It's amazing that Coliwood gets firsthand access to these arrivals. I'm kinda low key jealous.
News Project 2027/Purple: Delayed “World Record Breaking Coaster" (Phantom Spire?)
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It's amazing that Coliwood gets firsthand access to these arrivals. I'm kinda low key jealous.
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I think we should expect this to curl up the tower, in addition to a wind up to the top like in the early animation. Also, if the first hill is where it goes inverted, this could be the bottom of that heading into the second row of launchers before the tower. So a couple places this piece could fit without any dramatic changes to the layout we've imagined.
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I agree, this is tight but definitely looks like a top of the tower piece. The track not only has the up and down curvature but turns slightly as well. I'd expect to traverse this track piece sideways
Im still interested to see how its guaranteed that the ride makes it all the way up and curls around the top. Has there been any launched spike where the ride doesnt stop 25-50 feet before the top and fall back down? Maybe the launch fins go all the way up the tower until the point it starts to curl so as to control the speed longer? Interesting to say the least.
Obviously nothing comparable to the scale here, but the Mack PowerSplashes go right up to the magnetic trims at the top of their back spikes. Link
Parallels to a coaster anywhere near that old are pretty useless. Launches are infinitely more sophisticated now than they were back then. If we look at any recent coaster with a spike immediately adjacent to a launch, you'll see far smaller margins.
That track doesn’t look like it has any spot for trims and it also looks like it would be perfectly 90° to the ground. Can you imagine being 400-500+ feet up free spinning perpendicular to the ground?!? That’s….something.
I thought most launched coasters that go only 3/4ths or so up the tower are doing so as a cost saving measure more than anything? Like Superman at MM for example, there's enough strength in the launch to get you higher, but it's more expensive to run for not much more benefit.
Seconding what Warfelg mentioned, I don't think enough people are considering how insane it'll be to be outwardly banked facing at 400 feet in the air. In spinning cars, mind you.
As much as I loved Ka, it’s not even going to be comparable to the experience this is going to provide. I’ve been VERY eagerly anticipating the feeling spinning, facing the ground and sky, at 400+ feet in the air is going to give me.
? Huh. Obviously. I’m just saying his post has way more views of the tracks ….
before you edited/reworded your post I also thought you were directly comparing the popularity of Coliwood vs ElToroRyan. It was not obvious.
Looking at that track piece GADV posted today… I really don’t think that was random.
If I had to bet, I’d say they showed that specific piece on purpose. It definitely feels like it’s part of the spire near the top — but what really stands out to me is the banking. It’s banked outward, which makes it look more like it belongs to a camelback or airtime moment rather than an inward-banked turn, especially based on where the support connection seems to be.
Weren’t there survey photos and that early concept video showing the cars starting to roll toward a near-90° bank at the end of the spire? It’s hard to be 100% sure just from how the track is sitting, but honestly… it really looks like that’s exactly what we’re seeing here.
If I had to bet, I’d say they showed that specific piece on purpose. It definitely feels like it’s part of the spire near the top — but what really stands out to me is the banking. It’s banked outward, which makes it look more like it belongs to a camelback or airtime moment rather than an inward-banked turn, especially based on where the support connection seems to be.
Weren’t there survey photos and that early concept video showing the cars starting to roll toward a near-90° bank at the end of the spire? It’s hard to be 100% sure just from how the track is sitting, but honestly… it really looks like that’s exactly what we’re seeing here.
Two things:
- One: I think the new track piece is probably not the outerbank, but the transition from traveling vertically up the tower to the more horizontal outerbank. As killer as a 90 degree bank would be, I’m expecting something closer to 60 for the orbit at the top of the tower.
- Two: In the background of some of the track pictures you can see the second pieces of the station tracks, which have two sets of contacts on them for cars, which means this is likely going to be running five car trains, so 20 riders per train.
- One: I think the new track piece is probably not the outerbank, but the transition from traveling vertically up the tower to the more horizontal outerbank. As killer as a 90 degree bank would be, I’m expecting something closer to 60 for the orbit at the top of the tower.
- Two: In the background of some of the track pictures you can see the second pieces of the station tracks, which have two sets of contacts on them for cars, which means this is likely going to be running five car trains, so 20 riders per train.
question. Is it possible that this is only a boring mini drop out of the station because when I flip my monitor it sure does look like an average drop not trying to ruin anyone's dreams, but I'm setting my expectations on the lowest, so I don't get too disappointed. Because personally I don't think it will be a bad ride, but I think other than the Hight and speed this ride should be pretty tame.
We don't expect the station to have much altitude at all, but the bigger reason this is almost certainly not a drop out of the station is that anything between the station and the first launch would need to be taken in reverse on its own momentum as well and launching backwards into the station seems highly, HIGHLY unlikely.
^^Definitely not. For that piece to be a drop out of the station, the station would need to be some 30ft in the air. The footers for the station (sliding track) are just a few feet above ground level, so this means the station will more or less be at ground level too. A drop into the launch also doesn't make any sense in this shuttle configuration.
The curvature of this specific piece is the most telling piece. It's a pretty darn sharp radius for the size and length of those trains (whether 4 cars, especially if 5). I saw some speculation this was a transition piece between the vertical ascent and the more horizontal "orbit" around the tower, and I just don't see it based on how long the trains are. Much more likely IMO that it's at the very top of the tower.
Would be quite funny to see more of these same shaped pieces show up, and the train does a fully-90*-outward banked orbit around the tower... or maybe the track just keeps rolling into the world's highest inversion?
The curvature of this specific piece is the most telling piece. It's a pretty darn sharp radius for the size and length of those trains (whether 4 cars, especially if 5). I saw some speculation this was a transition piece between the vertical ascent and the more horizontal "orbit" around the tower, and I just don't see it based on how long the trains are. Much more likely IMO that it's at the very top of the tower.
Would be quite funny to see more of these same shaped pieces show up, and the train does a fully-90*-outward banked orbit around the tower... or maybe the track just keeps rolling into the world's highest inversion?
That would deal quite a blow to my commercially devastating "experientially empty slop" criticisms. They should do it
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