Favourite element on Blue Fire (EP)?

[Janster]

BLUE FIRE AT EUROPA PARK

Last year I was blown away by Europa Park’s new for 2009 Blue Fire. The first Mack rocket coaster with the most awesome trains ever, very comfortable a lot of freedom, and a good view (however, the music could have been louder and the heartbeat measurement device does not work flawless). There is a good bit of theming and capacity is high, but those things are never an issue at Europa Park. The ride experience in general: The ride is nowhere intense. You will not black out on this ride. G-forces are very mild. However, the pace in which all the elements follow each other up, increases towards the end. This “pacing” is the most important criteria to judge roller coasters by.

 

THE ELEMENTS

After the little dark ride section Blue Fire starts with a LSM launch. It works with electro magnets and acceleration increases towards the end of the launch track, where Intamin rockets give one big jerk on the train and acceleration decreases towards the end of the launch. Mack is better!

 

Someone on the board described that the coaster “makes a curve that makes no sense”. Well, it doesn’t. And that's what so cool about it. It is an ascending turn, at the top you almost stall and then a steep drop follows. Let’s call it the “Mack-Dive” from now!

 

The loop is not a standard loop. The loop is pretty tall and the trains are pretty short with respect to the loop’s dimensions. So the effect that the front car is pushed too fast through the apex, and that the last car is pulled way too fast through it – does not exist on Blue Fire. I’d like to call it af perfect “floater loop”. Weightlessness is experienced in the top half of the loop!

 

After the two large elements, Blue Fire speeds through a short right hand horseshoe turn. At the top I felt a little jerk towards the left. Maybe on purpose, or a minor flaw in the ride design?

 

Then the train goes up the to the midcourse brake section and after a little pop of airtime and smooth braking, blue fire makes it’s midcourse drop. With a little twist to the right and a curve to left.

 

The drop goes gently over into another interesting section. A left hand ascending, turn followed by a half inline twist and a descending right hand turn. Blue fire keeps on turning to the right and after 90 degrees it starts ascending again, making a the same twisted horseshoe roll (the other way around). Hang time is experienced at the apex, and hang time on the second roll feels a bit more intense.

 

Some random twisty bits follow. Nothing special, but the last turn to left is followed by an inline twist to the right – with awesome hang time in your comfy lapbar! – and a turn to the right. The perfect ending to a well designed track layout.

 

What is your favourite section on Blue Fire?

[Kooky]

Bluefire is really good coaster, especially because EuropaPark is my home park... but its not one of the best or most thrilling... its just that the coaster is fun all the time! From the launch to the final brake. So the element i like most are the two horseshoe rolls. I like how you fly through a hole in the rocks into the first one and then dive into the little canyon just to shoot out of it some moments later and make it over the big rock, while if you were looking up in horseshoe roll, you really think that you can touch the rock...

So this caoster is really amazing fun... smooth, comfortable and really fun overall

[larrygator]

There is no need to have a thread discussing a favorite element on an individual coaster, so please use this thread.

Favorite Element

Edited May 16, 2010 by larrygator