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Yesterday Fun Spot posted a video revealing some new details about the RMC I-Box coaster heading to Fun Spot Atlanta next year. Reddit user, u/TDChrisGo, posted a nice summary of what they announced, here. I'll quote his post below:
TDChrisGo's last point really struck me though... This coaster has already broken ground...? That tells me one thing: There's probably a public records paper trail for someone to follow. So anyway, I went looking and found exactly what I anticipated.
Recently, Fun Spot Atlanta filed paperwork with Fayette County, Georgia requesting a zoning change to enable the park to pursue future expansion opportunities. Most of the submission is pretty boring, but Fun Spot's proposal did include an incredibly informative site plan. This master plan outlines two large areas of the property slated for possible future development and, most enticingly, features the rough, overhead layout for the 2022 RMC coaster the park has been teasing lately.
First up, the full site plan. It's actually labeled pretty thoroughly so I won't spend too much time on it, but there are a lot of "Proposed" elements to look over. Thee most notable being the two "Future Development" pads and the new coaster, of course. I'll provide closer views of those in a moment.
Next up are the two large proposed expansion pads. Both of these are roughly the size of the current Fun Spot Atlanta park area. It will almost certainly take many years for Fun Spot Atlanta to develop all of this land, but the important thing here is that the park is theoretically capable of tripling in size without any trouble.
And then, of course, the thing you're all here for, the RMC I-Box layout. It's hard to know exactly how accurate this diagram is, but, considering how recently it was filed with the county and given that the park has apparently already broken ground on the project, it should be very close to the final product I'd imagine.
Though I'm not going to do a ton of analysis here like I would if I were writing for BGWFans or KDFans, I'll toss out a few things I notice right off the bat:
And lastly, I'll leave you all with an overlaid view of the entire property with the new site plan overlaid in place. This does a good job of showing just how much land Fun Spot has to work with in Atlanta.
Yesterday Fun Spot posted a video revealing some new details about the RMC I-Box coaster heading to Fun Spot Atlanta next year. Reddit user, u/TDChrisGo, posted a nice summary of what they announced, here. I'll quote his post below:
The owner of fun spot has made a video regarding major details, and these were some of the key points:
- The Atlanta sports theme unfortunately fell through, now being themed to the history of Georgia and America
- Supports will be white, one rail will be red and the other blue
- The owner has stated “this is no kiddie coaster, this will be a world class coaster.”
- Ground has been broken on-site
TDChrisGo's last point really struck me though... This coaster has already broken ground...? That tells me one thing: There's probably a public records paper trail for someone to follow. So anyway, I went looking and found exactly what I anticipated.
Recently, Fun Spot Atlanta filed paperwork with Fayette County, Georgia requesting a zoning change to enable the park to pursue future expansion opportunities. Most of the submission is pretty boring, but Fun Spot's proposal did include an incredibly informative site plan. This master plan outlines two large areas of the property slated for possible future development and, most enticingly, features the rough, overhead layout for the 2022 RMC coaster the park has been teasing lately.
First up, the full site plan. It's actually labeled pretty thoroughly so I won't spend too much time on it, but there are a lot of "Proposed" elements to look over. Thee most notable being the two "Future Development" pads and the new coaster, of course. I'll provide closer views of those in a moment.
Next up are the two large proposed expansion pads. Both of these are roughly the size of the current Fun Spot Atlanta park area. It will almost certainly take many years for Fun Spot Atlanta to develop all of this land, but the important thing here is that the park is theoretically capable of tripling in size without any trouble.
And then, of course, the thing you're all here for, the RMC I-Box layout. It's hard to know exactly how accurate this diagram is, but, considering how recently it was filed with the county and given that the park has apparently already broken ground on the project, it should be very close to the final product I'd imagine.
Though I'm not going to do a ton of analysis here like I would if I were writing for BGWFans or KDFans, I'll toss out a few things I notice right off the bat:
- The boxed out areas of track are likely areas with catwalks or something to that effect. That estimation is based on the existence of boxed out track leading into one of the two buildings at the bottom corner of the layout. I imagine that's the final brake run. Based on the catwalk assumption, it seems likely that the boxed out area of the track to the left of the station and maintenance buildings is this ride's lift hill (or launch, who knows, it's anyone's guess I suppose).
- The squares that appear along the lower potion of the track's layout are odd. It seems likely to me that they're particularly large foundations—possibly for a large truss support structure à la Goliath (SFGAm) or Iron Gwazi.
- The leftmost point of the layout clearly appears to be an inversion—presumably an Immelmann or a Dive Loop. Interestingly, this segment also features those large rectangles. Could this portion be supported by a metal truss structure too...?
- Leading back parallel to what I believe is the lift, the track bisects two more of those large rectangles. Once again, assuming those are large truss structure footers, this could be interpreted as an inverted stall parallel to the lift structure just like Goliath at Six Flags Great America features.
- The rest of the layout gives us essentially no context clues to work with. One interesting detail though is that it looks like this coaster will either go over or through the large building towards the north end of the site. This is more clear in the composite imagine I've put together below.
And lastly, I'll leave you all with an overlaid view of the entire property with the new site plan overlaid in place. This does a good job of showing just how much land Fun Spot has to work with in Atlanta.