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Call me Peter Soint.
CedarPointNut said:
I haven't figured it out yet. It won't be much.-----------------
It will be a lot, 20,000+ pounds going into a solid surface. Seems like a lot of g's too me, considering a guided train that goes down a slope into a dip still pulls a lot of g's.
There, I yelled at you.
*** This post was edited by RubberDucky on 9/16/2002. ***
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Formerly known as Glenn on Coasterbuzz.
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Okay, I'll posting stupid posts, but I am working on the stats, and then jump is all figured out. And no, it is not a couple hundred g's. But I'm working on it every day, and I'm figuring out more and more info. I currently have the entire track layout, a name, a logo, and some basic stats. Who would have ever thought that a thread in a forum on a website would be digging into my daily life?
Also, where the heck is Amartin777?
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Magnum is Red,
Millenium Force is Blue.
I love Wicked Twister
And Raptor too.
The couple of people who say this will work are idiots, geez.
Think. I don't care what the friggin seperatioon is or how far the track extends underneath the track. You lose a tire the car slows drastically and you drop nose down, wow that would work great eh? And that is just one of your various insundry problems.
Maglev technology has only just started, a mile of Mag Lev track currently costs about a billion dollars to build. Not to mention the power it needs. In 60 years or so when maglev technology is avaiable and cheap maybe we will see a floating coaster.
But we will never ever see a coaster that relies on nothing but the force of gravity.
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All I need is 4.5 million bucks and a half a mile long sliver of land and maybe someone could build me my very own Shivering Timbers.
*** This post was edited by MagnumForce on 9/18/2002. ***
MagnumForce said:
Idiots the whole lot of you geez.
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All I need is 4.5 million bucks and a half a mile long sliver of land and maybe someone could build me my very own Shivering Timbers.
Have you read ANY of the posts in the thread. CedarPointNut is the only one saying it will work. So before you start calling us all idiots, back it up with something.
Ducky, there is more then CedarPointNut who is saying this.
There is more then one and that is who I was referring to as the whole lot. Not those who correctly say it won't work.
I read the whole post and then was so pissed that I just did that I overreacted.
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All I need is 4.5 million bucks and a half a mile long sliver of land and maybe someone could build me my very own Shivering Timbers. ;)
Okay, fine, so here is how the jump will work:
First of all, the train is normal except that there is nothing under the upstop wheels (such as a protector, etc.)
It starts by coming down off a 100 foot drop. It then has several feet of straightaway, and then turns 180 degrees around a banked curve. Then, after another several feet of straightaway, the regular "rest-of-the-coaster" track ends, and the train falls into a trough, having the upstop wheels act as the track wheels (fooling the guests to think that this was the entire jump). Once on the trough. there are no turns, a more straightaway, approximately the length of two trains. About half way through the trough, the ride enters an ILLUMINATED building, with several fett of "head-room" above the trough. The trough then ends, without curving up or down, no special maneuvers. The train then travels for another several feet (undecided amount), and is airborne. Then after the train has been airborne for a few seconds, it lands on another section of trough, however this section is located approx. five feet lower and five feet wider than the trough it had just landed on (making it so that the more fat people, the better!). It then continues for a longer straightaway of trough, except that about 1/3 of the way through, it turns into a tunnel. The tunnel then narrows to same width of the trough before the jump. Also, the tunnel exits the building. The train the exits the tunnel on another straight section of trough. The trough however, has slits slightly wider than the wheels (like 1/2 inch), and is the same distance apart that the wheels are. The train fits into the slits and continues going straight for a few hundred more feet. Then, the regular track is located just above the trough, and the regular wheels fit back in, and the upstop wheels become the upstop wheels again.
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Magnum is Red,
Millenium Force is Blue.
I love Wicked Twister
And Raptor too.
JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS!
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All I need is 4.5 million bucks and a half a mile long sliver of land and maybe someone could build me my very own Shivering Timbers. ;)
So basically it's like a boring version of the old Intamin Bobsled coasters, only you've purposely made the transition between the track and the trough unneccessarily rough by having it jump.
With your design, assuming I understand that massive, yet vague paragraph correctly, the sole intent of the ride seems to be the technicality that the train leaves the track. A novelty ride made out of a not-so-novel idea. Whoop-de-doo.
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Did you know that 1 in every 5 American teenagers believes that the US declared its independence from FRANCE???
I'm not going to say anything, I assume enough has already been said.
With that said, please do not quit designing coasters. No idea is perfect the first time around, and I bet it took even more times to get coasters like Supermant the Escape and Revolution right.
However, here is my thought on a roller coaster train leaving the track. The closest thing that will ever happen to a train leaving the track of the coaster is it going on the transfer track or having a malfunction and having it fly off the track killing everybody on board. I prefer the first option.
Of course, who knows, maybe gravity will just some day quit, but then coasters as we know it wouldn't work. :(
*** This post was edited by RubberDucky on 9/18/2002. ***
In response to your last, I now have a new love: Gravity,
In response to the rest of your response, as well as everyone elses, I have made a few adjustments to the ride, so now it is like time warp or light speed something or other. There are single car trains that come almost to a stop before the jump. Then, a tire w/ a wheel that is spinning fast launches the train out onto the trough and then the jump. That just makes it cooler and safer
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Closed topic.