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Martin & Vleminckx

Darren B

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Martin & Vleminckx are a roller coaster manufacturer that have manufactured the following coasters;

Boardwalk Bullet - Kemah Boardwalk
Coastersaurus - Legoland Florida
Dauling Dragon - Happy Valley Wuhan
Fjord Flying Dragon - Happy Valley Tianjin
Wooden Coaster - Fireball at Happy Valley Shanghai
unknown - Fantawild Adventure, Zhuzhou
unknown - Fantawild Adventure, Shandong
unknown - Fantawild Adventure, Wuhu
unknown - Hotgo Park

However, we know all of the above to be Gravity Group coasters. Gravity Group DID design the coasters, but didn't manufacturer them. Why are they not Martin & Vleminckx coasters?

Based on the below they should be credited, right?

El Toro (SFGAdv) - Designed by Stengel, manufactured by Intamin AG. Intamin Coaster.
Outlaw Run (SDC) - Designed by Shilke, manufactured by RMC. RMC Coaster.
Hercules (Dorney) - Designed by Summers, manufactured by Dinn. Dinn Coaster.
Ravine Flyer II - Designed by Gravity Group, manufactured by Gravity Group. Gravity Group Coaster.
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Boardwalk Bullet - Designed by Gravity Group, manufactured by Martin & Vleminckx......

Does anybody have a simple answer to the question, geeky, but intriguing.
 

BBH

Giga Poster
Re: Martin & Vleminckx

The Gravity Group are an actual design firm on their own. InB Stengel GmbH really just do force calculations on rides like El Toro and basically anything they're credited with nowadays. TGG actually design up to the point where they've formed a sister company to manufacture trains and actually entire coasters, that company being Gravitykraft.

Simply put, Stengel don't really do layout design, more tweaking to make sure the forces are in check.

Schilke is an employed engineer for RMC in the same way Toomer was for Arrow (or Schilke after him). Designs credited to RMC are automatically credited to him as head engineer because he holds that position on all of their custom projects.
 
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