lewis97 Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 New video in the series following Wildfire's construction.
Midgetman82 Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 Loving the updates on the coaster! Everything about this is so high quality too, from the renderings, to the short videos, to the actual coaster itself! looking forward to more progress!
thedlr Posted September 28, 2015 Posted September 28, 2015 Dang I wish every park had quality construction progress videos like that!
coaster1000 Posted September 29, 2015 Posted September 29, 2015 Looks great! Can't wait to visit you in 2016!
canadianparkfan Posted September 30, 2015 Posted September 30, 2015 Now that it's April 2nd everywhere in the world, I have to say that the April Fool's prank email of the coaster being an RMC/S&S collaboration of a terrain 4D Free Spin with two launches, a lift, and multiple trenches was nicely done. I know this is totally off topic, but was looking back through the archives, of when people were speculating what this ride would be, and stumbled upon this post. I had to lol, simply because after reading the post closely, I noticed the prank was *somewhat* right, even though it was most likely meant to be total BS. They got the RMC part right, as well as the lift and terrain elements. Thought the freespin and launch was also kinda funny, seeing as two freespins and a launched woodie have been announced for other parks since then. Anyway, back on topic, this coaster looks amazing! Love the documentary series they're doing with the construction too!
KingRCT3 Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 Bringing back the hype, with a new render I found on the Vekoma booth at the EAS:
KBrylczyk Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 (edited) ^ ♫ Choppity chop and your head falls off. ♫ Oh, wait, this isn't Raptor... Edited October 7, 2015 by KBrylczyk
K1ngdaKa88 Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 Bringing back the hype, with a new render I found on the Vekoma booth at the EAS: On the Vekoma booth?? But that's an RMC coaster!
KBrylczyk Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 ^ Vekoma is the business liaison for RMC in Europe. RMC is building it, Vekoma is handling the paperwork.
DJeXeL Posted October 7, 2015 Posted October 7, 2015 Vekoma is allowed to represent and sell RMC coasters outside of the US market. ^Edit: Beat me to it.
RCT3Bross Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 Vekoma just learned how to make a wooden coaster: Let some specialist do it and cash in on it yourself. As long as they let RMC do as they please, I don't want an other Loup Garou or Robin Hood (2 of Vekoma's own woodies). I mean they have nice lay-outs but the pain.
K1ngdaKa88 Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 ^ Vekoma is the business liaison for RMC in Europe. RMC is building it, Vekoma is handling the paperwork. Ah, okay. Thanks for the information
Paradox Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 Vekoma just learned how to make a wooden coaster: Let some specialist do it and cash in on it yourself. As long as they let RMC do as they please, I don't want an other Loup Garou or Robin Hood (2 of Vekoma's own woodies). I mean they have nice lay-outs but the pain. I heard Thundercoaster was actually a really good ride. Also is the roughness because of Vekoma's building style or just because of poor maintenance and age?
viking86 Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 I heard Thundercoaster was actually a really good ride. Also is the roughness because of Vekoma's building style or just because of poor maintenance and age? Thundercoaster was good, but based on my experiences with that ride it is starting to become a long time ago. I don't know excactly what has caused it to become as rough as it is, but it's not surprising considering that it's a fairly aggressive ride. I do seem to recall having heard that it was not designed for the Vekoma trains (the ride was designed by Allott and Lomax), but please don't take my word for it as I do not have any official source and it's a long time since I heard that. Probably we're talking about a combination of causes. Unfortunately various retracking/reprofiling over the years have taken away some of the intensity that the ride once was famous for, and those parts which doesn't have new track do not track well at all. The other two Vekoma woodies I cannot say anything about...
_koppen Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 Love this shot from their Facebook! I heard Thundercoaster was actually a really good ride. Also is the roughness because of Vekoma's building style or just because of poor maintenance and age? TC was a great ride before, and I've heard this was also the case for the one's in Holland and Belgium. I would say that it's like the other wooden coasters in the world, if you don't take care of more than you absolutely have to, then they will slowly die.
RCT3Bross Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 Vekoma just learned how to make a wooden coaster: Let some specialist do it and cash in on it yourself. As long as they let RMC do as they please, I don't want an other Loup Garou or Robin Hood (2 of Vekoma's own woodies). I mean they have nice lay-outs but the pain. I heard Thundercoaster was actually a really good ride. Also is the roughness because of Vekoma's building style or just because of poor maintenance and age? Could indeed be poor maintenance, knowing Walibi they rarely go beyond the absolute necesary. But I remember reading somewhere that Vekoma had no fun in building them either. So I think now they are on the right track now with they cooperation with RMC. And like I said Vekoma has some great lay-outs (I mean their SLC lay-outs are good looking) but Vekoma is naturally known to associate with pain, wich is kind-off too bad.
Hilltopper39 Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 Again, whoever is making these renders is incredible, I still can't tell what is real and what is fake!
TyRush Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 Crazy how much rock they are going to have to be drilling out to get the concrete in! This will be massive.
gerstlaueringvar Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 This might be the most challenging terrain for a coaster's construction I guess? Good luck to the RMC and Kolmården team, hope everything goes smoothly.
K1ngdaKa88 Posted October 9, 2015 Posted October 9, 2015 (edited) There's a new animated POV online! Edited October 9, 2015 by robbalvey
Suspence1127 Posted October 9, 2015 Posted October 9, 2015 (edited) There's a new animated POV online! It looooookkks soooooo goooooood! Can't wait to see it done! (Also is that in NL2?) Edited October 9, 2015 by robbalvey
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