Canada's Wonderland 2019 - Yukon Striker: B&M Dive Coaster

Looks like a fun ride. It doesn't look like anything particularly travel-worthy or too different from what we've seen before, but it should be a great fit for the park and very popular with the local audience. Now if only someone could take the first half of this and combine it with the second half of Valravn.

rcdude wrote:

Now if only someone could take the first half of this and combine it with the second half of Valravn.

If you kept the old B&M OTSRs on that thing, it could be a really awesome ride

Pre-lift segment has now gone in:

Behind the Scenes construction tour:

































Source: https://www.facebook.com/parkjourneycom/

[Coasterkidmwm]

Parts of it look like fat Rougarou at this point lol, and that kink in the prelift dip really bothers me.

[gouldy]

Traintastic26 wrote:

Behind the Scenes construction tour:

What the hell is that.

Someone didnt press smoothing on Planet Coaster

[mkingy]

It's like they wanted an extra 6 feet to dig down but weren't allowed.

[Paradox]

It's on Valravn too! You can kind of feel it on ride but it's not that noticeable. I really wonder the reason for doing this.

Yukon Striker continues to rise:



Source: http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewto ... start=9950

[Dirk_Ermen]

Looks like it hit the 90??. Now they just need to add the actual drop.

Dirk_Ermen wrote:

Looks like it hit the 90??. Now they just need to add the actual drop.

The park released this image yesterday of more of the drop going in:



Source: https://www.canadaswonderland.com/blog/ ... er-coaster

[mkingy]

Love a good dive machine drop!

[afro85]

gouldy wrote:

Traintastic26 wrote:

Behind the Scenes construction tour:

What the hell is that.

That's a way to have you Woooh before the lifthill!! There are brilliant minds behind this!

The drop is now done:









Source: https://twitter.com/WonderlandNews

Traintastic26 wrote:

Behind the Scenes construction tour:



Source: https://www.facebook.com/parkjourneycom/

Yeah they did this on Valravn too... it kind of bugs me lol. Did they let Golden Horse design the pre-lift on these two divers?

Well the wack prelift is made to support itself, as explained on COASTERFORCE FORUMS??? thread. They also go over it during one of Cedar Point???s Valravn Minutes propaganda.

[gouldy]

Kw6sTheater wrote:

Well the wack prelift is made to support itself

I mean, I can see a support in the picture, so that's obviously not true

How exactly would making the track shaping odd make the section self supporting? I'd understand if we were talking about an arch in the track, but it's in a dip.

Kw6sTheater wrote:

Well the wack prelift is made to support itself, as explained on COASTERFORCE FORUMS??? thread.

Have y'all not seen Raptor's prelift? Odd shaping is common with those wee turns.

[slosprint]

It's a small-radius turn close to the ground with very wide trains. Chances are there's a thin margin of acceptable banking to maintain clearance between riders, the ground, and the row in front.

Yukon Striker has now been fully topped off:

The Immelmann has started to go up:

The only reason the helix exists is so they could make it 210 feet longer than Valravn, lol. Also I dont see how you could do a splashdown given the area after the second drop.

And the second half serves the same purpose as GateKeeper's second half. It's just extra block activity so the next train can head out of the station that much earlier.