S&S Unveils the Axis Coaster Concept

[Crunchewy]

I have to say that this looks incredible! I hope these actually get built, and built near us:



Sorry for Facebook video, but you can watch it without an account. Skip the intro and jump to 15 seconds.

 

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S&S Axis
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[halfabee]

S&S Axis
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What’s in a name?

WWII Germany, that’s what.

 

[Sly4Good]

I'm imagining the insane amount of theming one can do with a ride like this.

Consider me hyped.

 

[Crunchewy]

Interview with Preston Perkes about it:

 

[Crunchewy]

I guess they didn't install brakes on the prototype. This POV goes longer and you see it roll back past the start and partway through the track backward. I guess eventually it changes directions again and slowly rolls back but we don't see that. Or maybe it valleyed. In any case it makes me want one of these that is actually designed to go forward and backward. That would be super cool:

 

[Jonesta6]

I feel like the main point here is the ability for the seats to move independent of the track vertically and laterally, basically the idea behind the X coaster except not on a wing and no need for computer controlled rotations.

With that, I'm curious if they were to use the trick track concept from either Hagrid's or Pantheon how that experience would be with this design

 

[Ice]

This concept has me so excited. It just seems to me like a modern take on the Arrow suspended and I can't wait for these to be installed. I have missed that feeling only the Arrow suspendeds have ever provided

 

[SLC Headache]

I wouldn't mind Six Flags making an expanded version of one of these new Joker in terms of cloning and plopping. The world needs more suspended coasters.

 

[warfelg]

I'm really interested in what the loading/unloading would look like with this concept.

 

[Jonesta6]

I couldn't tell if on the prototype there was any sort of mechanism that locks the seats from spinning

 

[Ice]

I'm really interested in what the loading/unloading would look like with this concept.

I saw in an interview an S&S engineer said loading/unloading is easiest from the inverted position, and you would load like any other invert.

 

[Crunchewy]

I think this will feel fairly different from an arrow suspended. You aren't suspended from a swinging arm. The motion is going to be different. However I agree that Big Bad Wolf was great. Loved it.

 

[UncleDuncan]

Finally got around to watching these vids. Wow, this looks fantastic. Way to go S&S! Can't wait to ride one.

 

[Conan233]

 

[BGWnut]

I wonder where the first one will get built. I'm not going to lie I would love to see BGW get one of these at some point.

 

[Crunchewy]

Is that a launch up into the first drop? Was a little hard to tell if that is what they are showing. Looks fantastic either way.

 

[BGWnut]

It is in the prototype. In the rendered concept it looks like a near vertical lift hill

 

[ControlsEE]

You can see a lift motor at 0:13

 

[Crunchewy]

You can see a lift motor at 0:13

Ah, yes. The way they edited that video it looks like it launches. Tricky.

Though going up that vertical-ish lift would still be cool.