Interesting you mention the flyover turn, because that general type of banked, non-inverted maneuver is also where Iron Menace has its issues, even though one is mid-ride and the other at the very end.
Project 2025/Caldera: Rapterra (Launched B&M Wing Coaster)
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How do you even repair ripples or wavyness in track pieces. Like what is there to fix without replacing whole pieces. Makes no sense to be doing this now when the ride had been testing for months and ridden a ton by the crew. Im not calling bs on them fixing anything but im calling bs
Ryan the Ride Mechanic has a great TT2 update video with an explanation of how they do it:
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Neat video but theyre not repairing any of the rail the train actually rides on. Thats also intamin track vs B&M. If the rails the train ride on are warpy and not straight then i feel like that is a different beast. Is it the entire ride bouncy and bad? If so then what? They arn't going to do that process to the entire ride lol.
I’d say highly doubtful. Way too much marketing has gone into its launch. I’d imagine they’ll address any of this during off time.
Yeah, there's no way they would delay the opening unless something were to come up completely out of their control.
Metallurgy is metallurgy. If you heat those ties in the right spot, its going to push the rail into a different position. Also, that launch track(the rails specifically) have some spots in them that could benefit from straightening.
But hey, what do I know, i'm just replying to your smart ass response to my legitimate answer to what i thought was a good question.
Not really being a smartass. Just asking legitimate questions in my eyes. Because B&M is typically rattly the whole ride nowadays lol
No argument here
It sure seems like their quality has taken a hit over the last decade (but then again, what hasn't?)
Premier is still going smooth asfNo argument here
There seems to be a narrative developing parks have been asking B&M to make their rides cheaper. I can’t remember where I heard this. Makes me sad if true and the days of the new truly glass smooth B&M are behind us.
I thought @CoasterAuditor was just presenting a theory that's been circulating online, not stating that it's true that KD "cheaped out." Considering this rattle has been reported on rides built at Six Flags (pre-merger), United Parks, and legacy CF parks, I think the idea that all those parks suddenly decided to cheap out is bogus. Seems more likely that B&M has tried to cut costs or has lost the thread on some quality process on their side of things.
It'll be really interesting to see if BBW is plagued by the same issue.
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Slow your roll. Rapterra is still $20-25M in no way is that a cheap attraction.
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Definitely more this. It's no fault of the park for buying what B&M is selling, when what they're selling is still by every metric a fully functional, reliable, crowd pleasing, people-eating, marquee coaster that just happens to 'shuffle' more than they did 10 years ago. Absolutely not to discount the valid complaints of the noticeable decline in quality, but in the grand scheme of things, it's unfortunately such a small issue/non-issue that this is probably just how it is now.
That said, I am glad to hear from the reviews here that there don't appear to be any large jolts like that last curve of Iron Menace. Wing Coasters naturally do have a little bounce to them by default, so anyone expecting a Twisted-Timbers-level smoothness was never practical. Hopefully I don't eat those words, but I am still so stoked to finally try it out at passholder night!
If it’s anything like iron menace then I’ll be happy because I rode that one last year on outer and inner seats and the rattle I felt was never significant enough to the point I would even think twice about it without everyone freaking out about B&M rattle. It’s hard to pass judgement until I can ride it myself of course, but I think that while it may get some thoosies’ panties in a twist it won’t affect the success of the coaster.
Honestly I don’t get why B&M gets people so worked up for a slight rattle that they act like they just rode row 12 of anaconda 25 times in a row (the row I so lovingly called the lobotomizer row)
Honestly I don’t get why B&M gets people so worked up for a slight rattle that they act like they just rode row 12 of anaconda 25 times in a row (the row I so lovingly called the lobotomizer row)
Injured? Brother it’s a slight rattle nobody’s getting injured.
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