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I more meanvthe lateral hangtime during the inline twist at the end.

^I feel if it wasn't for the lateral hangtime moment after the Zerovg roll, Valravn wouldn't have had the vest restraints. In the same way I reckon Banshee wouldn't have had vest restraints if it wasn't for the inline twist, they're there to combat the laterals.

^ Are we looking at the same coaster?

Christ, that really is starting to get fast. Still waiting on the opening confirmation. As soon as the park says anything confirming it's opening this year, my money is getting put down.

^ Same I'm aiming for the end of October myself. ^^ True, but I can't help but think of the Chiapas delay when I think of Intamin and Phantasialand.

I'm waiting on that confirmation that Taron will open this year before booking my trip to Phantasialand.

That's cause everyone in the park is waiting for Flying Dinosaur

Meanwhile... Source: Not sure, I found the image on the Nolimits-Exchange 11 hours?! If the queue was that length at the start of the day and you entered it as soon as the park opened, the park would barely be open long enough for you to ride it.

I haven't ridden it myself yet (still a few more weeks till that), but from what I've read on some Spanish fan pages, it's better than it was at the end of last season, but it's still really bad and people can see it getting back into that state in the next 2 or 3 months. All the seats are back open though (for now).

^ Upstop wheels are probably a non issue, since they are not the wheels that the train spends 95% of the ride on.

Doesn't LR use poly wheels? Could be they don't want the trains sitting on the wheels since you cant leave poly wheels sitting still or they develop flat spots. But if that was the case they'd just move them to storage like B&M does so the trains don't rest on the wheels. Just a guess though, obviously anything we say is just speculation. The trains are going to be sitting on their wheels every night for the next however many decades. They are not worried about "flat spots." Actually Poly wheels do develop flat spots when sitting stationary for extended periods of time. Sort of like a car that sits in the garage for extended periods of time and not on jack stands, the tires lose their round edges and makes for an unpleasant ride. No one wants a rough ride. The harder wheel compounds don't react in this way so rides like Mindbender can sit on the rails for decades with no worries. But rides like Goliath at SFGAm, or any B&M, use a softer compound to give you a comfortable ride and will develop flat spots. For this reason the manufacturer has set a time range that a train can sit stationary before it should be cycled or transferred off. I am saying that Dollywood is not taking the trains off because they are concerned about flat spots. The trains have to be sitting for much longer than a week to develop flat spots. You mention Goliath at SFGAm but at that park during the fall and spring they are closed during the week during which the trains sit on the transfer not moving for the days they are closed. Dollywood has bigger things to be thinking about than worrying if the trains are getting "flat spots". Many coasters that have these wheels have a transfer track where there is track and the wheels rest on the track. But RMC also use a system similar to B&M where the train isn't resting on it's main running wheels on the storage tracks

Personally, I don't like the colours, it makes the trains look like they were made by Playmobil.

^I though they were something a long the lines of the brake fins at the end of the launch track on Intamin LSM coasters which are supposed to force the train to roll back if the computer detects it's not going fast enough.

Not sure about crowds as I haven't been in October but yes they don't do Halloween events so it should be quieter. NRW schools have holidays from 10 to 21st October so I'd avoid then but the first and last week of October will not have large crowds. That's good, thanks. I was looking at going the last mid-week of October.

I have some questions about Phantasialand. I've read on various places on line that Phantasialand doesn't do halloween events, is this true? if it is, would this be a good time to visit the park in terms of crowds?

There was an aritcle on TowersTimes about this time last year of something happening in regards to SW8, and it linked to this. Though it says that the ride was going to belocated in the Forbidden Valley area near Nemesis.

View from inside of the park with the tower now built Source

^To answer your last question, It's using the in-game recorder. The recorder renders each individual frame so that the ending file won't have any lag to it. That way, you could be running an NL2 park at 2fps, but the video file that you recorded will be a perfectly smooth 30/60/25/etc fps (what ever you set it to in the export settings).

There are plenty of Recreations out there of the rides at Cedar Point to Download for NL1 and NL2, and since they are only in the background, they don't really need to be that high quality.

^And even then, it got moved to another SF park before SFKK became KK.

Given they were closing off certain seats towards the end of the year makes me hope they've done something especially since Intamin is currently working with the park for this new coaster, even though I'm doubtful

Even if there shouldn't be any clearance issues, Intamin rides seem to usually still do a pullthrough test. Formula Rossa also had a pullthrough and that doesn't have any moments that seem worthy of a clearance test.

I don't think we've heard any reports on what Flying Aces restraints are like yet, and whether they are improved from Skyrush. If they are improved, I'd gladly take them for the giga as well as on new trains for FB please. I find it odd how only the chassis of the train has been delivered.

^Surely it's the exact opposite. People get motion sick with regular, sitting still VR due to the fact the brain feels like you should be moving (based on what you see with your eyes) and it's trying to balance you against non existant movement. On a coaster, this wouldn't happen since those movments are there.