"Unknown" - Vekoma Stingray for Suzhou Giant Wheel

[The Grape Wizard]

The first picture looks really cool, i cant wait to see the end result

 

[Anonymous]

^ The track was completed a long time ago: http://www.screamscape.com/html/vekoma_-_stingray_0.htm

 

[The Grape Wizard]

Thanks leofet I only looked on rcdb.

 

[Nick]

Ahh another Small but Cool coaster. On one of the early concept artworks for this park, you can see a layout of a Zamperla Volare. So i reckon the park designers were gonna go for a Volare, but then saw this by vekoma and thought... 'that looks 100 times better'

It probably has a similar footprint to a volare too. A wise decision by the park owners i think, it's unique, probably quite cheap but has a good visual impact.

 

[Ali]

The ending looks quite fun, sort of like half of a Pretzel-loop.

 

[Slash]

This is the only coaster thats being built where ive though "That looks terrible"

It looks crap but it may turn out good, you never know. Then again its Vekoma...

 

[MouseAT]

This is the only coaster thats being built where ive though "That looks terrible"

It looks crap but it may turn out good, you never know. Then again its Vekoma...

Don't knock it until you've tried it. The old "flying dutchman" coasters were actually pretty good. They rattled around a bit like most other Vekoma coasters, but they were nowhere near as uncomfortable.

Some of the elements on this may be unpleasant, but it won't necessarily be lethal just because it's a Vekoma.

 

[Hixee]

^Exactly.

Wait 'till you get on Air.



:lol:

 

[Anonymous]

TESTING!!!

From RCDB

Looks really cool!

 

[Hixee]

I think that looks great. It will certainly be a different sort of experience to the other flyers out there.

 

[coasterdude_1]

is that a zero car at the front(?) ???

if so, the cars are the wrong way round on the track, i swear.

 

[Anonymous]

^ The new train design put's the zero-car in the back, the good thing with this is that it holds up the floor of the last row, so that they don't have to have the floor fixed to the seats as earlier models.

 

[Gazza]

Video of it in operation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwuJoDJBLi8

Looks sort of ok, kind of slow though the layout, and that final half loop is braked all the way through.

 

[Lofty]

Yeah, I thought that when I watched the video, looks kinda boring if you ask me, the half loop up looks really quiete forceful though!

 

[wolverinechris]

If it's operating, why's the topic still sticky'd?

 

[furie]

Passed under the radar... Oops and all that!

 

[wabbit42]

Nice, wanted to see one of these for a while!