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Wow, it looks like SFMM has moved itself to Switzerland or something. It looks so surreal, it might as well be a photoshop creation.

Looks like Storm Runner's Flying Snake Dive isn't unique after all

I rode it 'way back' in 2008, it was my first arrow suspended. It was definately a fun ride. Swinging through canyons and the final drop down onto the rivers was really cool. But is ride is not fast enough to be considered top class, and the fact that it dies halfway through doesn't help it either. As far as BGE's concerned. I would make a 5hrs trip to ride Alpengeist and Griffon alone, regards of the other rides. Bas 'I'm more of a B&M-guy' Houben

The Reventon is the sickest Lamborghini ever, granted (or maybe the new LP 700-4?). But even UK Top Gear only got a showroom model and never drove one, they're that exclusive, so USA Top Gear didn't stand a chance of getting a Reventon.

Like the orignial UK-Top Gear, they also featured a Lamborghini Murcielago in their first episode. Doesn't get much better than that

^The terrain is already there. The area used to be a mine. Converting it into the Grand Canyon/Hoover Dam would not cost that much.

Well, apart from the launch, the actual ride is very similiar to I305. Both have low turns, directional changes and (airtime) hills.

Lol, that in the video took his seat ON the lapbar

Top hats are usually used as first element. The reason for this is because the low speed over the top causes rollbacks from time to time. If your train is halfway down the track and has a rollback, I might get stuck. Unless you set up the second launch in a way that it could relaunch the train over the tophat in case of a rollback (or E-stop)

Some are, thankfully the majority of that site are just people who play NoLimits and don't care about the admins of other sites. I'm glad I'm in the 2nd catergory

The article says B&M has already completed the 1,500 meters (4,500 ft) of rails. But if the track is 800 meters (2,400 ft) long, will the train jump, fly, surf, drive, skid, plummet or sail across the 50 meter (150 ft) gap?

Doesn't camelback in the B&M dictionary mean Zero-G-roll?

Nowadays building are made out of gingerbread and cardboard, so...no.

Hmmm....I'm not so sure if extending the ride with an actual layout would be much good. Top Thrill Dragster was build for it's record speed and height alone, and the park wanted the bragging rights for that so I don't really think they cared about what would happen after the top hat. Nevertheless, if you wanted to expand the ride after the top hat, you would have two options, either you make some gigantic elements in order to keep the G's down (but which will cost you) or you install brakes and then you can make tighter turns, like they did (or are still trying) to do at the Nurburgring. A third option, would be to lower the tophat and build the rest of the layout with all the money you saved from not needing to build so damn high. This way you'll get something along the lines of Storm Runner, iSpeed or Kanonen, or even Maverik for that matter. While this means that the park wouldn't have got the highest rollercoaster in the world for one or two years, it would have definately been a better coaster. EDIT: Oh yeah, one more thing. Just because somebody drew a ride idea, doesn't mean that it can slap the laws of physics in the face. A little piece of me hopes the person who drew this will read the comments and think: "Hey, those guys have a point, my ride would kill every rider if it wasn't trimmed".

Really guys? booing? How mature. While I would love to have ridden I305 without the trims, I totally understand why the park added trims for the sake of the GP. When it comes to coasters I am a spoiled brat and the more intense the better, but the parks make money of the GP, not some dutch boy who hapens to like powerfull coasters.

I don't think this will be a real coaster too. The size of the foundation and tools/equipment used is simply too small for a wooden coaster.

Perhaps you can find your answer in the posting guideliness, which I assume you have read: http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21965

Lol, that was awesome. Mike, I never would have expected this from you two years ago, props.

Perhaps you can show her some video's and trip report from current and previous trips and show her that these trips are the real deal. I guess everybody was in this position at one time, and I don't think Robb and Elissa ever dissappoint anybody who signed up for the trips.

Griffon was operation during a storm? I thought Busch Gardens closed down every ride once they spot a grey cloud on the horizon.

You should lower the vertical G's on the top of the loop in relation to the G's a the bottom. More difference = more roundness (in general mathematics)

I would say: Just outside LA, close to SFMM, Disneyland, USH and Knotts Tampa, close to BGA, Disneyworld, USF France, close to Eurodisney, but easy to travel to the UK, Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.

^I actually think they will be proper Zero-G-rolls. I'm guessing it can be possible as the Arrow/S&S 4D's also feature this elements. Also, if you would take two immelmans from sheikra and put them together at the top, you get a zero-G-roll.

Most the darkrides that are the kind that slowly moves you trough various scenes. These tend to have a layout with lots of turns inside a rectangular building.

I can, let GCI re-track it like they did with Boulder Dash.