Project 2026: Verbolten: Forbidden Turn

[TheCoasterNerd]

4 to 5 months for this? I was thinking way less lol 4 to 5 months for what they seem to be doing seems like alot to me.

To install several new giant set pieces, completely renovate the queue, install and program two animatronics, program lights/audio and then do reach testing with all of this feels like a lot to do in 4-5 months

 

[Le Moose]

To install several new giant set pieces, completely renovate the queue, install and program two animatronics, and then do reach testing with all of this, plus potentially repaint the track feels like a lot to do in 4-5 months

I don’t think they’re going to repaint the track. Over the last couple of years Verbolten has gotten essentially a full repaint.

 

[MrBradferd]

To install several new giant set pieces, completely renovate the queue, install and program two animatronics, and then do reach testing with all of this, plus potentially repaint the track feels like a lot to do in 4-5 months

Verbolten isint being repainted, the queue from what I thought wasnt staying 90% the same. Just a slight refresh. All of it is pre drawn and all. The set pieces id assume have been pre made months ago somewhere and they will just slide them in and stuff. Like designing haunt facades ect. Animatronics can be set up and tested mostly before install on site id imagine. Syncing to the ride itself maybe not? But it's 2026 and syncing stuff to rides is nothing new at all.

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

The queue from what I thought wasnt staying 90% the same. Just a slight refresh.

Well, the station at least has been 100% gutted inside. Down to the bare walls and air gates. Not too sure about the queue itself.

The set pieces id assume have been pre made months ago somewhere and they will just slide them in and stuff. Like designing haunt facades ect.

Well yes, but this is permanent so it needs to be a bit more than that. Gutting the current effects, bringing a floor-to-ceiling giant tree into an existing building, positioning around the track, painting, etc.

Animatronics can be set up and tested mostly before install on site id imagine

Especially with regional park-level animatronics, true. But rerouting power to allow for it, installing lighting, bolting it down, all that stuff still takes at least a month.

And again, reach testing takes like 3 weeks at least before they can open. Again just kinda surprising how quick they're moving

 

[MrBradferd]

Well, the station at least has been 100% gutted inside. Down to the bare walls and air gates. Not too sure about the queue itself.

Well yes, but this is permanent so it needs to be a bit more than that. Gutting the current effects, bringing a floor-to-ceiling giant tree into an existing building, positioning around the track, painting, etc.

Especially with regional park-level animatronics, true. But rerouting power to allow for it, installing lighting, bolting it down, all that stuff still takes at least a month.

And again, reach testing takes like 3 weeks at least before they can open. Again just kinda surprising how quick they're moving

The station is completly gutted? I must of missed that. That's sick. Im sure it takes awhile it just doesn't seen like it should till you break it down

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

The station is completly gutted? I must of missed that. That's sick.

Yeah!

View attachment 41047So it appears as if all the station theming has been removed except the row markers.

(This is not my photo, it came from Demetris Adventures on YouTube)

 

[MrBradferd]

Yeah!

Thats crazy i missed that. Demetri is my boy. Im in many of his videos. Look up his Carowinds Haunt live stream.

 

[horsesboy]

More later but the car has been freshly painted and refreshed.

 

[horsesboy]

Not much new this week but since I bothered to bring the camera with the big lense here are the Verbolten pictures from today. For those of you that doubted that the event building had theming check out the black forrest growing out of the roof.

 

[MrBradferd]

Thats a awful lot of overspray under that car and on the rock. Jesus

 

[DolphinzRock]

Do we know if the dispatch/return audio is going to change? I'm guessing it will, but that's the thing I'm most sad about. It was honestly one of my favorite aspects of the original ride, corny as they were. I'll miss the iconic "Auf Wiedersehen!" and "Don't look back as you brave the Black Forest", if they're gone. I can literally quote all her lines by memory.

 

[Le Moose]

Do we know if the dispatch/return audio is going to change? I'm guessing it will, but that's the thing I'm most sad about. It was honestly one of my favorite aspects of the original ride, corny as they were. I'll miss the iconic "Auf Wiedersehen!" and "Don't look back as you brave the Black Forest", if they're gone. I can literally quote all her lines by memory.

I’ve been scared about this too. I hope if the voice does change, that the lines are kept the same.

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

Same here. Even the GP know Auf Wiedersehen and around my school it's a phrase used relatively often in casual conversations about the park. I hope that the park realizes how iconic Auf Wiedersehen is to everyone.

 

[cschnizer]

I mean the Loch Ness Monster dispatch line was kept the same after it was refurbished. Just a different voice doing the spiels.

 

[Bring Back Questor 87]

I hope someone tells these folks that most rocks are not red and fix that paint underneath the car.

Also, THEME said car, make it look wicked again.

Looking forward to riding it since my last trip in 2019.

 

[MrBradferd]

I hope someone tells these folks that most rocks are not red and fix that paint underneath the car.

Also, THEME said car, make it look wicked again.

Looking forward to riding it since my last trip in 2019.

I really would thing the rocks and stuff will be cleaned before opening but why even do that to begin with. It takes 10min max to drape that off lmao After seeing all the blue tempesto paint drips all over the decking board though doesn't suprise me

 

[vicfromptv]

Do we know if the dispatch/return audio is going to change? I'm guessing it will, but that's the thing I'm most sad about. It was honestly one of my favorite aspects of the original ride, corny as they were. I'll miss the iconic "Auf Wiedersehen!" and "Don't look back as you brave the Black Forest", if they're gone. I can literally quote all her lines by memory.

Bro they better keep it! My vocal stim!

 

[horsesboy]

Nothing new on the Verbolten front today.

 

[VikingvadR]

Looks like the on ride photo area is getting a upgrade

 

[horsesboy]

New sign.