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The coaster's height will match the blueprints. We know that because, when they built them, everything lined up and they didn't have to delay things to order new parts. Things don't work if the blueprints are wrong. But the actual height and the advertised height may not necessarily match up. They should, but that don't mean they do. They haven't changed. We know the final height. We knew pretty much as soon as we had the blueprints. Theres been discussion about where to measure from, but the footer to peak heights are black in white in the blueprints. From the ground at the station to the top of the lift it will be 295.9 ft. You can knock .755 ft off that if you want the measurement from the top of the footers at the station. That being said, I'll bet money they will either use the 300.9 drop distance for advertising or they will round the lift height and call it 300.

We do know the height. Those other things aren't going to be on blueprints. Blueprints aren't used to tell people about the ride. It's to tell the people building it what they need to know to build it. We really won't see the height of this thing during the season. Maybe September or October they will be on the lift hill, but even thats not certain. Capacity is a product of how quickly guests leave the station more than length of ride. I'm sure someone else on here knows the average time for a train to enter a station, remove guests, reload, and leave the station. But the recreations look like around 2 minute for the train to leave the station and run the course. That would be mean they need a train to leave the station every 1 minute to run at peak capacity. I think they are going to stack trains because that seems really quick.

You mean a replica of the Eiffel Tower replica? ;-)

The 200 is the highest point, the lift, to the lowest point, the pretzel loop. Almost looks like the type of framing that they use for staging and light rigging. But it could be for the new pad they are pouring by The Racer. We aren't "guessing". The numbers are from engineered plans the people building the ride and the park filed with the city. Those people aren't big on surprises. Surprises in those scenarios are referred to as "F Ups" and cost a lot of money to fix.

There just really was not much to decode this time. Everything got leaked before the first footer got dug.

So who had 36 days in the "amount of days for the decoding thread to pass the two year old Giga speculation thread" pool?

I agree with you completely, but, just out of curiosity, what about an ansul type system? They are liquid based, but I know theres certain types that hold up below freezing. Or would that only be in class K systems?

I don't need to. I'm aware who he is. I responded to someone else saying he looked at these plans and said there might be a vertical loop. I stand by my statement. If he looked at these plans and said theres a vertical loop, it would kill his credibility. If the other poster misquoted him, that would make the whole conversation irrelevant. The ride envelope is on the inside of the curve. If it was an outside turn, it would be on the outside of the curve.

He kinked the water hose.

That pretty much kills his credibility. Theres absolutely no vertical loop on this. We can see the track in the layout. The most we can expect is an overbanked turn. There will be no inversions on it.

TTD. No questions asked.

#whatsinthequonsethut Seems like that fad has quickly died off.

Considering the queue goes through the old on-ride photo building, I'm guessing thats where the signage will be.

Spend money to remove something that makes money just to change traffic flow?

Yet, no one says a word when someone makes a claim and 20 people jump in to ask for a source because it's in the TOS.

It looks to me they are taking some lines from the FOF queue to make extra locker space and the PX on ride photo booth.

Yup, and the helix is similar to Shambhala's.

A coaster that's 273 ft tall would be considered a giga with a 10% tolerance.

The drop is 301 ft. That much we are sure of. Says existing maze building.

750 is not the station track height. Thats the ground at the peak. The footer plans have the exact height from sea level of the top of the footers. That number was figured by surveyors before Firehawk was ever torn down. It's not a product of how much dirt they remove.

Carowinds still advertises Fury as the tallest and fastest giga.

No................ it's 286 ft from the ground at the peak. It's 296 ft from the ground at the Backbone footer. Once again, no one who knows what they are looking at are using station height for anything. That number is irrelevant. The lift foundation plans have the finished sea level height of the footers. These are not numbers that get fudged. If the top of the footers aren't right to within a few inches, the steel that is made elsewhere doesn't line up and none of it works.

Why are people who clearly don't understand the math trying to change the math? Which phase of the grief cycle is this? The top of the hill is at 1035.9 ft above sea level. The ground the peak is 750 ft above sea level. The ground at the station is at 740 ft above sea level. Station height is irrelevant. The station could be 100 ft off the ground. Absolutely no one who understands the plans is discussing station height when discussing lift or drop height.

There are height measurements on the blueprints. https://imgur.com/gallery/evgVSOa Thats the drop. We are talking about lift height.

The ground at the station is 740 ft. Top of the lift is 1035. Still not getting to 300.