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Crazycoaster said:
Also, the tower it has makes it look like a tesco from the 90’s painted green.
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That's my local Tesco! :emoji_laughing:
The frontage has changed a bit now. It may also be the closest 'big' Tesco to Alton Towers, so maybe it was an inspiration?
 
Crazycoaster said:
I doubt that Merlin would want to deal with a backwards coaster after X://WTF. It had to be closed so often while they dealt with sick cuz it was backwards.

Worlds first Wooden Standup coaster? Lol.
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Yet they made Swarm go backwards and sick wasn't an issue... ;) Main issue with X was it was backwards in the dark in a warm building which doesn't have the greatest ventilation so it smells funny too. It was a cocktail of things which meant lots of people would be sick.

ATI said:
One, that would be terrible, and two, it wouldn't be the first.
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Just trying to think for my own curiosity, what wooden coaster has run 'totally backwards'? Only woodie I know of that runs backward in any way is Switchback, but that's only a shuttle. Wouldn't put it past them to do the 'world's first totally backwards wooden roller coaster' or similar..
 
The WF won't be backwards running.
It will be something totally made up by the marketing department which no other company would even think about using, even Six Flags.
 
JoshC. said:
Just trying to think for my own curiosity, what wooden coaster has run 'totally backwards'? Only woodie I know of that runs backward in any way is Switchback, but that's only a shuttle. Wouldn't put it past them to do the 'world's first totally backwards wooden roller coaster' or similar..
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A few searches suggest one side of the Twin woodie Thunder Road at Six Flags Great America ran backwards in the early 2000s. Same went for Racer at Kings Island between 1972 and 2007. Thunderation at Silver Dollar City had a few cars turned backwards as well. All of those have since been turned forward-facing, though. And neither had the entirety of the coaster backwards, since I guess people generally prefer to see where they are going, so you'd best provide that option in addition to backwards-facing.
 
I don't think they ever mentioned "world first" in the marketing? Just "world-class" all the time...
 
Like the little bit of ITHOTMK integrated into the music; I reckon that might be part of the attraction's score when it opens.
 
I reckon it'll be a WF to do with the fire special effects. All this marketing is literally just about fire. World's First roller coaster to subject its passengers to more than 100°c.
 
**** this World's first ****. It's literally every coaster now, it's so boring.

A semi-unique ride is not the equivalent to world class. I wish someone would make that distinction soon, because it has cost us a goddamn RMC amongst other things. Never Forget <3
 
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