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Flamingo Land | Sik | Intamin 10 Inversion Coaster | 2022

gavin said:
Pretty much with you there, but with this coaster, there's now a +3 there and I'm long overdue a few days catching up with people in Scarborough, so I might make an effort next summer.

Might.

Probably won't happen.

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It's just such a bizarre investment and not in an interesting way, maybe 10 years ago it would have been exciting. I'm An hour away and don't even know if I can be bothered. On the other hand I'm practically salivating at the the prospect of a 5 hour drive to experience tornado springs ?
 
airtime_uk_ash said:
It's just such a bizarre investment and not in an interesting way, maybe 10 years ago it would have been exciting. I'm An hour away and don't even know if I can be bothered. On the other hand I'm practically salivating at the the prospect of a 5 hour drive to experience tornado springs ?
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Which is why I don't believe the £20 million cost.
For anything north of £10 million you can get something custom designed, exciting and above all: NEW.
Anything from GCI or Gravity Kraft would have gotten my attention more.

I'm sure I'll go to ride it since I'm an enthusiast. But Intamin does a heck of a lot more interesting stuff than this off the shelf design.
£20 million probably would have gotten Flamingo Land a custom Taron double launch coaster or even a taller Stealth.
Look at other manufacturers as has been pointed out: RMC and the first one in the UK it would have been.

I've seen people defend the £20 million cost left, right and centre. Including some engineer stating that a lot of CAD work is necessary to complete this.

I.just.don't.buy.it
 
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Yeah I mean we just get soo many major coasters opening in the UK every year it's hard to get excited about a little old 100+ ft 10 inversion Intamin :p .

I'm kidding to a degree - I do know what you all mean with it being so similar to Colossus plus it's at FL so ops will be dreadful and there will be zero theme - but brighten up everyone, it's still a new major coaster for the UK! Personally I am looking forward to seeing it take shape and getting myself up to Yorkshire to re-complete my set of all "extreme" UK coasters.
 

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^I heard about that too, a couple of sections missing that could definitely delay progress.

If they can't track down the missing pieces they can always get Intamin to manufacture some replacements.
 
Themeparkmedia said:
That sounds a bit odd to me, you can't just lose 2 giant bits of roller coaster track surely? It isn't delivered by Hermes is it?
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I've heard previously that not all of the coaster was shipped to Malaysia and there was still a small portion left in Brazil, so perhaps it is there?
 
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