Carowinds | Fury 325 | B&M Giga Coaster

[tribar]

Re: Carowinds | Fury 325 | B&M Giga Coaster

Why does it need to have seatbelts??? :?

Because Cedar Fair is obsessed with safety.

 

[coaster addict]

It was a nice surprise at the event yesterday...

here is the video we shot of the unveiling!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQitBtil7k0[/youtube]

 

[coaster addict]

We were very fortunate to take in this great Fury 325 Tour (led by Mike Fehnel and Steve Jackson). Here is 32 minutes of footage for those interested!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ageiUfQvB9Q[/youtube]

 

[The Hedgehog]

It's almost done. On the Webcam they are probably 3 or 4 pieces away from it being connected fully.

 

[Hyde]

Looks like they are placing what should be the second to last piece!

 

[I305Evan]

They lifted the last piece into place earlier making sure it fit. They lowered it back down soon after. It'll be installed completely with all of the media around watching at the end of the week.

 

[coaster addict]

We hope to make it for the final piece installation - pictures coming when available!

 

[Jordanovichy]

The final piece of track was put into place today in front of the press/media.

 

[Hyde]

Here is a video of the track being put into place. https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153050926363599

Excited to see the construction wrap up!

 

[Jarrett]

Carowinds posted the engineering drawings for the sign on their social media today. Looks totally awesome if I do say so myself!

Source: https://www.facebook.com/carowindspark (Hope I did that right...))

Something worth noting on this is the note about lighting on the bottom. They plan to put an "animated light source" on the wings, eyes, and space between the honeycomb hexagons. Should be absolutely awesome if it's anything like they did with the Banshee sign! I'd love to see green light make this sign surge with energy.

Another note on branding I was thinking of: I feel like this ride has the potential for a really cool gift shop. Put honeycomb print on the walls, stick merchandise on the floor, and against the walls they could have grey cabinets. On top of those cabinets they could have actual hornets' nests (I've seen restaurants and such decorate with them, they can be brought inside and preserved) with green light shining on them. If it's anything like Banshee's it'll be amazing!

 

[tribar]

Re: Carowinds | Fury 325 | B&M Giga Coaster

Looks like they are placing what should be the second to last piece!

Wow what a great picture. I can clearly tell exactly what is going on in it.

 

[Ethan]

Wow what a great picture. I can clearly tell exactly what is going on in it.

It's a webcam, you're looking at the wrong time :roll:

 

[Lofty]

The logo and entrance sign <3 <3 <3

 

[owentaylor121]

Cedar Fair always seems to do awesome entrance signs, Gatekeeper and Banshee are 2 of my personal favourites.

 

[GuyWithAStick]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/CarowindsPark/status/568114437086941184[/tweet]

Train is coming on!

 

[Hyde]

Love that color packaging!

 

[elephant58]

Am I the only one who thinks that B&M Hyper restrains look really scary?

 

[KoasterEv]

Looks really good. Love the color scheme on both the train and the track. The restraints are supposed to "look scary". The open feeling on B&M trains is half the exciting part.

 

[elephant58]

^I'm sure they are supposed to be exciting - clearly being almost 100m in the air with all of your upper body free is what makes it exciting!

The trains look a bit bare in my opinion, as I was expecting a logo on the front, or whatever. Do you think they might add them later?

 

[Hixee]

The trains look a bit bare in my opinion, as I was expecting a logo on the front, or whatever. Do you think they might add them later?

In that picture from twitter the reflections make it quite hard to work out if they've got some sort of vinyl wrap on the nose of the train, so I guess it might have it already applied.

I feel like it's the kind of thing that would be much easier to do in a factory than on site...