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elephant58 said:
How many people do you think have fallen out of these?
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Hundreds! Dignitas are installing them worldwide after their successful Canadian trials!
 
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I think this qualifies as odd. Instead of a traditional chain lift this coaster at Hokkaido Greenland in Japan uses a belt system like your standard log flume.

http://rcdb.com/2941.htm

The park also has an odd twist on the standard loopscrew
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That part on Fujiyama at Fuji Q-Highland where it does an overbanked turn and it looks like a banana roll streched out really wide from the back of it. TOGO made some pretty weird looking coasters.
 
^^ Took me a while to catch what was so odd about the loopscrew. Bet that's one exciting first drop.
 
It seems to be even shallower than the lift hill...

If anybody have been on it (or have a POV), how many seconds is it between the train detaches from the chain and the coaster reaches the loop? Seems to be in the range of ten to fifteen seconds.
 
Nearly 20, actually! But that's nothing compared to the lift hill, which takes about a year.

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

Nice work with those transitions.
 
They're almost certainly there to act as a pre-drop. They allow the train to disengage from the chain on the lift hill before accelerating down the first drop. This relieves stress on the chain and is somewhat common on older coasters (you don't need to look far to find many examples). It just appears as if Togo used a long flat section in their designs.
 
I don't think I've seen this posted in here:

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If it's been mentioned, then sorry but I don't remember and I ain't trawling through 50+ pages to check.

It's called a Gyroflyer, and is basically a Batflyer with spinning cars. I was just doing a trip report and was checking with RCDB what it was, and apparently it's the only one that was built.

[plug]The trip report is here in case you're interested[/plug]:

http://www.coasterforce.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=35441&p=834366#p834366
 
I don't recall it being posted here before either. Here's the on-ride:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQct74_sW0E[/youtube]

I know these have been mentioned in this topic before, but I don't think this video has ever been posted:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rls0LtvNcz4[/youtube]
 
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