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I wonder if it will be a railblazer clone. If it isn’t there will probably be a lot of people who want to got to his house to ride it lol

CoolioJoe posted on January 23rd, 2018
Wing riders would be 1,000 times better if they did away with the damn vest restraints.

Those would be amazeballs on Thunderbird.

Wow....must be nice to be one of those kids or their friends.

"hey come over there's a roller coaster in my front yard"

Opinions?

I've followed this on discord and I have to say it looks like a really nice ride

Fred Grubb is building a Raptor clone for his granddaughters (yes, the same size as Railblazer/WW).

By BRIAN WALKER - Staff Writer

Fred Grubb’s granddaughters are headed for the ride of their lives — in Grubb’s front yard. Grubb, who owns the Rocky Mountain roller-coaster manufacturing firm in Hayden, plans to construct a personal coaster this summer that’s 100 feet tall at its tallest point, will move as fast as 52 mph and has a 90-degree dive next to his home just south of Silverwood Theme Park.

"It’s eccentric, but I want to build it for my grandkids and I wouldn’t be in the business if my team and myself weren’t a little eccentric," Grubb said, adding that he has granddaughters who are 10, 7 and 6. "This has always been in the back of my mind, and my grandkids are tall enough to ride a coaster now. It’s like building a big swimming pool, except I’m in the roller coaster business.
The "Raptor" coaster, which will have four seats, will be built just off Old Highway 95 west of U.S. 95. Grubb declined to say how much the coaster will cost to build. The coaster is 1,800 feet long and the ride time is 66 seconds.
The family declined to release the names of the girls for security reasons, but the eldest said, "My sisters and I are so excited to have an actual roller coaster to ride at our papa’s house. We are so lucky to have a papa who wants to do this for us. We cannot wait for our friends to ride it with us."
Grubb said it’s doubtful the coaster will be seen from U.S. 95. He said it won’t be loud and it will be painted to blend in with the environment. Grubb owns the 14 acres to the north of the property and 10 acres to the south, so there are no neighbors in the immediate vicinity. "I don’t want it to be intrusive," he said. "I want it to look nice. It will be a form of art."
David Callahan, Kootenai County’s community development director, said there’s nothing in the county’s code that prevents Grubb from moving ahead as long as it’s for private, not commercial, use.

However, Callahan said he wanted to give county commissioners a heads up Monday on the project since it’s "unusual." "This has got to be one for the record books, but there is nothing in the county books that says, ’no,’" Callahan said. "He’s probably one tenth of 1 percent of the population who can afford to do something like this."

Rocky Mountain has built roller coasters for theme parks around the world, including Silverwood’s "Tremors," "Timber Terror," and "Aftershock."

Commissioner Marc Eberlein called the project "fascinating." When Callahan revealed a rendering of the coaster to commissioners, the board was in awe. "It’s a pretty significant deal," Callahan said. Commissioner Bob Bingham quickly replied: "I’ll say."

Callahan said Grubb has signed an affidavit recorded in the county land records that states the coaster will not be used commercially on his property.

Grubb said the roller coaster may be on his property several years, but he may sell it in the future.

It will be built on Rocky Mountain’s newly developed concept of a single track, unlike double tracks of other coasters, and riders will ride as if they are on a motorcycle or horse. "We can build these about 45 percent less than comparable mega coasters and we can do sharper corners," he said, adding that the coaster will be built to industry safety standards. Grubb said the coaster will take just six to seven weeks to construct.

'Blowdown' by me (WIP)

Some WIP screenshots.

Since everyone else is showing off their ampersands, I might as well post my take on it as well. :D

The "footers" lmao

What's wrong with that? Don't see anything but a nice Intamin..

KingRCT3 posted on January 23rd, 2018

Another extreme exemple is this Intamin 10-inversion:

What the hell lmao

BlaseRhine posted on January 20th, 2018

^ look closer ;) Its actually just a lapbar... No vest restraints needed

Wing riders would be 1,000 times better if they did away with the damn vest restraints. This train design is perfect.

JoeLimits2 posted on January 23rd, 2018

^^^The double transition you mentioned at 63 seconds was actually intentional, and was done to create a small flat-ish section on the entrance of the speed hill where a trim brake is used.

I have no doubt that you meant to put it there, but I have doubts that it would appear in a professional design. That said, my designs either have the occasional inflection points (the "kinks") like that or have sections that I did not design as I had hoped because I tried to avoid such an inflection point. They're just so hard to avoid, but it's the same idea as with roll transitions. Roll in Newton would have consecutive symmetric quartic transitions in opposite directions, but in FVD++, we can use three cubic sections and avoid the inflection point between rolling and rolling back.

SUGGESTION FOR THE THREAD:
The tri- and quad-rail tracks have rotational symmetry, which makes it hard to tell what's going on when you post pictures. I suggest a remedy: even if you want to work with a different track style in FVD++ and eventually in NL2, my idea is that we all post images using non-symmetric track such as B&M of Intamin double spine. Disabling wireframe also helps for screenshots, though I know that some video cards are not compatible.

I bring this up because I have no idea what the banking is like in Emonadeo's Stengel Dive, and the banking is what separates a Stengel Dive from an airtime hill, right?

Thoughts?

^^^The double transition you mentioned at 63 seconds was actually intentional, and was done to create a small flat-ish section on the entrance of the speed hill where a trim brake is used.

AndreAkaMe posted on January 23rd, 2018

I did already say this. It’s purely for flooding. I’m not just guessing here ;)

I mean I was backing you up on that so I'm not really sure why you're replying like that to me?

That said just because something is an original doesn't mean it hasn't been designed as being a clone in mind - where it wouldn't make any sense to have supports catered to terrain when the idea is for there to be no terrain. To clarify I'm not saying Skyrush is, but that other "originals" might be.

^ Flooding is still the reason

Ok thanks all for that, I thought flooding originally but with the people off on the right of that picture it made me think twice.