Higher than Sheikra as well (not by much, but still)

^Most likely. The cars can only rotate like a regular spinning coaster would, i.e. the seats do not tilt like on other flyers. This also means the track has to rotate with the car/seats when they go from upright to flying.

LOL, the inverted coaster on the concept art is a direct copy of a Coasterdynamix model

I don't have to work on the 8th so I'll pop by and meet you guys somewhere during the day.

We have a testrun!

Update from today: https://i.imgur.com/mxY557X.jpg https://i.imgur.com/xo6HjRz.jpg https://i.imgur.com/RhEF0jh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/b3MIwBw.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4gtSEnY.jpg https://i.imgur.com/M076joV.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Lm7T92D.jpg https://i.imgur.com/UMHD4hK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/P9f2d...

It's probably much stronger than the old design. Generally speaking, a circle is the strongest shape there is, and any sort of strong angle is bad for fatigue. False The strongest shape is a triangle...... ....which contains angles....... ....so false on both counts Ahh, that explains why trees are...

https://www.csm.be/en/realizations/?cat=22

It's a Belgian company. Seems that they have quite some experience manufacturing steel track. But have you seen those crossties? Looks unreal to me.

I would sure love to see someone program an induction rail or something to compensate for the scaling... one can dream, right?

Just a quick addition, google translate sometimes cannot distinguish between 'inverted' and 'inverting'. This seemed to confuse a couple people on other forums.

First footers have appeared:

Looks kinda like a TOGO in that last pic

Lol, image a flume/rapid style revolving station

If you're going purely for capacity, I would assume the transfer variant is faster. Separate unload/load will take longer because riders cannot simultaeously enter and exit the same train. First the entire unload station has to be clear before the train can advance. Meanwhile the station with the tr...

Launch track was spotted at the Vekoma plant! https://i.gyazo.com/6910af014d3eb55a922afb0df6099298.jpg Strange that it's curved so much. Strange indeed. I think there are two possibilities (maybe 3) 1a. A very long launch, entered at a downward angle, leaving at upward angle. 1b multiple launches. ...

so the seats will be able to rotate it seems. I wonder if it's just for loading/unloading or will they rotate during the ride as well? They could do an awesome dark ride section with this, let's hope. I think they will do it in order to get the 'worlds longest' claim. That is the only way I can ima...

The issue that they warned for concerned a totally different part from the one which failed on this ride. All operating rides were strengthened in the affected area after the warning was published.

I'm trusting Universal to put an epic roller coaster in its huge footprint. I'm afraid Universal has already stated a family-friendly ride will takes the place of Dragons. Has a B&M ever been scrapped before? I think this would be a first. Well, if you don't count the full-track-replacement of ...

I believe they meant to say 'world's longest launched flying coaster', which I think do not exist yet, so they'll get that record with any track length. They meant to say worlds longest flying coaster. If they meant something else they would have said something else. Still, Flying Dinosaur is 1.124...

I can't wait to see how they will fit in the longest flying coaster in the world in such a small space. I honestly don't think it'll be world's longest flying coaster. Flying Dinosaur is well over a kilometer long (3,300 feet or so) and I don't see that fitting in Phantasialand, the most RCT-ish pa...

Are they building a new concert venue as well?

The support structure looks very dense from the side, but it is actually very spacious. So you can just drop or lift your next section of track vertically though the structure and then rotate it when it's at the right height.



easy peasy

Layout has not been confirmed. However, the rumoured layout was put online before the permit application and it lines up perfectly with the station, the lake and other features of the area. So I'm pretty convinced the final layout won't be far off. Doesn't mean the ride's gonna be bad. Plenty of win...

This is the map that was included with the permit request: MyfFPJT.jpg The colorisation and wing coaster layout was added later (not by me). Grey blocks represent buildings, whose functions can be guessed: HER will be restaurent/food point BOA boat ride station KST castle: wing rider station and boa...

Doesn't Lightning Rod also have a similar predrop on top of their first hill?