launch break

[diamondhawk]

Launch coaster questions:

BLSC

Did the fishtailing effect ever work?

Did the subway effect ever work?

Did the fog effect ever work?

Is it true the track was supposed to be wellow?

FOF

Are there more lights during the ride than in the past?

Is the front or the back faster?

Was FoF the first launched coaster?

Thanks for answers I've just always wondered.

P.S. Thanks to standbyme for helping me with an avatar!

[AZ Kinda Guy]

BLSC

1. More less

2. Half assed

3. Yes

4. No

FoF

1. No

2. Neither. They reach the same speeds.

3. No.

[The Interpreter]

IJSC: yes, the track was supposed to be yellow. There was once fog and mist, but the track didn't like either. If the fish tailing ever worked, I never felt it.

FOF:

If the back or front went faster than the other end, wouldn't the train come apart?

[bkroz]

Did the fishtailing effect ever work?

I don't believe so.

Did the subway effect ever work?

I don't think so (and who'd have wanted it to? Ouch!)

Did the fog effect ever work?

The fog on the helicopter scene?

. I think it was supposed to replicate a pipe being shot and some sort of gas being expelled. Take a look at the [edit: former] splashdown to see how Premier track interacts with water. (Wasn't SFNO's Batman the only ride that was still in ship-shape post-Katrina? Thanks B&M!)

Is it true the track was supposed to be yellow?

It was shown that way in the

presented to announce the ride, but things often change between point A and point B (see Maverick)... Sometimes stuff is added and sometimes it's removed...

Is the front or the back faster?

They leave the station at the same time and return at the same time, and thus go the exact same speed. If the back went faster, wouldn't it ram into the front?

Was FoF the first launched coaster?

No, our Flight of Fear and its identical twin at Kings Dominion were the first roller coasters to used Linear Induction Motors (LIMs) to launch the train using electricity. Backlot Stunt Coaster uses the same technology (the metallic fins hanging off the cars and the white fixtures with fin-shaped slits running down the launch track). Launched coasters have been around for a long time. Kings Island even had Screamin' Demon, a launched coaster, until 1987. Flight of Fear is just the first to use that specific LIM technology (which is now quite wide-spread).

[AZ Kinda Guy]

The track was not intended to be yellow. The only reason it was yellow in the animation was to make the track "stick out" during the animation.

[Guest rcfreak339]

I guess I might not be up to par with my BLSC knowledge but what exactly were the fishtailing and subway effects supposed to do?

[coaster_junky]

the fishtailing was supposed to make the train feel like it was 'drifting' through turns, the subway effect was supposed to be sub-woofers that hit pitches that gave the slight affect of hitting bumps.

[calakapepe]

Aw... and once the question get's asked... the replies stop. haha I would like to know what the fishtailing thing was.

And also, how was the subway effect proposed to be done? I heard it just destroyed the chasis or something like that.

[Jdwebber]

Premier rides apparently has a drifting coaster that works, was BLSC made by premier?

[Guest rcfreak339]

It was. Thats very interesting, and something I never have heard of before, I wonder how that would have worked?

[calakapepe]

I'm assuming like the Vekoma one in RCT3?

But with like shock absorbers and such haha.

[Jdwebber]

http://www.themeparkreview.com/parks/photo.php?pageid=189&linkid=9775&pageno=5 Very bottom of page. Lol and I dont think it drifts as much as RCT lol. Although that would be way fun!

[Vortex]

I thought it did drift just alittle. This might have been opening week that it worked.

[CedarPointer]

I always thought it still drifted, just a little bit.

[Coaster Kid]

Ive heard they've been working on the helicopter so that it will do what it originally was supposed to do to lift up and down.

[diamondhawk]

That would be cool if the helicopter went up and down. Make the scene a little more interesting.