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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st

****, they're doing what they're supposed to do. Fancy that. ;)
 
Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st

It'll start hotting up soon enough once the park has closed. Until then MUUUUUUUUUUUD! <3
 
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Something I found on coastersandmore.de on SW7. I'm not sure if it may be true, but it is interesting. Well the Liftsystemen part.

And also the "hardware" for the roller coaster project secret weapon 7 in the English Alton Towers theme park is provided by the Swabians. The large roller coaster 2013 planned to start of the season will be built on the site of the former Black coasters black hole, and overcome almost 25 meters within the sloping topography. The roughly 1000 metre-long roller coaster will offer a large number of inversions and be powered by two Liftsystemen, including a vertical lift, with the necessary energy.
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Translated through bing translate. Taken from the Gerstlauer section.
http://www.coastersandmore.de/rides/ach ... 2012.shtml
 
Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st

Hmm, the believability of that is very low in my opinion. She sheer noise of that technology is stupid, I've managed to actually see it first hand at an Air Show, it's deafening, Alton would NEVER get way with that.
 
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Lofty said:
Hmm, the believability of that is very low in my opinion. She sheer noise of that technology is stupid, I've managed to actually see it first hand at an Air Show, it's deafening, Alton would NEVER get way with that.
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I think this is a translation issue. There is NO WAY Alton are installing a jet turbine for power. I mean... urgh... I can't even be bothered...
 
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I can see that the wrong type of liftsystemen is being thought of. When I searched up Liftsystemen, some pictures came up of some type of scissor lift things(with a few of jet engine pictures as well). Some for cars and other uses. Here's a picture to show one of the images shown.

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But this got me thinking, as I remember seeing on a photo tour of Mistery mine, that the transfer track was a giant scissor lift.

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Image taken by coasterbuzz.http://coasterbuzz.com/Forums/ForumPhot ... 2?p=862332

Maybe the world's first has to do with this scissor lift mechanism. But as always, time will tell.
 
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And also the "hardware" for the roller coaster project Secret Weapon 7 in English Alton Towers theme park is supplied by the Swabians. The start of the season 2013 planned major roller coaster will be built on the former site Schwarzkopf Coasters Black Hole, with almost 25 meters to be overcome within the sloping topography. The 1000 meter long roller coaster will muster a variety of inversions and two lift systems, including a vertical lift, supplied with the necessary energy. Perhaps the SW 7 even crack the current inversion record of ten overs.
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And that's what google translate provides. I think it's just been lost in translation and doesn't really tell us anything new.
 
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Indeed. In German, nouns have a capital first letter for some reason. It's possible that Google Translate took "Liftsystemen" for being a name and didn't translate it.
 
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Martyn B said:
You need to stop being bored...
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Touché to that.

And that's what google translate provides. I think it's just been lost in translation and doesn't really tell us anything new.[/quote]
Yeah, I can see that happening, some form of LIM/LSM for the first lift hill, the second, a chain lift, easily.
 
Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st

Surely they got to get marketing this to the public by now (actors, viral videos etc...). By now last year I was all hyped for The Swarm but this is just not doing it for me. Maybe scarefest I guess. And please none of the WORLD ULTIMATE nonsense aswell.
 
Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown (Gestlauer?) World's 1st

The big posters around the park advertise it alot to the public. But I do agree that actors should be used to help promote it more. Though that will most likely happen on scarefest. Also, towersstreet have posted on their facebook page that concrete and steel beams have arrived on site. Now things should start kicking off.
 
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They won't want to promote it too much before Scarefest, it'll, possibly, send people away from the park until the next coaster, yes, Scarefest has its traits, but people might think, "Yeah, I'll wait for a few months and come back when the new ride is open". I think that after and possibly, during Scarefest is when we will see sme proper promotion and maybe a press release of some kind.
 
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insanecoastervids said:
Does anybody think it might be floorless I do
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Urgh. No. You have no reason to think it might be... nobody does.
 
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