IAAPA 2001: Setpoint to go Over the Top

I hope we see this at parks in the very near future. I've seen photos and am very impressed. Don't get me wrong, I love B&M, but Setpoint's "floorless" concept is more original and true.

any pictures

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Here, this is the brochure for the new concept:

http://www.swingthing.com/pdf/Swing%20Thing%20Brochure.pdf

Looks pretty good, the track looks kinda' like the iverted wild mouse in RCT with different train and MORE suspension.  Also, the trains are set with the first chairr facing forward and the next chair facing BACKWARDS!!!

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Acrophobia, that's the Swing Thing, not the Over the Top.  The Over the Top model rides above the track and from what I understand, uses the same narrow track like the Swing Thing.  So your feet actually dangle over aboslutely nothing!
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Is that one abreast or two?  I would prefer it 2 because I always get lonely  :'(    .

Will they have any inversions, cause this concept will be a drag without any loops.  I just don't want to see such a great idea targeted towards the little kids only, but knowing Setpoint...

I love the themed vehicle designs. VERY attractive!
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I don't see how the Setpoint "floorless" design is more original or true than the B&M design. In the Setpoint design the seats are just elevated, thats the only difference in design compared to the B&M floorless. They both have no floors, so how is one truer than the other?

 Anyways, I am definitely digging the style and themes on the trains, they look inceriblely sleek. Setpoint looks to be quite a promising company. Remember they also have the Seismic prototype coaster, which is pretty creative, too. Cannot wait for Setpoint to build some of these coasters. 

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B&M's floorless design has you right above the track with floorless trains, but Setpoint's new Over the Top model has made the track really thin and expanded the trains with a style I really dig!  (Take the Steeplechase track and put B&M's wide floorless trains over it... YOU HAVE NOTHING BELOW YOUR FEET NOT EVEN TRACK!)  Now the only gap between this is if Setpoint's floorless model is smooth and will there be inversions... basically will the Over the Top go extreme?

I think a setpoint coaster would go very well at MA.  A super soaker over by MA's waterpark would be fantastic.

In the Seizmic model, the trains look a little like the ones on X (best comparison even though they don't spin). Anyway, there is no track below you, the track is off to the side. That's a true floorless.

I agree Acrophobia, will it be a smooth ride? If it is (and if they loop), we could be seeing these all over.

Lets hope

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Wow!  That #2 pic is totally ATLANTIAN.  This would fit perfectly in the Magic Kingdom!  (Can you say Atlantis: the ride!)

the Atlantis ride was scrapped when it failed in the "big disney hit" department. However that was a super expensive ride they were planning. I can see a simple coaster getting an atlantis theme.

The news from IAAPA's Setpoint booth is that Setpoint's floorless coaster will have loops!

Setpoint were the friendliest people that I spoke w/ at the convention.  Besiders that, they had videos of the floorless models, and one ws a deuling coaster!  The cars were places to the side (kind of like X), and they deuled w/ inversions.  This was definately one of the more exciting things I saw (but not as good as the freefall)

The dueling ride is an crude animation they did for the Seizmic concept. If you split the track you can do all kinds of exciting things with it. If you look at the patents for the ride (6,269,750 and 6,047,645), you can see some of the inversion ideas they've come up with, including the dueling aspects by splitting the track.

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