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Silver Dollar City | Time Traveler | Mack Looping Launched Spinner

It honestly looks... Kind of good? Other than the stop at the first launch, it looks really fun and in a way, intense! I think they could've done more with the layout because it seems like it goes through the second launch then just hits the brake run, but the theming looks great, the layout (for a spinner) looks really good, and it actually doesn't seem to be super disorienting!
 
Except for the terrible pacing and rather short length, it looks okay. Would be interesting to see what weird sensations you get doing standard inversions whilst sideways.
 
It looks fine. I mean I'm it would be a pretty fun ride in the moment but it's hard to get excited. Shame about that stop in the middle.
 
The world's longest spinning coaster will be the Gerstlauer spinner at the American Dream mall in New Jersey.
 
Oh my mistake. It's the world's longest free spinning coaster as Euro Mir is controlled.
 
With them being able to control the spinning on individual cars, it'd be nice if they had an "extreme" car for a limited time each day or something
 
Maybe they'll up the intensity for some enthusiast events? ACE Spring Con is at SDC this year so let's see.
 
I've literally only just seen this so it's probably already been covered in here loads. But is that second launch the most pointless thing ever? It literally launches you into a turn and then it's the brakes, what a waste.
 
Aye I figured that from the off-ride shots, but if you're going to shove it in there at least make it do another turn or two. Just seems like a massive anti-climax, especially as it seems to be the better of the two launches.
 
I have a lot more hope for the next X-treme spinner that will probably be built, as it wont cost as much due to most of the research and development already done, unlike Time Traveler. I would assume $5-10m would have been spent on research and development, which now could be spent on an extra 500-1,000ft of track.
 
ATI said:
I have a lot more hope for the next X-treme spinner that will probably be built, as it wont cost as much due to most of the research and development already done, unlike Time Traveler. I would assume $5-10m would have been spent on research and development, which now could be spent on an extra 500-1,000ft of track.
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I can't imagine it works like that. I mean, Mack invests time and money into bringing new products to the market in order to remain competitive. I don't think a theme park would have to pay for that?

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong though!
 
The amount of groundwork for this was insane. That impacted the budget and layout more than anything. 100%

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Don't parks usually get prototypes cheaper? As they're assuming some of the risk of it not going totally to plan.
 
tomahawk said:
The amount of groundwork for this was insane. That impacted the budget and layout more than anything. 100%

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Yeah terraining must have been a huge part of the budget for sure. That's a decent old quarrythey've built themselves.
 
Because there can never be enough photos of Time Traveler. Here is a walk through of the queue area.
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ATI said:
I have a lot more hope for the next X-treme spinner that will probably be built, as it wont cost as much due to most of the research and development already done, unlike Time Traveler. I would assume $5-10m would have been spent on research and development, which now could be spent on an extra 500-1,000ft of track.
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Yeah, no. It doesn't work like that. You're basically saying that Silver Dollar City have produced that ride type for other parks to use out of their own money. That doesn't work like that.

In reality - parks put tenders out to different manufacturers to ensure they're getting the most for their money, in terms of both track length/size, marketing potential etc., the manufacturers then decide to pitch their hardware and designs to the parks. If a manufacturer doesn't produce that type of coaster or hardware, they won't even tender for it. B&M wouldn't pitch for a spinning coaster and Zierer wouldn't pitch for a Giga Coaster. The cost of the R&D behind each coaster type if not taken on a project basis - the manufacturers use their bank balance from all projects to further develop their existing portfolio of products - not charging parks to do it.

The difference is... if a park specifically request an amendment or product from a manufacturer, they may in fact concur additional charges from that. The Xtreme Spinner product has evidently been a coaster type that's under development as there's already other layouts available to purchase off the shelf, so SDC would absolutely not have forked that out.

I'd suggest doing a bit of research before pointing out 'facts'.
 
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