Kingda Ka Poll

[hyyyper]

What, in your opinion, is the best part of the Kingda Ka ?

I love launches, especially hydraulic launches. And since Kingda Ka will be the fastest accelerating Intamin rocket to date, then I have to choose the launch. All parts of this ride should be excellent though.

Since no one has ridden it, its quite hard to tell

[gouldy]

its not 270deg that twist, I think its actually closer to 280 because the airtime hill is at an angle to the launch. Either that or its a 100deg twist when you are going upwards, but I'm just being Pernickety to be fair .

My favourite part would probably be the launch, having ridden Rita, all that made me say to my self was "I FRIGGING want to ride Kingda Ka!" purely for the launch. Because now I know what 0-62 in 2.8 seconds feels like, I just absolutely cannot imagine what 0-128 in 3.5 seconds would be like. I would imagine it would just eclipse the rest of the ride.

[hyyyper]

but wat if you hit a bug at 209kph?, that's gotta hurt alot.
cause on appollo's one man died of hitting a goose...

[gouldy]

Is that true? I have seen a picture of a fashion model guy person man thing or whatever "Fabio" is, on Apollo's chariot after being hit in the face by a bird, he certainly wasn't dead, but there was a bit of blood.

[Dirk_Ermen]

i'd always love airtime and that hill looks like it will produce some nice 0g floaters [:)] Or else it's defenatly the launch. [:D]

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by gouldy

Is that true? I have seen a picture of a fashion model guy person man thing or whatever "Fabio" is, on Apollo's chariot after being hit in the face by a bird, he certainly wasn't dead, but there was a bit of blood.

they must have changed it on rcdb.com, about 2 months ago i saw the test that someone died after hitting a goose, but now they've chanced it into that fabio thingie

Originally posted by gouldy

its not 270deg that twist, I think its actually closer to 280 because the airtime hill is at an angle to the launch. Either that or its a 100deg twist when you are going upwards, but I'm just being Pernickety to be fair .

My favourite part would probably be the launch, having ridden Rita, all that made me say to my self was "I FRIGGING want to ride Kingda Ka!" purely for the launch. Because now I know what 0-62 in 2.8 seconds feels like, I just absolutely cannot imagine what 0-128 in 3.5 seconds would be like. I would imagine it would just eclipse the rest of the ride.

You have blueprints? Everyone thinks thats the case with Dragster too, that the 2 tracks (launch and brakes) actually angle in to each other, but its just the train track issue. Being they are so huge and you never get a direct top down (without any FOV) itll always appear that way.

Theres no reason for them to lie really. I recreated Dragster and even though its slightly off width wise, the tracks are STILL parallel. Its easy to tell from the way its themed inside.


They are parallel, unless youve got some prints I didnt know existed

I thought they were parallel too, until I saw this pic. Looks like that tophat turns about 182 degrees.

[hyyyper]

and if you think, you'll figure out soon enough that the tophat is wider than the last turn into the station, also a good pic is this
http://www.sixflags.com/parks/greatadve ... om/109.jpg

Yea, THAT is definatly obvious. Thats definatly quite a bit angled than Dragster is.

I stand corrected on that one, dont need blueprints with that. Thats really severe in terms of the angle. I wish I had the entire helicopter ride that was shot in CP's video of Dragster in testing, would make that more concrete but the only shots you get are to the side, completely useless.

i would like the lanch. I just love being pinned back in your set.

[hyyyper]

i've reseted the poll, now with a new answer: everything

Now all of the votes have been cleared, and the people who already voted can't vote again.

[hyyyper]

they can't?
F*CK!
then maybe i'll make a new one, if that's ok with the mod's?

Originally posted by hyyyper

Originally posted by gouldy

Is that true? I have seen a picture of a fashion model guy person man thing or whatever "Fabio" is, on Apollo's chariot after being hit in the face by a bird, he certainly wasn't dead, but there was a bit of blood.

they must have changed it on rcdb.com, about 2 months ago i saw the test that someone died after hitting a goose, but now they've chanced it into that fabio thingie

He didn't die. But yes he was hit by a goose.

[hyyyper]

rcdb said he later died to his injuries or something,

[gouldy]

Well, they lied because I saw a TV program with him on it funnily enough, the other day

[hyyyper]

is that a good or bad thing?

Ive seen several reports, bird, duck, goose.

I doubt it was a goose...really, geese are HUGE. I suspect at the speeds they were going a goose would have caused some neck damage. I would lean much further towards just a bird, even a duck is a large object to hit.


Reguardless, never died. Just hilariousness.

[image]http://www.coasterforce.com/images3/fabio.jpg[/image]

[hyyyper]

Maybe this is the nice start of a game:
What's the worst thing that could happen to you while riding a coaster?

i'll start:
Getting a rollback on Superman: The Escape

rollback on gravity max

Dying from a crash

[hyyyper]

being to heavy for the liftchain