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Six Flags Great Adventure | Bakunawa | Mack Spinning Launched Coaster | 2027

As an engineer I like seeing the nuts and bolts. I much prefer this to some of the over-themed trains out there like Cu-Chulainn or Wildcat's Revenge. Personal taste I suppose.
 
CaliAngel said:
"Trains are being assembled..."

Now maybe I'm *way off* but doesn't "being assembled" mean the trains are currently being put together? So there is a possibility that what you're seeing here is not exactly what the final product will be...

That being said I don't give a s**t about how trains look. Yes, adding some plastic shrouds or lead car themeing is icing on the cake at times, but with a coaster this size it seems a silly thing to moan about.

I'm just happy Six Flags is still willing to invest in these larger extreme innovative type coasters.
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Sir, the car they showed in the announcement was exactly the same. That’s precisely why I didn’t write anything at first. I assumed it was just an unfinished prototype.

This is clearly the final product now like it’s shown in the trailer, and it looks horrible. It’s way uglier than the trains on Kingda Ka, Top Thrill 2, Falcon's Flight, Superman: Escape from Krypton, Red Force, or Fury 325. It is genuinely the ugliest train on any 300ft+ giga or strata coaster.

I don't see how it's 'silly' to complain about this when literally every previous coaster that comes close to or surpasses this height has had significantly better-looking trains.
 
dixhuit said:
Sir, the car they showed in the announcement was exactly the same. That’s precisely why I didn’t write anything at first. I assumed it was just an unfinished prototype.

This is clearly the final product now like it’s shown in the trailer, and it looks horrible. It’s way uglier than the trains on Kingda Ka, Top Thrill 2, Falcon's Flight, Superman: Escape from Krypton, Red Force, or Fury 325. It is genuinely the ugliest train on any 300ft+ giga or strata coaster.

I don't see how it's 'silly' to complain about this when literally every previous coaster that comes close to or surpasses this height has had significantly better-looking trains.
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Good for you, stickin' to your guns.

If I were in your shoes I would go the extra mile, and refuse to ride this as some form of ugly-train protest.

That'll show 'em!
 
dixhuit said:
Sir, the car they showed in the announcement was exactly the same. That’s precisely why I didn’t write anything at first. I assumed it was just an unfinished prototype.

This is clearly the final product now like it’s shown in the trailer, and it looks horrible. It’s way uglier than the trains on Kingda Ka, Top Thrill 2, Falcon's Flight, Superman: Escape from Krypton, Red Force, or Fury 325. It is genuinely the ugliest train on any 300ft+ giga or strata coaster.

I don't see how it's 'silly' to complain about this when literally every previous coaster that comes close to or surpasses this height has had significantly better-looking trains.
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I am no engineer but I assume these trains are a lot heavier as they have a spinning mechanism, which no other giga/strata has. And as it’s a launched coaster, probably makes sense to strip any weight you can.

They do look pretty naked compared to the other extreme spinner trains, which are both absolutely gorgeous. But the fact this is floorless is gonna be spooky as hell when hanging over the edge.
 
Peet said:
Haha I'm not sure if this is intended to prove or disprove the point, since that theming all got removed pretty quickly
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And Cedar Point mechanics didn't even have to do the work! TTD did it for them all on its own...

*cue 3 foot Goodyear tire bouncing down the Cedar Point midway*
 
Bentleya said:
I’m sure this is purely from an engineering standpoint that you probably don’t want much theming on a train designed for the forces this is going to go through.

You just have to look at how beefy the wheel assemblies are to know there has been some serious calculations & design work involved to get this thing to survive.
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Forces? It's traveling a straight line on a variable speed lsm launch. Falcon's Flight trains handles 10x the forces no problem.

Let's not make excuses for Six Flags penny pinching. It's a meme coaster designed for TikToks and misleading thumbnails.
 
CaliAngel said:
"Trains are being assembled..."

Now maybe I'm *way off* but doesn't "being assembled" mean the trains are currently being put together? So there is a possibility that what you're seeing here is not exactly what the final product will be...

That being said I don't give a s**t about how trains look. Yes, adding some plastic shrouds or lead car themeing is icing on the cake at times, but with a coaster this size it seems a silly thing to moan about.

I'm just happy Six Flags is still willing to invest in these larger extreme innovative type coasters.
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Too bad Six Flags isn't "willing to invest in these larger extreme innovative type coasters" at all their parks.
 
GeminiOP03 said:
Forces? It's traveling a straight line on a variable speed lsm launch. Falcon's Flight trains handles 10x the forces no problem.

Let's not make excuses for Six Flags penny pinching. It's a meme coaster designed for TikToks and misleading thumbnails.
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Sure. Like the prolonged upside down launch while spinning won’t need to have been thought?

Falcon’s Flight is different; massive track gauge, no inversions and everything is extremely drawn out.
 
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Falcons
Bentleya said:
Sure. Like the prolonged upside down launch while spinning won’t need to have been thought?

Falcon’s Fury is different; massive track gauge, no inversions and everything is extremely drawn out.
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Falcons Flight you mean? Falcons Fury is the drop tower at BGT
 
Trains look fine - I have yet to find aesthetics ruining my experience of hurtling my body hundreds and hundreds of feet in the air. As TTD exhibited, sometimes less is more when it comes to train detailing. ;)

Also worth reminding, the spin rate of these trains is controllable/settable, for those wondering how to forces can get dialed in. Even a dead-straight track has a lot of force vectors going in many directions (see TT2 launch slap in year 1 of operation, force dampers installed for year 2). Yes, the German engineers at Mack probably know what they're doing. :P
 
Hyde said:
Also worth reminding, the spin rate of these trains is controllable/settable, for those wondering how to forces can get dialed in. Even a dead-straight track has a lot of force vectors going in many directions (see TT2 launch slap in year 1 of operation, force dampers installed for year 2). Yes, the German engineers at Mack probably know what they're doing. :P
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My biggest question since the beginning has been, how's the spinning initiated/maintained without the use of boosters on straight track.
 
GeminiOP03 said:
My biggest question since the beginning has been, how's the spinning initiated/maintained without the use of boosters on straight track.
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I don't know 'how', but they've done it on the other Mack Extreme spinners. On Time Traveler it's as you crest the drop out of the station, on Ride To Happiness it's midway through the first launch. No visible 'spin initiators' on either ride as far as I can tell.
 
Howie said:
I don't know 'how', but they've done it on the other Mack Extreme spinners. On Time Traveler it's as you crest the drop out of the station, on Ride To Happiness it's midway through the first launch. No visible 'spin initiators' on either ride as far as I can tell.
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Ride to Happiness has a couple of magnets on the left-hand side to start the spinning, so I could see them adding one or two somewhere on the launch or even the rise up the tower if they can find a straight enough section!
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