Ride Into the Abyss at Adventure World

[TheArchitect]

A brand new, custom designed Euro-Fighter roller coaster, named the Abyss, has opened at Australia's Adventure World theme park. Bearing a decidedly dark theme, the Gerstlauer designed Abyss takes riders up a vertical lift hill, down a beyond-vertical drop and through several inversions during the experience.

Abyss actually starts out with an indoor section, complete with a couple quick drops and turns before a heartline roll. The dark theming, which includes many creepy looking hooded "guardians" placed around the ride, makes the dark section of the ride a perfect fit.

Topping out at around 100 feet in height, the individual cars pass over 2,000 feet of track. The inversions listed for the coaster include the aforementioned heartline roll along with an Immelmann and a dive loop.

Adventure World held a giant opening celebration for the ride last night, again tying the coaster's theme to that of the haunted evening. The first dispatch of the Abyss was accompanied by some great pyro and fireworks as well. Quite a spectacle!
Serce

Some of these euro fighters are getting under the radar recently, with the smiler being such a widely followed project the other 2 or 3 that have been built this year seem to have taken a back seat

Wow that Immelmann/dive loop is really tiny. Looks awesome.

Also great news for Australians. It's very rare to get a coaster there, especially a new one. Huge import costs.

[Oscar]

looks like the g's are forceful. I wanna ride this coaster xD

[TheArchitect]

Saw: the Ride! also has a baby dive loop, infact this layout reminds me a lot of Saw. Just with slightly rearranged layout and a zero G instead of an air time hill.

^Neither of those roller coasters has a zero-g roll.

I like Karacho's baby dive loop that goes underground =D



Yeah Gerstlauer is pumping out the customs left and right lately. Especially the station dropouts with barrel rolls that come before the bulk of the layout haha. Gotta love 'em...

The POV's been recorded by Adventure World. Looks like the first drop inside the building is actually pretty big.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCfoMj4gdZE

[TheArchitect]

That shaping before the final skid:

[TTD03]

^ That looks like a terrible transition into the final brakes.
Probably just looks like that from the picture.

^Well, that transition must actually end up feeling very organic and provides for a last 'cool' transition. The way it just whips the car into place. It's similar to this banking flow:



Albeit a little different, I think Gerstlauer nailed that swaying banking motion into the brakes. They could have just simply put banking to 0 degrees, but with that severity of banking transition, they put that extra 15 degrees for comfort, I believe.