Tatsu Construction (Video Page 7!)

[coolbeans326]

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/vi ... start=1290

Horse Shoe is finished, looks like it'll have a nice disorienting whip to it.

look its a horrible piece of track is gowing before the pretzel loop



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Its some trim breaks

[hyyyper]

i do not think that the brakes will take speed, i think it is more of a trim the regulates the train. When the train isn't fully loaded (which will happen 1st time after 20 months) the train goes faster than at full load, and creating higher G's, therefor the trim will be the speed trought the pretzel as much as at full load, but you barely will notice the difference

if the speed in the pretzel was to high, they'd build it different

Actually from my experience loaded trains run harder and faster than unloaded trains. While weight creates more friction, the way they are designed these days the weight only adds to the speed and more importantly, the momentum.

Why else do they use dummies to test and in some cases, sand bags and weights for coasters with not enough people?

[hyyyper]

^because i test i myself with a knex coaster

[gouldy]

And you think a Knex coaster, is an accurate representation of the way forces act upon a real coaster do you?

[hyyyper]

perhaps, the pricipal is the same, only the scale and masses are different

And friction, and quality, and the made by hyyyper factor.

a K'mex coaster is no way the same thing and cand not even run the same if u try stuff out maybe il have it right

[hyyyper]

^the physics stay the same, it's all a train going down a track, the higher the weight, the higher the friction, the lower the speed

[gouldy]

The physics involved are not the same though are they, for example, as rides get smaller, loops can be much rounder in shape without there being any bad g's. That's just an example to show you that the smaller the ride gets, themore differently forces act on it, if you were to then miniturize the cars as well at the track to such a small size as a K'nex coaster, you can see how the physics are completely different to the way physics are applied to a life size coaster. Ever noticed that it takes like half a second for a car on your K'nex coaster to fall to the bottom of the drop? Where as if that happened on a real coaster, all the occupents would be dead

Wow, that was fast. But not as fast as Goliath's construction team.

And hyyyper, I bet the track to train weight ratio on Knex coasters is way different from real coasters.

Hopefully they get that 0g up this week.

[hyyyper]

to all:

i know knex's coasters aren't the real thing

but how else was i supposed to test it?, the guess from WWO weren't really cooperative

We have kind of gone off topic.

Latest Update;


Big Tatsu update! Tatsu's trains are on the storage track, pretzel loop is nearly complete and the station is well underway to being finished!

Click here to view updated construction pictures!

Oh look...a trim at the BASE of the Pretzel. Isnt the stupidest place for one? Why not brake the train at the top where its already slow and then let us have uninterupted g's at the bottom?

I dont know, plus it seems rather odd to place it there. Like you could valley it if the conditions were right. I dont know if I buy the "Its here incase it valleys" deal. Whats the worst that could happen - you rock back and forth on your back? Seriously, while the sun would suck, if it were a cloudy day that might put you to sleep!


still, awesome looking ride. It alone makes me maybe think about a Cali trip.

[coolbeans326]

^ if you decide to do it.... shoot for late August.[;)]

Its probably Six Flags being worried about it since Deja Vu does it alot. But still it would be a uncomfortable pain in the ass to get stuck there.

ugggg, I dunno why but RCPro NEVER works when i try to get on it.

^That sucks. You aren't the first person that I have talked to tonight that can't access any part of the website. It is quite a good update too.

this coaster is gonna be amazing
it destroys superman at great adventure

^And Six Flags Over Georgia.
And Six Flags Great America.
And Air.

And every other flyer on the planet.

Pretzel completed...

nice