Iron Rattler SFFT

I LOVED New Texas Giant, so I really hope I can ride this.

Why Texas Only? Six Flags Magic Mountain, do not build new coaster. Put this treatment on Colossus and Make an epic dueling racer.

I don't think it would work well on Colussus at all. The existing structure doesn't leave much margin to do anything interesting, and rebuilding the same track profile with the higher friction track system will just result in a slower ride.

If Psyclone was still there that could have been a good candidate.

[Dirk_Ermen]

Construction is going along nicely. A couple pics of my visit on the 24th:

[Mikey]

http://themeparkinnovations.com/blog/the-iron-rattler/

[SauronHimself]

The live action POVs are now here.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Hey it's a mounted POV without "TWISTY..................." being screamed 48 times. Go Coasterforce!

That drop would fantastic in the back if the 3 complete stops at the top of the chain per cycle thing ever broke.

[Dirk_Ermen]

Looks like an okay ride to me. The biggest problem I'm having is that it looks slow on top of the cliff, and when it finally drops again, the ride is over.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Yeah I really think they could have at least made a helix into the brakes or something without adding much expense since it kind of suffers from the Volcano: TBC problem of "OMFGZ FAST - brakes" problem.

Either way going from a neutered and pissed on carcass of your former self to this is an improvement. I support the initial mods but not to the extent they went at it since quite frankly the unmodified POV of it was just stupid engineering, especially the drop. It really shows how ridiculous the original drop was if the steel reprofile of it is still less intense and it's friggin steel as opposed to wooden track and a PTC train.

Then again I'm sure when Full Throttle opens the speed problem will be even worse on that one.

^[approve]

Originally posted by Coasterkidmwm


Then again I'm sure when Full Throttle opens the speed problem will be even worse on that one.

What is this supposed to mean, exactly?

[Coasterkidmwm]

It launches through a giant loop, turn a and a twisty thing, and then down a rather large hill into a brake run in a tunnel. It hit the brakes at like 60mph. You don't need have a simulated E-stop as part of the ride experience.

I'd rather have it cruise through the brakes, fail to make it over the top of the loop (uninverted side), rollback, and then get a "boost" its second time in the tunnel after it fails to make it over the twisty thing, but I'm not the designer so my opinion is irrelevant.

My idea would use less energy than the current set up probably too but whatever....

[Mikey]

Iron Rattler is a very short ride....

It really feels like it is missing something, another element. It needs to find itself a mid-course break and another 20-30 seconds of ride time to really be equal to the ride it replaced.

When it's not trying to eject you from your seat it's trying to in you in it.

Originally posted by Mikey

Iron Rattler is a very short ride....

It really feels like it is missing something, another element. It needs to find itself a mid-course break and another 20-30 seconds of ride time to really be equal to the ride it replaced.

When it's not trying to eject you from your seat it's trying to in you in it.

Equal to the ride it replaced??? Rattler was sh*t and Iron Rattler is kickass! I'd rather have a short, super quick and intense ride any day over some crap with a MCBR that drags on with unexciting bits.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Originally posted by Jakizle
Equal to the ride it replaced???

Maybe he means the year it opened.

Then again that is probably the only reprofiling (just the drop) I would ever support as an enthusiast, because that original drop looked like a pile of bad ideas

I've never ridden the old and probably wont get to ride the new, but the old seemed to have a certain character about it. The new also has a unigue character to it and I am sure its pretty good, but even with the new track the bit on top of the cliff still seems pretty dull and looks like it crawl, cant say for sure because I havent been there, but it llooks like it.

There is fantastic airtime and hangtime on the top cliff portion, so I'm not sure what all of the whining about. The POVs were also taken on empty trains and in colder temperatures.

[Mikey]

What I meant was Iron Rattler time wise was not equal to the ride it replaced. It's a very short ride as it is missing about 800-1000 ft worth of layout compared to that of the pile of poop it replaced.

You have heard me say before some of the things that used to happen to the Rattler, pieces falling off, injuries, etc

[SauronHimself]

I still think Outlaw Run is better.

I'm not really complaining honestly, like I said I will probably never get to ride it anyway, I'm just pointing out it still loses quite a bit of speed on the cliff, not blaming rmc nor sic flags for that, its just simple physics and logic