IAAPA 2012 - Ask Ride Companies a Question!

[chargersmichael]

B&M: Will you ever make trains that seat two people across instead of four and have it fit on a smaller kind of track?

[Arne]

B&M:

 

To Claude or Walter: You've been in the business for a long time now and have made several groundbreaking and impressive rides. Which is your personal favourite among all the coasters you've constructed and why?

[chargersmichael]

GCI: When Gwazi's received new trains in Janurary of 2011, it improved the ride but wasn't nearly as smooth as any one of your other coasters that didn't have PTC's before. Gwazi did get some retracking but again seems to be getting rougher and rougher. Are there any plans to fix this roughness on Gwazi?

[Arne]

Intamin:

 

Your ZacSpin coasters show great potential but unfortunately they're just a bit too short imho. Will you start making longer ZacSpin layouts and maybe even include turns and/or trains with several attached cars to improve capacity?

[Tanks4me05]

Premier: What was your inspiration when you originally came up with the Linear Induction Motors?

[Tanks4me05]

Premier: Could you go into some details of the design challenges you had to face when you were making Maximum RPM/Round About's Ferris Wheel Lift?

Edited November 11, 2012 by Tanks4me05

[Tanks4me05]

Premier: I see that you built Superman: Ultimate Flight for SFDK, and now Full Throttle is being open at SFMM only one year later. Were they completely separate proposals that you entered? Did SFMM contact you soon after Superman Ultimate Flight's press release that they wanted something from you guys, or did you get to make a deal with Six Flags that you would make multiple coasters for their parks throughout the chain?

 

EDIT: Haha, nice filter of F.u.l.l...T.h.r.o.t.t.l.e.

Edited November 11, 2012 by Tanks4me05

[Tanks4me05]

Premier: What is your least favorite part of building a new ride? (Not just when you are working on the proposal; the entire process from start to finish.)

[CAZZERNERY]

Intamin: Were you ever considering making a launched wooden roller coaster?

[RCF]

Zierer: Have you thought about changing or improving your Tower Launch Coasters so more installations would be bought?

[RCF]

Intamin: is their any thoughts on changing the car design on your ZacSpin coasters for a more comfortable experience, as well as changing the mechanisms to make the cars re-position themselves upright to be more reliable?

[australianalex]

B&M: Are you planning to use your second generation trains or the new style first generation trains (as seen on Leviathan) for your future hyper coasters? Or is that up to the park to decide?

[Chris Benvenuto]

Great Coasters International: How well received are the smaller wooden models you produce? Such as American Thunder?

 

Gravity Group: How big or how well received are the Timberliner trains you produce? We know of them seeing use on Voyage at Holiday World and with Wooden Warrior at Quassy, but, how has feedback in response to these unique trains?

[XYZ]

Gerstlauer: Will there be any more eurofighters built with OTSRs?

[Rollercoaster Rider]

Premier: Could you go into some details of the design challenges you had to face when you were making Eagles Life in the Fast Lane/Iron Horse's Ferris Wheel Lift?

 

 

Wrong coaster. Your thinking of Maximum RPM/ Round About.

 

 

B&M: With the Recent trend of Gerstlaurer having Lap-bar only trains for looping coasters, Do you plan to have lap-bar only looping coasters?

[Rollercoaster Rider]

Gerstlaurer: Is there a difference between Building Euro Fighters with OTSR's Vs. Lap Bars?

[simaticable]

Gerstlauer, with your founders being former employees of Schwarzkopf, is it possible to make new looping coasters in His style? (No OTSR's, vertical loops only, plenty of forces, etc)

[Tanks4me05]

^^^Fixed.

[rcdude]

Premier: If the block sections allowed, could a loop like the one on Full Throttle support a train on both the inside and outside simultaneously?

[Jhcbiinoc]

Question for all coaster manufacturers: In the media over the past year, there have been numerous stories regarding riders who were handicapped to the extent that they were missing both hands or both legs and were denied rides. Are any efforts being made to accommodate these riders?

[Rocket Rodder]

Vekoma: Will you be building more mine trains?

[ATJoseph]

I'd like to ask Gerstlauer if Alton Towers new roller coaster SW7 will have lap bars? and a worlds first element?

[bbondolfi]

B&M are you building any of your coasters in Australia in the near future?

[brattius]

S&S - Now that your company has officially been sold, what changes if any, are we likely to be seeing in the future with regards to your rides, and your company as a whole? (ie. overall safety requirements, branching out in the market, scaling back, wooden, possible future mergers?)

[brattius]

Ooh, forgot to add management of the Vekoma line as well. Sorry.

 

S&S - Now that your company has officially been sold, what changes if any, are we likely to be seeing in the future with regards to your rides, and your company as a whole? (ie. overall safety requirements, branching out in the market, scaling back, wooden, possible future mergers?)