Fooz

One thing I've noticed about the amusement industry is that, while people make aquatrax jokes, rumors are often very accurate compared to other industries.

I like short rides, I think that bombastic but short rides are the "modern way" for a lot of great coasters. It comes up in 90% of new ride announcements though, I remember people calling I305 too short when it was announced, even though it is in the top 10 longest rides of all time.

If it's a coaster that rob says people won't complain about, it seems to reason that it won't be short at all, as that's the #1 complaint about most announced rides.

The only thing that affects the coasters' speeds is the weather, I think. I305 runs faster when it is hot, but it usually runs well anyways.

I guess enthusiasts will complain about any coaster but gush over minor cosmetics!

Yeah, Fish Eye lenses are terrible.

I want to see some photos of this once spring rolls around, and the trees get some leaves. It seems like winter in Sweden is one long, dreadful, overcast day!

Off-ride footage is often a good indicator of how a ride might be. Sky rush looked insanely fast when testing, and gatekeeper looked very slow.

Traditional wooden coasters need daily maintenance along the length of the track. Technicians walk the track and look for loose bolts to tighten each operating morning. The differences between that type of track RMC topper track render this practice unnecessary, presumably.

I think that as the track is assembled fabricated steel parts, so it doesn't need the same type of maintenance as 'traditional wooden track'. A RMC employee said something along those lines in an outlaw run video.

Yeah it doesn't.

I always wanted to control a coaster with a gas grill.

You can see the structure of the overbank too, I wonder how they'll get the track in there. In other news, this ride is going up like a snail.

That looks like a mess of a ride for the most part, compared to helix, but boy did you guys miss out on one whopper of a first drop.

Again, nobody has said anything about the supports. The ride has unusual track, which is why people debate its nature.

Erm, I305 has way more airtime than a B&M hyper would. The other poster is right, it's a ride that can't be promoted. It's hard to think of a very marketable coaster for KD. I think a wingrider, a launcher with some kind of gimmick, RMC looper (most inversions would sell), or novelty coaster like a zacspin would do. No clue where another coaster would go though, KD is kind of boxed in with coasters at every angle. A GCI would be cool, but a fifth (sixth?) woodie at the park is dubious. I'd really like to see a big premier project, something like full throttle would fit in really well.

I agree with this. Wood/Steel dichotomy is out of touch with the state of material science. Wood is a useful modern material and it's a great move for RMC to use it in a modern way.

Yeah, but it has steel track. It sits on top of some wood, but everything within the wheel assembly is steel, just like, say, a steel coaster. I don't really care if anyone thinks it is one way or another, but the attitude of "there's no argument! I'm obviously right!" is silly. Wooden casters were built one way for a century. Now a ride like this is being built in a completely different way, of course there's room for questioning it.

I think they're working on where the train in the picture is, the exit of the last turn.

It's hard to tell if this ride will be great. It looks like it has the elements to do it, and a great train to do it with, but it depends on the speed it takes them at, and with this type of ride, we're not going to have any idea of how it's performing until they fire it up.

It looks exactly like a giant mechanical pencil stuck in the ground.

That is the best looking coaster train I've ever seen.

Looking like Frankenstein's coaster. Notice the vestigial supports poking up in the middle of the turnaround.

That's also what I thought, but then after the car is dropped and the catch car is being lowered, won't the motors have to pull the counterweight up all by themselves? I would imagine that the idea is that the time between the lift cycles is longer than the lift cycles, and the engine can run at a slower speed for longer than if it had to lift the ride vehicle by itself. Another possibility is that the counterweight does not travel the whole height of the tower, and that there's a pulley system inside, which could affect the strain or cost of the system in more ways.

A tarp? Those look exactly like the top steel pieces on outlaw run, with the diagonal connecting spots and bolts and everything... I guess it could be an illusion though.