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It gets taller!

It's happened before. It's probably easier than doing it at Mack's paint shop where they'd just quickly spray every piece with one colour. Old Nemesis had it's rust painted on afterwards and Dr. Diabolical had it's support details painted on afterwards. The gradient is specified on the plans so...

From what I've heard, the transition will be painted on once the ride is fully erected.

I'm almost certain it'll just be the lapbar, neither Wicker Man nor Smiler have seatbelts fitted so I'll be surprised if Hyperia does. I am curious as to whether there will be a pair of Mack's "Big Boy" seats on the trains like Icon; I presume there will be.

Ok so I'm currently 2,000 words into my trip report and I'm barely half done...

And the obligatory Silkstone tweet.

And here we have it! https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyLUqY_NUJG/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

I asked Thorpe a while ago how many trains Hyperia will run and they told me 2. This also coincides with the animation appearing to only have one holding block behind the station. So I think we should go in with the assumption of 2 train ops, but a 3rd train would be a pleasant surprise. Also...

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I think furie's inversion chart is a bit of an outdated definition personally (no offence of course) and prefer RCDB's logic in this instance, as iirc furie puts the inversion threshold at 160° whereas I would consider an inversion anything closer to 180° than 90°, so over 135°. I mean it's...

Swarm clone :rolleyes:

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Finally got round to updating my rankings... Maybe I should get round to doing my trip report.

The dive loop stall probably takes the title because this only really inverts at about 3/4 the height of the outerbank. EDIT:- Red line marks the most inverted point of the downward barrel roll, orange line marks the top of the dive loop stall. The dive loop is definitely slightly taller...

^Also to note; 90% of the footers are now in place and Jack confirmed the supports at the far end of the site will go in first (the massive outerbank inversion thing). Doesn't seem like the construction crane is on site yet though. My guess is we will see the two support towers constructed...

They did Colossus this year is well but it did have issues.