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There wasn’t any rough transitions.
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Past few weekends.
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I’ll try to get some. It’s in the helix away from the midway, but it’s noticeable when you ride it. The effects were pretty neat.
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Yes, the helix and the lower valley had new track placed (its red compared to the normal brown), and there’s new lighting effects on the final lift.
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Michigan's Adventure
gforce1994 replied to grsupercity's topic in Other Amusement Parks & Industry News
They almost got one. They were going to receive a $7 million dollar D.H. Morgan hypercoaster. It would have been 210 feet tall and ran alongside Shivering Timbers. I believe it fell through when plans for the resort Hotel/Campground fell through. -
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It’s also ironic to note, that in order to make the ride work, one would need to have banked turns that lead into the inversions.
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There are blueprints for the original Bat showing a corkscrew, with the helixes in a different color, suggesting an alternate layout should the buyer want it.
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It’s interesting that the original Bat (the one opened in 1981) was designed to have corkscrews. The original ride was to feature two corkscrews-the first being before the second lift hill, and the second one being before the final turn. Some of the original design can be seen as an Easter Egg in the Orion queue. I used NoLimits 2 and recreated it. Here is The Bat as originally designed: https://youtu.be/GvH-SCRIGcE
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Coronavirus Impacting Theme Parks
gforce1994 replied to Hawaiian Coasters 325's topic in Kings Island
Utah is now extremely low on ICU beds. Meanwhile at Lagoon, these were the lines: Source(https://twitter.com/kazweida/status/1320511164225261568?s=21) Compare those lines with the ones from KI Its sad other parks are not taking COVID as seriously as CF is. -
Coney BarBQue is considered one. They have walls they can slide into place, as seen during Winterfest.
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That is a good point. However the only section that is lacking with any sort of indoor dining is Planet Snoopy.
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The markers ran in an East-West direction. There was an additional marker east of Kill Mart by the antiques.
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It has been open this year. It’s also interesting to note a few more markers were observed heading away from the building. Similar markers were seen prior to Woodstock Gliders and the Coney BarBQue projects.
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However, the presence of markers are rather interesting. It is interesting that markers are being placed around a building people have considered out of place.
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I absolutely agree. Here’s another idea, the spot could be used for Shake Rattle and Roll- allowing for more open land on the old Vortex site.
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Absolutely. There are numerous rides that could fit in the spot. Didn’t Carowinds get a Musik Express?
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There are now pink spray markers by Zephyr around the Kill Mart building. The markers can be seen from Zephyr and Racer.
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Discussing Land and Space in and around Vortex
gforce1994 replied to Klabergian Empire's topic in Kings Island
There are two pieces in the pic. -
Discussing Land and Space in and around Vortex
gforce1994 replied to Klabergian Empire's topic in Kings Island
There are two pieces of track still on site. -
Coronavirus Impacting Theme Parks
gforce1994 replied to Hawaiian Coasters 325's topic in Kings Island
Absolutely. Furthermore we’ve seen Knott’s do food festivals, and be successful at pulling them off. -
They were same as usual. They were inspecting bags, and doing the normal procedures.
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Here’s a look at a nearly completed Coney Mall and semi completed Oktoberfest section. The interesting thing about the early visualizations is the fact that the park would have had a pathway between Coney and Rivertown at the back and middle of the park.
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The engineering of it was a nightmare from the initial conception of the ride. SOB was originally pitched by RCCA to a SF park (they went with and SLC), and that when dropped, Paramount picked it up. The cars were designed with a rubber ring in between the steel halves of the wheel. The rubber was supposed to be a dampening agent, and it was supposed to be a critical part of ensuring the ride ran smoothly. It seems that this design was dropped in late design which is extremely fascinating. You have a ride that doesn’t have the proper wheels that were designed for it, you have wood superstructure collapse during construction (progressive collapse), and you have a wood structure where the members are slightly weakened. Speaking of the POV is not an HD POV, it is a video that has been enhanced through AI algorithms. Furthermore, it was likely shot at 30 FPS, and the computer generated a new frame between every other frame to produce a 60 FPS footage. The person did an amazing job with the upscale though. The footage was indeed shot as part of Discovery’s Top Ten Coasters 2002 special. While shot in high quality, the original footage has been upgraded to 4K quality by computer algorithms. Edit: Furthermore, the first commercial 4K camera came out in 2003, a year after this was filmed.