twisterbret Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 World's longest inverted rollercoaster to run in Guangzhou 261 words 22 January 2008 Xinhua's China Economic Information Service English © 2008 Xinhua News Agency. All Rights Reserved GUANGZHOU, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- The world's longest inverted rollercoaster will start running during China's upcoming Spring Festival in an amusement park in this capital city of south China's Guangdong Province, offering the thrilling fun of falling 80 meters, the park said Tuesday. Xiong Xiaojie, assistant to the president of the Chimelong Paradise, told Xinhua on Tuesday that the one-km-long rollercoaster, designed by Switzerland-based Bolliger and Mabillard for the park, will be safety tested on Jan. 28, and has a planned debut in China's most important festival, the Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 7 this year. "The 200 million-yuan (27 million U.S. dollars) rollercoaster is one of the world's most expensive and the first of its kind introduced to China's mainland. It would offer fun-seekers an experience of a vertical drop of 80 meters, as high as a 30-story building," said Xiong. Bolliger and Mabillard invented the world's first inverted rollercoaster in 1992. Since then, it has designed 71 rollercoasters for theme parks around the world. The rollercoaster it designed for Chimelong Paradise has three carriages capable of carrying 30 people at a time. Its highest speed is 120 km per hour. The Chimelong Paradise opened in Guangzhou in April, 2006, and has become one of the must-go tourist attractions in the city, for its sophisticated amusements. The privately-owned park, built for 1 billion yuan, covers 66 hectares, and can handle 50,000 tourists a day. (?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginzo Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 An invert with a 262 foot drop? I hope this works out for them, but I'm a little guarded considering the situation with Alpengeist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I wonder if this is really the dive coaster with something lost in translation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginzo Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I wonder if this is really the dive coaster with something lost in translation. Yeah, that makes a lot more sense than a B&M invert with a giant vertical drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Johnson Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 With that description for the coaster trains, it has to be the dive coaster that is currently being constructed. There is no way that this is an inverted coaster. http://rcdb.com/id3930.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almightyfire Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I did read the post right above, but I don't understand why couldn't it be an invert. Is it impossible for an invert to be 300ft and what problems has Alphengist encountered? I have ridden Alphengheist and it is my favorite invert because it is longer than 30 secs like most and it is taller than most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Johnson Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 I did read the post right above, but I don't understand why couldn't it be an invert. Is it impossible for an invert to be 300ft and what problems has Alphengist encountered? I have ridden Alphengheist and it is my favorite invert because it is longer than 30 secs like most and it is taller than most. Again, there has to be a serious mistranslation in the original article. It has to be the dive coaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyyyper Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 would be cool the have an inverted dive machine though, but even if it was mistranslated....part of the article goes over the first invert in 1992 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplepills Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 ^ That is weird that it mentions that, yet seems to be about something completely different. Maybe there is confusion about the words inverted and inversion. I'm with the others, it must be the dive coaster. Someone would have noticed by now if they were building a massive inverted coaster due to open in less than 3 weeks time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyyyper Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 ^yeah, did some more research, it's got be an dive machine, but there are already inverts longer than 1km Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIPDUDE Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Sounds like a bad case of engrish to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loefet Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 ^ Yeah it looks like it. Here is the link to the article, with pictures of the ride. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/22/content_7473661.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
almightyfire Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 No I know its a dive coaster I was just responding to the comment made about it CAN'T be an invert and Alphengist. I was wondering is it impossible to build an invert of that magnitude and what has been happening with Alphengist I read the article before I wrote my response so I did know it was a dive coaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrakenKing Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Is it impossible for an invert to be 300ft and what problems has Alphengist encountered? I have ridden Alphengheist and it is my favorite invert because it is longer than 30 secs like most and it is taller than most. Alpengiest is, to most people, rough and has a lot of vibration. The reason for this (So it's assumed) is the height and speed of the ride. The wheels weren't designed to handle that much speed so any row (Besides the front) will give a bad ride to most people. I've only ridden it in front, so I won't know about the other rows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexinla Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 If you click on the following picture, you can see that it is a divemachine http://rcdb.com/ig3930.htm?picture=2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottBrown Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 my guess is that they may have confused the concepts of a floorless with an inverted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matteocrepaldi Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 And it's not 80 meters tall either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginzo Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Alpengiest is, to most people, rough and has a lot of vibration. The reason for this (So it's assumed) is the height and speed of the ride. The wheels weren't designed to handle that much speed so any row (Besides the front) will give a bad ride to most people. I've only ridden it in front, so I won't know about the other rows. I'm with you on this. Alpie is the clunkiest B&M invert I've been on. It's not Vekoma hang 'n bang bad, but it's rough for a B&M. I thought it would be much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downunder Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Well you know what the Communists are like with information dissemination, they'd probably report a Dragon Wagon as being a glorious monument to communism that smashes every coaster record held by capitalist pigdogs. $27 million for a Dive Machine? I think they got ripped off if you compare it with the cost of the larger US ones, (maybe it included bribes to party officials) though I guess Chimelong is pretty heavy on the theming which does look impressive on some of their other coasters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oriolat Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 With that description for the coaster trains, it has to be the dive coaster that is currently being constructed. There is no way that this is an inverted coaster. http://rcdb.com/id3930.htm Well, I think they have soft-opened it already or something because I watched a really long video showing trains cycling with some people on it. There was like a pre-opening (or was it the official opening) ceremony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cycamps Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I too wonder if it's really an invert. That would be huge!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vacoaster Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I have to say.... those trains look like they belong on griffon and griffon's trains should be on this ride. Anyone else agree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormrider Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 Does this ride have a holding drop? This image http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/22/xin_2120105231020062361514.jpg doesn't seem to show any holding drop. Edit: Duh, that's the second drop and obviously this ride's statistics have been exaggerated. That turn into the water looks unique as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verticalzero Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 The layout is nearly a clone of "Griffon". I don't have a care for "Dive" coasters, I can't ride anything with a near to vertical drop. I've only been on "Oblivion" once since it opened in 98 and that was a horrible experience. Bring back "Black Hole" and "Thunderlooper". As Euro-fighter coasters have a 97 degree 1st drop I may have to ban these as well. I'll try TP version in 09. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyber.Fiber Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I really like the Tunnel/Turnaround into the splash pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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