B&M has patended the scoops on their trains, so Mack would have had to come up (did I get the grammar right?) with a different solution to brake the train while also creating some sort of splash. However, the splash on B&Ms is significant, I don't know if such a big splash would even be viable. And smaller splashes tend to brake less, and judging from the onride, the train needs to bleed a lot of speed.
My thoughts exactly!
Now this is my type of meme
The park themselves stated that the target throughput was “around 1,000 riders per hour” during the consultation stage. I don’t know how many trains it will run, though; if it only runs 2, then 1,000 might be a more optimistic figure, whereas if it runs 3, I think it could exceed 1,000 with considerable ease.
Is that based on two trains with ten rows?
The problem is, though, that that assumes that there is always a train in the station, which will only be the case if they run 3 trains on it. If they dispatch train 2 after 60 seconds and there are only 2 trains, then there will always be a gap between train 2 leaving the station and train 1 re-entering the station, which will lower the throughput overall.
I was hoping it'd have 3 trains and maybe a variable speed lift hill like Swarm's so there's always one in the station, one on the lift/layout and one on the brakes but (i know it's a simulation) it continues into the break run in the video at quite a speed so it looks like there's only one block brake before the station which would mean only 2 trains.
My only thought was that the brake run might be long enough that they could split it into multiple blocks and run 3 trains. I’ve known coasters do that before.
