Intamin Hyper/Giga Coasters

There are no intamin tracks that completly use the 4 tube box track. Millennium switches between box, traingle, and flat, and so do pretty much all of their hypers and gigas. You won't find one that it made completly of box track.

MF switches track styles?? where?

Originally posted by tarzanman11514

For bud7 - I looked at those pics and if you notice, the one is an inverted coaster, thus making it not giga or hyper, and the other two are not entirely box track, also removing them from the "real" giga list. Also, the Intamin page I was at showed that there were at least two types of intamin track able to do inversions. However, I have yet to see a box-lattice (entirely) coaster that does inversions.

For all - I have actually e-mailed Intamin AG about their lattice tracks and inversions and I will post their rsponse as soon as I get it.

You gotta tell me which one is inverted... [:p]

Anyway like bud7 already said, that track isn't the problem. The restraints are. The restraints aren't designed for inversions. You can do inversions with them though. I mean Goliath at Six Flags Holland also banks you 125????????? in the stengel dive. Also with the same lapbars, and it isn't an overbanked turn keeping you on your seat by G forces.
There are coasters though which do have lapbars and also make inversions. So intamin probably uses the horsecollar restraints on their loopers just to be 100(000000)% sure.

Originally posted by tarzanman11514

MF switches track styles?? where?

Just look at some pics of the ride and you'll see. All the intamin rides switch track styles depending on forces. Goliath does it, Expedition GeForce does it, Xcelerator does it, MF does it etc. [:p]

Originally posted by bud7

Intamin dosn't only make Hyper, Giga, and Strata coasters... they also make looping roller coasters, which yes, use the lattice track. (Not the 4-tube lattice, but the 3-tube)

**cut**

They make alot more things than just hyper's and loopers. They make woodies, impulse coasters, suspended coasters, stand-ups etc. They also make water rides and pukerides. They make about anything [:p] Just look at their site: http://www.intamin.ch
btw, you can find alot of interesting information there [:)]

Real quick - don't got much time - Download Phantasm - it's basically one I designed for this forum showing which inversions (and how many) a coaster of this type should do. `

[Kev]

Just curious, and I don't mean to sound rude, but what makes you the Intamin inversion specialist around here? Many people here have already shown you that there are indeed real life Intamin lattice track coasters out there that do inversions. What more do you need?

Intamin inversions shouldn't be anywhere. G Force Addict stated in his review of Phantasm (see above for reference to that coaster) that hypercoasters should never do inversions. I don't really suppose I'm the local expert, but I'm just pretty stubborn because MF set the intamin standard for the (note the exact words here) GIGA/HYPER types. The other coasters are not giga or hyper!!!!

but its possible to make inversions on a giga/hyper coaster, so it doesnt really matter.

[Kev]

Originally posted by tarzanman11514

Intamin inversions shouldn't be anywhere. G Force Addict stated in his review of Phantasm (see above for reference to that coaster) that hypercoasters should never do inversions. I don't really suppose I'm the local expert, but I'm just pretty stubborn because MF set the intamin standard for the (note the exact words here) GIGA/HYPER types. The other coasters are not giga or hyper!!!!

MF didn't set any standards. Intamin was making this style of coaster way before MF. Some were built with inversions and some were not, but they all used the same type of track. AFAIK, there is no such thing as a giga-style track. I think this is where the confusion comes into play with NL. Some people assume that the intamin track style that comes with it is for hyper-coasters only, but many of us consider it to be useful for making the looping style, too.

AFAIK, there is no such thing as a giga-style track.

Indeed. The only difference between the various 'types' of Intamin coaster is the trains (and then the only differnce is in the wheel assemblys and restriant system), they all use the same style of track, varying between the quad, triangular and flat styles to suit the forces placed on it.
There is no technical reason why a Hyper of Giga size coaster could not have inversions. Indeed there are coasters with inversions that fit easily in the hyper category, just none of them have been made by Intamin yet. The ONLY reason for this is that nobody has contracted them to do so yet, not because it cannot be done.

All right, I'll settle this once and for all by building an awesome realistic Intamin-style hyper with a couple loops in it... "Project 64". When viewed from the side, this ride will look like the letters "MAO", or Mu Alpha Theta, which is the name of the math club at my school. As long as I don't make the ride with inversions besides loops, the coaster can keep its lap bars... supplying the needs of inversion freaks and airtime buffs alike. Satisfied? I'm not kidding... I'll make a coaster like that.

sounds cool good luck.

This started out as such a simple topic. How did it get to 3 pages!? This one should've ended once someone answered him.

[Kev]

True, but then we wouldn't have had anything else to talk about. [:P]

[gouldy]

ok, maybe i'm being stupid, but doesn't Colossus at thrope park have those trains, ans is that not the rollercoaster with the most inversions in the world?