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The rather talented Nemesis94 has updates his NL recreation o show what the ride will be like according to the changes the game and supports seem to suggest. They go out of sync due to the pacing changes, so here's a comparison of the two halves...

1st half

http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYMTyJHVWdQU&start1=10&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dliu91c_r9dU&start2=172&authorName=FAV

2nd half

http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYMTyJHVWdQU&start1=70&video2=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dliu91c_r9dU&start2=230&authorName=FAV

Inversions aren't everything, but this keeps getting better and better for me.

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Some pics from today

In the car park we have a number of new sections, like the walk ways here

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and these, some of these ones look like lift hills, this piece looks like a show scene as it has wheels and breaks.
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My photos of the ones with just wheels came out even more blurred than the above. My camera wants to auto-focus on the trees in the foreground.

Meanwhile on park the ducks aren't too impressed. This one seems to believe that the water its standing on is broken.
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Yup it was mighty nippy.
Over on The Smiler site there hasn't been much visible change from yesterdays photos.
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Gerstlauer coasters are well known for being quick to construct...

Although there aren't many footers in the middle section, there's a HUGE slab of concrete, supports can be pinned into that instead of set into footers... Both options are viable and used by many manufacturers...

End of this week might be a push though... We won't know progress unless there's another fly-over or Towers continue their sudden love of construction pics...

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That video that appeared on YouTube yesterday gave me an indication of its length. If you had to compare its length to another ride, what are we lookinmg at? Twice the length of Colossus? 3 times as long as Air? Or is it too hard to tell?

Gerstlauer coasters are well known for being quick to construct...

Although there aren't many footers in the middle section, there's a HUGE slab of concrete, supports can be pinned into that instead of set into footers... Both options are viable and used by many manufacturers...

Yes, I was always amazed at how quick Gerstlauer constructed Saw. And still it disappoints. :(

But a huge slab of concrete is just ugly. Colossus may me a decade old now and it's footers amongst the water look aged, but I still love how they're dotted about. They're only concrete rings filled with conrete - the rings are actually quite cheap, considering the amount of different purposes they can be used for in building.

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That video that appeared on YouTube yesterday gave me an indication of its length. If you had to compare its length to another ride, what are we lookinmg at? Twice the length of Colossus? 3 times as long as Air? Or is it too hard to tell?

The length is 1170m; so 3 times the length of Air.

If the new No Limits recreation is wholly accurate, then the outdoor section is about 110 seconds, which would still leave about 55 seconds of ride time indoors. Definitely has to be onride pre show(s) for that to happen.

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The length is 1170m; so 3 times the length of Air.

If the new No Limits recreation is wholly accurate, then the outdoor section is about 110 seconds, which would still leave about 55 seconds of ride time indoors. Definitely has to be onride pre show(s) for that to happen.

That is not possible. Air is 840m long. But The Smiler does seem a hell of a lot longer in the No Limits POV videos.

I read somewhere that The Smiler will be three times the length of Rita, but even that is 640m so that doesn't quite add up either, otherwise The Smiler would have to be 1920m long. :unsure:

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That is not possible. Air is 840m long. But The Smiler does seem a hell of a lot longer in the No Limits POV videos.

I read somewhere that The Smiler will be three times the length of Rita, but even that is 640m so that doesn't quite add up either, otherwise The Smiler would have to be 1920m long. :unsure:

Ah, my mistake, was getting my facts mixed up.

The press release back in October said Smiler will be 3x the length of Oblivion, 3x the ride time of Rita and 10km/h faster than Air. Sorry 'bout that! :blush:

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