Vialand | Nefeskesen | Intamin LSM

[andrus]

Re: Vialand | "Unknown" | Intamin LSM

Does anybody know why these Intamin LSM coasters use such short trains (assuming this one will get 3 cars as well)? All recent installations (iSpeed, Cheetah Hunt, Maverick) have used short trains. My theory is that a shorter train requires less power to launch and hence minimize spikes in the electric power grid. Or could there perhaps be another explenation? I can't see any element in either of the layouts mentioned above that would require a shorter train.

I know the theoretical capacity is supposed to be rather high, but in reality (with loading delays etc) it's a different story. At both of my visits to Mirabilandia the queue for iSpeed have been ~1 hour while it was walk on for Katun. A 5 or 6 car train would've drastically improved the capacity!

 

[Uncle Arly]

Re: Vialand | "Unknown" | Intamin LSM

Some new pictures...

 

[rollermonkey]

Re: Vialand | "Unknown" | Intamin LSM

Does anybody know why these Intamin LSM coasters use such short trains (assuming this one will get 3 cars as well)? All recent installations (iSpeed, Cheetah Hunt, Maverick) have used short trains. My theory is that a shorter train requires less power to launch and hence minimize spikes in the electric power grid. Or could there perhaps be another explenation? I can't see any element in either of the layouts mentioned above that would require a shorter train.

I'm pretty sure that most of the newer LSM coasters use banks of capacitors store electricity between launches to level out the draw on the grid. I think that was one of the big lessons learned from Superman at MM and Batman and Robin at 6FGAdv.

 

[Ethan]

Re: Vialand | "Unknown" | Intamin LSM

I think the short trains are so that they don't lose as much speed? And therefore there isn't hangtime on the tophats, and the radius of the tops of the drops (Maverick) can be smaller because the backs seats won't be too far behind?

Just my theory haha.

 

[CookieCoasters]

Re: Vialand | "Unknown" | Intamin LSM

Love it! Looks awesome and the park itself looks quite nice actually.

 

[bob_3_]

Re: Vialand | "Unknown" | Intamin LSM

The two intamins look amazing actually! The family one looks like a slightly more intense thirteen's-first-half. And this one looks like it combined a few top elemts. I mean that air-time-hill.

 

[Idlewild]

Re: Vialand | "Unknown" | Intamin LSM

I think the short trains are so that they don't lose as much speed? And therefore there isn't hangtime on the tophats, and the radius of the tops of the drops (Maverick) can be smaller because the backs seats won't be too far behind?

Just my theory haha.

Nope you got it the wrong way round, heavier trains lose less speed. Your kinda right about smaller trains allowing tighter a radius, that's because forces on the front and rear of a train are higher than the middle.

But it's almost certainly because it uses less energy to launch a short train, meaning the launch can be faster and use cheaper equipment.

 

[nadroJ]

Anybody have any updated news on this bad boy? Looking to head out to Turkey late September time and would love the rides to all be open <3

 

[Lofty]

Well, it's testing. These were shot on the 28th December. So by September, I'm sure it'll all be running.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmrcocx4_V4[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mHrfsWT_hs[/youtube]

 

[TheCoasterCruiser]

And we have a POV.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIAvzX1x7c&hd=1[/youtube]

 

[Hutch]

Interesting looking top hat. Looks like another great Intamin.

 

[peep]

That looks awesome. Hmm, now when to fit in a trip to Turkey

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[DelPiero]

It looks good, love accelerators that do something after the top hat.

 

[ECG]

Since the video that TheCoasterCruiser posted is no longer available, here's an official one:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=583680631730101

 

[_koppen]

Intamin have now put this park project up on their website.

Looks like this ride, just like Cheetah Hunt, was scaled back a little bit to fit the family audience better.

 

[bmac]

Looks like a cross between Cheetah Hunt and iSpeed really. Has the top hat akin to iSpeed, and everything after the immelmann reminds me sort of what Cheetah Hunt does.