Busch Gardens Tampa announces SheiKra, a B&M dive machine

To me, it looks like BGT tamed this coaster down. I recently got my hands on a layout image from July 2003. It showed that the original design would have featured the 200ft drop, immelman, but then an intense overbank and pull up into the MCBR. From there a 130ft vertical drop, a hammerhead turn similar to Nitro's then the coup de grace, an downward inline twist that pulled out at the last second and then into the lake for a splashdown. From there a bunny hop and an intense helix into the brakes.

Though I am still quite excited for this coaster, and hope to get down there sometime next summer to ride it.

I was singing as soon as I saw the headline:

"I'll be there and you'll be here...and that's the deal my dear."

Looks like I'll be making the 3 1/2 hour drive up to BGT.

*yawn*

I was thinking of the "screw New England" tune as well, Matt Scott. And to whomever said NJ is not NEngland, I would be going to DP as well, which is in NE.

Florida, here I come!

Swoosh, not quite.....Dorney's in PA, which still isn't New England per se...

Now, SFNE, Lake Compounce, Funtown, those ARE in New England....but Manhattan still makes the betta chowda...

RCTyrant - what master plans are you looking at that *don't* show the layout you described? That's almost exactly what's in those two little pictures on BGT's site. The only thing missing is that helix and the inline you speak of, and the helix according to your layout is beyond the scope of either picture.

Ah... but PA. is not NE.

*** This post was edited by rentzy17 10/27/2004 1:21:27 PM ***

New England consists of (I'm pretty sure) Mass, Conn, New Hampshire, R.I.(?), Maine(?) and maybe 1 or 2 more. NJ, PA, and NY are not New England.

The pix look alot like that layout pic describing the inline and bunny and helix. maybe they just didn't mention those as of yet...We're still a ways off from opening, so they may end up on there.

Vermont, Clint...

That would be AMAZING TeknoScorpion.

New England is: Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and perhaps New York if you feel like it. The Mid-Atlantic is perhaps New York, definitely Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and perhaps Virginia. Need I go on??

Nobody considers New York part of New England.

I do.

From http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry?id=33763

New England

The name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States–Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. John Smith because of its resemblance to the English coast (another source has it that Prince Charles, afterward Charles I, inserted the name on Smith's map of the country). Topographically it is partly delineated from the rest of the nation by the Appalachian Mts. on the west. From the Green Mts., the White Mts., and the Berkshire Hills the land slopes gradually toward the Atlantic Ocean. Many short, swift rivers furnish water power. The Connecticut River is the region's longest river.

SheiKra looks amazing! Oh man next season is gonna be crazy! I might need to get a third job and start planning now.
Hey what happened to my signature?
*** This post was edited by macho nachos 10/27/2004 2:06:59 PM ***

I love how this topic started with info about the new coaster and slowly evolved into the encyclopedia definition of "New England".

You guys are great.

LOL Rentzy17...I'm just trying to provide info, albeit off-topic from BGT's new coaster [which looks WAY better than I'd anticipated!]

mOOSH

Wow, just some awesome stuff coming our way from B&M. There is no doubt that these guys want their market back!

I wonder if they changed anything design wise.

So are 'we' calling this "Kra?"

Sounds a little close to "Ka" to me.