TOPGUN1993 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Are the last car backwards ? Could Topgun be like this ? This ride is XLR-8 six flags from astro world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazypkikid2005 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Thats really wierd looking but interesting none the less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill_Biscuit Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Top Gun/Nug Pot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reclaimer Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Hahahahaha.... Interesting. Very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Yes the last 3 cars are backwards! Astroworld used to do this for their version of fearfest and eventually just did it year round. XLR-8 was the 2nd Arrow suspended coaster ever built (the first being The Bat at Kings Island). XLR-8 featured two lift hills and only went about 38 mph, my drive to work is probably more exciting than XLR-8. This could probably be done with Top Gun, that would be pretty cool if they did do that! Last I heard XLR-8 had been sold for about 7000 dollars, dont know how true that is but it was from a friend who went to the astroworld rides auction. My father is from Houston and used to work there as a kid, he said that park used to be so beautiful and nice. We went there last spring and Six Flags took horrible care of it, judging from the pictures Six Flags really let it go down hill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightoffear1996 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 That is pretty sweet but with all the direction changes on Top Gun I think that would be a bad idea to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legend Rider Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 I was about to say, are you kidding!? Who didnt know that!?... On RCDB: For Fright Fest in 2002 Astroworld reversed the last four cars of the trains and called the ride "8-RLX". They have continued to run the trains this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browntggrr Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Yes the last 3 cars are backwards! Astroworld used to do this for their version of fearfest and eventually just did it year round. XLR-8 was the 2nd Arrow suspended coaster ever built (the first being The Bat at Kings Island). Actually, both XLR-8 and Big Bad Wolf in Busch Gardens Williamsburg opened in 1984 with Arrow's banked track modification. And if you REALLY want to get technical, The Bat at PKI was the third suspended coaster behind Arial Coaster at Riverview Park in Chicago (1908) and Bisby's Spiral Airship (1902) at Queens Park in Long Beach, History of suspended coasters on RCDB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Wow i thoguht The Bat was one of the firsts. I guess i need to research a little more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 Did you also think that Son of Beast was the first looping wooden coaster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollerNut Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Most people do, didn't PKI claim it to be the first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Nope. Jeff made quite clear in his releases that it was the only looping wooden coaster on the planet. And that's true! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flightoffear1996 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Most people do, didn't PKI claim it to be the first? Yea older coasters looped and they werent very sussefull though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TombraiderTy Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Old ones gave you whiplashes, usually had a nurse at the exit. To think, people used to pay to be tortured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPKI Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Actually I think that XLR-8 was trashed, sadly. It looked like a fun coaster. http://www.screamscape.com/html/six_flags_astroworld.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollerNut Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Loop-the-Loop [Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY] - Stats & Specs - Images [by: ] - - Type: Wooden, Out & Back, Racing, Looping - Height: - Drop: - Speed: - Length: - Company: Edward Prescott - Cost: $400,000 - Debut: 1901 - Closure: 1910 - Removal: 1910 - Cause of Removal: Neck injuries Source:COASTERnet, I don't know that I would call them unseccessful yet. SOB isn't 9 years old yet, plus back then roller coasters were more or less a tear down, redesign, and rebuild thing then they are now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 And if you REALLY want to get technical, The Bat at PKI was the third suspended coaster behind Arial Coaster at Riverview Park in Chicago (1908) and Bisby's Spiral Airship (1902) at Queens Park in Long Beach, Had you read what I said you wouldve noticed I said The Bat was the first ARROW suspended coaster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoddaH1994 Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Loop-the-Loop [Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY] - Stats & Specs - Images [by: ] - - Type: Wooden, Out & Back, Racing, Looping - Height: - Drop: - Speed: - Length: - Company: Edward Prescott - Cost: $400,000 - Debut: 1901 - Closure: 1910 - Removal: 1910 - Cause of Removal: Neck injuries Source:COASTERnet, I don't know that I would call them unseccessful yet. SOB isn't 9 years old yet, plus back then roller coasters were more or less a tear down, redesign, and rebuild thing then they are now. I think their hook for SOB was the first "modern looping coaster". Woodies looped in the past... but it wasn't pretty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RollerNut Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Oh, I was into all five Paramount Parks when SOB was so I never got to see the press release. RCDB may have it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Interpreter Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Nope, as I said before, it was touted as the only wooden looping coaster on the planet. (Actually the press release headline used: "tallest, fastest and only looping wooden roller coaster in the world,"...the planet language was used more extensively later on, and is in the very first paragraph: "...contains the only Earth-flipping wooden roller coaster loop on the planet." They never said anything about there having been previous wooden loopers. Why would they? First of all, the first ones had not been comfortable or all that successful (and in fact had had some pretty serious injuries). Second, virtually no one was alive who had ridden them or remembered them. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, by not saying certain things, one can carefully leave the impressions one wants, and many would ASSUME it was the first, though they never, ever said that it was. But some newspaper somewhere may have headlined it as the first. If they did, they were wrong. Press releases are just that, releases to the press. The headlines frequently get rewritten. They get edited by papers to fit their audience and size of news hole available. Sometimes the editing is right and proper. Sometimes wrong things get put in...Sometimes they get totally rewritten by a staffer (who may as much about whatever the release is about as I do about the Mongolian use and sales of toilet paper in 1906, and with similar results). http://www.rcdb.com/document30.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Browntggrr Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Had you read what I said you wouldve noticed I said The Bat was the first ARROW suspended coaster. Yeah, we all know that is what you meant... My bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WooferBearATL Posted February 18, 2006 Share Posted February 18, 2006 Woodies looped in the past... but it wasn't pretty. And SOB is maintaining that fine history. <G> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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