The more coasters I ride, the more I appreciate how tight and violent Alpie's cobra roll is. That thing is crazy.
Alpengeist
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This is a question better suited to the advisory panel/admins but what do we think of perhaps a gallery for each of the rides where people can post their pictures all in one place to enjoy? I know @Luke and others are very talented photographers.
Could be a good way to organize photos of defunct rides, too. I may have a "new" Drachen Fire photo or two to contribute to such a gallery, provided I can find them in the appropriate old-fashioned photo album in the darkest recesses of my basement.
Some opening day Alp footage just posted on youtube...
Notice how it flies through the MCBR.
If ONLY they still ran it like that! :sigh:
Notice how it flies through the MCBR.
If ONLY they still ran it like that! :sigh:
Alp's opening spring... I had just ridden Montu a couple of weeks prior to this, and couldn't believe the power of both Busch inverts. Really different rides, each terrific in their own way. At the time, with Raptor having been the biggest invert before Montu and then Alp hitting 195' from highest to lowest point, it was just stunning to behold what B&M had achieved. Nobody else was capable of it.
Alp's swoop out of the MCBR was one of my favorite moments, and the vid shows exactly why. The last two inversions were so powerful. The helix was faster too, of course, but still lost steam pretty rapidly as you climbed out of it. B&M wrung every practical inch out of that first hill and the terrain.
Alp's swoop out of the MCBR was one of my favorite moments, and the vid shows exactly why. The last two inversions were so powerful. The helix was faster too, of course, but still lost steam pretty rapidly as you climbed out of it. B&M wrung every practical inch out of that first hill and the terrain.
Opening day media footage here showing brief interviews with Madonna's BFF Debi Mazar and some of the Radio City Rockettes.
people coming off Alpengeist's midcourse in 1997:
I went to the park last night and alpengeist was going stupidly fast. The mcbr was straight up not hitting at all and neither was the drop trim.
It was AMAZING. There was 0 slowing down in the Immelmann and the vertical loop. The cobra was also SUPER intense.
lets just say we might be able to go skiing this saturday during member preview
was i right or was i right?
A friend in ride ops confirmed that it was open as a replacement for Griffin which was being cranky last night. I am actually impressed that they opened a replacement that late in the night especially with as lighter crowd.