intamin rockets - reached their full potiential?

do you think that intamin rocket coasters have reached their full potiential? presuming that 'dragster' is gonna be 400 odd foot tall, then i know that is a lot of potiential, but 'dragster' is still an early model of this ride type so will it take a few years before we see what can actually be done with rocket coasters? the very first B&M inverted didnt show its full potiential and neither did the first B&M flyer which has already been surpassed by S:UF. could 'dragster' one day be surpassed by another intamin rocket coaster? a 500ft model with several inversions maybe? if this is all that intamin rocket coasters can do then i would be quite disappointed really. i know a 400ft top hat is a great achievement, but top hats and overbanks dont make a world class ride IMO. your thoughts please

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Nemesis Inferno - The Pressure is Building!

I think that in CP's case there was not much land to work with. The same with Xcellerator. Not much room equals not much of a layout. Now once a park that has land wants one then we will see what can be done. But all that can be done with "Dragster"(if that is the name) is a tophat and brakes. Give this coaster type time. When the right park comes along we will see one heck of a ride(not taking anything away from Xcell or Dragster).

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Have you hugged a Beemer today?

I don't think rocket coasters have reached their full potential, but I'm not sure they ever will. I would love to see a modern rocket launched spaghetti bowl with or without inversions or some mind blowing ride, but I'm not just not sure we will.

Xcelerator, people. Spell the damn thing right.

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*** This post was edited by S00perGIR on 12/4/2002. ***

The launch system has nearly limitless applications, just as the LIM/LSM have been used for styles of ride much different to the original S:TE. The whole rocket coaster thing seems to be what Intamin call the range of rides that have the launch-tophat-... configuration. Maybe the limit has been reached with that style of ride, but the hydrolic launch can be adapted to nearly all styles of coaster.

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So what if the best coaster in Australia is a second hand Arrow?

How could you say they reached there full potential. There is one and another coming out. The future could bring anything.

Well, LIM/LSM's can go forwards and backwards.

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Säubern Sie mit Milch?

Also, AIR wasn't at it's full potential because they wanted it to be more tame. I do believe the Rocket can do pretty much anything though, but I think CP could have found a way to do more than L-TH-B. They could build over the lake and over the midways. They are just record whores.

Think of the whiplash launching backwards! I have a feeling that wont happen...

Teenage Ninja said:
Also, AIR wasn't at it's full potential because they wanted it to be more tame. I do believe the Rocket can do pretty much anything though, but I think CP could have found a way to do more than L-TH-B. They could build over the lake and over the midways. They are just record whores.

No, they can't build over the lake. The own 35ft into the lake. That is it. No one owns LE. YOU are just an anti CP. And you are just a plain whore.

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Säubern Sie mit Milch?

Exactly how does one go about building a coaster over a lake that freezes so hard that if the plates of ice shifted, it would crush any support like a ball of tin foil? Over the midways, maybe we could have seen that but who knows.

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This ain't no book you can close, when the big light hits your eyes. Cropduster-Riot Act-Pearl Jam

Well actually Teenage Ninja is right. You shouldn't yell at him so much. The 35 feet that they do own, they could build over. Although that might bring up a "CP's new ride is sinking rumor." No reason why they can't build over the midways. Something similar to Corkscrew (The only place they've done it). I agree. CP is just a record whore. It's not always the best thing to be, which they are. Look at pretty much all of the coasters they've built(except the kiddie coasters). They've all broken some sort of record. It's simple people, CP takes the easiest way possible.

Honestly, I don't think that rocket coasters will be built to their full potential because most parks now can't even build a ride as large as CP's new coaster. It's the money people, the money.

Edit: Joey brings up a good point. One I didn't think about.

*** This post was edited by Darth Saambe on 12/4/2002. ***

Yeah, LE is massive, creating powerful plates of ice. Wayer would get into cracks in footers and freeze, expanding cracks. Ice would shift and push footers out from under themselves.

DS: You don't understand. All TN does is diss CP and yell at people for talking about CP.

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*** This post was edited by S00perGIR on 12/4/2002. ***

Well as far as I know the launch system isn't quite perfected yet. From what I have heard and seen Xcel is still breaking down quite a bit. Let's work on perfecting the reliability before we go "Spaghetti Bowling" with one of these things

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It isn't so bad. . .
Once you're used to it

I'm pretty sure the possibilities are endless. It's just a matter of how much money a park wants to dish out.

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-Aaron D.
Webmaster of PKI Unlimited.com
http://www.pkiunlimited.com

What is so wrong with being a "record whore" now? It brings acclaim/money to the park. Plus ya'll the same ones booking tickets to go ride their rides.

Crimony, I'm beginning to sound like a CP fan girl.....oh well

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I, am nobody, and nobody is pefect!

You're a girl?!

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Säubern Sie mit Milch?

No, you blumpkin. Since I'm a six flags brat I usually call the CP enthusiasts fan girls.....

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I, am nobody, and nobody is pefect!

Well its gets way colder on land than the lake does so they can build over the lake. Look at those huge oil things in the oceans. It takes a long time for the lake to freeze over. If they can build bridges and coaster to with stand huge earthquakes they can build a coaster that goes in a lake. Darth Saambe how is building recored breaking coasters thaking the easy way out? When you build record breakers it coast more money than the previous models and they take up more space.

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Load up on guns brings your friends its fun to lose to pretend...

No, they can't build in the lake. For God's sake give that a rest.

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"Climbing as we fall, we dare to hold on to our fate, and steal away our destiny to catch ourselves with quiet grace" - The Stairs, INXS

Rockets haven't reached there full potential, and there is something more than launch, top hat, brakes, to this coaster, and im talking more than the vertical heartline. Rocket coasters I believe will get bigger and better, but this coaster, although with a small layout, will be a big improvement, and this will get people 'to stand up and take notice once again'

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