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Up to now, zero B&M coasters have been taken out of service- the fact that Iron Wolf, one of B&Ms oldest (1990) coasters is currently being relocated shows the simple point that Six Flags believe it to have a life of at least 10 more years - or there'd be no point relocating it. On those lines...

Dudley Do Rights Ripsaw Falls. Over Summer they were dispatching this INSANELY fast. Getting on felt like you were at a military boot camp- they were literally shouting 'get in get in get in' at you as soon as the gates opened... They load 3 boats at once, and managed to check the awkward lap...

Not quite sure what you mean by this question? They're just several manufacturers' takes on the water coaster concept. It's like B&M vs Vekoma inverted-style coasters... If you're looking for differences: -Intamin Aquatrax, typically launched, never makes a true 'splashdown'- splashdowns are...

Now that the layouts of all four are known (and one is already in operation), I'd be interested to hear people's thoughts on the varied layouts of B&M's latest offerings. I've included Raptor here for the simple fact that it is pretty different to the three 2012 offerings with its more compact...

Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012 Actually, totally scratch my closing statement. I want something that's tried and tested. Something that's been proven elsewhere. Something that's being raved about at another park. Then I want AT to do their best at theming it, and to put it somewhere in...

Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012 Can someone point out where the drop tower rumours have come from, anyway? As some people are talking about it as if they're confirmed, and some as if it's still a rumour. Personally, I think it would be the stupidest move AT have made in a long time to...

Sorry if this has been posted before, but was having a browse of the Intamin website, and they've recently added more information about the family drop coaster, which has a nice diagram of Th13teen's layout, as well as a (rather crude) diagram of the drop mechanism- that look's nothing like what...

Re: New Indoor Ride for Alton in 2012 ^ Spiderman cost over $100mm, yes, but Darkastle was done on a significantly lower budget, more in the region of $20-$30 million, I understand. The cost of Spiderman was mainly due to the development of the technology and the superior quality to Darkastle-...

This is simply a different method of creating the same problems. Such a unusual gearing system would actually both cause more stresses on the trains and track, whilst not eliminating any of the strains or problems that are causing X2, for example, to slowly tear itself apart. Plus this whole...

I don't think anyone overreacted here, it was just a post informing people that the ride may be down for a couple of days... people here like to overreact to overreactions too much... ;)

TTD was built in 2003 and requires- prices have increased a fair amount since then. Thorpe's new coaster is costing £20m c. $30m and is significantly shorter. HRRR also has a huge amount of hardware- there are 7 trains, a complex block and station system and all the trains are kitted out with a...

I don't know why others are so negative about it- but I thought that HRRR was a great ride-- although there's a noticeable boring section when it treks back past the station doing the 'crowd surf', I thought it provides some good forces throughout (love the 'loop', treble cleff and the inclined...

Not sure if this is too late, but I've just arrived in LA following 5 days in Orlando, during which I did all the Disneys, US, IOA and Busch. Tips: -I found queues surprisingly short for the time of year- the ride ops are VERY efficient at this these days- I didn't see a queue (except soarin'...

it also costs a fair bit to design completely bespoke layouts, hence desert race at heide park, for example... and new unusual concepts... just looks at what the 4th Dimension did to Arrow... Gerstlauer have captured a great niche and are selling consistently with a concept that they...

Re: Unknown, Gerstlauer family coaster for Duinrell Won't be a spinner or a bobsled- there are no block brakes... and the layout is too long to send one 4-man car round at a time...

Agreed. Its definitely a combination of many things regardless. This way they get a 'tall' imposing coaster and produce enough layout after it such that it's not just a one-trick pony. Agreed- I was more arguing the point against the making it 'too slow' point. It'll be interesting to see...

The same thing could be said about any water braking mechanism- both Griffon, Sheikra etc etc still have to ascend a reasonably substantial hill following the water splash and thus suffer the same effects. They, too will have design speeds for the remaining portion of their layouts that will...

^I think it'd be possible with magnetic brakes to achieve this speed control you're proposing. Firstly, I'm assuming that the water splash will indeed be using 'scoops' rather than 'simulated' a la Manta/Atlantis Adventure as otherwise there would be little reason for the inversion to be so...

this coaster looks ridiculous... especially that quasi-banked airtime hill thing next to the station, and the copious other amounts of unnecessarily over-banked tracks. i just hope that the trains are comfortable, because this coaster is going to throw you around... a lot. whether its in a good...

this ride looks absolutely fantastic... if it rides as good as it looks, it'll be pretty insane in such a good way.... alongside X-raptor and Krake, B&M have some pretty unique stuff going on this year...