Attraction Iron Gwazi
- Thread starter Ghost of Pretzel Kaiser
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For Timbers they didn't take a single thing over 20 feet tall down to the ground. They took out turns whose inner rails were the lowest part of the track, lead-ins to those which didn't match the final route, and valleys between hills where the track ended up lower than original. Since a lot of it was semi-low to the ground anyway, that maybe didn't leave much beyond the large lift-drop structure but they weren't starting or ending with a coaster near as large as this was or will be. In this case it looks like one side is being removed and they're still replacing a larger amount of the other.
If you look at the Untamed thread, RMC used more of the old Robin Hood wood and was shut down due to some cracked timbers.
I wanna know how well-received the og Gwazi was to the public.
If it was very well-received, I’d say it deserves a fitting requiem...
Why not name RMC Gwazi “Gwazi Requiem” or smthg? Especially if it’s not gonna be dueling, as that’d be a great reference to Mozart’s Requiem, which was left incomplete, much like how RMC Gwazi would seem somewhat incomplete without the dueling aspect.
Perhaps, however, this is just another dumb idea of mine...
If it was very well-received, I’d say it deserves a fitting requiem...
Why not name RMC Gwazi “Gwazi Requiem” or smthg? Especially if it’s not gonna be dueling, as that’d be a great reference to Mozart’s Requiem, which was left incomplete, much like how RMC Gwazi would seem somewhat incomplete without the dueling aspect.
Perhaps, however, this is just another dumb idea of mine...
Gwazi was hit or miss. Some liked it a ton, others hated it. It was probably smoother than a ton of woodies I’ve ridden but it was the roughest in the area soooo...
Ultimately the ride cost wayyy too much to run and saw very low crowd draw so they closed it.
For National Rollercoaster Day a BGT Tweet included a very brief animation of Gwazi².
Here's a YouTube of the portion about the new coaster -
View: https://youtu.be/OYlSwwkDgP4
I thought the tracks were purple
Here's a YouTube of the portion about the new coaster -
View: https://youtu.be/OYlSwwkDgP4
I thought the tracks were purple
If SEAS POVs are going to be that bad, I'm sorta glad we didn't get one for Pantheon...
Maybe they kept a bunch, but I still think they only do that just so they can call it a conversion. I doubt they save much money, and then you get things like Untamed being shut down for cracking beams as noted. It makes no sense to me. Just tear the thing down and make it all new. It's got to be easier and cheaper to just tear it down and built it back up and it's going to be more reliable and less costly in the long run.
The inversion in the clip is insane. Overbank/Immelmann/dive loop combo to it.
I sorta have been. Slowing down the video to 0.25x does wonders—even with the first intro clips.
I wonder how much of this was part of the original "pitch" or concept from RMC? I only wonder because of track coloration. Either way, looks to be a great addition. But, other than some footers, to me this is more Zadra (new build) than Untamed (rebuilt conversation).
It seems odd and wasteful to me to tear down a wood coaster to make another wood coaster. The best or only way to reuse that lumber is as it was. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Even if it doesn't make that much difference, it seems to cross a line. But some of the structures that are reused are substantial, and if the ride follows the original path so it can reuse the footers there will be similarity. Also some of the old wood is hard to match in quality now.
It's going to be nearly twice as tall as the original at about 200ft.