Re: S&S El Loco - WB Movie World Australia
So when you change it to usd it becomes 6.5 million. And the American and Australian dollar are pretty much on par right now.
This is an extremely cheap way to advertise a new major thrill. They really should be doing more as the last major roller coaster was superman escape and they spent a good 12 million dollars. Its basically half what they spent, that will be on this ride. I am expecting SUPER AMAZING OMFG theming from this then!!!!! If not, its just gonna be crap and I will be very annoyed at movieworld.
Hopefully, there is some sort of bigger El Loco model that no park has just purchased yet. Im sure that if movieworld wanted a bigger version, S&S could surely give it to them.
edit: after checking the S&S website, I found that they do indeed have different versions of the el loco.
there are 3 actually. So this means we could be extremely dissapointed with the small one, dissapointed with the usual one (all 3 el locos in existence are the 2nd option with the 96 foot height), or happy with the bigger one!
Looks like chances are were going to be unhappy
lol
Anyways, here is the link to the website. I definetly hope we get the largest scale one. It measures 230 feet by 40 feet and is 130 feet high.
http://www.engineeringexcitement.com/ri ... rs/el-loco
Just a side note, superman escape is 120 feet, so if they get the large scale one, then this would be the tallest roller coaster in the park and would make a fantastic skyline (whether or not the ride will be crap or awesome)