February 25, 201312 yr comment_151172 Will be interesting to see how this goes. There's been enough experience with the Wingrider now from B&M and Merlin to know what works for Wingriders. Something of a similar scale to Raptor would be great, and the Transylvania theme would go down a treat and has plenty of potential with the wingrider concept. I look forward to the development of this!
February 25, 201312 yr comment_151181 I love the translation, something about it makes me smile... The layout at Thorpe Park is compact and offers four overs a furious kick from almost 39 meters high. Here the lift hill, a slowly traveled through 180 ° turn followed by the head, which is followed immediately a 180 ° vertical rotary be imputed to the ground - the riders are accelerated out of the slowly extended overhead position down out. A 30-meter zero-g roll, as well as an Inclined Loop, Corkscrew and 360 degree heart roll round the driving experience from a doomsday scenario. More wing riders, yay. But I wish someone would do a Wild Eagle or Gatekeeper scale one somewhere in Europe.
February 26, 201312 yr comment_151206 The odds on an European park building something American sized isn't very likely... Katun/Monster are about the only exceptions I can think of...
February 26, 201312 yr comment_151209 ...Shambhalamadingdong... I know it's unlikely to happen, but to my mind there seem to be two clear types of wing rider; big and sweeping (W.E., Gatekeeper, Rainforest) or compact and twisty (Swarm, Xflight, Raptor), which I can only imagine offer distinctly different feelings The point is I am highly unlikely to travel across Europe specifically to ride something which in experience is largely a variation of what we have here, where as a big sweeping monster of a wing rider that I don't have to go to the US for I'd find pretty irresistible. I'm sure we'll get one eventually.
February 26, 201312 yr comment_151211 Fair, though knowing my experience with most American variations of our European ones, I'd take Europe every day of the week... There's something about bland, unthemed, highly generic rides which just never sits right with me...
February 26, 201312 yr comment_151218 I love the translation, something about it makes me smile... More wing riders, yay. But I wish someone would do a Wild Eagle or Gatekeeper scale one somewhere in Europe. So the "big and sweeping" as you describe it, they are wing coasters on a larger scale? Cripes. The Swarm is massive enough, but then again this is England and other coasters around the world are much bigger in size, as we know. I've seen the Wild Eagle in a magazine, then I went online to have a look at it more and it does look amazing and huge. The trains are themed brilliantly! I know what you mean about travelling across Europe just to try one out. I'm the same. America and other parts of the world have been calling for years now, hasn't happened yet but one day it shall.
May 2, 201312 yr comment_158090 Posted by TST member 'Altitude'. This is a rumoured layout for the B&M wingrider next year. Not the longest or most interesting layout, but it is situated on a hill which could place some restrictions / make it more awkward to design. Note now pretty much after the wingover it's a mirror image of Swarm.. Looks like the theming will make or break this ride, but based on Merlin's recent rides the past few years, I'd say this ride will be a glowing success and look absolutely spectacular.
May 2, 201312 yr comment_158092 Omg I'm dying. I posted a mock up layout I made in 20 minutes on Towersstreet and they think it's real... [image in Josh's post] I should probably say something? From a member off CF, gonna put this to bed before it continues... Pisses me off that people find it funny to post fake imagery on sites...
May 31, 201312 yr comment_159843 first construction photos thanks to www.coasterfriends.de so guys B&M flyer or wing rider??
June 4, 201312 yr comment_160051 The rumours can now come to an end regarding the manufacture because... It is to be a B&M (as suspected) with quite nice looking dark green supports! But will the track be dark to go with these dark supports? Nope, a very nice white! Can't work out what type of B&M it will be but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a Wingrider. It is nice to see Merlin branching away from the dark track colours of there coasters, but why at the park that already has 2 coasters with white track and green supports? Oh well, I'm interested to see how this turns out. All photos from here- http://www.heide-park-world.de/baublog/blog/saison-2014/2569-erste-stuetzen-der-neuen-attraktion-2014-ziehen-in-das-heide-park-resort-ein - in case the watermark didn't give it a way.
June 4, 201312 yr comment_160054 It will be a wingrider. You can see the metal spokes that stick up from in between the friction wheels which only wingriders have as they're used to hold the electrical contacts that contact with the train to control restraints. But just as a point, the same colour scheme again? Really? At least it's better than Merlin's latest colour schemes.
June 4, 201312 yr comment_160060 Wait, they're copying the colour scheme of their Vekomas? What is this I don't even......
June 4, 201312 yr comment_160071 Seems to me what we can see in the Image is the Station and the lift hill
July 28, 201312 yr comment_164287 Think that pretty much confirms a Wing-Rider based on the HUGGGGGE gap between pillars then... Worst kept secret of course...
July 28, 201312 yr comment_164290 I'm just not sure how the white and olive colour scheme fits with the whole 'vampire bat' theme....
July 30, 201312 yr comment_164393 Its definitely a wingrider , the station is so wide and the fact, Merlin like wingriders it seems an almost certainty .
July 30, 201312 yr comment_164396 On RCDB there has been no official announcement made by merlin or Heide Park currently. We don't know the layout which would be shown it the press release along with code name or name and its statistics, so far we have nothing. RCDB have gone on pure luck and it looks like its payed of but we have nothing else.
July 30, 201312 yr comment_164397 On RCDB there has been no official announcement made by merlin or Heide Park currently. As far as I'm aware RCDB only deals in 'official' announcements, and it's rare that the official announcement is the first time people become aware of the new ride. We knew Thorpe would be getting a wingrider before 'The Swarm' announcement was made, for example. In this case the environmental impact study published last August suggested it was a wingrider, and track at the B&M plant known to be wingrider had been arriving at Heide Park from the start of June. (from Heide-Park-Forum and Screamscape)
July 30, 201312 yr comment_164399 Still hasn't been an official announcement though (in regards to actual theme, name and layout etc)...
July 30, 201312 yr comment_164401 Well the theme is Gothic. Bat themed by the looks of it, judging by this....
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