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Really great knowledge and discussions in this thread! I don’t have loads to add on the layout and suitability for Chessington - particularly capacity since this is limited to one train. I do think it’s great to have an inversion for younger guests, but because of how big Wing rider trains are...

Alright guys, shut the forum down, there’s nowhere else to go. 🙈

Well, I’m out of excuses! Missed opportunity that, it'd look pretty great for this coaster to be pretty much entirely over water and would fit the theme well.

As soon as I saw the topic title I thought of Helix - there’s nothing I would change about it. Really varied layout and my favourite sequence of elements on any coaster - the section coming out of the Norwegian loop that goes ejector airtime hill > zero G roll > Stengel Dive into helix around...

Just to play Devil’s advocate - much of the area is being flooded right? So whilst these footers and the wall don’t look great, they’ll be mostly underwater and not adjacent to paths so hoping it’ll look a bit better from a distance.

I imagine you know much more about the park than me, but I think you’re being incredibly generous to the park here. The coaster project should have happened a few years ago, but some flat rides needed to be removed so they didn’t bother? Especially since plenty of other parks can keep top spins...

I love that they’ve chosen such an upbeat, whimsical theme for the area that can be so readily expanded. Edit: also can you believe that this will be their seventh coaster, tying them with Thorpe and almost double Chessington! On paper their family offering is so good, let alone when you throw...

“The London Resort: Orlando”

This is key right - it says it’ll be a record-breaking coaster that will be known around the world, not that it’ll actually break a world record. It could be most inversions in the US for example, but beating The Smiler’s record seems a bit too far, and Gerst won’t be going for height or length...

I hope those lights can be retrofitted to all B&M Inverts, it looks amazing. Can’t wait to get to Stockholm and try this when we can travel again!

Here we go again

I know what you mean, but given how thick and robust the track seems, I’m surprised at just how many cross-ties there are when you compare it to other modern track. I don’t recall the coaster being that intense to justify it either. Still seems insane they’ve opted for this but I guess it seems...

I thought they absolutely nailed the aesthetic and sounds of that video - properly 80s, great animation, very cool transitions into rides to give them the context of being there. Really liked it as an intro video. Obviously the issues with this have all been talked through, but in a way the...

Thinking about it, it’s a bit of a shame that when BPB commissioned Icon, Time Traveler hadn’t been built and may not even have been known about to Blackpool management. Icon’s layout would probably work really well with the spinning cars, which would add the excitement said to be lacking from...

Completely agree. It’s an amazing ride, full of surprises, but the trains do have a bit of rattle/shuffle that is the only thing that detracts from the whole experience. Particularly at the end of the (incredible) launch and on the outside section.

Sometimes I forget just how much the trains must weigh - it has much more speed at the bottom of the first drop than I was expecting and it looks fantastic. To go from that drop (as Crash says with the back row whipping out) to the zero-g roll over the buildings will be amazing. I also...

Amazes me that in 2021 a new loop-screw has been built!

Are the trains much heavier than Arthur’s? It seems wildly oversupported in comparison.

And one of the wildest colour schemes we’ll ever see!

...but why not a brand new custom layout for those places? Or at least one of the newer Vekoma off-the-shelf layouts like the Top Gun which look far more interesting than RNR? What a waste it would be to build a RNR clone, even with the new track design, after everything RMC, Intamin and Vekoma...