MK-Ultra: Intamin GigaDrop

Since recently discovering a fix to a problem with my 3ds and the way they showed up in the sim, I wanted to test out the fix with a ride I've wanted to do forever. MK-Ultra is an Intamin-style drop/giga coaster that sits at its highest point of 371ft. and reaches speeds as high as 100mph. The ride's method of supporting the huge drop is a tower which also acts as an observation deck equipt with a double-decker elevator for access. The ride will feature underground tunnels and fog effects when finished. The layout is split into 2 parts: the high speed section, and a slower more compact megalite-ish approach to return to the station.

The name was originally Ultimatum but it wasn't clicking so I named it after the Muse song, MK Ultra. But, more particularly what Muse named their song after, the code name for a covert, illegal CIA human research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence that ran from around 1950 to sometime in the 60's.


Statistics:
Giga Coaster (2 Seat)
[Current] Track Length: 3,134
Cars Per Train: 4
[Current] # Of Trains: 1
Max Speed: 100 Mph
Max Track Height: 371 Feet
Max Angle Of Descent: 97.5*
[Current] Max Vertical G's: 4.5 / -0.8
[Current] Max Lateral G's: +/- 0.3
(All measurements measured from bottom of editor,
major elements above 20ft concrete base)
(Colors are not final)


Additional Info:
[Current] Tower Height: 379ft.
235ft. Overbank
354ft. Beyond-Vertical Drop (97.5*)
Underwater Tunnel (Maybe)


Progress:
Track: 50%
Support: 0%
3d Work: 20%ish




A shot of the tower from the front



The drop



Possible enviornment

Why are there trims on the hill there?

It slows the train down from like 90mph to around 55 so it can do smaller manuvers with the track. Since I am keeping the layout relatively short, I wanted to slow the train downquite a bit so I can add something a little more exciting rather than a long-drawn out turn into the breaks.

Can you make them a LIM fin?

I plan to. I'm doing everything like the holding brakes, lims, and cable lift last.

Lol, I just started a project named after a piece of music. Was first Psychosocial and is now obZen.

Looks very good 3d wise.

[Turbo]

That ride looks sick dude.

Should stop the ride at the top for a few seconds behind glass as 3ds people watch

[Coasterkidmwm]

Perhaps you could center the disk at the top if it isn't centered since it looks funky cantilevered off to the side.

^ I think the third support opposite of that 1st picture is holding up the rest of that disk. I thought the same thing. Is does look weird.

It looks misscentered, but the 3rd support is alot bigger than the 2 on the sides.

Scenery looks cool, so I hope the trackwork is up to par.

This is looking very cool man... oh and I really like the song choice. Can't wait to see more.

looks great

Wow,really impressing,I like the combiantion of two atractions,more parks should do that,a good example is the T.o.T. and Giant Drop combo at Dreamworld...

[Coasterkidmwm]

So the supports are at 90 degree angles instead of 120 degree angles from each other?

Yeah. Theres the main tube running up the middle. Then there is the 2 thick concrete supports on either side, and behind it is the larger concrete support.

[Coasterkidmwm]

So it's a T shaped support setup for a 30 story concrete disk?

Yeah, I guess? I mean, I'm no architect. But note that the disk is not center. Theres no huge chunk of the disk unsupported.

[Coasterkidmwm]

.......

Wow

Why didn't you use 120 degree angles?

Because it wouldnt of looked as smooth with the vertical red beams running up the center at every 45*

Also, the 3 support columns have a trapezium shape. They widen as the move away from the center column.

[Coasterkidmwm]

**facepalms**

I'm not an architect.

[Coasterkidmwm]

You've never seen a tripod?

Have you ever seen a hoverpod?