Phantasialand 2016: Taron and Raik

[Dirk_Ermen]

Same lapbar as on Altair in Cinecitta. That should promise some fun rides!
http://rcdb.com/11082.htm#p=54084

^ That's pretty cool! Ride comfort is now guaranteed!

[Paradox]

Testing has begun. No full circuits yet, just launch testing.

^ Okay one giant step for Taron!

[Dirk_Ermen]

Can't wait to see the first full circuit laps.

[mkingy]

Yeah, interesting to see them easing the ride in!

Taron is testing!

https://www.facebook.com/phantasialand/ ... 065900490/

^ looking good!

[herman116]

Nice to see the train running through the track! Can't wait to test it out myself!

[Paradox]

It looks great. I'll embed the video here to make it easier for others.

Post by CoasterCrazy.com.

[Dirk_Ermen]

The few shots look good. Some nice and quick transitions as well.

If you take a look at the train passing over the air hill around :27 into the video, it truly looks more like a Mack train than any other Intamin before it IMO. It's the raised seats, especially, that do it.

[Paradox]

disappointment.

[slosprint]

I hope that isn't running at full speed, otherwise I think we're seeing a repeat of Cheetah Hunt.

Ha ha, told you you were all getting excited for a bunch of banked turns

^ This was my fear as well. That's why when everyone was going nuts over this thing I stayed quiet. Yes the theme is amazing. But the layout itself never did all that much for me. Lots of banked turns, and banked turns, and banked turns, and then a couple of AWESOME.....................banked turns.

I'm sure it will be a very good ride. But over hyped beyond belief.

^ We don't want to seek repetitive twists. Taron needs airtime and twist galore - we fully hope for both effects! This track is one of our high hopes.

^^ That's what everyone said about Intimidator 305 six years ago (man I feel kinda old). I'm still hopeful that this will at least be really good. For all we know, it could be running that slowly on purpose to make sure that the ride makes it through the course using the bare minimum launch speed.

If nothing else, I'm pretty sure it's going to be really fun and a ridiculously immersive experience, as well as the most intense coaster opening in Europe this year bar Wildfire and maaaaybe the Vekoma opening in Poland. I think that a well-themed and really fun ride can never really be a true disappointment.

That's why I still say that this will still probably be one of the top 15 best coasters that have opened during the last 5 years -- and I think that's a real feat, because the last couple of years have brought about some of the best new coasters since 1999-2000. Kill me for my wrong opinion.

Taron is not yet running on full speed. I have no doubt it will be an amazing ride
The new train of Raik is also revealed. I like it a lot.

http://magazin.phantasialand.de/nl-raik-een-hartenwens/

[Dirk_Ermen]

If you guys look at the speed and the degree of the banking. The ride would produce some lateral hangtime in various turns. Seems only obvious to me that the ride is going to speed up more. And even if it was on it's supposed launch speed. The ride needs to break in as well. So it only seems logical to me that it definitely will be faster throughout the weeks of testing.

[Coasterkidmwm]

Is Raik supposed to be a beer barrel time machine or something?

[Paradox]

Bigger picture. I love these trains so much!

^ nice!

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