Worlds First Launched X-Car Coaster - Drievliet

[Dirk_Ermen]

I went to drievliet today and I simply could walk onto the construction area from the coaster. No single german fellow or staff from drievliet did send me back... lol!
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When arrived at drievliet i saw the coaster nearly finished in the distance


Closed till april 2007... Allrighty then...


Allthough the gate was kinda open...

At the backside of the park, a nice shot... and then off to the closest location i could... Allthough it even became very close [pshades]


At the side entrance, gate was half opened... so i couldn't be bothered to keep too much distance...


It's fun to see how close you can get to a coaster without even being in the park [:D]


Me @ trackpiece [pshades][8D][pshades]


Many supports were lying down there, so i guess the first inversion will have some nice and high forces [8D]


Gh?????????h?????????... ^_^


Another trackpiece in the distance...


Eventually i continued making the distance between me and the coaster smaller and smaller [:D] But the workers only were worrying if they where putting the right trackpiece together [:D]


That launch is going to be fun [pshades]


Nice turn is this going to be [:)]


On other sites they where talking about the welding from some trackpieces. Well, you can see that they are doing some stuff there [:)]


In the back they are placing another support. And in the front it's more welding stuff [:)]


Close to the launchtrack, in the back you can see another fellow making pictures. Maybe is he the reason of that nobody is saying anything to me? [:D]


W00t! LIMS! As far as i've seen you will be immediatly launched after that small turn out of the station [pshades]


As you can see, no place to stop a car decently on the launchtrack. so yeah, turn and immediatly: WHOOSH! [pshades]


Wonderfull view over the launchtrack. In a few weeks I get the same view since I signed up for testround of that coaster. [8D]


Awesome overbanked turn [:D]


2nd inversion and brake section. Seriously, I can't wait till i can ride this baby [pshades]


Transfertrack!


Station [:)]


That great corkscrew/barrelroll combo, with the transfer track in front of it [:)]


2nd piece of brakes


Heartline from the overbanked turn. Seriously this looks awesome [8D][pshades]


It's maurer S?????????hne allright [pshades][8D]


Queuegates! [:D][:D][:D]


The boosterwheels [:P]


Transfertrack again. As you can see, the track has to turn 90 degrees to put a train on the storage [:)]


Overview from the station itself [:)]


Launch track seen from the small station [8D]


Eventually i'd walked back since mom got impatient...


A final picture a shot from some workers there [:)]

Wonderfull track, i'm seriously going to try to shoot an onride video from this ride when I get to ride it in a few weeks as testsubject. [:D]
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Looks great! Can't wait to see more progress.

wow, I had no idea this was being built. great pictures!

Wow, thats hot! Never heard of it before either, but it's lookin great! Have fun testing [:D]

Wow, thats amazing they let you walk up there and take pictures like that. Looks to be a fun compact ride.

[hyyyper]

lol, nice going dirk, i'll see you at testing day

maby i am going too watch next weak.
i life 5 min on the bike from it.
but how did you came so close last time i tryed i was send back

wow!! that looks sweet!!

You took some great pictures there Dirk. The coaster looks like it will be great. Keep us posted if you can!

looks like another badly engineered coaster to me just like G-Forse at drayton. i can see there is going to be alot of bad forses and rough spots on it. to be honest i dont like the look of it but i hope it proves me wrong

thats true gazag, and with some restraints where you can hardly breath will make it worse.

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by gazag

looks like another badly engineered coaster to me just like G-Forse at drayton. i can see there is going to be alot of bad forses and rough spots on it. to be honest i dont like the look of it but i hope it proves me wrong

you'll find out yourself auhust 11

Nice pictures! My house is 8 miles from Drievliet

if your house is that close i hope you will join us on august 11th

Originally posted by gazag

if your house is that close i hope you will join us on august 11th

11 august? Ill be there! It's only 19 km away form my house! Yay!

Edit: Not. ?????????'m going to the USA from 5 july till 14 august. Too bad.

for me it is 2 miles[:D]
and untill 1.5 years ago less then a mile

this the layout of formula-x

I think the lay out has changed since that picture. If I remember correctly, they have added a helix.

The ride definitely looks very interesting. But the reports I've heard about the cars and restraints are not very favorable, and I imagine some of those elements can become quite painful.

[hyyyper]

Originally posted by Nosferatu

I think the lay out has changed since that picture. If I remember correctly, they have added a helix.

The ride definitely looks very interesting. But the reports I've heard about the cars and restraints are not very favorable, and I imagine some of those elements can become quite painful.

the helix was shown in a tv-interview, yet on the construction site no helix was to be found

Strange. I guess they left it out after all then.

Yeah i live at holland so i go there in april

[Dirk_Ermen]

Originally posted by 12345

Yeah i live at holland so i go there in april

not as tester around the end of march like me? [;)]

the track is complete!

when i was there after school i did not saw no crane any more so every thing is in place alsow the cars. i saw them still working at the station.

I've been there today, and i have a nice picture of the new Formule X FINISHED. I couldn't get any closer than this, because the fences were already locked. But something is better than nothing.

[hyyyper]

is that a dive loop or immelman?