This is good, hopefully the paint job is done by May. It won't be done by spring break thats for sure.
Apollo's Chariot
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Kevin also said that painting will continue throughout the year and into the off season.
I wonder if the trains were originally going to look like this. Sort of like B&M sitting coaster trains but with lap bars.
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I don't think these images exist anywhere else on the internet at this point, so I'll share the copies I have from my personal archive...
Needless to say, I think they're absolutely gorgeous. What we ended up with just feels dull and lifeless in comparison.
Needless to say, I think they're absolutely gorgeous. What we ended up with just feels dull and lifeless in comparison.
Those look a lot like B&M sit-down trains with OTSRs. Maybe they designed these before the hyper trains were finalized?
Those are some beautiful looking trains, but as much as I love how they actually look like chariots, I’m really thankful for the openness of the actual design. Apollo’s Chariot wouldn’t be nearly as fun without that feeling of freedom.
Since Apollo's was one of the first hypercoaster models B&M and BGW likely did a mockup using the sit-down trains instead. I highly doubt the concept art would've ended up being the final product unless they were going for lap bar trains that looked like what Wildfire @ Silver Dollar City has.
Just a little preemptive moderation: Identifying park employees is against our rules here so @mwe bgw should only answer this question describing which position the person he spoke to was working in, nothing about the person specifically.