Rollercoaster Rider Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Old Indiana Amusement Park operated from 1983 to 1997. Premier Parks acquired the property and was planning to reopen the park in 1999 with rides purchased from Opryland. However Premier Parks acquired Six Flags and decided to focus on those than opening a new park. I believe the Ferris Wheel got relocated to Geauga Lake and the Log Flume got relocated to Idlewild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingRCT3 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 - Coaster designers use Excel to design their rides (at least TGG and GCI do).  - The turn out of the station on Tornado at Särkänniemi uses square rails. Any idea why?  There're also tires on the train. I'm not sure why, but I think it's for the anti-roll back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarheel1231 Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 There is a company who made up the concept of an inverted wooden coaster. I'd like to see this idea come to life one day. Here is the Description: Inverted Wood Coaster Presenting the first major innovation in wooden coaster design since the early 1900’s: the Inverted Wooden Coaster! With seats suspended directly below the track, riders’ feet dangle as the coaster train careens through the track layout. This provides the classic, rickety feel of a wooden coaster, the feet-dangling freedom of an inverted coaster, and a claustrophobic tunneling feel as the track is surrounded by the dense wooden support structure. It’s like a wood coaster turned inside out! Here is the website: http://www.gordonrides.com/concepts.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Turbo Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 ^That would be very interesting to see in real life, there would be foot choppers throughout the whole ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollercoaster Rider Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Just don't let Gravity Group get ahold of that. It'll make an SLC feel like glass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggernel Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Who says it'd have to be Voyage sized? Make it more on the scale of Wooden Warrior, and I think you'd have a winner! Â Also, is that the company with the Giant Whip design on their site? That is something I'd like to see added to some parks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comeagain? Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 - Coaster designers use Excel to design their rides (at least TGG and GCI do). Â What do they use excel for? Layouts? Do you have any screenshots? I would think AutoCAD or similar would be a much more appropriate tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArizonaGuy Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 ^^ Maybe they're old school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingRCT3 Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 - Coaster designers use Excel to design their rides (at least TGG and GCI do). Â What do they use excel for? Layouts? Do you have any screenshots? I would think AutoCAD or similar would be a much more appropriate tool. Â They do use AutoCAD for visualization purposes, but beforehand they use Excel for most of the calculus part. I don't have any further infos, that's just what Chad Miller (one of the founders of TGG) told me when I asked him what did they use to design coasters. And that has been confirmed by a guy working at GCI (AyTrane, you might know him for his amazing NoLimits creations. And by the way , that's him that design all the GCI presentations in NoLimits. As they can export their real datas, their creations looks very realistic). He said Excel was used a lot in the industry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerstlaueringvar Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 ^ Since Excel is widely used in the industry and I personally think it's not hard to operate it, does Vekoma use worse computers than Intamin? Â Glad to know it, now I think I have to google some useful functions to calculate the G force instead of testing my coasters on Nolimits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarheel1231 Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 If any company could pull if off the inverted wooden coaster, I'd think it would be RMC. Or at least with RMC's topper track. Besides, the restraints are the OTSR/Lap Bar Restraints so I don't think it would feel much like an SLC. If you have no idea what kind of restraints I'm talking about, visit the site and look through the concept art: http://www.gordonrides.com/concepts.html, or look at the restraints on Fun Spot USA's Freedom Flyer. Those are the type of restrraints that would be used on the ride. Ride-wise, I'd like to see a Gold Striker type of coaster with quick directional changes and good forces (correct me if I'm wrong about that as I have never been to CGA). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheBooker Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 The tallest non-Intamin roller coaster in the USA is Titan at SFOT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerstlaueringvar Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 The tallest non-Intamin roller coaster in the USA is Titan at SFOT. Giovanola also has a lot to do with Intamin. So 232 is the tallest non-Intamin coaster. Â Then I suddenly remembered that B&M used to work at Giovanola... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougMJr Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Apparently they once filmed a Porsche Commercial ON Python at Efteling... Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheBooker Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 The tallest non-Intamin roller coaster in the USA is Titan at SFOT. Giovanola also has a lot to do with Intamin. So 232 is the tallest non-Intamin coaster. Â Then I suddenly remembered that B&M used to work at Giovanola... Â Â Right but Giavanola isn't Intamin. So the tallest non-Intamin coaster is Titan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingRCT3 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 ^^ Ha thank you for the video! When I went to Efteling, I saw inside the history museum a picture of Python with a car on it, but I found no infos on the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeromyL Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Lol. I would ride it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerstlaueringvar Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Apparently they once filmed a Porsche Commercial ON Python at Efteling... Oh no! Porsche runs as rough as Vekoma?  Everybody go get a Farrari! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingRCT3 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 (edited) Blackpool Pleasure Beach used some Pepsi Big One track to build Valhalla's building. Â Â Â As of 2012 before the refurbishment. Edited January 3, 2014 by KingRCT3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeromyL Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 ^^^ can you expand on this one. You got my curiosity going Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lareson Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 (edited) That is weird. Â From what I read, it looks like Big One had a track replacement around the same time as Valhalla was built and the park decided to cheap out and use the old pieces as part of the support structure. Since the track replacement happened in the late 90's, not many people knew about it except for the track pieces used on Valhalla. The big reason of the refurbishment on Valhalla was to replace those old track pieces as they were starting to become a problem. Edited January 3, 2014 by Lareson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnyRCT3 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 ^that entire coaster is a problem, and an eyesore. Intamin...... Â Â Iron Dragon is the longest operating suspended coaster in the world. And debatably the oldest operating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porsmond Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Fire Dragon(Sorry The Red Side of Dragon Challenge) at Islands of Adventure is the "ONLY B&M" Inverted Coaster that does not have an inline twist(At least I think it still has this unique feature) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronWolfman Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 ^^^^^ How long ago was that filmed? That was before Python got it's first Vekoma trains so it must have been a while ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groteslurf Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 I remember seeing that movie about the Porsche on the Python on the television long time ago. I googled it and apparently it was filmed in 1989. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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