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*Intamin *If someone told you they lived near ut, you would be VERY jealous *Had an underground tunnel that alone cost $750,000 to build

Orient Express

I know, but I wanted something bigger and badder then most coasters of the time, and the park is opening in 1980 anyway, where a 5 inversion coaster would be more realistic. And if you don't like how many inversions it will have, you really won't like the layout...

-Early 1978- I recently managed to get a chance to have lunch with Jason Helm, the man in charge of designing this park. He was really enthusiastic about the park, having grown up in new england hmself. He was also kind enough to let me see the full blueprints for the park and for a large coaster. All I can say about it is that it will have five inversions. We also talked about this park compared to his work as a disney imagineer. Although he loves the atmosphere at Disney, he wanted something more exciting at Old Colony Park. I also got to take tour of construction and get some aerial shots of the park! From this tracing, you can get a rough idea of the coaster's layout. Until next time! Markers from the air. Markers again. Markers. While the building isn't quite finished yet, Federal Carousel is operational, and I got to take the first ever ride on it. This long section of track is the brake run and station track. Hoosac Tunnel's lift hill. The ride is nearly finished, only the station building and mechanical bits are left to be added. Lots of wood. The huge Federal Carousel. A close up of the ticked booths and the HUGE snow pile. The entrance plaza in real life. The large building is a replica of the Old State House in Boston, were the first public reading of the Declaration of Independance was held. Concept art for the entrance, courtesy of Jason Helm, lead designer for OCP. Concept art for Hoosac Tunnel, courtesy of Jason Helm, lead designer for OCP.

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Superman: Ride of Steel

Laser

To tell you the truth, that doesn't look very fast or exciting. Tall yes, but it was only very fast near the end. It looked much more exciting offride then on it. I'm really not impressed

This park is not dead! I just got bored with it so I started OCP early. Anyway, on to the pictures since there Isn't much to talk about. One last teaser shot. Adieu... Another teaser shot. Inside the entrance for QuickSilver. QuickSilver's logo. Looking down towards Action City. Desperado's photo booth is good indication of the direction this area of the park is going in. Looking up towards the summit. We'll get back to night shots later. Here is the new resteraunt, Minetown Buffet. Unfortunatly for you ACErs out there, it isn't a real buffet... And it doesnt serve gravy. Again. Teaser shot. A stroll down main street. Coasters at night. Volcano. Great White's bridge. Hawaiian Harbor is stunning at night. Parking lot side. It can't be Hawaii without a Volcano. Twisted mass of Steel. Great White is actually silky smooth except for the ending and the Corkscrews. The snazzy entrance to Great White. This S&S Sky Swat is tentativly titled Volcano. New shooting gallery. A tent has gone up over the switchbacks for Screamliner. Screamliner entrance. Screamliner from Hawaiian Harbor. I meant to do this for a long time. The very akward turn after the launch on Screamliner is now a Stengel Dive thing.

Coaster fan. But that might just be because my home park is carp except for a couple good coasters. Yes, I know I mispelled "crap" as "carp"

I'm assuming you mean the supports, right? Anyway, there supposed to be unpainted wood. Expect an update on Summerfield VERY soon, and an update for this tonight.

The Ultimate?

Lil Devil (Lets make this a chain again, like "Racer" being said 3 times above)

Do you unzip it? The scenery should come in a zip file with a folder inside, with the required files inside that. Do you remove the files from the folder then out them in?

You could use standard scenary. Also, where do you put custom scenery when you install it?

Racer

I've ridden 5 Intamins (Millennium Force, Wicked Twister, TTD, S:ROS SFNE, and Disaster Transport), and 7 B&Ms (B:TDK, Nitro, Medusa, S:UF, B:TR, Raptor, and Mantis), and I have to say Intamin, but thats probably because I haven't ridden any truly great B&Ms (And don't say Nitro, I personally don't think it deserves it's spot on the Mitch Hawker poll, it's all boring floater and no ejector, making t pretty much worthless to me).

Its looking better and better, but make the pathways around the sign thicker and PLEASE find some way to put your shops and stalls in buildings. It would make your park a huge amount better.

Uh, no. It's a Scharzkopf Wildcat, thwe earliest it could have opened was the sixties.

He said it was inspired by that ride. However, looking at that thread again, I didn't realize before that this was an exact clone of it.

A large, thrilling, and heavily themed B&M inverted coaster with a similar theme to the never built coaster in Animal Kingdom's never built Beastly Kingdom. It would be built in and around a huge mountain with a castle built on top of it. This structure would be the dragon's lair. Guests would enter through an ancient, crumbling guard tower at the foot of the mountain, and climb the side of it and into it, eventually reaching the boarding platform. Since Disney tends to like guest to be able to bring their possesion/souveneirs on rides, there would be locking bins underneath each seat. For capicity there would be a double station, either two sided like Storm Runner, or seperate loading/unloading like Millennium Force. If seperate loading/unloading was used, larger items would have be left with a non rider or stored in available lockers. After boarding, the train would go through a door into a dark ride section. At the end of which, you begin the ascent into the very top of the mountain. However, part way up, you come face to face with the dragon, which is above you. The dragon is of course pretty angry that you are intruding it's territory. It roars, spits a blast of fire, and you zoom up the rest of the lift in a Hulk style launch into the zero-g roll (don't tell me that B&M doesn't do launches, I'm sure that if Disney really wanted a launched B&M, they could get it). The rest of the layout would feature several inversions inside and around the mountain, as well as twists and turns through the mountain, and a large helix around and inside a section of the castle. For added capicity and to perform smaller, tighter elements mainly inside the mountain, it would have an MCBR. Despite the disadvantages of seperate loading and unloading, I think that it would be better to use a Millennium Force esque system because it would be better for the theme. Another cool idea would be to have a section of the castle be acsessed by a pathway from the ground and serve as a viewing platform for the ride. I'm thinking that it would fit best in Adventureland or as part of a small new area built aroud the rides theming to make it more immersive.

Sounds like one awesome trip, and I would love to do something like that, but are you really sure it is wise to plan so far ahead?

Its an Intamin Accelerator or a Maverick style ride. Strange that there adding something like that when they already have Pedal to the Metal.

Correct, know it's your turn.

Neither Titan or Goliath are out & backs, there twisters.