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Gazza

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  1. Saftey has nothing to do with it, it used to go higher, so why not do it agin, plus there is a brake right at the top to stop in an emergency. And what about Impulse coasters, they get right to the end of the track, its not like the TOT is in RCT and will shoot off the end and fall backt to the ground and explode like its made of ethane. I dont see how running it a bit slower would make much of a difference to power consumption in the scheme of things. it might be the equivalent of having the park open for an extra minute a day. Well, why dont people stat doing something proactive about what they think of TOT and GDs queue, write a letter instead of complaining the same things we have heard before and have agreed with.
  2. Gee, not for at least another 20 or 30, maybe even longer if they overhaul it.
  3. Yeah, DW should build up some more lift hill coasters before its next launcher.
  4. Gazza

    TOT recreation: NL

    Yeah, an NL treack, just unzip and go.
  5. Here is my recreation of the TOT, I didnt bother with a screewn, everyone knows how it looks, anyway, enjoy.
  6. Lethal weapon and cycone have better layouts, but are too rough, but corkscrew is smoother but it has a less interesting layout. My vote goes to LW just for its size.
  7. Cool, if they are looking , lets all suggest a B&M to them, send a letter. Delirium does not go all the way around.
  8. If you were looking for an inverted launch coaster, Intamin would bethe wy to go, they Built Volcano: The blast coaster, a four inversion ride at a paramount park somewhere (cant remember which one though)
  9. And anywy, id hardly call a 6 or & or even an 8 looper an enthusiast only ride, there are plenty around and they are popular. An enthusiast ride would be something like TTD but with like 11 inversions and tons of airtime hills etc, and I would not expect any park to build a ride like that. I just want a coaster comparable to the rest of the world, i mean there is a park in Taiwan with 2 B&Ms.
  10. Gazza

    My Coasters

    Black nova - really just TTD, but with an inside top hat and brakes that dont stop the train properly in the unload station. Also, no need for the brakes at the start of the launch to be so long, and it should have a complete stop for about 5 seconds. Raptor Vengance- a nice fast layout, but whats with the 90m long oddly shaped u turn transport section after the final brakes, it was unnecesarry when you could have just had the final brakes parallel with the station, and a u turn only about 15m long. Also, im not too sure how comfortable the passengers would be going down the top hat in the riding position involved with a motorbike coaster. An OK attempt though. Corkscrew Classic- Launched start was cool, it left you wondering, but the ride detierorated after that, it wasnt heartlined, it had support collisions, gs were out of the green in some spots (keep them in the green except for positive vertical gs which can go to the yellow) The corkscrews were mis-shaped. The mid course brakes were curved, they should be perfectly straight. There were missing supports on the first drop and on the loop twist thing before the mid course brakes. Also, the final brakes shall not have friction wheels, in real life there are none because they would get chewed up quickly. Fireball - a good go at an impulse, probalby the best attempt of the four.
  11. Yeah, the next ride might be a family one, which is why my Whirlwind coaster idea is such a good one . People drive across (or rather up) the country to visit theme parks here too and for the some people, you might say its a once in a lifetime trip, a fair percentage of the GCs parks visitors would have to be holiday makers. What i was saying above was more saying that scott shouldnt be so intimidated by a 6 inversion or 7 inversion ride.
  12. I said two 32 passenger trains, 2 times 36 is 64 and 64 divided by 15 is 4.266666 so i rounded that back to 4, i was right. How can you really say that you dont like too many inversions, what big multi loopers have you ridden, i think i remember you saying a while back you hadn't been to any parks out of Australia. Yeah, I wouldnt really want coaster after coaster, i would rather just a few good ones, like what AT has done. And anyway, if you cloned raptor you could pick your own colours, and it has only one more inversion that LW, i think most of us could endure that extra one, we are after all, a forum of coaster fans who would ride anything.
  13. I reckon that a freefall would be good, but a space shot might be better than the fair worn out SP, it would be better to just pay a bit extra and get a new one. They could put scream guards on the restraints and although they ruin the ride a bit, i wouldnt mind them if it meant the ride could be installed.
  14. is it infant animals, like a fish nursery where you see all the cute little sharks?
  15. coaster crazee, just warning you now to spell the normal way as you will get in trouble for spelling in chat shorthand, and anyway, the community guidelines say that you have to spell correctly, and by becoming a member you agreed to the terms and conditions to do that. But anyway, welcome aboard. So is there anymore news on the new ride, are we going to be soaring over a fishbowl with smells being pumped in in a few months time?
  16. Nah, raptor would be a better ide to clone (since it already has been) And Neb, the coaster you are thinking of is at Saakanemmi Amusement Park in Finland, it doesnt have zero g rolls, but rather heartline rolls which look rather cool, incuding an underground one above the underground station with a footchopper on the roof. But I love the colours on tornado, the silver track and the red and yellow trains remind me of a sports car. The only problem I have with intamin loopers is the excessive train length, B&M trains are much shorter but hold more people so at least the view is better and the station length is smaller.
  17. Far from the truth, as I have said before, Hydra the revenge at DP is costing the equivalent of $18 million AUD, that is just $2 million dollars more than the TOT, and you are getting 5 inversions and a layout almost one kilometer long, and I bet if it were for DW they could get away with a 7 inversion layout which would make it less than $18 million. It could be even cheaper if it were a clone (which in this case I dont really care about since their layouts were good in the first place) Plus you get two 32 rider trains (over four times the seating capacity of TOT, plus a ride time over 2 minutes (around four times the ride time of TOT) I think its excellent value. But at this point in time an intamin looper would be more likely, which is nothing to be sneezed at.
  18. Gazza

    DW hoverbike

    Here is my idea for that DW hoverbike coaster for the model T lane site, it would wrap around the tot launch and it takes up roughly 40 x 100m. There a two sets of parallel beams that run the length of the ride area, this would be two possible places the tot launch track would be in relation to the ride, i gave the tot track an overhead clearance of 3.5m minimum, and the TOT launch runs four meters above the ground, it this accurate? Its for NL by the way. enjoy
  19. Another good idea, it has a unique riding position that they could market and I think it would be good, only problem is that it wouldnt have a zero g roll since B&M dont use them on stand ups. Also, what did eveyone think of the ideas i put up toward the start of this thread?
  20. There is enough space to do them fine for 7 years at least, even more if they dont do a new ride, plus, they can always eat into the carpark. As [art of the Coomera town center they could build a multideck and another park entrance so people would park there instead. BPB is an example of a park with little space but they do fine. I mean, if DW are prepared to whack down their newest ride in the middle of a footpath its safe to say they will continue buliding that way, plus, they can always ditch rides.
  21. so your saying tht breaking your ribs, your collarbone, getting cuts and bruises nd gashing your leg isnt serious?
  22. Well, an out and back layout can be pretty compact, maybe just a strip of land about 10 meters wide or so with a space up each end for the turnaround and the station. But the strip of land needs to be long, something like goliath at SFH would be good.
  23. What about an Intamin 8 or 10 looper clone, I think most of us would be more than happy with that. Or an intamin invert would be good too, I love their newest invert, Tornado. A hyper could be good, but where to put it?
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