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I don't know how FABH pulled this off, but at times the video reminds me of those weird animated ads for coasters where parts are sped up :P Very nice POV though, and the layout feels great. A vertical loop is not a sorely missed as I would have thought. Also the part before the lifthill looks...

1. Taiga - definitely feels like the most matured of the Intamin Blitz coasters that I have ridden and is overall one of the best layouts I have ever experienced. What a time to be alive, when a park like Linnanmäki can afford a coster like this. 2. Taron - would take the cake for overall...

My biggest gripe with SLCs his how they tend to water down the coaster collection of parks that reasonably could have gone another way. Infusion at Blackpool looks fine and is well integrated with some nice water features. For a park that notoriously has no space and no money, it would be silly...

I want to give a cursed honorary mention to the SLC. People tend to point out its janky transitions in a similar fashion that they would be pointed out on an Arrow Looper or a Togo Coaster, but honestly, I don't see any element within the layout that doesn't fall victim purely to its...

What are some coaster layouts that truly impress you not necessarily because of the ride experience, but because of the blatant brilliance of the design itself? What makes a brilliant coaster design, and what are some design accomplishments that easily go overlooked or are overshadowed by...

After reading about the name change for Flucht von Novgorod, I also learned about a couple of effects that I have never seen, like a crucified animatronic (?) near the final brake run. There's also a bunch of parks that are notorious for turning off special effects after a couple of seasons...

Oh I think I understood perfectly what you're getting at, I was going to post about this regardless and saw your post at the last minute and quoted it, so sorry if it came across as a critique or something :) Considering how I love collecting park maps, and that they never seem to last very...

It always works like this though, the only way to achieve true environmental sustainability is to give it a piggyback ride on economic incentives, because frankly, businesses and countries alike couldn't give a rat's ass about what's the "morally right thing to do". Not to get too political...

I wonder if part of the Gerstlauer-rattle is the 4-across seating on the relatively thin track, especially these bulky older Eurofighter-trains seem to have an awful weight-to-length-ratio.

1. Der Schwur des Kärnan 2. Expedition GeForce 3. Taron 4. F.L.Y. 5. Colossos 6. Fluch von Novgorod 7. Hals über Kopf 8. Black Mamba 9. Wodan 10. Silver Star Honorary mentions: - Olympia Looping - Colorado Adventure - Karacho

Lovely subway-station vibes with the tiled wall and the vintage Gröna Lund sign.

Well, once your tasked with coming up with a layout of 1200+ meters track on that footprint, you're going to end up at something Taron-esque eventually. I would agree that they both use their special features as sort of an excuse for their more simplistic layout in terms of element choice. With...

My money is on a complete China refurb. A new River Quest entrance has already been prepared, and could be used once the old one would be blocked by a construction site Hotel Ling Bao's experience will likely suffer with a huge construction site out front, hence why Phantasialand wanted a 3rd...

iirc, the TÜV had some issues with the main entrance to the hotel through the loop. For some reason, it doesn't fulfill all the requirements to serve as a proper emergency exit, so in case of a fire, hotel guests would have to be evacuated through a different entrance than the one they came in...

Rita being on its way out makes a lot of sense from a business-perspective imo. It's young enough that you can still get a decent amount of money for it, but also old enough that it has both not aged well in terms of coaster design, as well as not being a major draw for guests to the park at all...

Shoutout to the theming in the pit-stop, looks like the construction-crew forgot to take their tools with them. Take notes Merlin, maybe we discovered another theme besides dystopian/left to rot that can be pulled off effortlessly :P

Maybe one more thing regarding the whole "why is this going to MM out of all parks", I never realized this but this is quite a substantial coaster for Six Flags standards and if I'm not mistaken, the first ground-up coaster over 4000 ft of track length in the entire chain since Goliath at La...

I would have to give this one to Phantasialand as well, even though their way of having "few, but excellent" rides comes back to haunt them in the dark ride department a little bit, because they really only have Maus au Chocolat that can keep up with other top-notch dark rides around the world...

In general, the spacing of the supports and the length of individual track pieces do not correspond to the length of the heartline rolls at all, every single one of them is supported differently, and it probably gave every engineer at B&M a heavy episode of OCD. My guess would be that the track...

Does someone know what was up with Intamin at some times and why they were making such heavy use of 2-tube track, despite it requiring an insane amount of supports? I mean, Colossus is still sorta fine, but Ride of Steels' helixes are just eye cancer. What is the advantage there? To me it seems...