CP_RULES Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Behemoth is now testing. The train is apparently going slow through the helix, but doesn't slowness happen with all first tests? Take Led Zeppelin: The Ride for example. Maybe they were testing with the trims and the MCBR on fairly hard. With so many brakes before the helix, I'm sure they'll be able to get it going faster if they want to.
clewis4u Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Behemoth videos have been recorded and are being uploaded onto YouTube. I will post them here once they are online. Thanks to fellow CWMania members Nuance84 and 1979.
Cyber.Fiber Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Here is the Link to the video of it testing: It looks as if there will be mass amounts of airtime on this coaster! Hopefully those trims are not used!
clewis4u Posted March 15, 2008 Posted March 15, 2008 Awesome, thanks! You can see higher quality YouTube videos by adding &fmt=18 to the end of the link. Here's the one above, but in higher resolution: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=I0EbJOzATPk&fmt=18
coastercrazed49 Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 That looks really good. Its hard to tell if the trims take away from the ride, but I thought I saw on the first hill after the first turnaround it looked like it did slow down when it came to the trims. It might just be me though.
thecoasterkid Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 Thanks for the videos! At this point it doesn't really look like the trims are on, but it's hard to tell. Looks like it will atleast have some pretty decent floater air, and the hammer head turn seems intense! Less than 2 months to go!
kraken613 Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 Man those trains are long! Those air hills after the helix and MCBR look nice!
Carnage Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 Well the trims wouldn't really be needed in the cold. I like what I see so far. Can't wait to see how it runs in warmer weather. Looks to go over that final bunny hill at a pretty good speed.
clewis4u Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 Picture of the full train: http://i31.tinypic.com/1267hiw.jpg Thanks Nuance84 on CWMania again! Thank you 1979 for the following video (yes, it's ANOTHER test run video!): http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=zjKoF9rukwc&fmt=18
kraken613 Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 The trains look alot nicer than I thought and really long!@
Cyber.Fiber Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 That new video posted is great! Those trains are very very long.
kraken613 Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 Some classic B&M ROAR!!!!!!!! I love that sound!
sam06pr Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 The trains look awesome and animated (fake) I didn't know they could test run in such cold weather. I think the train go too slow over the first hill. I would hate to see those the trim breaks on. I love that B&M roar
clewis4u Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 I think the train go too slow over the first hill. Here's your explanation: cold weather + first test run
Carnage Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 I didn't know they could test run in such cold weather. It's actually been pretty warm the last few days. So even though there's snow on the ground, it wasn't nearly as cold as you'd think in that video. I'm sure they would have no problem testing even if the temps were below zero. Snow though would cause a problem.
PURE Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 The train is long, but the ride looks awesome, and so do the cars. That last hill after the helix's looks like it'll have some sweet ejector air. During the summer when temperatures heat up i bet they'll be using those trims to slow the trains down, its already going considerably fast, they're really gonna be moving when the heat comes along.
coastrfreak2000 Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 I went by the the park today and got a few pictures of the train testing:
kraken613 Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 The front two seats look like it would be a blast to ride there!
307 Posted March 16, 2008 Posted March 16, 2008 Very nice pictures! I was driving home from work [which is across the street from Wonderland], and thought, "Hmmm, maybe I should go check out Behemoth." So I pulled a u-turn in the middle of a street and drove back to check it out. Lo and behold, I pulled into the Wonderland parking lot and Behemoth is heading up the lift hill! Very pleasant surprise. Looks really sleek running through the track, the curves can be described as "majestic", and the roar! That is a roar that I love. It was hauling ass through a few sections [the final bunny hops, most notably], and I think there will be a nice pop of air on a couple of the bigger hills [floater at best]. Hopefully they don't hammer the brakes too much.
Swimace Posted March 17, 2008 Posted March 17, 2008 I've sort of help my expectations at bay for this thing, but I think the testing looks pretty promising. The trains look a lot better than I expected and I think this thing has solid pacing. I really hope I can get a chance to get to Canada sometime soon!
CP_RULES Posted March 17, 2008 Posted March 17, 2008 Looks to be flying through the course a lot faster than I thought it would! Airtime anyone? Im sure it will have plenty.
thecoasterkid Posted March 17, 2008 Posted March 17, 2008 ^ The best airtime definitely seems to be after the MCBR's. As long as it's not trimmed to badly though the other hills look like they'll provide some nice floater air as well.
Tanks4me05 Posted March 17, 2008 Posted March 17, 2008 Judging by the looks of the video alone, I am assuming that the ride will be mostly "flejector" air (more than floater, less than ejector) with some nice ejector on the bunny hops at the end. But the valleys will probably pull some REALLY nice positive G's. The back seat should get a nice prolonged set of airtime at the top of the lift, making the frist drop very good. But, on a side note, this proves the fact that coasters can be run in the snow, at least around 30 degrees - so that PROVES Darien Lake can run on my birthday. (March 23, and it rarely gets below freezing in late March for us people in Central New York, even.) -Tanks "I want to ride a roller coaster on my birthday" 4me05.
Carnage Posted March 17, 2008 Posted March 17, 2008 But, on a side note, this proves the fact that coasters can be run in the snow, at least around 30 degrees - so that PROVES Darien Lake can run on my birthday. (March 23, and it rarely gets below freezing in late March for us people in Central New York, even.) Well those testing videos were probably with temps in the low 40s. It might run in those temps, but I don't think it'd be all that comfortable. The wind chill would probably be brutal. I'll gladly wait about a month before riding.
thecoasterkid Posted March 17, 2008 Posted March 17, 2008 Riding the coasters at Cedar Point and Wonderland last October in 5-10 degree (40-50 for you Imperial people) weather was bad enough! It's been hovering at about 1-2 these last few days, so not what I'd call ideal coaster conditions. There would be far too many people turned away by the cold for Wonderland to justify operating the park in that weather. All (okay, most) of the year round parks are in Florida and California for a reason! I'm just hoping that all the snow will be gone by opening day! We're less than 10cm away from the all time record, so who knows how long it will take for this stuff to melt.
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