Hm that’s neat, I wonder if it’ll be launched or have a traditional chain?Yep, and it's not the only one!
News - Chessington's Project 2023: World Of Jumanji & B&M Shuttle Wing Coaster
The recent rumors about Legoland Deutschland's B&M Wing shuttle coaster reminded me about Chessington's. Figured we should have a thread for it. Leaked plans here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rollercoasters/comments/p113sl/chessington_bm_wing_shuttle_coaster/parkfans.net
I rode Icebreaker a few times and actually still had to look at the POV to confirm that it wasn't a shuttleDoes that make IceBreaker and Pantheon technically a shuttle coaster because of backwards travel and a break in the track?
I’m only half joking.
Away we go the thunderbird route, but less intense I figure. I wonder if this will use traditional b and m wing trains or a more family friendly version, or maybe even a 2 seater one with one person on each side?
Probably not the place to say this, but this I would be 1000% fine with CF doing something similar to this KD to replace the Volcano.
I know this will poke some embers most likely but there's a point where B&M hasn't really innovated much in recent years and their coasters are hitting the "Arrow in every park" status (before anyone says it, not many know what surf coaster fully is yet and what the reception will be). With this in mind I'm wondering if B&M is finding a need to supplement their major installations with the smaller ones since it's a different market that isn't already saturated with their product.
But that financial performance was because of a lack of new ride concepts. They got stagnant and everyone already had a lot of their products.
Yes, this was a big innovation but it was coming too late. People (not you) tend to look at this as "Arrow was just so outdated" but the people who say that forget that it was a very different time. I think B&M is hitting that same scenario in a different time.... Boundaries are being pushed and B&M are staying overly cautious -- I think Orion is an indication of this where you can tell they tried to get more edgy but it didn't really translate the same way other manufacturers products do. B&M has a similar hurdle to get over that Arrow had that's not about adapting to new engineering but more about adapting to new designs.
Yea, SFMM forcing them to build a big version right out of the gate was a very bad move. I agree it would have started small but probably would have eventually got to the scale X was.
I often wonder if a small scale X would have saved the company. It seems clear that the bigger issue was that the fish hook was a signed deal and the resources were going there because of the size (and income) of that project.... when Las Vegas killed that project that's what ultimately did Arrow in but I do wonder if X had been a smoother installation if they would have been able to quickly turn around a viable product that took off in other parks.
I think the problem was finding a park that needed an Arrow. At the time nearly every park that was going to get a standard Arrow already had a standard Arrow so they didn't have a lot of opportunity to really display their new CAD skills. On that note, I know I'm in the minority, but TT is no different than any other Arrow Looper because of the train design and ride experience. I honestly liked Vortex a lot more than TT. This isn't to say that I don't recognize the difference and the huge step forward that TT was but I don't think it was different enough to really get the industry excited as if it was something new.
That's also exactly who Arrow was at the time.
