Gyeongju World 2018 Attractions

[Garet]

The fact the "official" video has Robb yelling "sklooshy sklooshy" on the home page cracks me up every time.

[bluebumblebee]

Breaking News: Construction for the Dive Coaster has commenced :

 

 

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https://www.coasterfriends.de/forum/12750-2018-neuheit-draken-dive-coaster-b-m-gyeongiju-world-suedkorea-2.html#post247001

[Garet]

^That 1st shot was taken from the parks official youtube video. I'll post the link below.

 

It was kept hidden in a lot of recent footage, drone shots etc. Now is one of the first times it has appeared in the official footage.

 

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[Garet]

Lift hill is done based on the parks (sadly vertical) video from their newest ride, Klake, due to open on the 23rd.

 

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[Gutterflower]

A quick flick through the parks instagram tag and you can see the completed lift and drop in the background of these two shots.

https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/%EA%B2%BD%EC%A3%BC%EC%9B%94%EB%93%9C/

 

[DoinItForTheFame]

I really love the colors!!

[Garet]

Krake opened today, and Draken update is in the background.

 

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[Garet]

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Looks like MCBR and second drop are in there looking at the Krake POV

Edited January 2, 2018 by Garet

[Garet]

From the parks facebook page

 

The POV on the site being the TPR video of Sheikra made me think it was a Sheikra clone but it looks like the second drop will lead into a second immelmann so perhaps a Griffin clone instead?

Edited January 2, 2018 by Garet

[DoinItForTheFame]

The POV on the site being the TPR video being of Sheikra made me think it was a Sheikra clone but it looks like the second drop will lead into a second immelmann so perhaps a Griffin clone instead?

 

That's A-Okay by me!! The world needs more Griffin's!!

[Garet]

New updates from the official site announcement, they're using a Sheikra video here for publicity.

 

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And facebook

 

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[Garet]

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Not too much trackwork left.

[Garet]

Another update, theming has started. I love the look of the gate dragon:

 

 

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[Garet]

Maybe it's just the angle of the photo but that second drop looks a little more stretched out compared to Griffon/Sheikra.

 

[cal1br3tto]

That is one bad-a$$ dragon.

[BDG]

Whoa. :o

[Garet]

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[Garet]

Draken is now testing.

 

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[Nrthwnd]

^ Cool to see.

[Garet]

One picture from the parks social media:

 

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[thrillseeker4552]

It's interesting to see them use the old school trains/restraints on a larger scale dive machine. I guess that just goes to show how it's a park's decision and not B&M's. Also loving the color scheme!

[Pear]

Since it's a clone of Griffon it would be much easier for B&M to just reuse the older trains instead of redo a lot of calculations for adding vest trains to it.

[A.J.]

It's interesting to see them use the old school trains/restraints on a larger scale dive machine. I guess that just goes to show how it's a park's decision and not B&M's.

I would say it's definitely B&M's. They design the ride, after all.

 

Also, if this IS a straight clone of Griffon, then that layout would call for the old trains anyway, even though these are 8-across instead of 10-across.

[FeelTheFORCE]

Isn't the track gauge different for trains with vests, versus traditional? I'm not sure if that's the case with dive machines, but I remember hearing that about Banshee when the topic came up of retrofitting existing coasters with vest trains. I'm sure they could make it happen if they wanted to, I mean B&M found a way to fit their trains to a Morgan, but it was probably cheaper/easier to just go the traditional route.

[Garet]

Draken will open May 1st. They also updated some of the older pictures I posted in this thread with that date as well.They're advertising it on the site as being Draken Valley replacing the old Snow Park tab while still keeping a bit of the Midgard/Asgard/Nibelheim theme.

 

 

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