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I'm surprised we don't have more reviews and video of this ride. The only one I found is this Vlog of a guy doing his first inverting roller coaster on Great Nor'Easter, and then Gale Force. Jump to 19:05 : [youtu_be] [/youtu_be]

Well, if it's a PLC/electrical problem, that's up to Irvine Ondrey Engineering (but they didn't shared anything in that regard, and usually they do. I think they are not in charge of the after sale service). Anyways, it's RMC fault for Dollywood because they bought the coaster from them, and I guess they are responsible for their subco. But in reality it's hard to really tell who's at fault. Glad to hear the LSM are working fine, I wasn't up-to-date it seems. I was also assuming this was a launch problem because all the other RMC seem to be working fine.

RMC just designed a straight piece of track, and hired Velocity Magnetics to do the job on the LSM. RMC was to blame for the issues with the lap-bar cylinders, but there we can't really blame there (that's not the train who're faulty, as far as I understand). Except maybe for partnering with an inexperienced LSM manufacturer - although VM has a great record history with magnetic brakes. But in the end we will never now what really happened. Maybe RMC gave Velocity Magnetics wrong datas about their trains... Maybe Dollywood rushed the designing phase and put an unbearable pression on the manufacturers... So I don't really want to blame anyone unless we really know what's the matter.

This video from Bloomberg TV has an interesting sequence showing the side-drop element of the SFX. I was wondering how the special track piece would get back to position after the drop, and I'd guessed that there would be some kind of winch... Nada, it's actually launched back in place. Jump at 1:36 in the video.

Yep, it was a live. Good call I didn't know Facebook was annoying there. But anyway the number of people starting to record vertically (the smartphone then tag the video as it) and then only turn it to landscape is too damn high still. Also no, it's actually the opposite. The backward part is visible from inside the park, as well as a part of the foreward trip. But the first drop and the part next to the parking lot is more or less hidden from park guests.

POV (the scenery is not finished yet) : And this one's for Robb. What's worse than a vertical video? Well, that: Another POV... with a twist Edit: Here is another video including the queue line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuHae8i6aMg

Oh wow, this restaurant looks awesome! This made me laugh more than it should...

Do we have any news concerning the SFX coaster? Meanwhile, Dynamic Attractions patented the two special elements we'll experience on it. The drawings are nice and detailed, plus we can have a look at the ride's vehicles: Tilt and drop Side drop

I stumbled across this video on Facebook, and there's a clip showing Oblivion at Alton Towers (where a bystander woman then faceplant because reasons): And then there are these comments:

Talk about DinoLand USA at Animal Kingdom then, where they made up the parking lot as part of the theming. This being in one of the most beautiful Disney park doesn't help either.

Indeed, but Stakotra (or OCEM for Gerstlauer and S&S, or Clermont Steel Fabricators for B&M) makes whatever their client want. It's still Intamin, Zierer, etc. that draw the track and supports. Now to answer why do they look similar, I think it's because there aren't hundred of different shapes possible, and the prisme came out pretty efficient. Now you can see manufacturers coming up with a different track style, such as Intamin with the Y-shape, or RMC with the single track - but switching to a new track-style means re-doing many many many hours of calculation, stress tests, and re-inventing the fabrication process. So unless you really found another way to do a track and you'll be sure it will cover the costs of creation, you'd better stick with the same formula. Although if you look closely, you can see differences between each manufacturer. On the Mack track for instance, the ties are squished on their ends.

Actually it's not the speed per say, but rather the roll speed. Remember Furius Baco and it's inline twist took at almost 130km/h (faster than Maverick): (1:25) But it's no problem since it's really stretched out.

Kanonen has this element as well, and some B&M wing coasters too. (see at 0:52) But definitely not at the same speed, tho.

From the tiny NoLimits screenshots, it looks like the invert is Intamin (track and train like DrageKongen), but the sit-down is Vekoma (track and train like Formula 1)... Is this even possible? I like how they use the free-fall drawing from Zierer for their SFX.

I think the vertical strip of black is here as a visual separation, in order to break the shape of the former ToT. ... but it's still looking like ToT in my opinion. I really have trouble to get it out of my mind when I look at it. Maybe if they had filled the sides of the "T"-shape with scaffoldings and pipes...? That may have helped.

I made a video to showcase and explain some special effects at Pandora: The World AVATAR. I'm not talking about animatronics or floating mountains, but some smaller tricks you may have not even noticed! Hope you like it.

For some reasons, Chinese/Asian parks always build the track hardware entirely before starting the theming. For instance this Mack spinning coaster... ... is now totally covered in theming. You can only see the start of the drop now (the track and supports were still protected in this picture): Jurassic Adventure or Spinning Batman are another exemples.

^ Mystika at Rainbow MagicLand (SBF Visa) also uses a chain lift: As for the swinging, yeah it looks quite intense, but I think it might look worse from outside than it actually is. We will wait for the first reviews!

That's correct. Cyberspace Mountain was at the exit of the Disney Channel tour. Here is an article when it closed down. That was behind these glasses:

Disneyland Paris was under a threat at a point, and I think Efteling was as well.

We had this thought with my dad while queuing for 1h40 the other day (yeah, Flying Theaters have quite a low capacity...): What if, instead putting shops at ride exits, we put them right in the queue line? Instead of fences, you have shelves filled with products! And buying items will make you go at a cash register and cut throught one switchback! The more you buy the less you wait! (note: this is obviously a sarcastic idea... but I somehow feel something along those lines will come sooner or later anyway)

Gröna Lund is literally inside the city of Stockolm!

As soon as I read the flying coaster rumor for Phantasialand I thought about this prototype! I guess Phanta was really happy with Raik and decided to order another coaster from them, this time on a larger scale.

Red Force POV!

I've been on two Funtime drop towers, Skyfall which was the very first version, and Le Donjon de l'Extrême at Nigloland which is a similar design to this (it's slightly different than the transportable ones). Both are quite good, but not as intense as an Intamin dop tower for instance (never tried an ARM/Larson). Le Donjon is fun because the drop is lasting forever (it's 100m tall), but the initial jerk is quite mild, sadly. However, the seats are really comfy and free with these lap-bars, and it rotates all the way up including one full rotation at the top. I bet the views at Dollywood will be fantastic!