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This strip is a special coat of paint and help the contact between wheels and rail to be smoother and lose less speed. Many Intamin have those, but Karnan have a few section with them as well. It's up to the park to ask for them or not... but it's like super expensive! I don't remember the exact price I've been told, but it's certainly not "just a white strip".

It's awesome that Holiday World dropped a comment for them! His speech was very touching and her reaction adorable. Wishing them a wild ride!

I always thought RMC could retrack Big One at Blackpool.

^ You should ask to switch of all the lights of the surrounding attractions, and then take the same pic! But it's already pretty amazing as it, thanks for sharing.

From what we can see (a straight track ), I believe the Intamin shuttle will have its main spike at the middle of the park (where the Huss Tower was), but the other spike will in fact be... a launch (the said slanted track), making it a Reverse Free Fall kind of ride. ... and ooooh, Intamin do have that in there catalogue (thanks Coaster-Lab for pointing that out): But at Ferrari World, as the launch is slanted, I'd see the station to be at the bottom of the spike instead, right behind the big blue support in pic above. The ride would start by going at the end at moderate speed, reverse its direction and launches to the spike!

Thanks, I guess? And thanks TyRush as well. I agree tho, we'd have to get more evidences. This ride really drives me crazy. I attempted a NoLimits recreation but miserably failed. Note that Google Earth has a view where you can see some of the fundations, giving a general shape to the ride. But not enought to make up the layout yet.

See how the connectors are angled, and how the track is starting to roll already:

Forgot to attach the zoomed in picture... I'm pretty sure it is a cork (looking at the supports, the ties, etc), but I might be wrong and the picture might be misleading.

They do are made by Coaster Lab, but he works for/with RMC here. So these are official and made by Coaster Lab.

I thought that the airtime hill was right after the loop, but it's not. From my observations, the layout is: - Lift - Drop - Non Inverted Loop - Overbank turn - ??? - Up-hill turn to airtime downhill - The said airtime hill (the one you thought was right after the loop) - Low to the ground high-speed turn - Low to the ground stengel dive - Higher reversed stengel dive (like Skyrush) - Highly banked turn - Corkscrew (how the freak did we not saw that one, it's right here, in the middle, background!) - And then things back to the station.

^^^ Phew, I'm relieved. ^^ No I think, but anyway that record would have been beated next year, so...

Actually, vertical sections of supports are assembled on the ground, and then lifted up into place in one giant piece. This is a common method for both traditional and hybrid wooden coasters. Edit: Here you can see them building the supports sections.

Yep, most likely that. Awesome! Definitely prefer that than a regular loop! Oh, but I just saw trims on the drop... Unless it's the cable-lift system?

I definitely find the top connectors to be weirdly angled. So, is this going to be a loop with a funky banking (Tennesse Tornado), or are we going to have a non-inverted loop?

Thank you so much tubs023 for the pictures! It's greatly appreciated, that ride is really shaping beautifully.

Y'all forgetting I-Box with steel supports already exists - well, sort-of: Exactly. It can't do any much more than a normal 2-rails track, but seems to have many advantages in the manufacturing/assembling process. Also, you can notice the train have headrests, which means either a launch or vertical inversions (loop, pretzel, immelman, etc).

They could. See the Free Spin. I don't think this new track will provide new elements or revolutionary rides (definitely not decreasing the roll length, and I don't think I want to see that anyway). The pros of that system are more on the manufacturing side.

I don't think that was a last minute change, they just faked the wooden supports and release the real thing on a second time to have more impact.

We might meet! I remember back in 2013 where the first car of Helix was at the Mack booth...

Yes I got that (thanks for the reply anyway), but what are the 10 records it breaks? Tallest coaster... of the plaza? Fastest coaster... that is orange?

What the heck those 10 records are?!

^ She is brave to go on a ride which train has just derailed! I hate vlogs, but here I was curious because Cannibal... I regret my decision. I might have watched two seconds of it... I want these back. "It's called Lagoon. It's like Six Flags." "The 200° drop is so terrifying." *burns computer*

I heard the trains will be heavily themed/customized... I'm so hyped!

Yes but will it have a tunnel?

Curious, what benefit would that give? I'd rather have a safety redundancy than the ability to put my hands up on that particular kind of ride. A regular sit-down coaster? Sure! But this? I don't think it's necessary. A vest isn't a safety redundancy. It's only here to help you keep your body in the upright position (EDIT: And they also allow to accommodate more body types than lap-bars (ie. fat people, people with no knee, etc)). The downside of those (in my opinion but I've read that multiple times), is that they press you on the collarbones and thus are a bit uncomfortable.