Walibi Holland Discussion Thread

[Paradox]

The wiggle doesn't seem as bad as on ROS

 

[linearinduction]

^The small bunny hop at 0:42 seconds in the first video shakes a lot. I've never seen that much movement of steel coaster track on a coaster before.

 

You've never seen Xcelerator or Storm Runner (Hershey), eh?

It all depends on if the movement is harmonic or not. Lagoon added an additional column to Cannibal's Inverted Loop to dampen the harmonic movement seen last summer. I believe Xcelerator received a stabilizing column after it had been operating for a while as well. If there is a problem here, like seen on Lightning Run, they will also stablize the movement.

[Rill'o'beily]

This looks just incredibly fun!

[Superbatboy]

The first drop and first bunny hill look so intense!

[RyanTPM]

^I agree. The airtime hills look like they provide a good amount of airtime too!

[funtime_arena]

Check this new onride-video

 

[mjollner]

Maybe it's different when you're actually on the ride, but the second half after the brakes looks painfully slow. In parts almost like it's not going to make the circuit.

 

First half looks awesome!

[BDG]

Remember this wobbly hill ?

 

 

An additional support has now been installed:

 

[TyRush]

That looks so funny for some reason. But hey whatever works right?

[rcjp]

Wow that's odd. I really looks like it's only there to stop the wiggle.

[KingRCT3]

[Superbatboy]

Glad they added that support beam, it looked creepy the way the track was swaying.

[SFOG1991]

I was wondering if this was going to happen! Glad they added it. Even if it was safe before, this should help the structure and smoothness long term (I'm just assuming here).

[Henry M]

My guess is that it is to smooth guests and preserve the ride long term. I mean, if even RC enthusiasts are creeped out, think on the GP

[mjollner]

 

I chuckled at this...

[RCT3Bross]

Great to see the park stay true to their words. This should help to reduce the metal fatigue of that part in the long run keeping it smooth, but I mis that wiggle already.

[PixelRush]

Great to see the park stay true to their words. This should help to reduce the metal fatigue of that part in the long run keeping it smooth, but I mis that wiggle already.

I don't understand why they decided to minimize the spine size on a section with such stress... They should have foreseen that instead of sticking a weak-looking post up shortly after finding out about the problem! Wouldn't they find that in design phase?

[coasterbill]

I agree that that strikes me as strange too but I'm no engineer so I'll stay out of this one.

[viking86]

Calling all Walibi Holland locals!!!

 

Due to an urgent business trip I will travel down to Holland this coming Sunday (May 1st). Insted of travelling down on Sunday evening I decided to fly to Amsterdam early in the morning instead, and visit Walibi Holland that day.

 

Anyone wants to meet up?

[JordyC]

Lost Gravity has stalled during testing today. The cause of this is not known yet. Walibi expects that the coaster will be up and running again by tomorrow.

 

[StealthFan]

It wouldn't surprise me if this was due to cold weather. Saw has stalled numerous times for dumb reasons so its nothing to worry about. I know how frustrated engineers can get waiting for the train to stop going back and forth to start the recovery though.

[mjollner]

I'd expect it to stall towards the end... But not there.

[viking86]

Well, let's hope it's back up and running again tomorrow!

 

And in case anyone missed it, I will be at Walibi Holland by myself tomorrow so if any locals wants to meet up let me know.

[viking86]

If they had not gotten the ride back up and running again later in the day, would making it to the end of the launch track have counted as getting the credit?

[BDG]

That would be 1/10th of a credit.

 

Did you hit the emergency brakes?