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Vekoma engineers had some fun at Walibi World today, as they tested a brand new seat & restraint concept on the El Condor (back in 1994, the company's inverted coaster prototype). The front row of an existing, regular old SLC train has been equipped with seats similar to the ones found on the company's Family Suspended Coaster (Kvasten & Jimmy Neutron), but equipped with a flexible shoulder restraint similar to the system found on a B&M Flying. According to the handful of lucky riders (in September, the park is closed on weekdays) the ride is still a little bumpy as the chassis is still the same, but because of the new restraints, it's now entirely headbang-free. Photos below by WalibiWeb. ...complete with seatbelts. It's like a racing seat...

FFS, use jpeg compression. Some of your screens are barely 640x480, yet have a filesize of 1.5MB Lovely park though.

A little bit more precise...

Blueprint track rarely looks like the real thing. No it isn't. A looping coaster with mega coaster trains ? Doubtful...

/sigh I know. That's what I said. You can't (and nobody ever said that in this thread) modify a ride to have a higher drop withou altering the rest of the course. If you want a higher drop, instead of a Batman, build an Alpengeist.

What denning meant is that when a lifthill goes to let's say 150ft...then the drop could've been 150ft. as well. But because of the predrop, it's only 135ft. Then natatomic replied and said that if you want a 150ft. drop, build a ride with a 150ft. drop instead of a 150ft. lifthill. Not that any ride could be modified instantly...

I finally figured it out... It all makes sense. "11", the waterpark photos, Intamin track (Aquatrax), etc.

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Don't forget the building permits. Even if a park could afford one and want one, there's the possibility they're not allowed to.

A summary of what you get after e-mailing the various addresses. XI@nantimi.com hyper@nantimi.com info@nantimi.com (reply is sent by lmervine@hersheypa.com) ckret@nantimi.com Definitely real. It keeps the fans interested...

Awesome graphs. I especially like the ones showing the huge difference between the lateral g's (what causes headbanging) of a "Stengel - B&M" (Raptor) and a Vekoma SLC (T2): Raptor: between 1.5 & -1, a few spikes above 2 T2: between 2 & -2 with lots of spikes in up to 6 and -3

How about a Krusty Krab restaurant ?

That's beautiful man.

Highly interesting...

The official product name by Intamin, B&M and Giovanola used to be Mega Coaster, no matter what height the ride had. hyper, giga and strata = all marketing terms by Cedar Fair

Cool. Construction started.

What the hell is that ? And is it safe to build a ride with an intentional "lightning strike" design instead of straight beams ? I look forward to a video...someone will film it someday.

I assume you're referring to the Tripsdrill log flume... I find it strange all of the TRs so far have pics of the old naked women, when there are some hot young ones in that ride as well. They like 'em older I guess.

There are some amazing photos in that TR !

Changing the wheels more often would improve it alot, but that's expensive, especially for a small park. Their "we have the best steel coaster in the world" mentality can get a little annoying, but I don't blame them. The park is known around the world not so much as Holidaypark, but more as "the park with Expedition GeForce". They also promote their water ski show alot. However, they did add a few new rides since GeForce. In 2004 they renovated the kid's area in which a couple of new rides were put. And in 2006, they opened the 70m Lighthouse Tower wave swinger. Ummm....they could be controlled if they were your standard, pneumatic-air piston operated friction trims. However, they're not. The park can change the distance between the two magnets...which changes the force of the magnetic field in between...which changes the braking effect on the train. That's why Robb said they cán be controlled, butt it has to be done prior to their visit since it involves climbing up to the brakes and unscrewing the bottom magnets. 1. first drop 2. camelback drop 3. second camelback drop 4. bückel 5. little hill 1 6. little hill 2 7. bunny hump 1 8. bunny hump 2 It's not lacking something, it's lacking someone:

Good update. Great EGF footage ! Gotta love the mid-ride bückel (the quick right-left hill thingy @ 1:34 in the video). What's next ? Phantasialand ? Have fun !.

May 27th... Surely that must be July 27th ? July 28th according to his website. Anyway, he's about to ride the Pepsi Max Big One for at least 221 hours. But why did those crazy Germans pick a damn Boomerang to break the record ? Also, who has the record now ? Who rode 220 hours on what ?

I picked Florida, Alabama or "a Carolina" before clicking.

Well, he certainly picked a great ride to do it. From what I remember, that thing is the smoothest roller coaster ever. I think it's because the ride has rubber blocks between the track and supports. Altough the primary reason for that was noise reduction.