Busch Gardens Europe announces Griffon for 2007

We don't know how many trains will be running, do we? Will they have three or four, or perhaps more?

10 people per row. That's absolutely ridiculous. The capacity on this ride is going to rock. Makes Oblivion's 16 riders/train seem foolish.

I am sure the loading/unloading station will be set up like Sheikras. If that is the case, Griffon will be a people eater if the park utilizes it to its full potential.

Sheikra handles 4 trains with 2 trains in the station at the same time.

I really like the Busch parks. They love their custom job B&M's.

I wonder if there will be airtime on that bunny hill after the second immelman. I seems a little wierd without a tunnel of some sort, but I am looking forward to it, looks to be a great ride.

Will be interesting to see how the floor system works on this ride. Afterall it's gotta be a bit different as it has to span five seats each side rather than just two.

I am no B&M, but I wouldn't be surprised if the floor splits in two, drops a little, and then is pulled straight back under the floor of the loading platform. There's no way they can have it twist and hide like they do on their current floorless coasters.

I remember seeing pictures of how those load/unloading platforms work on the floorless coasters. Does anyone know where they are?

I don't see any reason at all why the floor system would be any different than those found on every existing B&M floorless. The width of the train is irrelevant.

Floorlessness is lost on me for the most part....love to see a floorless hyper someday, though.

Nonetheless, I'd be VERY surprised to see B&M change the way the floor splits and drops....they usually only make changes when there are IMPROVEMENTS to be made. The current system seems near *flawless* (with a near-homophone).

Uh, Gator?

Technically, this will be the first floorless hyper. :) 205ft buddy.*** This post was edited by Chitown 8/24/2006 4:46:54 PM ***

^ LOL, touche!

The vertical drop element on SheiKra certainly did bring in the crowds, so I guess that's what's important. FWIW, I never called the original SP a hyper either (inversions)....I'm a strict interpretationist.. ;)

According to Gator, Sheikra is not a hyper.

And here I thought Florida in their next vacation packet would use that as a draw being the first hyper in Florida. Oh well. :)

The width of the track is greater, too, so that might require a new design.

There better be a very large griffon statue somewhere.

:)

This is really great news... people at BGE will eat this up. Its been so long since a new coaster came, and it looks like this was well worth the wait.

I don't like the length of it though. :(
But look at all the other goodies we're getting with it :)

Okay, I'm done now.

Josh

Hey guys Griffon isn't the only dive coaster with no floor shiekra is getting new cars with no floors (supposedly).