Recent content by Crazycoaster

Zamperla need to start taking a good long hard look at their cobra roll shaping. They look terrible both in the 927M and the 568M.

Something like Flying Aces except without dying at the end plz and thnks xx

The problem with referencing rides from the US parks is that China doesn’t have the same history and nostalgia with them. Hence Tron instead of Space Mountain, a pirate world instead of frontierland.

It baffles me that a park that is surrounded by such beautiful landscape can look so… horrendously ugly. Not necessarily all their fault as the entire resort surrounding it is just as vile, but it’s just such a mishmash of themes with no consideration to the skylines at all. Doesn’t help they’ve...

Just to clarify, I wasn’t referring to the creative team, I was referring to the people that actually make the decisions, that okay the projects, and funding amount. Sure, the creative team has constraints, but a lot of those are added by the the executives that make the decisions, that...

The people that make these decisions don’t understand what makes a ride fun. I feel like the only way they’d be able to make this a fun attraction is to put it into a building and theme it like a dark ride. Turn, twist, turn, straight section, super slow helix on your side, then a slow meander...

This is true with the original coasters, Oblivion and G5, but all of the dives since then have used spring loaded wheels and do have 90° drops.

B&M arn’t trying to aim for the gimmick of World’s steepest with this, that’s not why this is interesting, it’s interesting because of airtime. They’d have done this drop shaping to produce more sustained negative G’s for longer, rather than a 0G vertical drop. Along with what looks to be an...

That was all I could think about during that video too. The ride seems.. nice? I guess. Good one for the lift hill enthusiast.

I think what Merlin fail to do with their attractions is make them anything more than a “one and done”. A good ride will either be thrilling/fun enough to ride over and over again or have an engaging storyline that can be explored multiple times (spotting new things with rerides etc). A great...

It failed because it’s sh*t. Basically. It’s not even really a ride. It’s like a flight simulator from the 90’s that doesn’t do the exciting movements of a flight simulator, leaving nothing much in terms of an actual “ride”.

That really is a different angle 🌝

You only have to look at Diving Machine G5 to see that there is a lot of drop still underground. There are also plenty of construction pictures of the enormous pit they dug for Oblivion:

The sheer entitlement in this thread is fascinating.

You make it sound like traipsing from Harry Potter to Jurassic Park is a long arduous journey. I don’t think anyone in the history of the world has ever walked into a theme park, queued at the entrance, paid for a ticket, gotten past the turn styles, walked to a themed land and then suddenly...