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I think Premier would be a BAD choice for a world's first given the ridiculous length of time it took to sort out the problems with the ferris wheel lift on Maximum RPM! and given the low capacity of Italian Job Stunt Coaster...

It's not really comparable. Coasters are always far more expensive for buyers in the UK because of higher taxes, import taxes and transportation costs. So, even if you were able to capture the fluctuating exchange rate, those figures really aren't comparable. I am interested to see...

The power consumption is not the same. That's the point I'm trying to make. I know you're an engineer, so I'm not trying to sound patronising or anything before I explain this. Efficiency= useful work/what you pay for With a hydraulic launch, almost all the power used to compress the...

Remember that the coaster sits up on top of its wheel assemblies, so the clearance will be much greater a foot above the track.

This is true. But, at best, LIMs especially are far less efficient than hydraulic launches, mainly because a load of the flux is being wasted on thin air rather than in launch fins etc. This is why in europe, launch coasters were uncommon until hydraulic launches- because of the cost of...

it won't be LIM or LSM- they're way too expensive to run over here.

They were never stated to be 'old', TT was just asked to remove them. As far as we know, they were found in a survey only a few months ago. It takes at least a month for surveys like that to be properly analysed and thus, it is impossible that Alton would have already decided against an idea...

Can you speak sarcasm? Or use 'quote' properly? Or manage to not double post? Learn to read the tone of a post... it's sarcastic. You could of at least checked my previous posts to easily find that I'm literate. Brilliant. PS. Whoever's got the photos of the cars, please post...

To be fair, they were pretty much forced to pull the plug on that one after several parties let them no that there'd be a no cat in hell chance of them letting those plans pass... So, again, they weren't wasting any more of the planning authorities time than was necessary. They put it up...

^ Yeah, I'm sure Alton are wetting themselves pissing off the planning authorities with a bogus application... Looking at: http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c353/ ... C00022.jpg The inside building section looks like it could indeed be some type of dropping track...? Perhaps, they're...

omgzzzzz im not planning to go to Thorpe on opening day coz i heard theyre not gonna open any ridez at all. i hear its jus gonna be tht banana ride shiz and nt even sure they can be bothered to open da gates... That said, they once closed Nemesis: Inferno when I was there... The...

Blah blah blah. Does anyone remember that there's still two months to go until opening??? If it looks like this now... I think it's going to be looking pretty funky by opening time. On another note, look at it this way... If Merlin had just 'plonked' the coaster there with no attempt to...

That turn in the rocks does look pretty wicked... Anyway, I was thinking about those extra attachments on the supports of the 'overbank' or whatever we're calling it... Firstly, I've looked at the concept art on rcdb and all the rock formations etc. that are already in place are shown in...

I think this is far less relevant than people speculating. In the past few hours, there have been 4 posts, all of them totally irrelevant- and you're calling the on-topic posts ridiculous. Can everyone realise that this is the New and RUMOURS forum, which I believe everyone has equal right to...

For the record, a backwards vertical drop isn't painful... as it's been done several times before- think Deja Vu and Superman: the Escape, and every Dragster rollback. Sorry about my lack of pre-post thinking... That leave's my only guess at world's first backwards tilt coaster, which...

I believe he was just clarifying that, on the previous 3 occasions, the ECC (not the RCCGB) have been the first to publish articles/plans/photos of new Alton Coasters, so whoever said the RCCGB were on better terms with Alton, I would not necessarily say that this is true. As a previous...

i hear it's the world's first coaster to be talked to death over a year and a quarter before it's due to open... really guys???? let's let 2009 come around first...

This picture is well sexy: http://hurriuk.fotopic.net/p53969378.html Thatdrop out the MCBR looks pretty decent...

those of you saying it's short... to be honest, it's pretty much the same as speed, just with an added pre-stuff... Thorpe (main section): Drop, Inversion, Overbank, Airtime Hill, Turn into MCBR, Inversion, Brakes Oakwood: Drop, Airtime Hill, Overbank, Inversion, MCBR, Inversion...

...or even turn Ug Land into an empty space ready for the construction vehicles to move in... (for 2010..)