silver2005

The GP aren't gonna miss Firehawk like they do with SOB and X-Base is still an out of the way location enough to not be as visible as the Banshee and MT projects unless they go on rides, which, the GP aren't actively looking for construction stuff like we are.

There are some major differences between this project and Banshee and Mystic Timbers that may not warrant this project teasers. Banshee was replacing a pretty famous and, by far, the most polarizing ride in SOB and Mystic Timbers had to have the funnel cake stand be relocated and WWC moving its entrance the season it was being built, both major aesthetic differences. This project is kinda off the beaten path as X-Base is a dead end already.

As I am aware, the Golden Ticket Awards are highly skewed by parks' influences and thus I take what it says with a grain of salt.

I don't think RMC is equivalent to Intamin in terms of downtime or having major overhauls. A few anecdotal incidents aren't enough for me to be dissuaded from a RMC, and there isn't much of a pattern of RMC having the kind of faults that would affect them long term. They have a good track record despite a few hiccups.

Track decoding aside, I also hope they don't get too fancy on the trains and stick with the 4 across sets. Those things absolutely haul compared to the v arrangement seen on DB.

B&M tends to be cautious when they start a new model. Perhaps they've obtained enough info from Leviathan and Fury 325 to do away with the thick first drop support (kind of like how they don't use pre-drops anymore).

The only B&M backbone that looks different are the wider dive machine track to accommodate the wider trains. All the rest of the models will have identical looking track. EDIT: I think one other different track shaping B&M does is they tend to have taller backbones at the bottom of the taller drops on hypers/gigas.

I'm pretty sure the mods are sitting back with the biggest popcorn machine ever watching the servers start to spit fire.

I think DB was short of those 'as the bird flies' distance figures (unfortunately, my source is a long deleted post on a now defunct coaster forum), but factor in that a giga will have significantly taller elements, and it'll be well upwards of a mile. I do think within the layout, it won't be entirely big hill after big hill and there will be a stretch or 2 that lets it get some sustained speed. That's one feature that sets gigas apart from hypers, for the most part.

If any thing we're discussing are fake, KI totally needs to invite Chris Evans to the announcement to deliver a PSA to the enthusiast crowd.

I almost want to stop following this thread, you guys are almost too good at this. I still wanna be surprised a little bit.

I just looked at some old B&M track labels online from past decoding efforts on other sites- WI is wing coaster, SC is sitting coaster (floorless) and LC is laying coaster (flying).

I'd be psyched if we got a zig zag pattern on the blueprints as that would mean a non-inverted loop.

Also- Good googly moogly are there a lot of people on the site right now.

Are you making those lift length predictions going on a straight line? This thing is going to be going up at a 45 degree angle. The elevation change will probably add more length.

Current giga lengths (all info from RCDB)- Millennium Force- 6,595 ft Steel Dragon 2000- 8,133.2 ft (longest coaster in the world) Intimidator 305- 5,100 ft Leviathan- 5,486 ft Fury 325- 6,602 ft

On the yellow box- look at how many of the footings line up. The supports will be paired, with one footing perfectly vertical and the other being to the side. Looks like the footings for the diagonal supports switch sides through that element (probably the final elevated brake run going by previous B&M gigas). EDIT: See the black line I added.

If I understand the lengths enthusiasts go to after years of underestimating them, setting the time aside to analyze that is no issue. silver2005, who plans on being very meta this decoding season.

Enthusiasts often tout bogus rumors to coming from Dippin Dots employees as they are branded as 'Ice Cream of the Future'. But Lemon Chill employees are responsible for the even more bogus rumors IMHO.

And now, KIC will explode from online traffic.

Bansheeback should now work for a Dippin Dots stand so that they now can leak real news and restore their reputation as rumor mills.

What, you guys don't want a hockey themed coaster named The Don Helbig Experience?

Part of me is thinking they might still do a Beast reference just to get the SOB crowd off their backs.

So, you guys thought you actually found permits. I have a feeling we could be bringing up this meme quite a bit this summer.

That kind of exposure is part of why we need to continue to be thorough with verifying information and siting sources properly.