BJLCentral on Twitter)
May 3, 20196 yr comment_264348 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! (Source)
May 7, 20196 yr comment_264427 The Polish Plopsa park, Majaland, have been making good progress with their woodie.. 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.
May 9, 20196 yr comment_264467 Taiga is testing... (Warning: video makes Blair Witch Project look like it was filmed on a sturdy tripod)
May 19, 20196 yr comment_264612 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..
May 19, 20196 yr comment_264617 Dynamite opened in Germany yesterday. Good to see another Mack opening. Because they are the best.
May 25, 20196 yr comment_264697 Fury at Bobbejaanland is finished... https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=374030699905139&id=193988604576017 And a look at the train, which is now on site. You can see the simplistic voting buttons..
May 27, 20196 yr comment_264728 POV of Mystic at Walibi Rhône-Alpes.. Loving the music and looks like a neat ride!
June 17, 20196 yr comment_264994 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 ?
June 19, 20196 yr comment_265006 June is the month of POVs; here's Fury's... https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157148899100822&id=25556630821 Looks decent, though a shame that the final set of brakes makes the spike pointless.
June 20, 20196 yr Author comment_265013 Taiga looks unfortunately like a poor man's Helix based on the POV...
June 20, 20196 yr comment_265014 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!
August 20, 20196 yr comment_265963 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.
August 20, 20196 yr comment_265970 That’s very unfortunate, hopefully it’ll look better when they have fixed it.
August 23, 20196 yr comment_266002 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): 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.
August 26, 20196 yr comment_266034 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. 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...
August 26, 20196 yr comment_266036 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...
August 26, 20196 yr comment_266038 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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