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Wel... Looks like it's happening! http://www.carnivalwarehouse.com/brnews/newsarticle.asp?ID=825 First ever open air zipper is going to Wade Shows. http://www.carnivalwarehouse.com/brnews/newsarticle.asp?ID=826 Took them almost 20 years to catch up to Larson and their Super Loops, but who cares... Zippers have officially entered the modern age. Wonder if this means they'll ever build a park model?

B:TR clones by a long shot. They're short, but sweet. Non stop action from the first drop to the station.

^You always notice that they never show the good coasters in textbooks, usually just Vekoma boomerangs.

Same here. Those Looping Starships are EASILY the worst rides I've done. The lap bar crushes my balls, the OTSRs hurt my chest when leaning into the ride, and the hang time is just uncomfortable. It's just an unpleasant and awful ride. I'm pretty sure this is the only example of me hating lap bars. Agree totally. That photo brings back some pretty aweful memories of when I rode my home park's version (which has thankfully since been replaced). Actually, come to think of it, I've never cared for any of those looping-type rides. The Larson super loops are even worse than the Intamin looping starships (picture above). The hangtime on the Larson rides isn't as uncomfortable, however, it's just plain unnerving, with the rides often being poorly maintained by sketchy carnivals. Every time the op stops the train upside down, I just get an unnerving feeling that the whole ride's gonna fall apart, or the safety bar will break. Oddly enough, I actually feel safer on the zipper; probably because the ride experience itself is more enjoyable, taking your mind off how ghetto the whole thing is

What coaster is that? Haven't seen itEDITZ: Never mind

Signed! Would ride this in a heartbeat if it is built! Here's to hoping this project is a success; would love to see these built worldwide *cough* maybe one in Toronto? *cough*

That would be the thought going through the back of my mind too. Even though I know it would be so very extremely unlikely, if not impossible... that wouldn't stop me from freaking out about it the entire time. Same here, although I think I'd almost be more afraid simply knowing it was an Intamin tower. I know on B&M rides, it's physically impossible for the safety bar to pop open, unless in the station/manually opened by an employee while evacuating the ride. While other manufacturers probably use a similar design, given Intamin's history of reliability issues, I'd probably begin to worry if I got stuck at the top of FF, or any of their other towers for that matter.

Thorpe Park have a contract with a local crane hire company to supply a 200+ foot cherry picker for doing an evac if Stealth ever stalled. Can't remember what the exact response time was but it was something like 90 minutes. For stealth, couldn't they simply do something like this?

Ok, makes sense. Think I'm the video posted earlier, the people evacuating the coaster were trying to secure the train as they got people off from the back.

Obviously this model (believe it's made by HUSS) wasn't evacuated safely. EDIT: YouTube tag won't let me embed

^I always thought they evacuated furthest away to prevent incidents like this from happening: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ey-h92bKZ7w

^Thatcridexlooks great.

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I never understood why the flyers never have the catwalk straight under the train, like on inverts.

I'm still not sure if I should blame the absolutely atrocious SFMM operations for that ride rarely ever dueling or RMC for designing a terrible sensor system for the lift hills. Controls were done in house by Six Flags. There... It's SFMM's fault... I should've known from the beginning. RMC can do no wrong, Praise Fred & Alan, the ride Gods

^While the T-Rex looks absolutely incredible, I wonder how the whole "self dueling" aspect will work *cough* Twisted Colossus *cough*

Wow! Both those concepts look amazing! I'd imagine the TREX coaster is the proposed SFGAdv coaster if I had to guess. I also remember hearing that the raptor track is supposed to be for clone coasters. If the layout they're planning to clone is anything like the video, that'd be amazing! Hopefully some smaller parks can afford them.

My thoughts exactly. Haven't joined club TPR, but if the trips ever come back, I would definetly make the investment. The tours seemed relatively affordable, and seemed like something I'd totally do if given the chance. Haven't seen any other coaster club/site offer anything similar. Here's to hoping the club TPR tours return.

Well, if the Skyplex isn't built, lets at least hope the New York tower gets built. That one's closer to me anyway.

^Sounds like a dream team if you're building a coaster. Let's hope this gets green lit.

lol awesome If I ever make it to Florida, I might boycott universal if they stop this project... BGT has better coasters anyway

Agreed. I really don't see how the Skyplex could hurt Universal too much. I can't see many people traveling to Florida for only one coaster... The only people who would travel to Orlando just for Skyplex would probably be enthusiasts, or people who wouldn't have time to visit universal (or any other big park).

RMC track looks amazing!... So many possibilities! Keep up the amazing coverage Robb!

If only this was real.