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Alton Towers | The Smiler | Gerstlauer Infinity

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_koppen

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Gerstlauer has been pushing pretty hard lately for their customer to go with lap bars, so I'm really hoping for the same here.
 

furie

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

Looks like B&M track to me :p
 

owentaylor121

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

^You think? I think it looks more Gerstlauer to me, but it's hard to tell from that picture though.
 

Lofty

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

Yeah. It's Gerstlauer by the looks of it. Oh well, who cares? Just to say several other coasters the company have made are a bit crap, doesn't mean this is going to be. Every single manufacturer has made a couple of not-so-good coasters, EVERY manufacturer.
 

furie

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

Words, don't fail me now... Oh, they have...
 

marc

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

Really must stop reading at my desk, yet again Furie as made me lol in front of everyone.
 

spicy

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

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Woohoo, track!

Don't be silly Furie, its clearly Intamin track. :p
 

Kebab

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

Definately looks like Dare Devils style of track! It's more narrow than the usual Euro-Fighter track, yay!

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Mmm, I want! :p
 

furie

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

And just like Saw's too..?
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Lofty

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

It doesn't matter the width of the track, we know the trains it's got, 4x4.
 

NickkyG

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

Oblivion: Black
Saw: Black
Thirteen: Black
Swarm: Black
SW7: Black

It's actually slightly blue according to Photoshop, but it's dark enough for me to consider it black.

Yawn. Would be interesting if "lap 2" had a different colour track though.
 

Kebab

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

^I said the same thing when Swarm come out, just noticed the track was black... :x Oh well, good speculation about the 2nd lap though, that'd be interesting to see!
 

Smithy

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

The outer rails on Saw actually look a slight bit bigger. There's probably loads of other things I could sit and over analyse but I just want to see more track tbh.

And I'm fairly sure Alton specifically have to use such dark coloured track given their location and environment. Thorpe are just lazy/find it easier/cheaper to maintain a dark coloured rides paint.
 

nadroJ

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

Omg yay track finally! I really like black track, I hate garish loud colours on a coaster.
 

Pierre

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

Yes! We're onto PHASE 4 of a coaster construction topic.

PHASE 1 Announcement
PHASE 2 Discuss/Argue over manufacturer
PHASE 3 MUD!
PHASE 4 TRACK!
PHASE 5 VERTICAL CONSTRUCTION!
PHASE 6 Discuss/Argue over whether the ride will have airtime
PHASE 6.1 (Alton Towers optional) Discuss/Argue over what the worlds first feature actually is.
PHASE 7 Ride
PHASE 8 Write home about how lame the ride was and it didn't live up to over-hyped expectations.
 

bob_3_

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

You forgot the 'TESTING! Looks slow though' and the 'Just rode it before everyone, therefore its amazing' stages.
 

Smithy

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

No love for CONCRETE!!! or I told you so, my source was correct!!! ?
 

SaiyanHajime

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Re: Alton Towers | SW7 | Unknown Gerstlauer World's 1st

I only like the "I told you so" part when I'm right. Humph!

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