Holiday World 2012

Voyage cost the best part of $10m didn't it?

^ $8.5M, according to rcdb (2006 dollars). http://rcdb.com/3231.htm

Of note, Voyage utilizes a lot of the terrain in such a way as to need considerably less support structure - esp. on the return run.

My vote would have to be for a premier or mack launched coaster that hugs the ground through the wooded hills. HW has some wonderful terrain, and I REALLY hope they continue to utilize it as they have

JoshuaTBell said:
Is it me or does that ride look semi-portable, not permanent?

Nope, not you Joshua! That would be an Anton 'Looping Star' model:
http://www.rcdb.com/8211.htm
There is one of them state-side at Frontier City in Oaklahoma, Silver Bullet. And the smaller version, an Anton 'Silver Arrow' at Busch Tampa (Scorpion). Great rides!

After riding Dragon's Fury at Chessington Worlds of Adventure last Fall, I think a similar custom spinner design would be great at Holiday World. HOWEVER, they need a looper first and foremost. The park guests have been asking for it for years now. Any kind of steel out&back or Mega-Lite would be pointless. Voyage already does that better than anything. Think different.

Of course now that the Timberliners are a reality, they could get their "looper" in wood form and even make it a launcher.

Some shots of my HoliLooper:
http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c352/matt515o/No%20Limits/3dlayoutnotrees.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c352/matt515o/No%20Limits/Layoutoverview.jpg

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c352/matt515o/No%20Limits/HoliLoo...951003.jpg

I envision this going between the water park and The Voyage. It's chalk full of airtime and a couple of good inversions. It could easily be made into a launcher and have additional inversions swapped in for some of the airtime hills. But I prefer drops and airtime over countless inversions. Something along these lines is my dream steel coaster for any park, let alone the one that has the greatest woodie ever built.

Where can I download that No Limits coaster, AV? I want to POV it on my computer!

^^Beautiful, AV!!! I have a 'mega mind bender' with an extra vertical loop, extra drops, etc. We think alike on loopers!

ps - rode Mind Bender another 15+ times today, it's like heaven.

Send me your e-mail address and I'll send you a track file.

So what was all that *stuff* that was by Pilgrim's Plunge. If you road PP this year, you would have seen it beside the Voyage. It didn't look like anything substantial but it was something and there is a path leading toward that area that is currently a dead end.

Pat.

E-mail is sent, AV Matt! I'm excited to "ride" your No Limits coaster!

Thanks to Birdman for making me a pretty snazy video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek8bXAhF_rU

If you see a tree hit, it's just a special effect. ;)

Oh I thought that bit was charming... ;)

Nah, the tree was added during the Bizarro HoliLooper refurb. ;)

I really enjoyed the fantasy coaster. It had great pacing, and the length was just right. I could totally see Holiday World building something like that. (Are you listening, HW? ;) )

I never got to ride the original Revolution, but this (HoliLooper) is more of a great thing, the original airtime looper. An extreme example of utilizing terrain *and* incorporating inversions on an airtime ride. It's the weird love-child of Revolution, Tennessee Tornado, Mindbender, and Lisebergbanan...

Thanks guys. I think more than any of the hundreds of designs I've made, this is the one I would most like to experience in real life.

Great Job! Any way of telling how fast the train is going down the long stretch of track, entering the first tunnel?

Annoyingly, iMovie chopped off the very top of the video when I exported (probably to make it HD proportions, even when I changed the crop settings) so you can't see the stats.

It reaches 58 mph after the fourth long drop, just before the loop at the end of the tunnel, which is the fastest section of the ride.

The lift hill looks to be about 160 feet.

The first drop is about 130.

The second, third, and fourth drops are about 100 each.

That looks like a sweet ride. This is definitely my kind of coaster. Great job, AV.