jamessanders Posted January 9, 2007 Posted January 9, 2007 Can the 'building Kingda Ka' video be found anywhere?
DATman Posted January 9, 2007 Posted January 9, 2007 ^^^^Actually, it was open to really any coster group out there (thank God it wasn't just Ace, or the coaster might have fallen down the hill even faster...).
Tmcdllr Posted January 9, 2007 Posted January 9, 2007 ^^^^Actually, it was open to really any coster group out there (thank God it wasn't just Ace, or the coaster might have fallen down the hill even faster...). Â What are you talking about? Nothing has fallen down.
DATman Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 2007 ^Yes, but the coaster is eroding away at the hill. It's in the SFMM thread somewhere...
haiderodes Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 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  A disaster hasn't happened yet .  But seriously, I would have thought one of the main things they would have talked about would have been the possible erosion of the land. I mean, they mentioned that the location was challenging. They even showed the crazy video of the trucks trying to haul the track up to the site. I was really hoping to see something about how they prepared the land, what they were doing to prevent the whole thing from slipping down the hill.  Then again, it IS slipping down the hill. Granted this seemed to focus more on the actual contractor and construction aspects vs the design...wouldn't that still be concern during the timeframe of construction?
Satoshi Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 2007 does anybody know where i can get Millennium Force building vids? i've found the mighty youtube doesn't even have 'em and i got stunned a lot. i thought youtube would have got some construction vids of MF.....
thomas2 Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 2007 ^Well there's a video on the website of Cedar Point  http://www.cedarpoint.com/public/park/rides/coasters/millennium_force/index.cfm  Hope this helps!
Dailey Enterprizes Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 2007 I just saw it today and I think the building of a coaster is way more interesting than riding it. It's funny how they purposely put wheels on the train that would make the train go slower, but I guess they really wanted it at 4 minutes and 49 seconds, or whatever it was.
easytoremember Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 2007 Um, I don't think Tatsu is almost five minutes long
Dailey Enterprizes Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 2007 ^ Haha, yea I guess not. I just got back into college and my brain is a little mushed from all the work that I've been getting.
kraxleRIDAH Posted January 10, 2007 Author Posted January 10, 2007 The ride itself from after the lift-hill to the final brakes is 49 seconds. Six Flags advertises 3 minutes, but that includes the lift-hill trip, the loading procedure, and unloading procedure.
Guest Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 2007 I downloaded the file but all I get to see is a black screen. I do hear the sound and the voices from the presenter. Â What to do? I have the programms winamp, windows mediaplayer and an acer dvd programm. Â Thanks.
ebl Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 2007 ^^^ That's normal policy for almost any ride. Whenever new ones open, they always say "Three minutes..." In my experience, when I time a ride, they've been mostly in the "just about a minute" category from the top of the lift to the final stop. Â But when timing from pulling out to pulling back in, I usually get times of about 2:00 to 2:45. Of course, that includes everything. Â Eric
kidcoaster Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 2007 I just watched. I like what they said about the other coasters problems. Â Revolution not making it around the track on first run. Collosus breaks failing on first run and going around 3 times without stoping (That would be fun ) And X taking a long time to fix probems (No Surprise)
Myself Posted January 10, 2007 Posted January 10, 2007 I just watched it and found it quite fascinating. RCT makes building coasters look so easy... Â And, for the heck of it... Â OMG THE FOOTER IS TOO BIG!
TPDave Posted January 14, 2007 Posted January 14, 2007 Cheers TheMenefee for uploading that. Good show, I love the incredible drama and real life disasters which threaten to bankrupt six flags! (They seem to be well on their way without Tatsu cocking up!). We need a decent flyer in the UK! Air is useless...
Dark Vampire Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007  Download the full show here:  Building Tatsu Presented By: Discovery Channel http://www.mediafire.com/?3nynzktimzc  (Just in case you can't play this file download VLC Media Player.)  Feel free to re-encode and host this however you guys feel is best for the site. I didn't post this in the video section because the file is way to big to host here at TPR I'm thinking. It's almost a 700mb RAR file, but media fire is a pretty fast download service most of the time.  Cheers,  Sean  (Edit...added another link just in case the first one goes down. http://www.mediafire.com/?3nynzktimzc) Thank you very much for the recording! I have already watched a part and it is very good. Only, do you guys always have so much commercial in a program?
coastrfreak2000 Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 Only, do you guys always have so much commercial in a program? Â That is the beauty of American television.
Dark Vampire Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 Only, do you guys always have so much commercial in a program? Â That is the beauty of American television. It was kinda entertaining to see what you guys have as commercials on the television.
exmouse Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 Only, do you guys always have so much commercial in a program? Â That is the beauty of American television. Â Isn't it a case that the programs interupt the commercials in the States. This was an interesting documentary and no dobut another good piece of publicity for SFMM.
chmilo24 Posted January 22, 2007 Posted January 22, 2007 if you were to watch the show carfully you would see my arm waving around @ the end when they showed the crewman of the ride getting their ride in the station
Sean Menefee Posted January 22, 2007 Posted January 22, 2007 I'm actually kind of amazed the video link is still alive, Mediafire is the shizznit! Glad to see everyone has enjoyed the Tatsu construction show rip. BTW....Yes, we do have a ton of commercials here in the States, and yes, some are for strip clubs. (Late night reruns are awesome.) Â Anyways, thanks for the feedback folks. Â Sean-
Tiburon503 Posted January 22, 2007 Posted January 22, 2007 Do you still want a re-encoded file of the Tatsu/Discovery Channel video? I can also set it up for streaming. I'll encode it an MPEG-4 Standards compliant file (vs. a pseudo MPEG-4 .AVI container. The bit-rate is more efficient, and compatible with various media players.)
Sean Menefee Posted January 23, 2007 Posted January 23, 2007 Please feel free to, that would be great. ^
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