RE: Project Madrid: New Hamlet? Giga Coaster? 315' Tower?
One (possibly) minor note regarding the image BGW provided in support of the height waiver application.
This sightline image suggests a rather specific width at the "peak" of the attraction. Click to enlarge.
Waaaay back in 2013 BGW filed a permit to build a very tall landscaping project, eventually named Tempesto. In support of their JCC filings they provided a rough visual indicator of the ride's height and breadth as seen from various locations outside the park.
Here are a couple of the resulting images. Click to enlarge.
What I find interesting is the fact they spent some time determining more or less exactly the extremities of the ride's physical structure -- just suitably simplified and abstracted to keep the reveal a secret.
The "low shoulder" on the right of that yellow ride envelope is not a mistake; nor is it some budding Photoshop artist's sophisticated foreshortening of one edge of the ride envelope to give the illusion of dimension.
Tempesto really is notably shorter on one end than the other.
This exact side-on rendering from Discovery Kingdom (alllllmost exactly the same ride) really illustrates it.
And the park decided to reflect that detail in the application. Looking back, it was a useful clue.
I felt at the time, and still feel, that the park saw this "detail" as a necessary element in a straightforward and honest application to JCC. (These things are evaluated in retrospect from time to time, and a somewhat misleading application likely causes near-and long-term future trouble.)
Back to 2017... I remain fairly lazy. Do we have the sightline images from the other 12 locations noted on the current height waiver application? Do they indicate width?
Personally, I suspect a tower ride would have to show a wider envelope at/near peak height if it included a large rider-bearing conveyance. ...Whereas a lift peak, top hat, spike, etc. might be suitably indicated to JCC by showing the region of space where the "open lattice-type structure" approaches and then reaches peak height.
One edit: Checking the location of the sightline depicted above, it is farther away from the park than I originally thought. That is a pretty sizable breadth being depicted in the image from the waiver application. Hmm...
One (possibly) minor note regarding the image BGW provided in support of the height waiver application.
This sightline image suggests a rather specific width at the "peak" of the attraction. Click to enlarge.
Waaaay back in 2013 BGW filed a permit to build a very tall landscaping project, eventually named Tempesto. In support of their JCC filings they provided a rough visual indicator of the ride's height and breadth as seen from various locations outside the park.
Here are a couple of the resulting images. Click to enlarge.
What I find interesting is the fact they spent some time determining more or less exactly the extremities of the ride's physical structure -- just suitably simplified and abstracted to keep the reveal a secret.
The "low shoulder" on the right of that yellow ride envelope is not a mistake; nor is it some budding Photoshop artist's sophisticated foreshortening of one edge of the ride envelope to give the illusion of dimension.
Tempesto really is notably shorter on one end than the other.
This exact side-on rendering from Discovery Kingdom (alllllmost exactly the same ride) really illustrates it.
And the park decided to reflect that detail in the application. Looking back, it was a useful clue.
I felt at the time, and still feel, that the park saw this "detail" as a necessary element in a straightforward and honest application to JCC. (These things are evaluated in retrospect from time to time, and a somewhat misleading application likely causes near-and long-term future trouble.)
Back to 2017... I remain fairly lazy. Do we have the sightline images from the other 12 locations noted on the current height waiver application? Do they indicate width?
Personally, I suspect a tower ride would have to show a wider envelope at/near peak height if it included a large rider-bearing conveyance. ...Whereas a lift peak, top hat, spike, etc. might be suitably indicated to JCC by showing the region of space where the "open lattice-type structure" approaches and then reaches peak height.
One edit: Checking the location of the sightline depicted above, it is farther away from the park than I originally thought. That is a pretty sizable breadth being depicted in the image from the waiver application. Hmm...
