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What I am glad about though is that the bulk of people that saw this were enthusiasts who realize that this was fake...you know the GP would think its real and begin sharing it among their GP friends. At least now with the flood of comments stating the fake/pointing out the obvious...and the original user has already made an idiot of himself so much that he's lost all credibility... In the end, we 'crashed' his video before it could go viral I'd hope that most non enthusiasts would have the sense to realize that it's fake. I mean, you just need a basic knowledge of physics or even just basic common sense to realise it's fake. Though that seems to be two thinks the GP are lacking, so...

I actually love that the person running the Knoebels page is actually direct and knowledgeable rather than copying and pasting a stock standard reply that doesn't really answer anything and only works to promote the ride/park, like pretty much every other park's FB page does.

See, to us foreigners Ukko seems like a pretty cool name. But the fact that it translates to guy is pretty hilarious.

I came up with a bizarre idea for a coaster element. Imagine a hairpin turn, but tilted on its side so the coaster travels along a 90 degree banked section of track before doing a 180 degree turn, still with the coaster banked at 90 degrees. Basically, imagine a zacspin with a regular coaster car running along the side of it. Would the forces experienced through this turn even be safe?

I thought Wodan had its wheels switched back to steel recently? Or was that just an untrue bit of speculation?

Vekoma: Goofy's Barnstormer - Magic Kingdom (also my first credit) Intamin: Mick Doohan's Motocoaster - Dreamworld Arrow Dynamics: Cyclone - Dreamworld Mack: Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster - Warner Bros Movie World S&S: Green Lantern - Warner Bros Movie World Maurer Sohne: Rattlesnake - Chessington CCI: Megafobia - Oakwood Gerstlauer: Spin Gear - Sega Republic B&M: Hair Raiser - Ocean Park Zamperla: Mine Train - Ocean Park Reverchon: Wild Mouse - Global Village Zierer: Stinger - Paulton's Park

National Anthem by Lana Del Rey was playing on the radio when I arrived at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and it kind of just stuck. Same thing happened at Thorpe Park with Scream by Usher, except it was also playing around the park.

You mean since Silver Bullet in 2004 You mean since Patriot in 2006.

Yep! A few pages back one of the Ohio nut jobs called me "TPR's most negative member" for pointing out the widely known fact that modern B&M inverts aren't as good as the old school ones like Dragons, Montu, Katun, Batman, Nemesis, etc. Banshee will be a smashing success for the park and WAYYYYY better than SOB. But one needs to go into this with realistic expectations considering the types of rides B&M is building these days. I actually liked all the more "recent" B&M coasters I've been on and wouldn't consider them forceless. I agree this coaster won't beat the likes of Pyrenees, Katun and Nemesis but it'll be a smooth, fun coaster and I'm sure it'll have some intensity. I mean hell, I found the Swarm at Thorpe Park to fairly intense and overall a very good ride and that was 3 days after riding Nemesis.

Not sure about the new restraints. Most B&M coasters are so smooth that I never have problems with their standard OTSR's, but the vest restraints can be a bit uncomfortable when they tighten. But anyway, wow! That layout looks awesome! Also not too sure about the inline twist but who cares - the first drop and the batwing look great!

I'd seen photos of the ride itself but not the park. It seems like the coaster pretty much takes up the entire area of the park!

Because 20 year old Togo coasters don't tend to be the most rideable things in the world. With some exceptions of course - but not many.

I just checked and under every YouTube video of NTAG, the comments are "currently unavailable." What's going on with that? Is YouTube doing this? Must have been a Youtube wide glitch for you because all comments are visible to me.

A Facebook comment on a photo about a new Gerstlauer Eurofighter in Adventure World, Perth (note that the page has stated it was built in Germany, otherwise the idiot who said this comment wouldn't know any different) - Andrew Charles I will not go on it keep jobs in Australia not Germany wrong Jesus christ, how stupid can one person be? I invite him to find one coaster manufacturer here in Australia. Besides, most of the construction workers would be Australian. And finally, who actually cares?

Adventure World, Perth's Eurofighter has been confirmed by the park and has a RCDB entry. Here's a thread if you'd like to link it as well - http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=65854&p

Wait, you're making a trip all that way just to ride a Maurer spinner? You may as well just drive to Utah where an identical, running model is standing.

I wasn't aware of the family coaster. Looks really fun!

Cool pics! I think you meant to type White Cyclone though. White Canyon was the evil RCCA woodie at Yomiuriland.

I'm surprised they so openly stated it's a near clone of Saw. Though I would've liked to see a custom layout, I really loved Saw when I rode it last year so I'm really excited about this! Was hoping for lapbars but I don't find Gerstlauer's OTSR's too intrusive. Anyway, here's the news report on it. Considering the poor quality of most Australian news stories I was ready for it to be a massive cringefest, but surprisingly it was quite well researched and informative - they actually sent a reporter to the Gerstlauer factory in Germany.

Great interview Robb, i also get the feeling you must've had more to say but you managed to get the point across perfectly in the time you had. I also respect your ability to stay calm, especially after the inaccurate facts presented by the newswoman before your interview (steepest drop?). Hopefully many members of the GP were watching and listened.

Nice pictures! I'm visiting Italy in September this year so it's nice to see some fairly recent Trip Reports.

I blame now blame Rita and its Intamin cable of death for this whole incident. Yet another reason for the park will tear down that piece of crap

Jeez, July 2013 is the Themeparkpocalypse it seems. Not to mention that this is the second blow to Gerstlauer's reputation in 2 days, although unlike with the Texas Giant incident this is definitely a fault in engineering.

Outlaw Run was running as if nothing had happened at SFOT at all. So that's still open. That must mean that the concern is with Gerstlauer, which makes much more sense. Outlaw Run is all RMC.

Just my 2 cents on the seatbelts debate, while it's true that the restraint system should make the need for a seatbelt unnecessary, the unfortunate fact of the matter is that ,in this one incident, the chances are that if there had been a seatbelt the woman would probably still be alive.