January 20, 20169 yr comment_226740 PortAventura World? That'll take a bit of getting used to, but I guess it makes sense now with there being a 2nd gate opening next year. Ferrari World looks decent. Like the look of the Vibrant thrilling rides alongside the characteristic entrance way which I'm glad they used a style similar to the main park. With the massive launch coaster, it make me question how long Baco has left especially with the problems it's been having lately.
January 20, 20169 yr comment_226742 Like anyone will call it that anyways... Ferrari Land only having about 3 rides is crap though, must be said...
January 20, 20169 yr comment_226753 is that a seperate new park or is it a new area in port adventura? Also won't that be europe's tallest coaster?
January 20, 20169 yr comment_226758 They will have the fastest in Europe too. The ride is expected to reach speeds of over 110mph. The ride will be around 370ft so will definitely be Europe's tallest, which is currently held by Shamhala at 250ft (followed by Silver Star & The Big One.
January 21, 20169 yr comment_226846 Why was the airtime hill on the Intamin accelerator taken out (comparing to original footage)? I know this will be big for Europe as it will be the only operating roller coaster over 100mph in Europe and the first roller coaster to pass 300ft in Europe but it's clear they copied Kingda Ka and made it inferior, luckily not to the extent of Thorpe Park with Stealth (which seemed to have copied Kingda Ka and copy Xcelerator taking away the second best parts, nevertheless it's still a great ride).
January 21, 20169 yr comment_226848 Stealth on the initial plans was an Xcelerator clone. Not that they were ever going to build that but still. It's more a TTD clone. The lack of hill allows a lapbar rather than otsr. That and cost I suspect is the reasoning.
January 31, 20169 yr comment_227335 From TPR forums... It looks...erm yeah. Odd? Silly? Awkward? Edited January 31, 20169 yr by JoshC.
January 31, 20169 yr comment_227337 From TPM forums... It looks...erm yeah. Odd? Silly? Awkward? RCT3?
January 31, 20169 yr comment_227338 1. Why does stealth have minimal supports when ka, TTD, Xcelerator and this all have large frames? Height is a likely reason but I still don't know why Xcelerator has different supports to Stealth. 2. Does this coaster have a name or is just known as Ferrari land coaster? 3. Is it taller than TTD AT CP?
January 31, 20169 yr comment_227339 Stealth is meant to be unimposing. So it has a very open support structure and white track to blend in better with the sky. It was done to make getting planning permission for it easier, and clearly it worked. Whatever it is, if the train doesn't have a roof it should be called "....... Spyder" to show it is roofless It's meant to be in the region of 300ft?
January 31, 20169 yr comment_227341 1) I'd assume height is one reason. Also, since Thorpe have the tighter height restrictions, they probably worked closely with Intamin to make there be a minimal number of high-level supports, and to make the lower level ones as 'strong' as possible. 2) The name is unknown at the moment. 3) This is just under 370ft; so a good 50ft shorter than TTD.
January 31, 20169 yr comment_227344 Aside from the height, it looks like a slightly watered down Stealth. Shame, there's no bunny hop as the ride doesn't look the most inspiring.
January 31, 20169 yr comment_227347 What? Just... What? How bloody pointless does that look? Massive long straight into a slight slope because someone messed up the design?
January 31, 20169 yr comment_227358 The slope down is clearly so the trains move with little to no effort. Why it's like that before the slope is just mysterious. It looks like rct3.
February 1, 20169 yr comment_227373 Bit of a strange design, I wouldn't be happy with that on RCT3 let alone on an actual coaster! Why doesn't it have an airtime hill like most other versions?
February 1, 20169 yr comment_227374 it does look a bit like what rct3 would do when you click the auto-finish button so excited to finally have one of these in a place I'm actually likely to be able to get to though is it likely to have a launch like stealth/ttd etc or is it lsm?
February 1, 20169 yr comment_227376 This must be a catapult. Lsm is not capable of launching a train to that speed in that distance without crazy amount of energy. I feel this is lacking an airtime hill because of space. When designing kingda ka they had great difficulty getting the hill correct. The hill for this would have most likely needed a longer run or a shorter drop. Having been on TTD and kingda ka the airtime hill adds very little to the ride. I think it also leads to a more uncomfortable ride due to the added stress on the wheels.
February 1, 20169 yr comment_227391 Why couldn't they at least put the acceleration up? Baco will be laughing at it. This coaster is giving an impression that Europe just copies and inferiorises coasters from the US.
February 1, 20169 yr comment_227394 Do we know the acceleration of this ride? If we don't know the top speed or length of the launch then the acceleration should be unknown.
February 1, 20169 yr comment_227399 Do we know the acceleration of this ride? If we don't know the top speed or length of the launch then the acceleration should be unknown. 180km/h (111mph) in 5 secs
February 1, 20169 yr comment_227405 This coaster is giving an impression that Europe just copies and inferiorises coasters from the US. In fairness, this largely isn't the case. Europe have some great and unique rides; there's only one flying coaster for example, a variety of smaller dive machines which are based more around theme, the Mack launch coasters in Blue Fire and Helix, some fab woodies, etc. There's only a select few examples where it feels like Europe has inferior copies of US coasters (and these sorts of coasters are one of them). I guess you could argue if you were to directly compare the two, not taking into account history and what not, Europe has 'smaller' versions of what the US has, but of course, size isn't everything.
February 2, 20169 yr comment_227421 When it comes to these sorts of launch coasters size is a major factor as well as the speed. 0-111mph in 5 seconds seems rather slow compared to its US counterparts. I'm starting to think all the odd things about this coaster are coming down to one simple reason of cost.
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