1990 Arrow Dynamics announces the 'Pipeline Coaster'

[stormrider]

ride companies more imaginative

 

I think they're imaginative now. We've got the accelerators, motorbikes, flying, etc...

[Raymond333]

Here's a POV of the Arrow Pipeline from Coastertube.

 

[coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=PipelinePOV[/coastertube] According to COASTER-net, Morey's Piers in Wildwood was going to get one, too.

Edited November 10, 2010 by jedimaster1227

[pj.frankophone]

Here's part One and Two of the documentary segment that this is taken from. Such a shame this coaster never took off, but the comments above about B&M Inverters stealing the thunder seems to make a lot of sense to me, especially with regards to John Wardley overseeing all the prototype coasters at Alton Towers in the 90s.

 

 

[Gigalyte]

Heres what I found on the Arrowbatic concept it was an inverted wild mouse type of coaster capable of vertical drops and inversions this is a pic of the family model http://www.thrillride.com/randomnotes1.html scroll down the page abit to see more pics of the extreme models and info.

 

[RoCo]

^ Thanks for the linkage. While I was reading through this awesome thread, I thought I should dig up those Arrowbatic renderings and share them.

 

Also, regarding the inversion on the Arrow suspended coaster model, I remember seeing that video footage of the trains WHIPPING through the loop and going bananas. As I recall, Toomer said that they could never figure out a way to guarantee that the trains would have enough centripetal force to stay fully "upright" going through the inversion. I believe they hoped to include a couple of these loops on Kings Island's The Bat, but when they couldn't develop some sort of failsafe "thruster" system, they dropped them.

 

Had the technology been feasible back then, I wonder if LIMs or LSMs might have solved the problem...

[thespianthrillrider7]

Here's a POV of the Arrow Pipeline from Coastertube.

 

[coastertube]http://www.themeparkreview.com/coastertube/play.php?vid=PipelinePOV[/coastertube] According to COASTER-net, Morey's Piers in Wildwood was going to get one, too.

That is crazy cool! But I bet it had a lot of maintenance problems. Great video.

[Sir Clinksalot]

^ As I understand it XLR8 wasn't that much fun backwards. Ninja is a much faster ride, I tend to think it would have been unpleasent.

 

It wasn't fun AT ALL. I had never wanted to get off of a ride more than that one. It didn't hurt or anything, but I think we all wanted to throw up afterwards.

[let1gre]

I never did understand how the pipeline made it into RCT3. In fact, I never knew that it was ever considered as a production model. Cool find!

[KDCOASTERFAN]

I posted about the arrowbatic over on Arrow's FB page...that would've been an interesting concept had any of the parks been willing to invest in one but unfortunately it came along at around the same time the economy took a dump so parks weren't looking to invest in expensive prototype rides at the time.

[jray21]

Great Stuff! Thanks for the look back. Knowing it was Arrow makes me think pain, but it still would have been neat to have tried one out.

[coaster-crazy]

Intamin actually built a very similar ride - they called it a Spiral Coaster.

 

http://rcdb.com/1605.htm

 

~Nicholas

[deathbyillusion]

Yea I remember this. I saw it in person but I wish I had rode it now. I did however get a chance to ride Thrust Air 2000 Prototype and that was way fun!

[Raymond333]

Here's the official pave of the Arrow BATic; web.archive.org/web/20021206125933/arrowdynamics.com/products/bat/index.php

[Wes]

A nice little piece of nostalgia!

[Jew]

Seems like the ArrowBATic evolved into the El Loco concept.