Hades @ Big Chiefs

Disgusting.

YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Drool :)

Chuck

(removed a couple hundred of those O's for spacing - LG :) )

*** Edited 4/27/2005 6:07:55 AM UTC by Lord Gonchar***

I think I just gave birth.

Holy moly. I may need to start making plans, this coaster keeps tempting me.

Oh.

My.

God.

Excuse me. I need to go take a cold shower now and clean up...

How ironic...that's the same reaction you had after MTR! ;)

Wow, I can't think of anything even remotely whitty or even 'unfunny' to come back to that. I think you almost made me blush. Good Job!

Of course I almost made you blush...that's because its TRUE! ;)

It must be an "up against the wall" thing.

That's great! I'm going to about 5 PA parks this year and riding alot of woodies that I've not yet experience and still this is what I've been looking forward to the most. I'll be there in August. I'm not sure when Hades opens though.

Indiana Beach fixed Lost Coaster by the way by doing some reprofiling and retracking before last season. It's considerably smoother and much more fun now than it was during its first 2 seasons.

Hades opens Memorial Day weekend.

Just so Playa doesn't accuse me of that-Moosh and I did nothing other than eat dinner @ Hamburger Hamlet and I got Mooshed on Ghostrider once (the only thing we rode together all week). Don't want him to tell on me, now do you Matthew?

;)

LOL, Tekno! Its true, you have not ridden MTR. You begged, but I said no ;)

Right, I'm too young, remember? ;) Mooshing on Ghostrider was enough for me, I don't think I'd be able to handle the rest of you...

I would hope it doesn't bank that heavily, that could be painful for both rider(s) and operator...

Holy poop! This is why I'm going to be in the Dell's for Memorial day weekend. I've been putting it off for years, but I just can't pass this up!

Who knows how this went off topic so badly...

I am curious what the lead in to the 90 degree bank is like, all we see is the track against the wall.

As far as I know, this is the best shot we have of the lead into the 90* bank.

Just a couple folks with nothing better to do at night...but enough boring everybody to death, there's a hot coaster here, ya know?

I'm actually a little worried about it. A 155' drop into a 90-degree banked curve? On a woodie? In PTC coaches? I'm no physics major, but still...

The banking doesn't worry me. That's absolutely necessary to take a turn at top speed. The height doesn't worry me in the absolute sense, nor does a surprise element. Boss' double-down is after a drop in that height range. It's the surprise and the darkness combined that bothers me.

Why? Well, take a coaster with non-dramatic transitions like WT (Please!;)), climb aboard, let your body go loose and close your eyes. You'll almost invariably wind up leaning forward with your head much closer to the front of your car than you'd think.

Now take that experience aboard a train with a strong lateral transition and no visual cues...see what I'm saying? Riders with their hands up might lean a little farther forward--to say nothing of smacking each other in the head with their arms.

Maybe if I saw the construction site and the turning radius myself, I wouldn't worry. I'm sure they've engineered it to death, gone over it with a fine-toothed comb, blah bluh blah blah. But you never really know till the wheels hit hit the rails...or people start hitting each other.

Will I ride it? Of course. Will Da Babies? Yup. But it might be the first coaster where I'm yelling for them to BRACE themselves. I'm not taking 'em back to Playette busted up!

-'Playa

*** Edited 4/27/2005 9:30:57 PM UTC by CoastaPlaya***