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Don't call TC a dueling coaster when it never duels lol. I really hope one day that Gwazi becomes RMC'd, hate to see it sitting there rotting away before Busch has the chance to do something with it.

KingRCT3 posted on April 6th, 2018

I don't know if you're aware Energylandia is like 20minutes away from Auschwitz and if this was a joke or not, but man that's unfortunate!

I was not aware of that. I was talking about summer heat.

I don't know if you're aware Energylandia is like 20minutes away from Auschwitz and if this was a joke or not, but man that's unfortunate!

Haha fair. I meant like separate tracks dueling. I feel so dumb....

Cant they just make the first dueling RMC. LOL

I could most definitely see Gwazi becoming an RMC, Especially with a name like that haha. My guess is they're doing what they did to SC and butchering one half of the coaster only to use it for more footing with the conversion.

If you feel like you're in an oven, I don't think you're really gonna care about whether or not it's a coaster that isn't very good at being a coaster. You'd just be glad to get some moisture on you.

RE: Speed, given the social nature of water rides, I always think delaying the big splashdown gives a really nice effect. There's also something about a splash coming after a twisty part rather than a large drop that seems more of a surprise to me. And while the coaster part looks slow, watching the massive boats/cars go through this marble-run looking track is strangely satisfying.

Yukon Quad is opening tomorrow at Le PAL in France!

https://www.facebook.com/lepalofficiel/videos/2033791676635615/

Of course, the upstops on Intamin's are a T-shaped... thing... (rail?) in the center of the track, along which a plate on the bottom of the boat would slide in the event of airtime, rather than having upstop wheels (like, say, Mack does), so I can't imagine they're actively designing airtime (or really anything fun) into those layouts in the first place. The whole coaster section seems to me to be a ruse to get idiot park owners to pay for "more bang for your buck" when the reality is that "if we hit the water at the speed you come off the first drop, it would suck (see also: Pilgrims Plunge/Giraffica), so... have some coaster track! We'll splash down more slowly, later."

And regardless, you're left with a flume ride that isn't very good at being a flume ride, and also a coaster that isn't very good at being a coaster. All in one not inexpensive package! Yay?

^ Shots have been fired.

^^ Also yeah I agree that the first hill there looks like it was meant to be a floater speed hill but it goes so slow over it it looks pointless

Like Verruckt but actually safe.

I can't help but feel like Intamin designed these things without remembering that the boats would trim going through the first splashdown, its just so slow, meander-y and dull, feels like it was designed to be carrying a bit more speed with it.

I'm still kind of amazed that Intamin has sold any more of those after the Pilgrim's Plunge fiasco. Especially since the two layouts on the more extended, coastery ones (Speed included) look like snoozefests.

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Max height: 269.169 ft.
Min height: 34.6526

I kinda feel like taking a break from consistently working on No Limits 2 (key word being 'consistently', I might do little things here and there). In the meantime I have an excerpt from a word document where I've jotted down some tentative ideas that I sometimes pull inspiration from (tentative as in "less certain about than anything I would show in the 'what did you do' thread and may or may not have even started on them yet").

That looks sick! That 270-degree twisting vertical drop looks like it might be EGF-levels of awesome in the back row.

No, Speed was openend Monday.

Energylandia opened Speed, their water coaster, on Monday.

Testing POV:

Edit: I had the wrong date

Really interesting documentary from David Ainsworth!