C?? Chulainn Coaster - Tayto Park - Ireland - 2015

[TTD03]

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Ireland's Tayto Park just opened in 2010, and mainly features zoological attractions along with some play areas that include zip lines and crazy slides. The park was created by a company of the same name, a well known manufacturer of snack foods in the country, mainly known for their potato crisps.

Why should we care? Well because little Tayto Park has expansion on the mind and is making their mark by building a brand new Gravity Group wood roller coaster in 2015.

The new coaster is already under construction, and will stand 105 feet tall and feature a first drop of 95 feet. The name for the ride hasn't been released yet that I've seen, however the park says it will have a "strong Irish mythological theme." These construction photos were recently released by the park, but appear to be a little outdated already. In several news stories (like this one, and also this one), much more of the ride - including a large segment of the lift hill - can be seen in place.

The new coaster is being advertised as Europe's "largest inverted wooden roller coaster," due to a highly overbanked turn featured in the layout. Gravity Group's Kory Kiepert gave the park a quote for their news released about just that: ??????We always try to make each ride the best ride possible for its size. When we have the chance to break a record ?????? we go for it! When this ride opens to the public, its overbanked turn will give people a taste of going upside down ?????? a first for a wooden coaster in Europe, so we are pretty excited about this.??????

This layout was a part of the park's planning documents (more views available here), and shows off what is in store. I'm guessing the overbank turn that's being counted as an inversion can be seen on the far right, and will take place about halfway through the ride. The overall look of the coaster is a bit different for a Gravity Group design, so this is sure to be interesting once completed.

Tayto Park's 2015 expansion includes seven new attractions, aside from the roller coaster are several large flat rides including an Air Race, a train ride, children's drop tower, and a 5-D cinema.
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TTD your late a lot of people heard of the ride now lol :p

It has an RCDB page already. http://rcdb.com/12364.htm The Name's Embargoed and RCDB claims it will have a corkscrew.

[TTD03]

Eh just catching up

Fantastic Addition! Also one good surprise in Ireland!

^^^It says it has a corkscrew, but I can't see where it's supposed to be on the layout.

[Dirk_Ermen]

Projektion wrote:

^^^It says it has a corkscrew, but I can't see where it's supposed to be on the layout.

My issue as well. I'll probably read more about it when the First Drop Magazine drops in here. It could be that there were small changes made to the layout.

[Coasterkidmwm]

I bet it'll be somewhat small and towards the end. It has to be in one of the S sections of track and I don't see many aside from near the very end in that drawing.

maybe they made up the corkscrew

Gravity Group asked Holiday World if they wanted to add an Inversion to the Voyage but they ultimately decided against it. It just shows that GG are always innovating even a finished design. The Voyage was also only supposed to have 2 90-degree banked turns but it has 3. The more you know!

[TTD03]

^ I am so excited to ride it this summer!

[Paradox]

Still hate the decision to scrap the timberliners.

TTD03 wrote:

^ I am so excited to ride it this summer!

You better invite me!

[TTD03]

It's interesting how I'll be there.
I'll PM you about it.

[Paradox]

Boulder Dash with GG refurb.

omg.

Paradox wrote:

Boulder Dash with GG refurb.

omg.

Rmc???

[Paradox]

deere839 wrote:

Paradox wrote:

Boulder Dash with GG refurb.

omg.

Rmc???

No RMC.

Gravity Group would be great to do a whole track refurb (especially the turnaround) and add timberliners.

Seems unnecessary to me, when I've ridden last season and 2 before that, it was very smooth and rerideable all around, including the turnaround. I don't think they want to mess with it anyways.

RMC redid Thunder Run. It runs better than ever now.

[mkingy]

Timberliners!



It's also called The C?????? Chulainn Coaster (An Irish Mythological Hero hence the rather hilarious train design)

That's just unfortunate.

That's one ugly timberliner

[Coasterkidmwm]

Yeah the choo choo and dinosaur Timberliners are cool, this one.....not so much.

I'd let that train run over me.

Looking at the plans on the planning council site, there is *no way* this thing has a corkscrew. The overbanked turn must be the "inversion".