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[Thrills & Chills WQAQ]

So im in a discord server and someone just sent this, apparently its for a b and m family shuttle wing coaster
Think anything of it?

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[panopticon31]

A B&M.........shuttle? so weird.

 

[Zachary]

A B&M.........shuttle? so weird.

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

 

[CoasterTalkBob]

A B&M.........shuttle? so weird.

B&M impulse coasters are awesome to make in RCT..... bring in the crowds for not a lot of money

 

[warfelg]

B&M impulse coasters are awesome to make in RCT..... bring in the crowds for not a lot of money

RTC B&Ms were awesome. PC Intamins were awesome. But not the inverse.

 

[Alf33]

A coaster crash has hurt dozens. Info attached.

Dozens injured in Legoland roller coaster crash in Germany

A roller coaster crash at a Legoland theme park in southern Germany injured 31 people on Thursday, according to local authorities.

www.cnn.com

 

[Nibbins]

The Accident apparently was on "Feuerdrache".

Sounds like one train was stopped on the brake run before entering the station when a second train ran into the back of it.

It's surprising this can happen with all the safeguards in place.
Germany usually is very thorough when it comes to inspections and such.
At least no one died in the accident.

Just last week a woman slipped out of another roller coaster in a smaller park in Germany, fell 26 feet and unfortunately was killed.

 

[Zachary]

Sounds like one train was stopped on the brake run before entering the station when a second train ran into the back of it.

This would have required two trains in the same block zone, no? Huge red flag.

 

[CoasterTalkBob]

I don't understand why the recent few years we have seen so many block violations (and not the "brakes were wet" kind of violations. Thankfully they've been low speed around the station but I have to wonder if this is just the quality of the programming or if there are issues with newer PLC controllers/switches themselves. It's confounding to me how a ride can run a program over and over and over for sometimes years and then all of a sudden make a mistake.

 

[Thrills & Chills WQAQ]

It’s gone vertical on the worlds most adorable b and m aweee

 

[Diamond Dave]

That's......that's a lift hill. So this one isn't a shuttle.

 

[AIR]

Wait, so there's a lift hill? How's it going to shuttle? Is this just a mini wing coaster?

 

[Zachary]

I'm renaming the thread. Does anyone have an updated layout prediction?

 

[Thrills & Chills WQAQ]

I'm renaming the thread. Does anyone have an updated layout prediction?

I can check later, can’t right now but in a bit i can

 

[Coasternerd]

That's......that's a lift hill. So this one isn't a shuttle.

You have seen how some parks can make a shuttle with a lift, correct? Gerstlauer comes to mind. I don’t see why they couldn’t be doing something similar to that. Granted most of them are launched, but almost all of them have some kind of backward element.

 

[Diamond Dave]

I'm renaming the thread. Does anyone have an updated layout prediction?

(Modified from image embedded in tweet from @cslkenny above)
Actually, I think the first helix will be different than pictured. It looks to me like it will drop to the ground and then spiral up. The rest looks accurate.


And yes lift hills can be used on shuttles but I haven't seen a shuttle coaster have a lift with a curve at the top like this, and there's a support for the drop after it.

 

[Thrills & Chills WQAQ]

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(Modified from image embedded in tweet from @cslkenny above)
Actually, I think the first helix will be different than pictured. It looks to me like it will drop to the ground and then spiral up. The rest looks accurate.


And yes lift hills can be used on shuttles but I haven't seen a shuttle coaster have a lift with a curve at the top like this, and there's a support for the drop after it.

Switch track. Think like switchback at zdts. Like that same concept.