Heide Park Discussion Thread

Here some pictures of a Dive-loop or Immelmann. Hard to tell which way you go through it this early. (Although I think Immelmann is more likely.)

Also some new footers will come under the lift hill.

Source.

It's looking good. I'm looking forward to Sunday.

Nice photos, that first half of the Immelman is pretty tall, this coaster will be larger than I expected. They will have quite the nice couple of B&Ms with Krake across the park.Hopefully the ride will have equally impressive theming.

After our last winters were quite intense it's good to see they already go vertical.

The park is celebrating its 35th birthday today... and have now officially announced a Wing Coaster for 2014:

• 40 m tall

• 772 m long (2533 ft) (roughly the same as Raptor and Swarm)

• 100 kph (62 mph)

• 5 inversions

• 6 near-misses

• 3 minutes ride time

Oh, and you'll have to be over 10 years old and 1.40 m tall to ride. (4 ft 7)

More details on the website tomorrow:

http://www.heide-park.de/wingcoaster2014

www.freizeitparkinfos.de

© Heide Park

I expected they announced the name too today. But I think they do that tonight and place it tomorrow on the site. (Just guessing here.)

It sounds like a interesting ride.

Found this one on coasterfriends.

This seems like a odd section of track when you look at the supports near it. I have 0 clues on how it continuous.

Pictures from the construction can be found here.

This one is between them. The lay-out from above. Looks good.

When are they gonna update the 2014 website???

I really like the look of this ride. The way they are fitting it within the existing structures makes it looks like the ride will weave through some building with some close clearances. Hopefully, this ride will create that illusion of near-misses better than other wingriders. Looking forward to seeing how this ride will end up!

I just hope they'll make that one better than they did "Krake", which was a little too short and small (for a dive coaster) in my opinion.

At least the layout and the first construction pics look more promising.

^They did go all out on theming Krake, though--it's one of the cooler looking Dive Machines.

Found the lay-out of the Winged coaster. Looks like some good near misses.

For some reason I think the glass floor rumor will come.

^Yay for an airtime hill that looks like it will actually deliver airtime! And that pretzel looking set of inversions in the bottom right looks sick!

^^ If that little air hill is anything like the one on hair raiser at ocean park I will have a newfound hope in the wing coasters actually being thrilling rides.

That element that contains inversions 4 and 5 looks awesome. Look like a Dive Loop into a inclined loop that pulls out like a flat spin and then into a helix like the end of x-flight.

This looks really fun! I really liked all the near misses on X Flight so this ride should deliver.

That layout looks wicked! The sideways-pretzel-loop at the end looks like a lot of fun and the dive under the gift shop should definitely pucker some buttholes!

There's definitely some unique elements on this one! II know it is smaller, but I think it looks way cooler than Gatekeeper. Going through the gift shop, that airtime hill, and that funky dive loop thing have me interested. Looking at the theming of Krake, I'm sure this one will be pretty awesome. I'm interested to follow this construction!

I really like that layout. It seems the wing coasters look better when they are smaller in size as they need to make up for lack of big drops. That airtime hill after the wing over first drop looks like it will deliver whereas Gatekeeper's didn't.

That is an exceptionally well thought out layout. Most of the other wing coasters are essentially standard looping coasters that happen to have wing coaster trains, but this one actually takes advantage of the train design and should provide a unique, thrilling ride. I wish the wing coasters in the states had been designed like this.

I love the dive under the gift shop, and the near misses with the track itself look good. Also like that it doesn't have a MCBR. That seems to be a modern thing now though.

Is the name of the roller coaster "Wing Coaster"???

Wow! That looks like an awesome coaster. For some reason though, I find B/M wing coasters to be a little more rough than other B/M coasters. Is that only me or are there others who think so too?

At 40 meters tall, and 100km/h it is certainly bigger than expected.

with all the near misses, Transylvanian vampire themening, an airtime hill that looks like it will have ejector and a kick ass looking layout, this will probably be the best wing coaster of them all. I dare to get my hopes up.

I really love the layout.

Krake was my favorite ride at Heide, in terms of the overall feeling. The theming was purely awesome, and extremely well done, so I think this well be just as awesomely themed.

Wow...just wow.

If it really goes directly from the inverting drop into a tunnel/cave...then over the airtime hill...then INTO the souvenirshop...then into the immelmann...oh yesss...could probably be one of the best opening sequences of any coaster

That airtime hill after the drop

Wow that looks sweet! Even though it is short it seems to pack a really nice set of elements. Now I really have to go to Germany next year!