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NASDA could have bought it for making vibration tests - if equipment survives this coaster it will certainly survive any rocket ride into space...

The tophat and pretzel loop will get huge... Will this ride have a single rider line? I find the one at Europa's Blue Fire highly recommendable and would love to see it here also. Sorry if this was already answered before but searching for "single" got no fitting results inside this topic...

Heide-Park offers a Pre-Opening package for their new wing coaster valid from March 21st to 26th. It includes Dinner, Evening-Show, Breakfast, multiple "test flights" and behind-the-scenes tour of the new coaster. Cost is €69 for 2 or 1 visitors/room or €49 for 3 or more visitors/room. Edit: Booked - now pray for dry weather...

What a bummer - and quite a marketing fail for the park I might add. Maybe they can get Speed from Las Vegas... Or cant they just order Gerstlauer to re-do Thriller as an Infinity-Coaster?

^the bold chicken put up a Chicken Run stunt and were not available to eat...

^always kinda weird to hear about this kind of "problems" from the US. But considering how often our Washington DC office reports power outages each year. In the last 10 years I experienced no power outage at home - suburb of Hamburg - and only two outages in the city center. The longer one was one christmas evening and with our emergency diesel on even our christmas tree was lit up while the surroundings were dark - cool sight. Maybe they will add a pre-drop hold element like on the B&M dive machines to spice it up...

I think its just as coaster technology progresses we will see a lot Hybrid coasters in the future. I love that as its opening a lot of new layouts that were not possible with Wood coasters. However I do think that coasters having a steel track on a wooden/hybrid support structure should be in the steel coaster poll.

On my visit the Single Rider Line for TestTrack always had a 5-10 minute wait while regular standby had about 60 minutes all day. At times Single Rider had even shorter lines than FastPass. Sometimes one needs luck: Space Mountain broke down and came back to service 5 minutes before my FastPass window expired - so a walk-on for me while the standby line already went around the Tomorrowland Speedway... Generally its better to not mumble about long lines and/or run-out FastPasses. I also do not do lines over 30 minutes - but I then go and look what else to do. Admitted as comming from overseas I stay multiple days and can catch quite few good rides over these days and do not have pressure of having to do all in one day.

just speculating but a chain-lift is also easier serviceble - and Germany is a long way by ship if some major part of the launch mechanism breaks down...

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And all the maps from parks yet to visit...

Looking better and better. The inverted bridge looks crazy and cannot wait to ride it.

I still think there has to be some profit in opening a park in Germany's capital city - and one of Europe's biggest cities overall. There are no other parks within a 100 kilometer, Berlin has no major carnivals and never seen Olympia Looping...

That cannot be true. Visiting last year on a regular saturday this time of year at 1100 they were way into the afternoon for RRC and ToTH - and taking the boat over to Epcot all fastpasses for Soarin were gone by 1230. And why do many show up so late? 1130 is not morning - its nearly lunch! I have noticed that even on weekends the parks are quite deserted from 0900 to 1000 were I could at Studios do 4x RRC and 2x ToTH before major crowds started flooding the park between 1030 and 1100 at a Saturday. Same for MK - did Space Mountain, BTMR and Pirates as walk-ons on a Sunday before 1000! The first and the last hour of operation at any theme park are just the best to catch - do not miss them!

Will be interesting to see how it will compare to Dinosaur at WDW-AK - even if this will be a steep competition. If they would finally add a really good coaster....

True for mostly the older Eurofighters. Newer ones get lapbar trains like Karacho if the park wants them - even if these new coasters fit in with Gerstlauer's new Infinity-Coaster line like The Smiler they look and feel quite Eurofighter 2.0 to me...

In real life this looks far taller than on the animation...

I think of wooden coasters after 80+ years there are 99,9% of the coaster having been replaced - the original shape is still there of course but the original coaster is long gone. Thats of course due to the material as wood rots and decays mighty fast while well-made steel coasters can last much longer retaining its original track. On the positive side with its small parts wooden coasters can be mantained forever while it remains to be seen how long an Arrow or Schwarzkopf steel track will last...

Lately one of the German editors noted that hotels and resorts are priced in the upper range compared to international resorts while service - specially at the 2** and 3*** hotels - make one feel like visiting a rustic Soviet hostel. Positive notes were given to the overall location and weather. During the sunny and springtime warm days some noted it was kind of sad the park is not ready right now.

I guess I have choosen with 2015 a great year to visit the north-eastern states of the US... And if it is a (Gerstlauer or) a Zierer, the important thing is... ...they get a German coaster...

^^I think we speak of different locations in Germany here. In the center of most cities you have a carnival ground were carnivals like Oktoberfest, HamburgerDOM or Rheinwiese are held - these are normally parking lots if paved or green parks. These areas only have underground plugs for power and water supplies for the rides. On the other hand we have exhibition grounds which are mostly huge halls which house all kinds of exhibits. German carnivals do not include agricultural exhibits - those are held outside the cities and offer no rides at all and are more for sellers and buyers of cattle.

Why does a fairground have to filled all year round? Here carnival grounds are either parking spaces - if paved - or a green area were people can play ball, fly kites or walk their dogs. This said most carnival grounds here are located in the heart of the city so there is mostly no problem getting people - or cars - there. On another note I think its funny to see that in a country known to us foreigners as home of "free market only" you also hassle as civil servants try to run things better kept to private operators. But we also had our fair share of bribe scandals when it comes to carnivals...

Non-filtered beer is always a winner!

All these great updates makes it the more harder to wait...

I will believe this park is happening when it opens. And I strongly hope they - as Sheldon Cooper would put it - will not use "the wrong Spock"...