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5 hours ago, Old_Bearcat said:
DB's lift sits on land at elevation of 756 (source: https://webmap.co.warren.oh.us/wcgis/auditor/)
Orion's lift sits on about 746/748 (so roughly 10 feet lower --- unless they re-graded the land any)
So assuming the land was not regraded, Orion will visually appear to be 47-49 feet higher than Diamondback.
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22 minutes ago, Nutterie said:
Diamondback used to seem nearly vertical to me.
Now it seems about as vertical as The Beast.
Just wait til you ride it. Imagine Valravn with lapbars and an extra second of freefall.
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2 hours ago, LovinMeSomeBanshee said:
I broke it down somewhere earlier in this thread. I want to say that Diamondback’s lift hill sits on land ~30-40 feet higher than Orion’s. I honestly can’t remember.
Wow, that makes the height difference seem almost insignificant.
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7 minutes ago, Fitzcoasts14 said:
Is this a retheme of Voyage to the Iron Reef?
Yes. Garner Holt is rumored to be involved as well.
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https://www.knotts.com/play/events/100th-anniversary
Knott’s Bear-y Tales: Return to the Fair
An all-new 4-D interactive dark ride opening Summer 2020
Quote"A Knott's Family Reunion," will bring together old classics with new favorites, which includes the continuation of the beloved Bear-y Tales story in an all-new 4-D interactive dark ride. "Knott's Bear-y Tales: Return to the Fair" will take guests on an exciting journey through reimagined show scenes from the original dark ride, including the Boysenberry Pie Factory, Frog Forest, Fortune Teller Camp, Thunder Cave, and Weird Woods, culminating in a celebration at the County Fair. The story takes place 34 years after the original adventure and follows Boysen Bear and Girlsen Bear as they travel to the Country Fair to earn the blue ribbon prize for their famous boysenberry pies, but Crafty Coyote is back along with his mischievous pups intent on stealing all the pies for themselves. Guests will climb aboard ride vehicles equipped with jelly blasters to try and recover the stolen boysenberry pies as they travel through whimsical and beautiful environments while competing for the highest score.
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1 hour ago, Dan Turner said:
That's steep! I wonder why they didn't market the steepness of Orion because Intimidator 305 is the only non-launched Giga that matches it.
Probably because it’s a really obscure fact that’s hard to market to the general public
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So happy to see it topped off, and construction’s just getting started! Now that the lift is complete, the rest of the ride will shoot up like a lego set. To give y’all some perspective, after Fury was topped, the first half of the ride went up in 3 weeks. Last piece went in January 30th, or 58 days after it was topped (8 weeks). With the same timeframe on Orion, it would be complete around January 1st 2020, and that’s ignoring the 1000+ feet difference in length.
What I’m trying to say is that it’s possible the ride could be complete before the end of Winterfest.
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Ah, from the wording in that tweet, it sounds like it won’t be topped off today.
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Now that Vekoma’s introducing their new-gen Tilt-Track model, likely coming to Energylandia first, I think it would be a perfect replacement for Vortex. It would fill the niche of a dive coaster and a modern looping coaster. That, and the Vortex’s area where Vortex’s drop is a focal point of the park. It could probably follow most of the ride’s layout.
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This is how Fury was topped. As @pkiknex25 pointed out in an earlier in an earlier comment, the drop piece directly above the drop support is steep enough to support itself. The last two pieces of the lift will need to be held by a crane, and the piece forming the crest of the drop will be placed last.
To give you some perspective on the timeline, Fury was at a similar point to Orion in its construction on December 1st, 2014. The lift hill was topped on December 3rd, 2014. Though the difference here is that the crew hoisted the piece of above the drop support on the same day the track up to the giant supports was completed.
So with this timeline in mind, I think it's reasonable to expect the lift hill to be completed no later than Tuesday. Maybe Monday if they work tomorrow and get that last drop piece, but I'll err on the side of caution. However, it makes sense to try and complete it before it rains on Wednesday.
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3 hours ago, KIBOB said:
Thanks for this. It is quite thorough! This makes a lot of sense, especially the proximity to an airport. I believe that Intimidator at Carowinds, which is as tall as Diamondback, also has a light. Carowinds is also very close to the Charlotte airport. In fact, the last few times we’ve flown into Charlotte, we’ve passed over Carowinds. So close in fact that we could see people.
