New M&V & Gravity Group wooden coaster for OCT Tianjin

Martin & Vleminckx has sent us a press release regarding their latest OCT installation, this time at OCT Tianjin's newest park.

Martin & Vleminckx announces the contract signing for a Wood Roller Coaster, its third delivery to The Peoples Republic of China. OCT Tianjin's new park will be the happy recipient of this thrilling wood coaster schedule to open in 2013. Tianjin is a 30 minute high speed train ride from Beijing and a major metropolitan area with 27,000,000 people in the City, Metro and urban areas surrounding the city.

 

Details concerning the design and specification will be forth coming from OCT in the future. The wood coaster will be the center piece attraction for the park.

 

This wood coaster is the third Martin & Vleminckx will deliver to OCT with the first in Shanghai and second in Wuhan opening in early 2012. Martin & Vleminkcx has contracted The Gravity Group to be the design engineers for the project.

China is exploding with new coasters lately. Hopefully they will have enough people visiting the parks to stay open.

There's some more bits and bobs on this ride arriving on the Chinese news sites.

Artists Impression

Wood arriving on site

Source: http://vhcoasters.com/

Not sure how I missed this, but that's a pretty sexy looking design!!!

China has been a jackpot for these guys! And I agree, that layout looks amazing.

I'm not sure how accurate a representation of a layout that is, the lift looks way steeper than the first drop.

Oh, I'm sure it's just "concept" art, but the park looks nice!

Woah. Yea Im not even going to assume it looks anything like that art. Even if you reversed the hill to the direction it looks like it should go the next area looks wrong too.

Reminds me of White Cyclone, but better.

^ Because drawings don't have the ability to hurt you?

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Theres some new concept art around. Looks like a lot of this park will be undercover. (well more than usual).

In this art the Woodies lift hill is indeed the other way round

And it's recently been announced the ride will also get an S&S El Loco with a 120degree drop.

Source: http://vhcoasters.com/

Vertical Construction is properly under way.

Unfortunately no sign of a better layout drawing yet. But it does look pretty sweet.

Source: http://vhcoasters.com

YES! YES! YES YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! OHHHH PLEASE MORE!!! WOOOOOOOO!!! *pant, pant, pant, pant*

This thing looks sooooo sexy! The Gravity Group appears to have outdone themselves again, and woodie constructionography is niiiice...

I'll have to take hundreds of cold showers looking at constructionography for this, Outlaw Run, Au13/Gold Striker, and White Lightning, all of which are just GORGEOUS...

Gravity group is making a full sized coaster with wooden supports? Interesting.

Gravity group is making a full sized coaster with wooden supports? Interesting.

Boardwalk Bullet is taller and longer than the Coney Cyclone. That's not a full-sized coaster?

Also Dauling Dragons and Fireball are both over 105' tall and they aren't "full sized".

Plenty more construction going on here.

Anyone know who the builder of that orange mine train type coaster is?

Sources: Http://www.vhcoasters.com and http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2012572863

Wow, looks awesome!

As for the whole wooden support thing, it seems that all of their coasters built with Martin & Vleminkx use wooden supports rather than the steel ones used on Voyage, Hades and Ravine Flyer.

Anyone know who the builder of that orange mine train type coaster is?

Looks lie something the Chinese has made.

RCDB has 3 coasters listed for this park. The woodie, an El Loco and a duelling coaster. Is it possible the mine-train type ride is a duelling coaster?

The ride has a name now. "Fjord Dragon" which has a nice ring to it.

Hope you like Double Downs.... that looks insane.

Source: http://www.vhcoasters.com

Holy ejector airtime batman. That puts the double downs on Grand National and Jack Rabbit to shame. Hell, it puts every double down to shame.

Holy ejector airtime batman. That puts the double downs on Grand National and Jack Rabbit to shame. Hell, it puts every double down to shame.

Bite your tongue.

"Fjord Dragon" is a better name than "Fjord Fairlane."