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Hi Guys

At the moment I'm building a new K'nex Coaster. It's a rebuild of Cedar Points Top Thrill Dragster. Fot that I had to demolish the coaster that was there before, the Swiss Overthrow, a K'nex Eurofighter.

The height of Top Thrill Dragster will be 100 times smaller that the original, so 4,2ft! The structure is very similar to Top Thrill Dragster's structure, not like on my K'nex Kingda Ka. To brake down the coaster car, I'm using a magnetic brake like on my K'nex Zumanjaro. http://themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1502800#p1502800

The coaster is nearly completed after just 4 hours of demolishing and building, but the drop looks like it's a chinese knock-off!

All I have to do is to place the final turn and some TTD theming!

 

(Attention: This is NOT the continue of my Twisted Colossus Project! That happens at my mother's home and the Top Thrill Dragster at my father's home.)

 

Now, let's look at some construction pics:

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Building up TTD

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Ahh, here the are!

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And the track connectors??

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Where is the track gone?

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It's getting taller...

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...and taller...

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So it is how it looks now.

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That looks so SMOOTH! ;)

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And over the top!

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Trackwork has begun!

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...and taller!

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Now the main structure is finished

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looks great keep up the good work.

Thank you and I will keep up working on it!

If you could, I'd try to make the twist on the drop a little higher up. Try playing with some of the track connectors and see if you can't get it to be a little higher and a little smoother. Other than that it's look good.

Ya, I also thought about that. I'll look what I can do.

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Little Update: I'm almost finished with the coaster. All I have to do now is to complete the Station and put the Magnets on the 2nd car.

Since the last update I completed the track, made the Finish sign, built a rollback brake, started building the station and made the 270 dergree roll on the drop smoother!

Here are some photos and a video how the rollback brake works.

 

If you have any questions or tips you can tell it me.

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The new drop

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Finish sign

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Rollback brake

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Station (not completed)

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And so does the rollback break work

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So now I'm completely done. What do you think of it? Do you have any tips for some corrections or something I should add?

If you have any questions you can ask me for sure!

I'll be doing a video of it soon so I still can change parts of it.

 

Here are some Photos:

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Overview of the station area

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Starting lights

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And so does the whole coaster look like

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View form the top

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Finish line with the brake run in the back

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Great News:

 

I'll be doing some free EVT (Exclusive Video Time) for registered TPR users only!

 

How to get EVT?

You have to write me a PM on TPR and tell me that you want some EVT. I'll answer the PM with the link to the Video as soon as the EVT is open!

 

When is the EVT?

The Video will come online on Monday 2pm EST, so I'll start the EVT on sunday 2pm EST! So you can have 24 hours of EVT, isn't that awesome?

 

If you have any further questions about the EVT or the coaster, you can ask me!

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