Six Flags Fiesta Texas announces single-rail Wonder Woman Golden Lasso roller coaster

Raven-Phile said:

There's a joke in there about his home park being MiA and nothing new.. but I can't find it

You need to look somewhere about Mid-Timbers.

I'm just glad ApolloAndy didn't get mad at me copying his joke only half a page down. Hahahaha

I have to wonder... since there's only 8 seats to check, shouldn't they *technically* be able to finish safety checks quicker than a traditional 2-wide train? Theoretically they could have quick dispatches. Fewer people having to clamber over to drop their stuff in bins, too.

Yes, it is Six Flags, which is why I said theoretcially. lol

Shades said:

John Knotts said:

I wonder if Cedar Fair will reap the same criticism in about a week when they announce a similar ride at one of their parks?

I doubt it. I think everyone will be going nuts when they announce that MS2.0 is a single rail racer/dueler.

Either that, or the single rail RMC about to be announced at CGA... 😊

Raven-Phile said:
I'm glad Mack has progressed to their current state of coolness.

And off subject for a sec- has anyone seen those shots of the first drop out of the station on SDC's Mack coaster?
Holy crap-ola.

More Mack, please.

I'm just curious, but how would the theoretical capacity of this coaster compare to Tempesto at BGW?

The premise in the USA Today article that the ride will be smoother because it is on one track is completely backwards. On a relatively narrow track (and this box beam is easily less than 1/2 the width of the track on any similar type of ride), any small deviation in the track (particularly rotational) will translate to larger movements of the rider. A wider footprint always adds stability. It's the same reason the middle row of a 3-row PTC car is less rough than the front or back rows of the same car, just on a different axis.

Will this coaster provide a smoother ride than one with a conventional track? Maybe so, but it would be because it is easier to build this type of beam to tighter tolerances rather than because the track is narrower than convention. But that would make it's smoothness a manufacturing benefit, not a design benefit. I guess we will find out next year. Until then, I will hang on to my doubts.

Hopefully they will have a single rider line to help fill trains...

The whole line is a single rider line lol.

But seriously I get what you're saying and I hope so too or it's going to have 6 people or so on each train.

According to the Raptor promotional material, the theoretical capacity is 600 people/hour with 3 trains. For comparison, those S&S 4D Free Spins have a theoretical capacity of 720 people/hour.

It's interesting that Six Flags announced this earlier than all the other new-for-2018 rides. The speculation is that Six Flags wanted to beat another park to the punch by announcing theirs first. The post on the RMC Facebook page describing this as "one of our Raptor coasters for next season" lends credibility to the rumor that Cedar Fair (or perhaps some other park) will also be adding one.

So, a question. What, exactly, is the purpose of a single rail coaster? Meaning, what does it bring to the coaster table that is not already offered? Is it capable of something innovative?

This looks like a fun ride, but other than reduced capacity and sitting in single file I don't really see a difference between this or any other steel coaster.

Cheaper to produce, perhaps?

That's exactly it- ease of manufacturing saves money when being fabricated, along with the potential to use less steel on support columns.

They also claim it is smoother but that remains to be seen.

Aside from $$$, they claim it will be smoother.

Plus: There won't be anybody sitting to the left or right. And when they look to either side, riders won't see any track either. The single rail, a scant few inches wider than a foot-long sub, will be underneath the train. If passengers lean over the cars, they'll see straight down to the ground. "You're going to feel like your gliding through the air," says Chickola.

I hadn't thought about the visuals from on the train with the single rail underneath and nothing to either side.

It seems that it would be cool to marry the single-rail concept with a Tron-type coaster...for capacity issues you could have two coasters side-by-side that interact along the course; how cool would that be?

RMC at Magic Kingdom, please.

The trex model will, probably, have 2 across seating, so that's probably the larger park model.

It appears that WWGL will have a 3 train moving station. So... Capacity... Not "as" bad as we thought it might be.

Where have you seen that they will have a moving station?

Park's FB page, for one... or at least, that's where I saw it.

SFFT's Park President is kind of a known commodity... ;~P

That moving conveyor belt platform is only as successful as the riders and ops make it. (I'm looking at you, Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit...)

Tekwardo said:
The whole line is a single rider line lol.

Actually, that was the joke.

RCMAC said:

That moving conveyor belt platform is only as successful as the riders and ops make it. (I'm looking at you, Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit...)

Never been on HRRR, but: mouse with continuous loading >> mouse with stop and start loading.