Has anyone heard or seen how Hades is coming along?

hmmm...lemme think about that.... ;)

Not just cost though, CD...but it just looks better to passers-by...what looks better another cement wall or a brightly colored waterslide and funnel...

I meant that they could have stuck the half-funnel into an existing building, if they had free space in that building. Instead of having the last tube part go though the wall, they could have had the tube part just before the fall into the funnel go through the wall. But indoor water park planners don't read this forum, so it really doesn't matter.

The funnel is no larger than any of the others.

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TeknoScorpion said:
Why does the support structure matter (assuming you ment 'Hate' and not 'hat')?

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Yea, forgot a letter.
Woodies should be just that, wooden, not with steel structures. Wood grain, to me at least, makes woodies beautiful, and the steel just kills that beauty, again, in my opinion.

Thats why I think that Gemini is the prettiest steel coaster that I have ever seen too :)

For those of you that have seen it recently, did you go inside the park and saw the entire ride complete...or did you just see the part visible from the parking lot? If you can go inside the park, I may go back to get some pics.

Cool thanks everyone!

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Hades roller coaster, Laskaris' newest addition, will debut this spring. The hybrid coaster boasts the world's longest underground tunnel at 750 feet, the steepest drop and the only underground 90 degree curve for a roller coaster of its kind

http://baraboo.scwn.com/articles/2004/12/15/news/news4.txt

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RCDB is listing Hades drop at 65 degrees. But Balder has a 70 degree drop according to RCDB. Anyone know if the drop will truly be steeper than 70 degrees? Or is this just more hype?

Jomo - steepest drop in North America.

Don't forget "tallest coaster in the 'Midwest'" too!

I thought M:TR boasted the steepest drop on a woodie in North America...;)

I'm tremendously excited about Hades, and I have too wide of an experience range with steel-supported woodies to categorically declare wood or steel supports to be superior...

jimvid I thought said it best....although we differ on Great White, LOL, the true indicator of a woodie isn't the structure, it's in the maintenance....which goes a LONG way toward explaining Cornball's *heavenly* ride, and why the Twins are somewhere *south* of there...;)

Wood DOES look better, but overall, I think the ride is *MOSTLY* unaffected...

Very interesting article there. Should be great to watch it develop into a full fledged theme park.

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Michael Darling said:
Don't forget "tallest coaster in the 'Midwest'" too!

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Was that a marketing scheme? I mean, c'mon, its not even the tallest bordering lake Michigan...

It's obviously meant to be "tallest wooden coaster in the midwest," which is debatable.

-Nate
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"Tallest wooden coaster this side of Lake Michigan in the Midwest" *** Edited 12/17/2004 11:07:50 PM UTC by Dan D McD***