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So why is it not running (sorry I don't know why it's not running)? Is there a problem with the trains or something??
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"Pootie Tang!"
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"Pootie Tang!"
The coaster was designed by B&M but built by arrow when they didnt have time to build it. since B&m track was used and arrow trains the track is to wide 4 the trains and is very rough.
it was closed due to roughness. u can find this at coaster-network.com/bm/bm
it was closed due to roughness. u can find this at coaster-network.com/bm/bm
This bird represent's the USA, more people in the country care about these bird's than a Coaster that has beeen closed since 98 anyway. I worry about our great country when we have people saying shoot our National symbol for a coaster.
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Army rangers lead the way *** This post was edited by supermandl on 7/5/2001. ***
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Army rangers lead the way *** This post was edited by supermandl on 7/5/2001. ***
The coaster was closed because it was a notorious head banger. (The worst non-launched head banger that I have ridden.) A major head banger simply didn't fit BGW's style and clientel. During it's last year in service, Drachen Fire was a walk on running a single half full train even when the park was crowded.
It took me several hours to get over the headache I got from the pounding I received.
It took me several hours to get over the headache I got from the pounding I received.
didn't they take out the final corkscrew? when I went on it years ago, I think a year or so after it opened, that's where worst roughness was if I remember correctly.
Drachen Fire was not designed by B&M! Oh, and it is not B&M track either. B&M has always used the box track, and DF has Arrow 3-tube track. Drachen Fire is a 0% made B&M product. Just because there is an element (the boomerang) on it found on many B&M, doesn't mean that B&M made it. I see boomerangs on Vekomas too, and since when does B&M design Vekoma coasters?
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Cyclops. 1900 feet of CCI goodness. *** This post was edited by TrBiggar on 7/5/2001. ***
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Cyclops. 1900 feet of CCI goodness. *** This post was edited by TrBiggar on 7/5/2001. ***
So why do "they" fix the trains, like re-design them to fit the track and then open the ride!!!
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"Pootie Tang!" *** This post was edited by StealthmF5m3 on 7/6/2001. ***
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"Pootie Tang!" *** This post was edited by StealthmF5m3 on 7/6/2001. ***
Drachen Fire was originally going to be BGW B&M sitdown which later became Kumba at BGT. The basic layout was created by B&M who then pull out of the project due to other rides been built and no time to build Drachen Fire.
So the project goes over to Arrow who addapt the layout to suit their track rather than B&M. This ment goodbye the the proposed Camelback although most of the inversions were kept the same. There is a normal hill I think to replace the camelback but explains the odd dead spot.
Ride is built and it turns out to be too bumpy because despite the slight adaption in layout it is still designed for B&M trains with spring loaded wheels and is bumpy. It gets so many complains out goes the last corkscrew and is later closed indefinatly until a solution is found.
An eagle then makes a nest in the cutback element (is this the right place) so the ride can't be sorted. This is what I understand anyway.
John Wilkes
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So the project goes over to Arrow who addapt the layout to suit their track rather than B&M. This ment goodbye the the proposed Camelback although most of the inversions were kept the same. There is a normal hill I think to replace the camelback but explains the odd dead spot.
Ride is built and it turns out to be too bumpy because despite the slight adaption in layout it is still designed for B&M trains with spring loaded wheels and is bumpy. It gets so many complains out goes the last corkscrew and is later closed indefinatly until a solution is found.
An eagle then makes a nest in the cutback element (is this the right place) so the ride can't be sorted. This is what I understand anyway.
John Wilkes
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JawCoasters - Site for UK Coasters
www.wilkes2536.freeserve.co.uk
Sorry, a bald eagle's nest IS more important than runnin a silly old rollercoaster. Busch Gardens is doing the responsible thing if they're postponing any work on the ride so as not to disturb this nest.
What I remember from the NOVA show was that the main designer didn't even ride it. He was an older, distinguished looking guy, as I remember. I always wondered if he would have thought "What did they do when they built this? This isn't what I wanted"!
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I know you rider Gonna miss me when I'm gone
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I know you rider Gonna miss me when I'm gone
Fierce Pancake said:
"Sorry, a bald eagle's nest IS more important than runnin a silly old rollercoaster. Busch Gardens is doing the responsible thing if they're postponing any work on the ride so as not to disturb this nest."
I agree with you. Although the Bald Eagle may no longer be on the endangered species list it is still a vanishing animal and a symbol of our country. All efforts should be taken to help preserve this animal even if it means stopping a roller coaster's operation for a couple of years.
I was there last week, and from BBW, the buckets, and pictures I took, it looks like a nest or something up on that high loop. I can't(or should say couldn't) see if there was anything elsewhere, but it at least looks like debris piled up there. Is that what everyone's talking about?
I find it funny that everyone "knows" that the coaster was supposed to be built by B&M. You don't just take another firms blue prints and change the track type. You don't spend money on R&D just so you can give it to someone else.
Drachen Fire is rough (if it actually is rough, I've never been on it) because it's the same ugly Arrow transitions and loose wheel tolerance. I can see it in the POV. The transitions into the elements are sudden and the cars shift in the track through inversions. Steel Phantom was the same deal.
Now, B&M might have been contracted to build a coaster at some point, but it certainly wasn't that coaster.
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Jeff
Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
Drachen Fire is rough (if it actually is rough, I've never been on it) because it's the same ugly Arrow transitions and loose wheel tolerance. I can see it in the POV. The transitions into the elements are sudden and the cars shift in the track through inversions. Steel Phantom was the same deal.
Now, B&M might have been contracted to build a coaster at some point, but it certainly wasn't that coaster.
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Jeff
Webmaster/Admin - CoasterBuzz.com
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