noyzz Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Watched it last night. I thought it was pretty cool how they built it! I neede some coaster tv action..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Menefee Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Yay for commercials for strip clubs! Haha, I didn't even notice this till just now. Oh well, skip through the commercials young TPR viewers. The midnight showing must of had a few shameless strip club ads because of the time spot. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 ^Can't wait to watch those on my Tivo ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phazan Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 ^ According to the show --- 49 seconds from disengaging the lift to hitting the final brakes. I know that it is a 49 second ride. The reason they had to change the wheels was that the ride was around 18 (or something with an 8 in it) seconds long. I wanted that ride, as it would be even more insane. It was eight seconds too fast; not 18 seconds long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiburon503 Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 Is Mark Shapiro's infamous media day sound bite in there? The one where he said he'd shitcan the project if he could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATman Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 ^^Oh, well, that'd be sweet too. I never understood why the Discovery Channel has to make these specials so dramatic. I mean, they have shots of people riding the ride, and then they end each bit with the whole "will it open in time??!!" thing. I really wish they wouldn't becuase it got really annoying after the Kindga Ka episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrs28330 Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 is there anyway to make the video in a different format? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanSe_Colombia Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 I don't know if Discovery Channel South America will show this . I want to see it. Well someone already uploaded it... I know but my internet is no that fast for download it in few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 This took forever to download for me but it looks quite interesting so hopefully it will be worth the wait. Cheers for uploading this Sean, I was really disapointed when I saw this was going to be on but I wasn't going to be able to watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robbalvey Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 I'm surprised no one mentioned the "fruity" guy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyPants Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 SFMM is holy ground for thrillseekers? Somebody in the writing department doesnt' read message boards! Discovery Channel's doing a top-notch job teaching the kiddies. “In a conventional loop, gravity pushes riders into their seats.” Ummm, gravity pushes people up, into their seats? How does a channel that is all about learning say something this innaccurate? It seems like every show about coasters has some glaring inaccuracy... Makes you wonder what they get wrong with important info. I agree with others about the phony drama the announcer used. Sooooo annoying. "(Under the pressure) Danny's brother Nic even has a nightmare!" Nooooooo! Not a nightmare! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! How bout this; "“The spray paint used to mark locations contain deadly toxins… One wrong whiff could send these iron workers to the morgue!” Or, "The crew had lunch at Taco Bell. If they didn't fart, the workers risk grastrointestinal pain, and they may even explode!" They should've just had the operations guy and the ironworkers do the talking... They were much more interesting. They actually said relevent things instead of hype with no substance. Seeing the actual problems to overcome, and the planning sure was neato. How surprising that they built a footer in the way of the track... Plus that semi on the hillside was cool. Never seen that before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianscoasters Posted January 5, 2007 Share Posted January 5, 2007 ^Dude, a loop does push you up in your seat. When you are riding a coaster and you are in a loop, you feel like you're being pressed down in your seat, but in reality, you are going up when you're upside-down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyPants Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 ^Dude, a loop does push you up in your seat. When you are riding a coaster and you are in a loop, you feel like you're being pressed down in your seat, but in reality, you are going up when you're upside-down. Dood, that ain't gravity that's doing the pushing. Gravity, at least in our general usage of the word, applies to the attraction of objects towards the earth. The reason you feel pushed into your seat is because of the inertia of the train, and the resulting centripetal force exerted by the shape of the track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 Am I the only one that is laughing at the irony of the username 'smartestcoasterkidever!' being corrected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATman Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 ^I'm laughing more at people who need to criticize the discovery channel for not getting every little detail (that only we would notice) correct. I mean, it's a TV show... But yes, the irony is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyPants Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 ^ Yea, I thought maybe I was being a little harsh on it, but it's the Discovery Channel. It's theoretically educational. You'd think they'd at least get a basic physics concept like Earth's gravity right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tmcdllr Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 The last piece of track that was installed, the one with the construction company name and the guys who built the ride on it, where exactly is that piece of track on Tatsu? If I remember right, that would be track piece #17 which was the last one installed. I'm guessing it's right after the top of the lift/first drop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knottslover77 Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 ^It looked like it was on the top of the lifthill. --Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kraxleRIDAH Posted January 6, 2007 Author Share Posted January 6, 2007 ^ No. That piece of track is actually near the center of the transition from the corkscrew to the zero-gravity roll --- right above the coaster's exit ramp. You can see it easily from the loading platform (the station side that faces in the direction towards X and Viper). If anyone remembers, that was the last track piece installed on Tatsu. http://www.rollercoasterpro.com/updates/sfmm4.2.06/DSCN5392.jpg http://p2.rcdb.com/picmax/six-flags-magic-mountain/tatsu57.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DATman Posted January 6, 2007 Share Posted January 6, 2007 ^Oh yeah! I was there that day, but I came after they had it up... That was a good day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Gumball Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 I almost forgot about it until my manager calls over to my workstation: "Hey Billy, go to Channel 24 (Discovery Channel). They have Roller Coasters on there." So I turned on one of our TVs for testing DVDs and changed it over to the DC...Kinda began to snicker when they showed all the people waiting during the day to get on Tatsu as they said it was the first riders of the day...My first thought was "Uh no...people camped out the previous night, and rode at like 5 AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesdillaman Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 ^ Actually it was 2 nights before... That was a great time, too. It's nice to relive it. I can't believe how much FUN I had at SFMM!! The day before the official open it was open for an ACE event if I remember correctly. -James Dillaman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airtime&Gravity Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 It was a decent show, but I didn't like the fact that they acted like a disaster was always going to happen. It was nice about the technical information, but told in a way for the GP to understand. I just wish they had Dan's(RCPro) Tatsu video at the end. Airtime-I can mention RCPro in a Tatsu thread right?-&Gravity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 Hi guys, thanks for posting the program, but when i download the file it is not possible for me to open the file, I do not have winrar, is there any other possibility to see the program? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Menefee Posted January 7, 2007 Share Posted January 7, 2007 You can download Winrar for PC & Mac for free here: http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm I hope that helps, good luck. Send me a PM if this doesn't work for you. Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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