Sorry for the double post, but no so fun fact: Stephen Colbert’s father died in a plane crash that mistook Carowinds’ sky tower for an airport tower.
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21 minutes ago, Hawaiian Coasters 325 said:
Post from FYE Coasters on Facebook:
Four more pieces!
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There’s no way it’s getting topped today. It’s absolutely within the realm of possibilities that they complete the track work up to the drop support, since it includes one more support segment + and two track pieces, but the hill in its entirety is not getting topped off. There’s 6 more pieces of track they have to placed, 4 of which are at/near 300 feet and unsupported. Earliest the lift gets done is Friday.
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26 minutes ago, fyrfyter said:
I think those are to support the partial legs until they can be fully assembled at the top. After that they will likely be removed.
Fury had them as well when it was being constructed:
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I feel like they’re going to build down rather than up today. So they’ll complete the track that’s on the drop spine, and the lift will be topped between Friday and the beginning of next week.
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My estimation of the ride experience is something like this:
1. The first drop is going to provide a seemingly eternal plunge, and it will last for 5-7 seconds. This is the easiest thing to predict since it’s how Fury is.
2. With the first turn, while you will be tilted to the left, due to the shaping of the hill, you’re going to resist the lateral movement and float upwards. So it won’t quite be sideways airtime, but more like regular airtime while your tilted sideways.
3. The entry into second turn will be similar to the first, but the hill is sharper so you’ll feel stronger airtime entering it. As you turnaround, you’ll experience hangtime which will transition into positive g’s at the bottom of the turn.
4. I haven’t ridden Leviathan, so I don’t know how the speed hill will ride. But I would assume it’ll be strong floater bordering on ejector, all while going extremely fast (when I made my Planet Coaster prediction, Orion was still nearing 80 mph at this point.
5. This hill (147’) will probably provide weaker airtime, more floater than ejector, but it will be sustained for a ridiculous period of time.
6. The helix on here actually looks similar to Fury’s. While it’s tighter, the profiling is similar. It’ll have a strong entrance, but it will kind of meander until you get to the top. You may or may not experience hangtime at the apex. The headchopper under the first drop will catch many off guard.
7. The last horseshoe-style turn will be similar to Fury’s treble clef, but it will differ in two ways. The first difference is that the airtime will not be sustained coming out of it. However, the trade off comes with the second difference, in that while it’s not as tall, it’ll be more forceful as it has less space to transition out of it. You’re body will resist movement to the right, so you’ll experience a pseudo-lateral airtime where your body is getting ejected left.
8. Mild floater into the brake run.
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2 minutes ago, Nutterie said:
I just noticed how Diamondback has that spine looking thing running up the lift supports a bit under the actual track. Will Orion have this as well or will the supports for Orion be simpler, like how we are seeing so far?
Nah that's the trough for the chain. For the B&M gigas, it's built into the spine since it's thicker.
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I think the first week of November is still a more reasonable timeframe to expect the lift to be completed. They still have to put up the other massive drop support, and there's seven more pieces of track until the hill is done. I'd expect them to build the drop in 2-3 days, from the 28th to the 30th (4 pieces of track), and if they're really rushing, then at the earliest, it gets topped off next Friday (November 1st).
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It has to at least be the same height as Diamondback by now, right?
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Is there any chance they put up the next track section, or are they probably done for the day? It’s 1:42 right now.
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You gonna be mad bro... someone on Rollercoaster Expeditions post is hating on your preciousIntamin
Is the commenter just a B&M fanboy or is he genuinely xenophobic?
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Wouldn’t it make sense to use the smaller cranes to install the the transition directly beneath the drop? Or would that block the path for the cranes?
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9 hours ago, flightoffear1996 said:
However they removed two coasters and added one.
Since Cedar Fair acquired the Paramount Parks in 2006, they’ve added five coasters (one relocation), and removed three (one being the aforementioned relocation), which is a net gain of 2. They’ve been investing heavily into the park for the past decade and a half.
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Discussing Land and Space in and around Vortex
in Kings Island
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Vekoma Tilt-Track coaster. The Vekoma loopers have a lot of similar elements, they’re releasing a new-generation version, and it would be unique to the Western Hemisphere.
If not that, I think a Gerstlauer infinity coaster with a lot of inversions would be the best investment maintenance-wise.