Bubbles1 Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 I'm confused... Why are we Discussing how windy the ride will be? ThrillSeekerMatt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshC. Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 A locus? I thought you'd know! It's the centre-point that a body of mass rotates around.Not strictly true.. ;)A locus is a collection of points that share the same property. A circle is a locus of points that share a constant, fixed distance from the same point. So, technically, the body of mass travels along the course of a locus, not around it. (At least, that's what I've always been taught )[/end pendent] Sidders 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamY Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 With regards the original question, it will also end up running slightly faster than it is right now anyway so a final judgement would be premature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidders Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 I told you someone would prove me wrong! :lol:Odd thing is, I knew that! I remember learning about a goat and a certain length of rope and calculating how much grass he could eat... Don't you just love AQA exam scenarios?"Wamjeeta has 16a2 and Sven has 12b2..."But yes as Adam said - friction tests and speed calculations was be rectified if needed so the way it looks now could be completely different to March. Who knows? They may even require the trim! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 I don't ever remember being told about locii... Then again, circles aren't exactly Level 3 uni level of work (Level 2 on the other hand )http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_%28mathematics%29For random reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamY Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 AQA do officially have the best characters evaar for exam questions They also have masterful voice actors for the languages!But, ahem, Swarm woohyay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javs Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 Whilst you lot are talking about locusts, The Swarm is probably whizzing around the track and we are missing it!! Lunatics! ;-) Loving the pictures previously by the way, good job. Sheepie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geo Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 Wow I mean WOW, I have missed alot in the past 15 days. My face when I saw the testing pictures was a picture itself.*Shocked*Does look excellent, Good job with catching those photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 Whilst you lot are talking about locusts, The Swarm is probably whizzing around the track and we are missing it!! Lunatics! ;-) Loving the pictures previously by the way, good job.Ooh I dunno, talking about Swarm and locusts seems rather apt to me. Tom 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pluk Posted January 15, 2012 Report Share Posted January 15, 2012 Date wise, two months today, we are on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valentez Posted January 16, 2012 Report Share Posted January 16, 2012 Any piece of active theming such as this would be a plus in my books and yes certainly easy to maintain.Bit late with my thoughts here but.....wow! Loving those testing pictures, the train looks so small going through the inclined loop. It kind of shows just how much the track section and supports will dominate the area around the island and queue.I think most of all I'm looking forward to a close up shot of the picture below, hopefully Tuesday will bring us either a testing video or a decent onsite update, can't wait to hear her rumble around that track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron Irishman Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 No, no, no, you're getting it all wrong. There's no mystery to Saw at all. Sure, there may be different methods but since Saw's inception there has been absolutely no variant in the Endgame: you die. With The Swarm, they're mysterious aliens arriving on Earth to without unknown plans and a propensity for destruction, and no-one really knows what they are, why they're here, where they are, or where they're going to strike next. Stop thinking so literally about the ride itself and think about what informs the ride - you'll find theme parks much more exciting that way. No-one goes up to Nemesis and thinks "This is a B&M rollercoaster built in 1994 with 4 inversions and G-Force in excess of 5Gs", they think "Wow! Look at that monster! I wonder how it got there and where it came from?".**Please forgive the crude examples.Ok Sid, I understand where you're coming from, and for Saw, that's the POV of the movie viewers. I'm on about the POV of the victims. There isn't a varying endgame however (despite the first, fourth and fifth films) and you're right about that. But when YOU'RE the guy stuck in a trap with no knowledge of how you got here or what's going to happen, that brings in the surprise and scare factor. But for the Swarm, you just had me beat. I indeed failed to acknowledge the public. They would literally be begging for news surrounding this strange invasion. Just look at us, we're begging for it to open. And yeah, I am quite the literal person sadly. I never see rides from an imaginative point of view, yet I still enjoy them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joegibbon Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 The developers diary on Facebook has just uploaded this beauty http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150702617094815This looks amazing, it is very graceful flying through those elements Drawin, Sheepie, Sidders and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris.radders Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 THERE'S VIDEO!!It's just come up on Facebook, I can't get it up on here, but I'm sure someone will be able toIt looks goooooood! Sheepie and Drawin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jom222 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 cant get fb, cant wait to see it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenC Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Thorpe have really treated enthusiasts this year; construction updates haven't let up!Great to see a video of the ride running, and no surprises for me really - yes it's slow, but those near-miss effects are going to be all the better for it, and this is its first run.EDIT: I can see a (newly painted!) plane, a fire engine, but not a lot of helicopter. . .? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mer Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 OH WOW!!! :DIt looks amazing! I know Wing Riders are meant to be more graceful than fast (for lack of a better way to word it) but it really does crawl awkwardly through that corkscrew! Blimeh! Although as BenC said, it was the first run.And B&M ROAR MUCH?! OOOFT! If you have speakers or earphones with good bass, during that turn before the corkscrew you can really hear it rumbling, and also during the inline twist! NOM!I loved hearing all the staff's reactions too, was hilarious! Especially during the first drop "Oh my Go-o-o-o-od!" And then the guy at the end "Nice." :lol:Love love love love it! Drawin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TraX Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Love the sound of the dogs under the train flapping about through the final inversion! Looks fantastic.For the first time sinse I was a little kid, Thorpe Park have me excited very much so, on their new toy. Luke_A and Drawin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Being in the front row going down that first drop/inversion will be INCREDIBLE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark9 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Pretty much confirms everything that I thought about the ride. Nice and speedy through relatively straight track and overbanked turns whilst going through inversions at a snails pace so you really will feel the wing-rider position properly through-out. That first inline off the lift hill is going to be immense. And that roar. Now we know fully that B&M is back with a bang. What a sound. :wub:The next two months cannot go fast enough in my opinion. Sidders 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benin Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Coar that was, slow. Also makes you realise how one sided the ride is to the right, that'll be where the majority of your Gs will be folks if you want that stuff.It will be course run faster when it's running proper, but I can see now why people lament the layout somewhat, it's rather compact and is kinda over before you know it, and that's with it crawling through, imagine it faster. Be interesting to see it running at a more 'complete' speed in person and see it takes the course. Also wondering the point of the high brake run, unless it's just to stop over-speeding into the actual brakes.Ah wells, still better than any Intamin tripe we might have gotten instead. Drawin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
javs Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Slow!? Go back and have a look how quickly it goes under the wing, then up into the inclined loop and down into the overbanked turn. This thing is going to pull some really nice G's especially at the bottom after the zero g into the inclined loop, good grief!!What they have done is genious. It is very fast through the transitions and graceful in the inverted elements. Exactly how it should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daza88 Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 Wow that looks incredible!It really is alot slower than I was expecting (fair enough it is the first run) but the speed the lift hill was going was pretty fast imo.I wonder if that was with the trim or not? one thing that can be said is those trains must be heavy!A little concerned with the lack of helicopter but then again we don't know how old this vid is.Exciting stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheepie Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 From the top of the lift, to the brakes, we have a ride time of 32 seconds. So shorter than Inferno. A very short ride, but my does it look amazing. It seems to take its inline twist much faster than Raptor does.The roar sounds immense, as does how graceful the train looks gliding around that beastly track. As from the beginning, my only negative comment is just how flaming short this ride is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mer Posted January 17, 2012 Report Share Posted January 17, 2012 I'm starting to agree now about the ride length :unsure:It never really bothered me but after seeing the video and the more I read people's comments, the more I find myself agreeing!But I'm still uber excited about it and of course, there is the theming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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