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Canada's Wonderland | Alpenfury | Premier Rides Launch Coaster | 2025

Amuesment Insiders has a habit of not being close to reliable so I'll hold my skepticism and hope to see it from a different source.
 
Amuesment Insiders has a habit of not being close to reliable so I'll hold my skepticism and hope to see it from a different source.
He literally had the interview on video with park management. It's not inside info, it's straight from the park themselves.

Trust me, I know not to trust that idiot lol
 
He literally had the interview on video with park management. It's not inside info, it's straight from the park themselves.

Trust me, I know not to trust that idiot lol
Lol that idiot is the last person who should be treated with any shred of credibility.

A couple friends on the tour also conducted their own interviews, there's plenty more to this (copy pasting my breakdown from another Forum);

Trains
Lapbar only, no comfort collars or seatbelts. As shown in the animation, the triangular sides have been removed at the park's request, partially for aesthetics and partially to ease load/unload. That's right, Premier Rides is at last making some kind of effort to improve the Sky Rocket train, although I wouldn't expect any further design fixes.

Loose Articles
They don't want to install netting around the coaster, so expect an incredibly strict loose articles policy. They'll be using a combination of metal detectors and the fancy flying bins system seen on Yukon Striker and WMG, although logistics aren't fully figured out yet.

Station
Most of the queue at least should be below the station. Fast Lane and Standby will merge before the stairs, single rider's line will go to the top. Pretty much the setup currently being tested out on Behemoth. Platform will have room to park both trains inside (don't expect an unload). Floor will fold away during dispatch, not sure why it's strictly necessary but eh.

Technical
Transfer track not being seen in the animation wasn't a fluke; it will be located inside the mountain. Indoor section will be partially but not fully enclosed. Coaster height extends roughly 75 feet above the exit point on top of the mountain. That funny floating support in the animation will be connected to the ground irl. They want this thing doing 1,000+ pph, which means 60 dispatches per hour. Absolutely ludicrous figure but we'll see how it goes.

Other
Yes they did talk to B&M about a layout. Peter Switzer (maintenance) has gone golfing with them plenty, too.
 
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They don't want to install netting around the coaster, so expect an incredibly strict loose articles policy. They'll be using a combination of metal detectors and the fancy flying bins system seen on Yukon Striker and WMG, although logistics aren't fully figured out yet.
interesting. The in queue locker Steel Vengeance has seems like a much simpler system, I'm suprised they wouldn't go with that.
 
Was at the park yesterday, Alpenfury is imminent.

Footers are now being poured on the former Skycoaster site. This is a really tight space for a coaster turnaround.
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Current sections of track onsite. A second shipment has been sent out allegedly.
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Footer markers. There’s many of them, visually well hidden but once you see one then more will appear.
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:)
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Was at the park yesterday, Alpenfury is imminent.

Footers are now being poured on the former Skycoaster site. This is a really tight space for a coaster turnaround.

Thank you for sharing, progress is positive. Have we already had any info about expected opening? My understanding of construction in Canada is there is a quite a significant winter break. Do we think it'll be ready for May seasoning opening?
 
Q&A from Roller Coasters Eh last weekend. Nothing too groundbreaking in terms of info but a few key points on Alpenfury;
  • Everything is on schedule, long road ahead with no clarified opening timeline but they're not facing delays. If anything, train fabrication is ahead of schedule.
  • Coaster itself is being fabricated at Intermountain Lift, which I only bring up because Premier has bounced between factories as of late.
  • Development started in mid-2022 and Premier was on board by the Fall of 2023. Needless to say there was a pretty sharp turnover. They engaged several manufacturers for bids, no names were given but B&M was on there, many dropped out during the process due to various factors. If I had to guess it would be the ask to deliver a coaster on this scale for 2025, Intamin and Mack simply don't work like that.
  • Updates on the train design, the side panels will now only be significantly shrunken instead of fully removed. Lap bar only, no seatbelts is still the plan. Expect a flat train floor as well, hence the tilting platforms during dispatch.
  • In terms of loose articles, when they first told enthusiasts about the planned metal detector/flying bins combination it sparked a debate about bottlenecks and inefficiencies to the point that it would become a logistical nightmare. Right now it seems like they've thought it through and backed away a little bit, both options are still on the table but thankfully they're not committed to both.
  • Maintenance has spoken extensively with Seaworld/Busch Gardens about their coasters and are very very confident in the hardware.
 
Trekked up to Haunt today, let’s try and limit my photos here;

Lots of track here, more thick spine pieces sighted the other day in Indiana that wasn’t on site today. Two colours of supports, main layout’s final (third) column colour is TBA.
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Weird to see trees gone from this side of the mountain.
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Currently we are in full ****s footer mode, of which there are many, everywhere.
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They’ve been working on footers across the site for the last six months and aren’t even close to finishing them all, it’s insanity. Here’s an uncommon angle of the International Festival midway footers though, these have been well used by everyone as tables and photo op pedestals this season.
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Oh… and bonus shots inside the mountain, too! Usually they run two mazes in the basement, the spare area has become coaster real estate.
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