Gutterflower Posted November 20, 2015 Author Posted November 20, 2015 Anyone have a POV of Viper at Wanda Nanchang? I know it has been testing recently... Yup GCI posted it to the their Facebook yesterday [fbvideonew] [/fbvideonew]
coasterer Posted November 20, 2015 Posted November 20, 2015 Wow! I didn't realize Viper was that tall, that long, and that... standard of a layout (for GCI at least). It looks much less aggressive in its layout and turns than a lot of their designs, which honestly might be good for such a big ride from them. The Nanching Intamin's lift and first drop looks so weird to me. The supports just look messy. I don't think we've seen Intamin take a steel coaster up that high and then just coast around for a while, have we? They've done it on their wooden coasters I guess. It just seems weird. Why not just make the lift less steep, to get rid of the flat track before the turn? It looks old school and slightly amateur-ish to me. IMO, it's not nearly as elegant as a lot of their designs. Not that it matters, really. The first drop looks great and steep though, so that's what counts. Also, I noticed that Intamin has changed the support structure on their mega and giga coasters a number of times. I305, M Force, Superman ROS, GeForce, Thunder Dolphin, and Goliath Walibi all have very different support structures. Just an observation.
snapfordakids Posted November 20, 2015 Posted November 20, 2015 The Nanching Intamin's lift and first drop looks so weird to me. The supports just look messy. I don't think we've seen Intamin take a steel coaster up that high and then just coast around for a while, have we? They've done it on their wooden coasters I guess. It just seems weird. Why not just make the lift less steep, to get rid of the flat track before the turn? It looks old school and slightly amateur-ish to me. IMO, it's not nearly as elegant as a lot of their designs. Not that it matters, really. The first drop looks great and steep though, so that's what counts. VHS Coaster's commented on that photo saying that the turn around before the first drop is advertised as a "panoramic curve" and apparently it's an international thing. I think it's pretty neat, adds character and builds up anticipation for that first drop.
Nitro1118 Posted November 20, 2015 Posted November 20, 2015 The GCI looks miles better in the POV than it does in pictures. The pacing is extremely impressive from start to finish and has a bunch of airtimee and strong lateral opportunities. The Intamin looks plain ugly and unappealing. I'm sure that, like the GCI, that the POV will look a lot better than what the pics show, but still...eww.
KingRCT3 Posted November 20, 2015 Posted November 20, 2015 Why not just make the lift less steep, to get rid of the flat track before the turn? It looks old school and slightly amateur-ish to me. IMO Because they need that straight piece of track to disengage the train from the catch-car.
Samuel Posted November 20, 2015 Posted November 20, 2015 Good-looking GCI! I wasn't all that thrilled with the look of the first out-run...things are indeed drawn out & for whatever reason GCI seems to deliver less airtime than appearances would suggest, but my eyes were opened in the second half with the clever use of terrain. It looks like it could be one of those rides that gets better as it goes on, and it really seems to be ripping in that final stretch. By the end of the POV, I really wanted to ride this!
johnnyknottsville Posted November 22, 2015 Posted November 22, 2015 From that first pic of the Intamin Hyper I think they've stolen the record of worlds longest brake run from B&M's Leviathan
gerstlaueringvar Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 The mega coaster started testing, I watched two videos of the first drop, let's just say it is way faster than the NL2 demonstration and be prepared for a sh*t ton of airtime! Unfortunately there's no way I can repost those videos.
Gutterflower Posted December 12, 2015 Author Posted December 12, 2015 Here is one of the videos. Looking good
A.J. Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Ugh. If this coaster ends up being phenomenal I'm going to be very upset.
BDG Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 Embedded for convenience... [fbvideonew] [/fbvideonew]
CPmillenia94 Posted December 12, 2015 Posted December 12, 2015 The Nanching Intamin's lift and first drop looks so weird to me. The supports just look messy. I don't think we've seen Intamin take a steel coaster up that high and then just coast around for a while, have we? They've done it on their wooden coasters I guess. It just seems weird. Why not just make the lift less steep, to get rid of the flat track before the turn? It looks old school and slightly amateur-ish to me. IMO, it's not nearly as elegant as a lot of their designs. Not that it matters, really. The first drop looks great and steep though, so that's what counts. VHS Coaster's commented on that photo saying that the turn around before the first drop is advertised as a "panoramic curve" and apparently it's an international thing. I think it's pretty neat, adds character and builds up anticipation for that first drop. The first curve (and most of the layout) was requested by the park. Its something intamin would have never done otherwise. I think they did the best they could with the client they had to work with.
rcjp Posted December 13, 2015 Posted December 13, 2015 ^^Nice! Sadly I couldn't get a good look of the trains but they seemed different
LuminousAphid Posted December 13, 2015 Posted December 13, 2015 That GCI is crazy long! It looks a little uninspired but videos can be really deceiving. I just think the pacing needs something that stands out as a climax, but it's too late now.
Gutterflower Posted December 15, 2015 Author Posted December 15, 2015 The new worlds tallest non inverted loop (It's 55m Beating out Flying Aces by 3m I believe) is going up at Wanda in Hefei on their Intamin launched coaster. Source Unlike Flying Aces this ride will be launched into the loop.
Ed Farmer Posted December 15, 2015 Posted December 15, 2015 VHS Coaster's commented on that photo saying that the turn around before the first drop is advertised as a "panoramic curve" and apparently it's an international thing. I think it's pretty neat, adds character and builds up anticipation for that first drop. Good concept, but the visibility out there is like 4 meters.
_koppen Posted December 15, 2015 Posted December 15, 2015 The first curve (and most of the layout) was requested by the park. Its something intamin would have never done otherwise. I think they did the best they could with the client they had to work with. Thank you for your highly unqualified knowledge.
A.J. Posted December 15, 2015 Posted December 15, 2015 The first curve (and most of the layout) was requested by the park. Its something intamin would have never done otherwise. I think they did the best they could with the client they had to work with. So you're implying that Intamin knows more about what Wanda wants with their park than Wanda themselves?
PKI Jizzman Posted December 15, 2015 Posted December 15, 2015 Are the seats on the Intamin coaster the same as Bizarro/SROS at SFNE? Is this the first time we've seen Intamin put in those type of seats on a new coaster?
gerstlaueringvar Posted December 15, 2015 Posted December 15, 2015 Are the seats on the Intamin coaster the same as Bizarro/SROS at SFNE? Is this the first time we've seen Intamin put in those type of seats on a new coaster? Link
Gutterflower Posted December 16, 2015 Author Posted December 16, 2015 The tilt coasters are going up as well. And a nice bunny hop on the Intamin too. http://weibo.com/hfglm
RyanTPM Posted December 16, 2015 Posted December 16, 2015 ^Not too sure that i like the colors of the Intamin, although the launch into the non inverted loop should make a good coaster!
Kinematics Posted December 16, 2015 Posted December 16, 2015 ^Not too sure that i like the colors of the Intamin, although the launch into the non inverted loop should make a good coaster! Isn't it the colors of Skyrush? inb4wingcoasterspeculation
RyanTPM Posted December 16, 2015 Posted December 16, 2015 ^I think its a slightly different shade of blue for the supports.
Gutterflower Posted December 21, 2015 Author Posted December 21, 2015 Another set of pictures from the park showing the tilt sections going in on the dueling tilt coasters and a load more pictures of that Intamin launched coaster. http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3976309162
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