Fuji-Q Highlands Discussion Thread

[bossman]

plz post it plz it would be nice it wos in the gwr

[ECZenith]

What is gwr??

 

I would also like to see this video, please. It's too bad this type of inversion didn't make it to other coasters.

[taytig]

I found a pic on the net for you....

An interesting boomerang type ride

[Chris Benvenuto]

well, actually the reason why it was taken out is because of uncontrollabe headbanging, headaches and incredible roughness. People riding got bloody ears, and actually from 1997-99 a few cases of brain damage.

 

so there you have it, one weird ride=a usual answer for it's removal. A la Drachen Fire

[stormrider]

I remember there is a PDF from the manufacturer. They're still selling it:

http://www.okamotos.co.jp/Roller%20Coaster.pdf

Taken from www.okamotos.co.jp (Okamoto web site)

[IwantRevenge]

^probably, the couldn't do anything to the g's but i'm sure B&M couls make it smoother and sound cool.

[pkdcoaster]

POV of Moonsault is now up in the Video Forum for those that wanted to see it

 

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27628

 

JEFF

[robinschroder]

Wow! Thanks for posting that! Seeing a picture of Moonsault Scramble in the 1984 edition of the Guinness Book of Records as a child undoubtedly had a big effect on me, so it's great to finally see POV footage of the ride! I had forgotten that it 'started off' backwards...

[stormrider]

I noticed that about Asian shuttle rides. It seems like a better idea to me. You start backwards, then at the other half of the ride, your all of a sudden facing down thinking "OH MY GOD WE'RE GONNA FALL!" More dramatic then slow pull backwards on a vekoma boomerang.

[RIP Psyclone]

Wow! Thanks for posting that! Seeing a picture of Moonsault Scramble in the 1984 edition of the Guinness Book of Records as a child undoubtedly had a big effect on me, so it's great to finally see POV footage of the ride! I had forgotten that it 'started off' backwards...

 

Yes, I was a Guinness Book enthusiast as a kid in the 80's, and I too remember reading about Moonsault Scramble. I think it was the tallest in the world at the time.

[BDG]

It would've been a great ride if it had a second lifthill.

[sio]

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=0pKFbo8n74s

 

Here is another video of Moonsault Scramble.

[Adriel]

It is

It's so intense because it's like so fast when you reach the inversions and then you go backward doing the same thing again.

It was like a torture riding the coaster.

[CycloneMan]

Moonsault Scramble looks absolutely fantastic. I remember seeing it on a coaster show when I was younger. I have the tape somewhere. I wish they still had it when I went to Fujikyu!

 

-Dainan "It would of made up for Dodonpa " Rafferty

[RIP Psyclone]

If anyone has seen the Lance Burton stunt of him being chained to the track of Desperado at Buffalo Bill's and escaping just in time, apparently that had been done already...with Moonsault Scramble.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE3Bs7eeUF8

[SharkTums]

^^^You rode the coaster when you were 8 and remember this?

[Axman]

There's a great POV of this ride on a video tape I found on eBay called "Japanese Coaster Madness". It was released in 1989, and is 100%Japanese. I can't understand any of it, but the footage is brilliant. Lots of onride/offride footage of several coaster like Moonsalt Scramble, Big Boom Coaster, and Bandit.

[Goliath513]

Wait, looking at that youtube video, was the camera faced backwards and the ride pulled up the train like on Boomerangs, or was it the opposite of that as shown in the video?

[eltorobaby]

^^You start off doing the coaster cycle backwards, then you do it all over again but forwards.

[Goliath513]

^Interesting. I wish they would do that on some Vekoma Boomerangs to spice up the ride a bit more.

[gr8LAboy]

I rode Moonsault back in 99 when I was on contract at Tokyo Disneyland.

 

Let me tell you..it was one of the more terrifying moments of my coaster experiences. The first time going up the first lift backwards made the sheer fear of massive headbanging totally intense!

 

Thankfully I escaped with only mild ear-redness. The ride wasn't all that rough..

 

I find Deja Vu more intense.

 

Fujiyama was new(ish) back then and I paid more attention to it during that particular visit to the park.

[Loco]

^Interesting. I wish they would do that on some Vekoma Boomerangs to spice up the ride a bit more.

 

Imagine facing downward when the chain catches the car on the second spike. OUCH! You'll be slammed forward into the restraint.

[RIP Psyclone]

I found this video that I hadn't seen before...

 

www.asovini.com/screamer/mov/moonsault.mov

 

Hope that's okay!

[RIP Psyclone]

^Interesting. I wish they would do that on some Vekoma Boomerangs to spice up the ride a bit more.

 

Imagine facing downward when the chain catches the car on the second spike. OUCH! You'll be slammed forward into the restraint.

 

There was no chain on the second spike...probably could have improved the ride, though...and made it an even longer wait.

[coastercrazed49]

Looked like a really cool ride. On the POV was that the breaks going through the station or was that people screaming?

Also seeing how long the ride took I would think that capacity would have been miserable, and Fuji Q already has horrible lines with high capacity coasters.