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All memes aside, at least the hilarious construction-delay (if we can even call it a delay at this point, Six Flags clearly gives zero hoots about getting their new rides up and running asap) made WCR a little more interesting, especially after all the moaning when it was announced. It's got...

Jesus, what is up with that spike? It looks like they're trying to play a little psychological trick here where they make it look like a normal hill the train is supposed to traverse from the front-row rider's perspective, but then they suddenly realize that the track ends. So far, it doesn't...

Bob at Efteling, as it was my very first coaster ever when I was a mere 4 years old. Also shoutout to some random dude in the queue, who caught my dad's hat when he lost it during the ride :D

Tobi has blessed us with animated POVs for what is supposedly going to be a new Vekoma standard off-the-shelf layout combination: Boomerang/Volldampf: STC/Hals-über-Kopf: And it looks really good! I feel like the Boomerangs are a little Rollercoaster-Tycooney (I just miss a little pause and...

Finally I understand the way the Thorpe Park Map illustrator sees coasters.

I would say that depends solely on whether Cedar Fair wants to step it up with Kings Dominion, now that BGW is expanding rapidly. Looking at what they might be replacing Volcano with, it doesn't really look like it. I suppose they won't rush removing Anaconda now, because KD already lost enough...

Fair enough, but my point is, with this tight of a layout, I'm interested in pacing above all else, and NL2 already doesn't have the greatest physics simulation for B&M Inverts. I mean, it's probably pretty accurate, but it always feels "off" compared to what riding an invert actually feels...

They "only" took out the last inversion (an Inline-Twist), and allegedly will replace it with an airtime-moment. Since as far as I know, all we got so far is a couple of pictures, and exact dimensions are kind of essential to accurately depicting a tight layout like this, not really sure how...

I think we had this discussion briefly in the Colossos Retracking thread as well, however there with the consensus (-ish :p) that it is not a new cred. I'm still torn about this to be honest, since the ride is clearly intended to be the exact same thing it was before the retracking, in the exact...

How dare you forget about Shockwave :p EDIT: whoops, too slow But I agree, as far as larger-scale clones go, this is one of the better ones, and will arguably be the only good Intamin in the country besides Stealth.

With all those tight turns and helices, the top speed is ought to be not extremely high, at least not Taron-esque. Same for some of the (what I expect to be) airtime moments, you can't really do ejector airtime on a flying coaster. Also, it doesn't really change elevation all too much throughout...

I had the same impression when I rode Xpress: Platform 13 recently, the initial kick of the launch is really up there with some of the hydraulic launches. Too bad Vekoma only had garbage track and trains back then, otherwise they might have been able to really get into the launch coaster...

To me it looks like a pretty literal interpretation of an airship :p I have seen plenty of creative spins on the zeppelin/airship, even in non-steampunk contexts (I think there is even a Mario Kart circuit with something somewhat close to that), so I'm pleased to see that we might expect some...

Yeah, err... Right now their business model is somewhere along the lines of "genuinely not knowing what to do to make sure that they won't get rid of their classical theme parks entirely because they have become unprofitable and way too expensive to fix". But hey, if that's what makes the...

Despite there being a quality gap of several galaxies between the two, IMO if anything Alton Towers should do what Europa Park has done after they built Wodan: look at their coaster line-up, think to themselves "not missing anything obvious, this will do for the next 10 years" and just have a...

Someone has mentioned that the sound barrier walls appear to be much taller than they actually need to be for the coaster (or maybe vice versa, that he expected the coaster to go higher due to how tall the walls are, you get the gist). I think it's a bit deceiving that we have never gotten a...

True fan service of Phantasialand to paint their final wall Molly Orange

I mean, no? To me this feels like a case of reverse survivorship bias. Plenty of what you would consider a "very conventional steel coaster" goes back to something that Intamin had put major innovation into. The line between "strange idea" and "bold idea" can be very fine from time to time, and...

Like that B&M 4D-Coaster that people are sure is gonna happen since 15 years ago ;)

That looks to be beyond 90° doesn't it?