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Are you complaining about Vekoma not opening coasters on their testing ground to the public? This is basically the same. It's just unfortunate that it's located directly at a park and clearly visible to everyone. But this is still just a test installation. Of course Maurer paid for using this...

There's an queue line and onride video from looopings and Ride Review. Some props are added and the media content is changed. The assistant now wants to kill you! Simple but effective.

What a mess... I love it!

I doubt it will be any ride with Harry Potter theming. Translating it using deepl.com (better than google translate in most cases) you just get this... They are doing something with the actors but Harry Potter and OutLander are only mentioned because their roles are just a lot better known than...

I don't know if a trackless dark ride would be the way to go for the park. Trackless dark rides seem somewhat difficult with elevation changes. It's possible to work around that with elevators but I feel like with the limited area of Phantasialand something more capable of stacking should be the...

I agree. Phantasialand shows everywhere that they can do great theming. Reusng this for a dark ride would be the next step. But if you look at F.L.Y. which isn't even a year old and and has two animatronics and neither of them works - one never did... errrrm... well... they need to get better...

*Based on Universal Studios Japan's in-house research of facilities based on the world of Nintendo brand characters. It's not like Nintendo should know who has a license to use their characters. They reuse the phrase their partner coined. With the asterisk.

I see the shoulder restraint upgrade coming to Tower of Terror... 🙈 The article is utter BS and scaremongering. But I'm afraid that waiver that somewhat suggests there is a real danger might not be in their favor in the end. I feel like it should not be okay to sign away something like "I...

Will it keep the rolling launch? I feel like this just removes something from the ride... But it's less stress on the hardware for sure...

Where's the meta thread on build topics? We can tick the check box for looks slow on the POV!

Ah... remember that you're not allowed to put your arms outside of the vehicle according to basically all coaster regulations I can think of. Look at the signs. If you hit something with your arms up it's more or less your own fault. As legs on a Wing Coaster or an inverter can't be moved it...

Safety is the best thing to cut corners on... :oops: But in the end it's quite likely that the maintenance crew got better job offers while parks were closed than security or ride ops that don't need any higher qualification. So it's quite possible that there's the biggest lack of skilled...

Am I the only one who always thinks it's kind of weird that the Department of Agriculture is responsible for this in any way when theme park accidents in the US happen. I noticed this before with Son of Beast. Is this only Ohio or other states, as well?

Wasn't X pretty much the definition of rough-round-the-edges? It was delayed due to major design flaws and had to be closed only half a year after opening to fix some more flaws like the seat rotation not being smooth. What is being praised today is the S&S rework with new trains. *Never been...

In fact the number of block sections and number of cars doesn't matter at all. That's only highly dependent on the track length. The number of riders are only determined by the dispatch times and size of the ride vehicle.

Not even required. You could load 2 trains and dispatch those at the same time. But one waits in a block directly after the station / before the ride really begins. Like it is done with Poseidon or Matterhorn Blitz.

Really nice log flume. There are obviously some spots where some walls and theming would help with the immersion but that might be something that'll happen in the future. I think some fountains would help in the first part. That feels a bit slow. But in general it looks really good!

I'm pretty sure Gerstlauer's Kiddy Racer is smaller than that. It's higher and a lot more interesting, as well. https://www.gerstlauer-rides.de/products/roller-coasters/kiddy-racer-en-US/ https://rcdb.com/12008.htm

THIS! The video was the most annoying coaster video I ever watched. Constantly interrupted any flow and showed the same element for about 30 seconds each from 3 different perspectives. If you do an onride video: DO AN UNINTERRUPTED POV. If you do an offride video: DON'T REPEAT THE SAME ELEMENT...

If it's too wet the drive tire lift can't handle the weight of the full train and the train would slip backwards. Not by the rain itself but by small streams becoming full blown rivers and breaking dams. Still... just luck for the park and bad luck for too many people.