Knotts Berry Farm Progress

A train for Silver Bullet has arrived today...I love how close people are going to be to the ride near the cobra roll...but I seriously am worrying how easy its gonna be for some jerk off to thorw something at the train when it goes by. Otherwise, the rest of the paths are done, the entire area has a completely different feeling to it, its just something to get used to...I doubt the Walter K Steamboast is coming back, or even the train for that matter...there seriously is just not that much room in the pond. But who knows, maybe they'll re-route everything to get them up and running again.

5 dollars for screaming swing is well worth the first run...but i'm not paying another 5 to go on it again. The negative and positive g's are very fun, but the ride is seriously just too damn short. If they gave me even 2 more sets of back/forth, I would definitly ride again.

Anyone know why the last two cars are colored different?

http://www.westcoaster.net/update.php?id=1006042

I dunno, this entire coaster has seemed to be "half-assed" if you know what i mean...like...half the track pieces have dust all over them, the lift paint to yellow stripe paint conversion is horrible, the last 2 trains are different colors...Its starting to seem to me B&M is throwing in some parts and pieces that have been laying around the warehouse, although I doubt thats true. The last 2 trains being different colors? I think thats pretty unattractive, but it really has no outcome on how the ride is. I can't wait to see a run.

We're still complaning about dust? A good soaking rain will probably remedy that pretty easily but still....dust? And I don't understand the last two cars being different colors either, but I have a hard time caring when I check out that long, dramatic first drop, that crazy overbank, what looks like a very fast paced second half, the super tight helix....

I just hope it tracks more like, say...Raptor rather than Talon.

Hmm. I thought the trains were going to be silver as represented in the animations. They look very Talon-esque with the aqua color. Another meh from me, but I still maintain this will be an awesome ride........after the first drop!

The animations were done as a guess by Keith. All he had to go off of was that one [crappy] overhead photo the park showed at the announcement.

From what I know, there's *nothing* chrome on the trains! The wheel colors also have the alternating red, orange, and yellow color scheme.

JC

Its starting to seem to me B&M is throwing in some parts and pieces that have been laying around the warehouse, although I doubt thats true.

Blame Knotts. The park makes the color choices...all B&M does is design the ride.

mOOSH [doesn't mind the colors]

Come to think of it, it has the same color scheme as La Revolucion and Riptide.

Somebody at Knotts is loving the red/yellow/orange/aqua combination!

Personally, I think someone at Knott's is obviously color blind, but that's just me.

-Nate

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Mamoosh said:
Actually its "Ready, Aim...Cream!"

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Wow.

*** Edited 10/7/2004 7:08:18 PM UTC by Rob Ascough***

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coasterdude318 said:
Personally, I think someone at Knott's is obviously color blind, but that's just me.

-Nate

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No, a color blind person would only see the entire RGB spectrum except for red and green tints. They would be just as able to choose universally appealing coaster colors if they wanted to.

But if you think somebody at Knott's has a bad taste in color combinations, then that's another deal. ;)

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Legendary said:
The animations were done as a guess by Keith. All he had to go off of was that one [crappy] overhead photo the park showed at the announcement.

From what I know, there's *nothing* chrome on the trains! The wheel colors also have the alternating red, orange, and yellow color scheme.

JC

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I think it goes more along the lines of this:

The park actually purchased the material from McVeen, AFTER the press-release. Keith's Silver Bullet modeling was done as a project to Badnitrus, not Virtual Image Productions and all of his renderings for that ride was based on the simple layout concept drawing from the press release package.

Knott's did not hire him do the concept art (for some stupid reason since they had previously purchased the Xcelerator media from him) and did what they did with Xcelerator. They bought the media after he made them. I don't know, that seems like a good way to go around spending more funds than you need to. ;)

Oh, thanks for clearing that all up for me, Krax...I honestly had *no* idea! :)

Joe "had an idea" C.