My prediction for the Coaster lineup this winter is Pantheon, Verbolten, InvadR
Apollo's Chariot
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In 2016 the spiels switched back to a female voice. Are we sure that it’s the same voice actor as the one before Phil Raybourn did the spiels? The current one sounds a little bit different and more slower speaking than the old one (or the one you hear at Pompeii).
They are replacing the lift motor.
Yeah Nessie, InvadR, and Tempesto are all opening this weekend
Motor or gearbox? The motor would be a pretty quick job, while I imagine the gearbox would be much more difficult.
Yea that's definitely a gearbox on the road over there. Much more in-depth job.
Looks like Apollo is no longer listed as closed on the website.
Leads me to believe that Apollos chariot may have originally been a looping sitdown. Interesting, if that were the original idea.
Or, since this was B&M's first hyper, the train wasn't finalized, and Busch based their early theming work on an existing train design that was pretty close.
That makes total sense you know, you can sorta see how they relate to the sit-down trains. My guess is that they just took the sit-down trains and added clamshell restraints, just so they didn't have to invent and risk a new train flopping. Sort of on the same idea of how Arrow didn't design big loops for the mega loopers, they just used the same design and added a longer slope into it.
I've seen that before. Ironically, nearly all the B&M sit-downs use that design and Wildfire is the only one using the hyper design. What a reversal. I wonder if this implies Apollo was going to use the same technology as earlier B&M above-track coasters (vertical drive tires, trains stopping before the transfer track if a train is in the station, etc.). But I could be wrong, if this was actually a placeholder.
Proven traffic driver, I imagine. Easy eyeballs basically for free.
Other work happening with the ride, although less important than the grar box from a couple of weeks ago. This picture is from last week, although nothing has changed since.