Orlando Will Host the Debut of New Roller Coaster

While news of this Prototype Coaster is cool enough what is even cooler is that the demo, including a brand new train type, runs on the No Limits Platform! I wonder how long until we might expect this type of train to be available as an update?

Orlando Will Host the Debut of New Roller Coaster

ORLANDO (Orlando Business Journal) ????????? For years, Las Vegas has tried to one-up Orlando by adding theme park rides to attract families, featuring wild-and-woolly roller coasters that wrap around the exterior of hotels and roar through the inside of casinos. Well, now Orlando's about to offer that type of high-flying fun, too, thanks to the imagination of Bill Kitchen. The Orlando inventor of two of the theme park industry's most unusual and successful rides ????????? the Skycoaster and the SkyVenture wind tunnel ????????? is finishing up the engineering work at his Sand Lake Road workshop on his newest design, the Unicoaster roller coaster. "The Unicoaster design allows a lot more freedom and more visibility than other coasters," Kitchen says. "Riders will have a full range of motion." While the new ride offers a number of unusual features, one of the biggest surprises is for whom it's being designed. "The main customer is not the theme parks," Kitchen says. "New regional activity centers, like The Meadowlands complex in New Jersey, are in the market for exciting attractions," he says. And to call the Unicoaster exciting almost seems like an understatement. To be sure, its design uses a conventional roller coaster-type track, which can be up to 5,000 feet long and designed with the conventional loops, dips and climbs ????????? taking riders to top speeds of 40 to 60 miles per hour, depending on the track dimensions. But the real fun starts for riders once they sit in the attraction's Ferris wheel-type seats, which are suspended from an axle that's turned by a large revolving wheel moving along the track. Each wheel can be a different color with different lighting and designs, creating a visually attractive kinetic sculpture as the ride operates. Daring riders also can spin their own wheels while in motion to do a forward somersault. A modification of the design, Kitchen says, uses computer-controlled, individual cars that can move individually or in a sequence of up to 10 ????????? ideal for connecting buildings at a resort or convention center or to hang above a ceiling and wrap around the inside of a large building. A computer simulation of the ride, including views from the rider's point of view and from above, is available online (http://www.unicoaster.com). The first Unicoaster will be built in Central Florida so it's close to Kitchen?????????s lab and, thus, will be easier to fine-tune, says Kitchen. He's currently talking to several potential customers, including one themed restaurant and a family entertainment center ????????? but he prefers not to reveal who they are at this time. One of those local customers says the proposed design would completely encircle his building and swoop over part of the parking lot as well, adding a dramatic themed touch to the experience. Kitchen says the engineering will take another three months, with the first new Unicoaster scheduled to open locally in the spring of 2006.

I'm downloading now - should be good to see how the 4d format is done in No Limits.

Like you say, it will be interesting to see whether it is released for us to use in a future update...

Downloading now. It sounds like a 4d coaster! Or is that just me?

EDIT: OMg thats awesome. Looks a really fun ride, and basically arrows 4d but a little different. And man doesnt that suit nolimits. I like it. I hope they release that. It will be on the professional version though so i dont think we will get our hands on it, but man oh man do i want that.

That train is ugly! Simple as, ugly, ugly, ugly. It honestly just looks like a 6 year child drew a rotating teardrop with seats on it. Urgh even in real life it would be ugly. I imagine just like attaching a Fabri Booster carriage to a track, adding in an oversized wheel for no real reason at all. As for the demo, not bad....track was slow, MLB signs everywhere

look like the sismiic (i forgot how to spell it)coaster on RCT3:Wild!?!?!?!

Yet another reason why No Limits hasn't had a major update, Ole is obviously to busy doing other things.

Hmm... I'm guessing this might be in NL 2, or at least similar coding needed for 4d, flying and suspended coasters... But it's about time for them to fix the stations, catwalks, and trees. Not all of us want to have to spend more time in the modeler than we should need to.

Anyways, the pacing on that track wasn't too good, but at least it was quite smooth.

Daring riders also can spin their own wheels while in motion to do a forward somersault.

Aww, that would've been a nice addition to the demo.

These's real or NL?

BORED BORED!!!!!

I watched these coaster alike werido!! Those look alike same by X.. Yes, It's very UGLY!



Alec

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Don't worry, Ole won't forget his fans of his software .... I hope.

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ins't this topic the same as edge posted in the coaster news section called orlando to host first uni-coaster?

There won't be an update including this style. The people from NoLimits wrote a answer to an e-mail send to them by a member of another coaster site. The e-mail clearly says that there won't be an update including this style.