Busch Gardens Williamsburg Project 2024: Loch Ness Monster Renovation
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No one knows they just finished this rebuild the testing video looks buttery smooth but no one what’s got to ride yet.
Arrow's biggest challenge was transitions between elements, and scaling their loops. Ron Toomer designed a loop and a cork screw and they just plugged those into each coaster with little care for the track in between. Tall coaster with high speeds, put the loop in the air. High speed going into an inversion, just add some brakes to keep people from getting whiplash.
I always thought they should have tried to rework Nessie to remove the second lift and just had a MCBR before the loop to regulate speeds, but in 1978 that was the best they could do.
I always thought they should have tried to rework Nessie to remove the second lift and just had a MCBR before the loop to regulate speeds, but in 1978 that was the best they could do.
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Idk if we're counting non-coasters but doesn't Pompeii have that famous disaster song playing?
I've had awful experiences on some Arrow loopers (Viper at Darien Lake sticks out as a particularly bad one) but Loch Ness Monster is one of my favorite rides ever and was always extremely smooth comparatively. I imagine that will only be even more true after this refurb.
Almost more like a Schwarzkopf, since it has loops but no corkscrews, and is considerably older than Anaconda. Has airtime and is longer but slower. Bangs head more often, less hard. Hopefully the cave/helix won't feel like something is missing anymore.
Loch Ness is faster than Anaconda.
Anaconda has imo always been rougher on the head than Loch Ness. Anaconda is also my second least favorite coaster I've ever ridden, right in front of Hulk at IOA.
Loch Ness is faster (60mph) than Anaconda (50mph). Plus with this refurb, I'm thinking it(LNM) may be in my top 20.
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Loch Ness Monster does not reach 60 mph, regardless of what the marketing copy claims.
It has been a while since I looked at Anaconda. Is the first drop trimmed? I ask because 50 mph is quite slow for a 144' drop.
It has been a while since I looked at Anaconda. Is the first drop trimmed? I ask because 50 mph is quite slow for a 144' drop.
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It's a physical impossibility in one case and an unexplained disappearance of quite a lot of kinetic energy in the other (even after roughly accounting for losses), so it's quite reasonable to question in both cases.
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This is easy to measure with screen recording and speedometer apps. Will measure when she reopens and see what her GPS speed rating is.
Got to give her benefit of the doubt here, speeds in the spring isn’t the max she can hit in the summer.
In my daily check of permits and passes, Nessie officially has her annual safety inspection scheduled for Tuesday (04/12/24) looks like a solid time line is in place for their projected opening.
Anaconda feels faster top speed but even if I might say I'm wrong and they're even, a 10 MPH advantage to Ness doesn't pass a sanity test; the snake's drop is almost 30 feet taller. However I was mostly talking about on average, even with Anaconda's slow second half, Loch Ness has more slower sections -- although Wikipedia doesn't back me up on that either. It also claims Ana hits 5.1 G's, which I presume is lateral at that one spot
. At least that's easy to memorize, while Nessie's roughness was more complex, hopefully that competition is game over now though.
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