Project 2019: Finnegan's Flyer (S&S Screamin' Swing)

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Testing with guests is literally just they will open the queue line up and let guests line up. That's pretty much it. After a few hours it will close and then be done for the day. It's not advertised in any way.

I don't recall members being promised to ride it before it opened to the public. Just that they would have members only ride time.

On another note BGW has always had a large amount of passholders. The number has increased recently but they have always had a significant number.
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Thanks for the clarification. So I guess the best bet is to keep a hawk-eye on it throughout the day and also check the forum (assuming if someone from the forum notices the queue open, they will post here)

And right. No promise of riding it before the public opening. I believe the wording used was "early ride times to be 'among the first' to ride it". Similar wording was used for cutback.

I still wouldn't be surprised if someday they decided to do something like "ERT slot for only platinum" or some such.
 
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When I show this ride testing to my friends or any ride that is similar with a swinging motion I am almost always universally asked "Does it go upside down???" I always have to explain that it has to have a "counter-weight" and they just stare at me confused......
 
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Well I think that question is the natural thought process for rides like this.

With this ride being pneumatically actuated; I think it would be possible to make it go upside down without the need for counter-weighting. However, I think the decision comes down to what specific market they are looking at for the ride and how thrilling they want to make it.

I think a lot of people assume that going upside down automatically = more thrilling; when that is not actually necessarily the case. Or maybe isn't the experience the park is going for.

With a ride like this, the focus is on the "airtime moments" at the top of the swing arc. Going all the way to inversion might take away from that experience.
 
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Well sure. But there are, of course, other ways to engineer a structural brace like this that could have permitted inversion.

I was just saying that, from a physics standpoint, a counterweight would not have been necessary for this thing to go upside down.
 
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