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Re: Heide Park | Unknown | B&M Wing Coaster Usually it'll be up to park management to come up with a proposal. The board will then approve or disapprove the proposal. Perhaps they get the option to pick between a couple of proposals, but board time is typically highly limited so the discussion...

It looks OK but is essentially a compacted Thirteen, no? I always think its a shame that these things just dump all their gravitational potential energy from the vertical drop. Really want to see one of these with a large drop and then straight into a proper launch with a quality bit of layout...

Re: Cinecitta World, Italy | Unknown | Intamin 10 inversions Not just the drop - if you look closely you'll see that they've done a overhaul on other sections of the track too and reshaped all the elements slightly. Makes sense given they've sold a good few recently as the last one they sold...

Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1 It's not Kitsch - look up the definition of Kitsch :) It's just a sort of Sci-fi in a slightly more comic book style I'd say- given the yellow accents etc. Personally think they could have jazzed up the station building a tad more...

Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1 Thing is, the indoor roll has been referred to as 'indoor heartline' in the game, rather than the Disorientator. Given they've been consistent on the other parts. Therefore I'd suggest the Disorientator will likely at least be...

Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1 Thing is, the indoor roll has been referred to as 'indoor heartline' in the game, rather than the Disorientator. Given they've been consistent on the other parts. Therefore I'd suggest the Disorientator will likely at least be...

Re: Alton Towers | The Smiler | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1 If we're counting this as an 'inverted drop' then Incredible Hulk also has an inverted drop I'd say. The reality is that the first drop is small (the small drops above the toilets) and this drops into a zero-G roll with a longer pull...

OK. So it looks like it could be Extremis style towers- but- how do you get on? Apart from the control booth ground floor access which can be seen in the pics and is shown on the plans, it still appears that people enter at ground level. But surely to board a drop tower you'd have to board at...

Re: €250m expansion for Walt Disney Studios Park, Paris For those of you not familiar with finance, an RCF is the corporate finance equivalent of an overdraft. Just genuinely seems a stupid and bad financing plan to NEVER use an RCF (they cost you even when you don't use them) then to apply...

Re: €250m expansion for Walt Disney Studios Park, Paris The idea of an RCF is that you shouldn't plan to draw it all. It's called revolving as typically companies will borrow it to cover shortfalls etc only and vary their borrowing between 0 and 75% over the life of the facility. If Disney drew...

Does anyone else thing that this looks ugly and really industrial/old school?

Re: New "world's first" coaster at Alton Towers 2013 Regardless of the manufacturer, I'm pretty sure that the world's first part will be linked to the duelling nature of the coaster, rather than a particular element.

Re: New "world's first" coaster at Alton Towers 2013 Guys, it's been touched on but this is clearly a duelling coaster (a la Dragons challenge, with the exception that it's Mobius). I mean, seriously, the inversions are clearly designed to interlock (especially the wicked looking cobra roll...

Re: Leviathan - B&M giga coaster for Canada's Wonderland You have 0 definitive evidence which is proven by the necessity you see to write long posts. If you had a proper case you wouldn't need to write several pages to attempt to convince person, a little evidence should do the trick. You have...

Re: Leviathan - B&M giga coaster for Canada's Wonderland I don't have the time to go through and dissect your whole post but to summarise, I disagree with around 50% of it. Some highlights: -It is not true that coaster companies will not pitch ideas to parks who have not requested them- why...

Re: Leviathan - B&M giga coaster for Canada's Wonderland ^^ Don't think your arguments have substantially more substance than anyone elses. "Hyper Coaster" is the marketing name used by B&M for their product that does not invert and uses one of two specific train types. Using the same ride...

Re: New "world's first" coaster at Alton Towers 2013 C'mon guys, isn't it clear what AT will get in 2013? On a continuation of their short fall drop obsession, they're going to mount a frog hopper on a track, hype it up as something ABSOLUTELY TERRIFYING, and we're all going to turn up on...

Re: Hex- I remember queueing out the door when it first opened! The ridiculous thing about the long switchbacks is that theyre often only ever used for about a month and a half when the rides first open

Re: The Swarm - B&M 'Wing-Rider', Thorpe Park 2012 No. The first set brakes have banks of magnetic brakes only. No mechanical brakes. Therefore as you state (and as I knew before) this cannot be a block section as there is no way to failsafe-ly stop the train. It's the same on wild eagle...

Re: The Swarm - B&M 'Wing-Rider', Thorpe Park 2012 It is indeed the break run- B&M still use mechanical trims (not magnetic). They only use their magnetic brakes at the end of the ride (and even then, they just use them before a bank of normal mechanical brakes, which is why suddenly alot of...