I really can't comprehend your disdain for Verbolten. It's become obsessive and has bled into every thread.
I realize this is supposed to be a "concept," but it's not even remotely something that is in the realm of possibility. Considering it took 40 years for Nessie to receive new trains, and there are much older rides in BGW's collection such as, Alpengiest that are in much higher need of modification, this "concept" just seems ridiculous.
In my opinion you are just hiding behind the guise of a concept to take another opportunity to bitch and complain about what is actually a groundbreaking coaster that took risks and set out to do something that had never been done before.
You've made it abundantly clear that you hate Verbolten, why don't you give all of us a break?
This Reddit thread ripped open the wound, hence the comparisons to Cedar Point's past coasters:
- Verbolten's footprint is very large for what it is.
I appreciate Verbolten's ambition, as well as the engineering that went into a true freefall drop track and running five long trains on a ride not even 3,000 feet long, but the ride experience is still the weakest out of BGW's major coasters in my experience - it's as far behind the rest of the coasters as I'm told Disaster Transport / Mantis / Mean Streak were as each of them got dealt with.
How would OTSRs improve Verbolten?
Not actual OTSRs. They'd turn Verbolten into a headbanger. Just seatbelts - smaller and thinner than even Tempesto's Comfort Collars - to absorb the quick directional changes.
Okay, the "add seat belts" and "replace most of the track" were mostly more of my usual Verbolten bashing (which I would have edited out if I hadn't hit "post" too soon), but the flat-out replacement was a more serious one. My intent with that was that so much better could be done with the plot. I'm reminded of the "end of its service life" lines used in the announcements of the removals of Big Bad Wolf and Firehawk respectively. I can believe KI easier, because I saw Firehawk break down for most of the day when I was there (and Bat ran fine despite being the same age as the Wolf when it was killed). But in both cases, I suspected that the respective parks saw that a new ride was a better use of the land. As for BGW, wasn't the Oktoberfest area being revamped greatly around the time? I'll elaborate more on Firehawk in its thread.
There was a thread about using the Drachen plot for a flying coaster, and recreating the wraparound corkscrew in flying position, and then the idea about using a wing coaster instead. The Wolf plot would be much better for a flying coaster than the Drachen plot would be. The former Wolf footers were meant for a ride whose trains are below the track - suspended, inverted, or flying.
...But then there's the loading times. So many flying coasters use dual stations, which would require replacing the original Big Bad Wolf station. In this case, I think that would be an acceptable sacrifice, so long as the new station is done right.