Jim Fisher said:
An inverted hyper would also be very expensive to build because many of the inversions become enormous at the high speed of a hyper
Why does everyone keep assuming that the inversions have to be any larger than on current coasters? You just use the air time hills and turns of a classic hyper design to slow the coaster down to the point that you can throw in some inversions. Then you get some of the best qualities of both designs.
Alan T.
---There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."--Dave Barry
Alan T. said:
Jim Fisher said:
An inverted hyper would also be very expensive to build because many of the inversions become enormous at the high speed of a hyper
Why does everyone keep assuming that the inversions have to be any larger than on current coasters? You just use the air time hills and turns of a classic hyper design to slow the coaster down to the point that you can throw in some inversions. Then you get some of the best qualities of both designs.
Alan T.
---There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."--Dave Barry
yes do what arrow used to do, put loops on top of stilts. ave a 200+ drp then a 100 foot hill and put a loop on top of the hill then have it exit into another inversion on stilts, you dont need massive loops.
TrBiggar said:
The simplest way to figure out if a coaster is a hyper or not is to... Only categorize it as wood, steel non-looper, or steel looper! Another way that really works is look at what the manufacurer calls it. Intamin, therefore, doesn't make hypers. Don't the nameplates all say Megacoasters? Same with B&M, they don't make hypers, they make megas. I think that would mean Steel Eel is a hyper, because doesn't Morgan call thier coasters hypers? Get my picture?
If you're going by height, I go by if it's taller than 200 feet or has a 200+ foot drop, and is full circut.
laurence, why would the forces cause the wheels to shatter? I don't think inverted trains weigh that much more than a normal train. The forces are the same. If train A is inverted, B not, and both weigh 20 tons each, the forces are the same on the top, bottom, and side wheels to both coasters. Pulling forces, pushing, it doesn't matter. The wheel can't feel the difference.
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When did American Eagle get more airtime than Viper?
B&M make "speed coasters"!
el bolliger y el mabillard hacen coasters de la velocidad!
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seltzer water kicks @$$
laurence said:
a hyper coaster is a steel coaster based on a woodie design, so i dont really think a hyper coaster can have inversions in.
What about SOB, is it not a hyper-woodie with a loop?
2Hostyl said:
Lallen: You are absolutely right. Hypercoasters can have inversions. Hell, Millennium Force alone has three of them
lata,
jeremy
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MF is not a hyper, its a giga, so it has its own rules. And if WT at CP is a hyper twister then I guess STE at SFMM is the worlds first terra coaster (lets not start that thread again.)Oh, and by the way, I'm just joking. Who cares what they classify the coaster as long as we keep getting more of them and they keep getting faster, higher, more inversions, etc. THE'RE ROLLERCOASTERS. PERIOD! Why can't we all just get along?
Rob
laurence said:
anyone want to make a no limits inverted hyper coaster...
Sure!!! I'll do it! Wait, I already did ;) . The picture of the lift can be found here. It really shouldn't look as strange in real life as the one I made since I had the track go underneath, but you get the idea. The ride is 218 feet tall, so it's barely a hyper-inverted.
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Roomraider,
I think that using feet and inches is a lot easier than using meters. (Just my opinion, and that of many other Americans).
:)
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coasteraddict said:
Roomraider,
I think that using feet and inches is a lot easier than using meters. (Just my opinion, and that of many other Americans).
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The point is that the rest of the world uses meters instead of feets, and they are often reported in meters and feets... and nice numbers of hyper's 60, giga's 90 and tera's 120 are all a few feets short of the american's 200, 300, and 400.
We understand that many people on the boards are American, but please allow 196' coasters to qualify as hypers, 295' as gigas and 394' as teras. (60 m, 90 m and 120 m respectively)
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