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The bankruptcy case will likely drag on until December at least.
Are they on track? Well, word on the street is that they're trying hard to close some deals, so I guess we'll see...
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"We all know Arrow was improving how it made rides..."
Now that is the biggest joke I have heard all day. X certainly was not the model of perfection on new ride openings. Even considering it was a prototype.
Arrow has a history of building rides that are revolutionary, but at the same time, a history of substandard rides, many of which must be redesigned. (Magnum, Steel Phantom, Drachen Fire, Viper, Shockwave and Great American Scream Machine, just to name a few.)
X was underdesigned partly due to several key engineers quitting or being fired. Part of it can be blamed on Six Flags for putting undo pressure on Arrow to get it done when they were clearly not ready to do so.
Yes Arrow has had it's problems and they do learn from them all the time.
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You also failed to mention the Tennessee Tornado, a "modern" Arrow looper built AFTER all of your examples that is (according to everything I have heard from Buzzers) as smooth as any B&M looper. How on God's green earth can you call those rides you mentioned substandard rides? Magnum may not be the perfect ride, but it WAS rated the #1 steel coaster for what, 11 years in a row? Please.
I really hope Arrow can somehow survive.
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I am not saying that all Arrow rides are poor, simply that the company has a history of building rides that must be reconfigured to be successful. See previous list.
X is a great ride and a unique experience, yes. But has not operated regularly since it was first opened.
To my knowledge, no B&M coaster has ever needed to be reprofiled in order to be fun and they certainly have never had significant problems with their prototype rides.
If I was forced to make a judgment, I would say that Arrow has poor engineering standards compared to some other coaster designers.
bmp143 said:
If I was forced to make a judgment, I would say that Arrow has poor engineering standards compared to some other coaster designers.
But that's just you, and you really have nothing to back it up with. B&M and Arrow aren't really comparable, mainly different decades. Remember that.
Hmm...
Batman The Ride opened at Great America in 1992. B&M must have been working on that design for a good two years prior. That was about the same time that Toomer was trying to get his pipeline coaster working.
We all know which design was successful.
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The thing that B&M did right the first time is design a platform that could be reused in many different ways. All of their rides use essentially the same trains. It makes good sense. Heck, I take the same approach in software development. Build something you can reuse, tried and true, and get as much mileage out of it as possible.
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The Mega Looper era wasn't the best for Arrow. Besides the ML's ; I think Arrow has created great coasters and rides. Suspended, Mine type, Hyper, Flumes, Monerails, Super Flumes, and car tracks. Most ,almost all, have been running great for decades.Arrow is still in use @ DisneyLand (1955).
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bmp143 said:
To my knowledge, no B&M coaster has ever needed to be reprofiled in order to be fun and they certainly have never had significant problems with their prototype rides.
How many problems did we have on AIR again? And Arrow track doesn't dent and bend like what happened to AIR.
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The track on air didnt brake. It was one of the station arms which lifts the train into its prone possition which bent. It was replaced quickly and has never happened again. Air in now quite relable.
Has anyone ever died on a beemer due to it crashing? Has a beamer ever even crashed? and can u honestly say the is such a thing as a bad Beamer. Unlike Arrow were u strugle to find and good ones.
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I am just hoping that some how Arrow can weather this storm and continue to perfect the 4-D. I'd like to see an Arrowbatic too. Hell even some more loopers like the TT. Arrow is a great company and has made some of the greatest advances in coaster technology to bring us where we are today. Even the Arrow haters have to admit that.
Keep in mind, too, that the Arrows that get so much greif for being rough were designed with pancil, paper, and the occasional calculator.
Not until the 90's did roller coaster designers really take advantage of the computer...
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