Jump to content
  TPR Home | Parks | Twitter | Facebook | YouTube | Instagram 

Carowinds Discussion Thread

P. 417 - Fury back open now with 100% less crack!
robbalvey
 Share

Recommended Posts

ImNotOneOfYou Mentor

ImNotOneOfYou

Posted
Posted
Looks like Fury will have a roar

 

Looks like it's sped up quite a bit, it's absolutely flying through the layout.

 

It's not sped up, it's just that fast. (this is originally my video but it's been reused)

 

The way it flies through the turnaround makes it seem unreal.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Replies 10.4k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Popular Posts

coasterbill
coasterbill

Incredible news! Hey Carowinds if you need help hauling the world's-most-hated Christmas decoration to the dump, let me know.

tndank
tndank

Love the communication here and how open they are with what has to be done.  

PKI Jizzman
PKI Jizzman

Here's my report from my weekend trip to Carowinds with friends! Flew in Saturday at 530, quickly got a ride over to Carowinds new Spring Hill Suites hotel. It's right across from the parking lot

Posted Images

KingRCT3 Mentor

KingRCT3

Posted
Posted
This has to be surreal to the folks at Carowinds. So much national and international coverage! I can't think of any other coaster that has generated this much "buzz" !

The POV even ended on 9GagTV!

 

That offride video is amazing, thanks TheDark8.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
rcjp Grand Master

rcjp

Posted
Posted

That was pretty fast! I thought that funky turn would be taken quite slowly like on many B&M hypers.

As to the roar, it surely sounds awesome but I get the impression that on quite a few of their new rides the first test runs sounded pretty loud and then somehow they ended up being quieter. I remember one of the first banshee offride videos sounded incredibly loud as did wild eagle and I still haven't been able to find videos form those rides after opening that made it sound that loud (and they could always change it after the first season or first two, like leviathan). Maybe I'm just being paranoid but I absolutel love the B&M roar and recently some of their new rides gave me "false" expectations.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
El Toro_Ryan Proficient

El Toro_Ryan

Posted
Posted
That was pretty fast! I thought that funky turn would be taken quite slowly like on many B&M hypers.

As to the roar, it surely sounds awesome but I get the impression that on quite a few of their new rides the first test runs sounded pretty loud and then somehow they ended up being quieter. I remember one of the first banshee offride videos sounded incredibly loud as did wild eagle and I still haven't been able to find videos form those rides after opening that made it sound that loud (and they could always change it after the first season or first two, like leviathan). Maybe I'm just being paranoid but I absolutel love the B&M roar and recently some of their new rides gave me "false" expectations.

 

I believe most rides initially test with all nylon wheels which run faster and much louder than polyurethane wheels. That might be why you've noticed the sound differences. I think once the ride breaks in more, they swap some of the nylons out for poly wheels.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
rcjp Grand Master

rcjp

Posted
Posted
That was pretty fast! I thought that funky turn would be taken quite slowly like on many B&M hypers.

As to the roar, it surely sounds awesome but I get the impression that on quite a few of their new rides the first test runs sounded pretty loud and then somehow they ended up being quieter. I remember one of the first banshee offride videos sounded incredibly loud as did wild eagle and I still haven't been able to find videos form those rides after opening that made it sound that loud (and they could always change it after the first season or first two, like leviathan). Maybe I'm just being paranoid but I absolutel love the B&M roar and recently some of their new rides gave me "false" expectations.

 

I believe most rides initially test with all nylon wheels which run faster and much louder than polyurethane wheels. That might be why you've noticed the sound differences. I think once the ride breaks in more, they swap some of the nylons out for poly wheels.

Oh, thanks.

As to the speed, well, I hope it runs at least as fast as on these videos.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
woolandmammoth Collaborator

woolandmammoth

Posted
Posted

I think the coaster will remain largely forceless. Lets be real, this isn't I305. However, I think this ride is going to feel fast and huge. It will likely be a similar ride experience to MF. It was never supposed to be forceful and thats okay. Not every ride has to be Maverick.

 

It does however break the B&M mold for hypers/gigas. for a while almost all of them were really similar. After Banshee, I have hope that B&M is entering a second golden age. It seams like they are getting creative again after years of bland. Fury is a prime example of this and hopefully rides accordingly.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Password121 Veteran

Password121

Posted
Posted
It does however break the B&M mold for hypers/gigas. for a while almost all of them were really similar. After Banshee, I have hope that B&M is entering a second golden age. It seams like they are getting creative again after years of bland. Fury is a prime example of this and hopefully rides accordingly.

This is an interesting point. Almost all of B&M's hypers have exactly the same layout, with variances really only in a helix or hammerhead turnaround and maybe reversing the order of the finale (helix-bunny hops). With Fury and Leviathan, however, while they do have a similar flare to them (one or two main airtime hills, s-curves, unique turnaround, etc), there really is no argument that they are not the same ride by any means. Both seem to cater more towards the landscape of the park they're in. I'm very interested to see how B&M develops their giga coaster further with a different park landscape-- both have been turning right out towards the entrance, but not all parks will have this available set-up.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
jarmor Grand Master

jarmor

Posted
Posted
Obviously it has some force to it as the top of one of the dummies popped off today.

 

whelp........

Hate to break it to ya but they were drained in the station. The water people were seeing on the web cam was the residual water from some of the drained dummies. Still, none the least, the water flew out of those dummies quite violently! But no top popping...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Terms of Use https://themeparkreview.com/forum/topic/116-terms-of-service-please-read/

  I accept