Six Flags over Japan

[thomas2]

In the newspaper today:

 

"Six Flags over Japan to expand with 2 new coasters for the 2006 season"

Six Flags over Japan, the themepark located south of Nagoya, announced sunday the arrival of 2 new coasters.

 

'These coasters will be a good thing for the park' spokesman Wrebbit said. 'One (project name "Blue") will be for those who want to experience how it's like to ride the bullettrain, taken to a next level. The other is for those daredevils who like to hang under the track and love inversions ' ("Orange" project name).

 

Six Flags over Japan was built 3 years ago and immediately draw attention with it's award-winning mega coaster "Steel Dragon 2000". Over the years, several rides where added such as a dueling woody and "Dueling Samurai's", another dueling coaster wich proved to be extremely popular.

[thomas2]

Track for the new coasters have arrived. The park gave some statistics:

 

Blue

max height: 22.5 m

max. speed: 78 km/h

ride lenght: 1179 m

two 6 car-trains

two chainlifts

 

Orange

max height: 24 m

max. speed: 74 km/h

ride lenght: 445 m

single 7-car train

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"Orange"

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"Blue"

[ferrarif40]

OMG! (sorry, I was in need of an abbreviation..) How in the world did you get your excitement rating so high?? Did you edit them..?? Well anyways, this ride looks aamzing! It's unbalievable! Can you post an overview?

That's not that high. When building hypers and gigas it's not unusual for me to get ratings in the 10's so i can completely beleive the rating his coaster achieved given it's behemoth stature.

[thomas2]

Today construction started on project "Blue".

It appears to be some sort of custom-made looping coaster

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First pieces of track are in place. The mechanics are working their ass of!

[thomas2]

The mechanincs placed most of project "Blue"'s track in place and started construction on project "Orange".

The opening of project "Blue" is scheduled to be this evening or next morning.

Note: due to increasing popularity, Steel Dragon 2000 runs now with 4 trains.

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New coaster

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The ride is for 3/4 complete. Works began on the station as well

[Hurricane]

OH NO!!! it's a vekoma!!! Now, i wonder if it is a Deja Vu Clone or a standard invertigo... anyway nice work

[timetrial3141592]

I vote Invertigo.

[Reon]

SLC!

[coastakid]

Invertigo clone

[kennywood!007]

I vote Deja Vu!

[spaminacan11]

Now if you can hack and make a realistic Deja Vu clone, then go with that. If you can't go with the Invertigo.

[thomas2]

in news today:

 

"Rollercoaster at Six Flags over Japan crashes leaving 5 persons dead"

 

The Dueling Samurai's rollercoaster, located in Six Flags over Japan crashed yesterday, resulting in 5 deads and 16 injured.

 

At 4.14 pm, a brake of the "Good" side of the coaster failed, resulting in the crash of 2 trains. 5 people were immediately killed, most of them were in the front row of the second train. 16 others were injured and taken to a local hospital.

 

The park said they were very sorry this could happen and said that the ride was checked the morning it happened and that everything seemed ok. They already deceided to remove the coaster. The opening of another coaster, project "Blue" has been delayed by a week.

[dragoncoaster1292]

WOAH! Now that would give a park some bad PR! That honestly sucks!

[thomas2]

"Dueling Samurai's" has been broken down and is waiting to be scraped. Japanese people are not happy with the crash, and the park experiences some hard times. That's why Six Flags deceided to expand the park with 4 new coasters and lot's of other rides, trying to attract more people and reastablish the confidence in the park. Rumors say that one of them might be a 4D...

 

Meanwhile plans of project "Blue" are remade to make this coaster even bigger and better.

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last pieces track ready to be moved and scraped

[V2-dude]

That's why you use block sections, not just plain circut mode.

[thomas2]

Some unknown track pieces arrived today and are put in the park. Looks like their are 4 different types. "Dueling Samurai's" was scraped today, leaving lot's of space in the park.

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Unknown pieces arrived

[Hurricane]

^

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That block brake comment wasn't really nessacary, it could have all been part of the storyline...

[thomas2]

It's winter, the park is now in it's off season. Construction cranes are seen everywhere in the park. We'll see what the new season brings. See you guys then!

 

ps: How do I remove the 'starting to get annoying' poll???

[thomas2]

Took some pictures today. Looks like the park is building a dual reverse freefall with the original name "Superman-The Escape" and a 4D. Didn't see any sign of the other 2 coasters though.

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Superman the Escape

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New 4D. Eejanaika based

[Vekoma Fan Boy]

Is that 4-D coaster Eejaniaka?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[thomas2]

It's based on EJ, but it's not completely the same. The seat rotation is sometimes different and the supports aren't the same.

[Vekoma Fan Boy]

OOOOOOHHHHHHH..... Now i get it.

[Hurricane]

WHAT KIND OF REVERSE FREEFALL DOESN'T HAVE A BOG AREA IN THE EVENT OF A EBRAKE!!!!

 

TALK ABOUT UNREALISTIC

 

Nah, i'm only jokin with you, keep up the good work

 

 

 

Daniel "Intamin Bog Area Fanatic" Harmer

[thomas2]

WHAT KIND OF REVERSE FREEFALL DOESN'T HAVE A BOG AREA IN THE EVENT OF A EBRAKE!!!!

 

TALK ABOUT UNREALISTIC

 

Sorry didn't even now it was there.

 

I've taken care of it now

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Superman WITH bog area, especially made for Daniel aka Hurricane, the bog area expert/lover

[thomas2]

"Eejanaika" is now complete! Please let me know what you think of it

 

Testing will begin tomorrow

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Please note that it has never been my goal to clone the real Eejanaika. This one is just based on the real thing!