Seeing the likes of Verbolten destroy Nessie in that Twitter poll result earlier on the page just made me die a little inside.
The Loch Ness Monster
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Did you draw that?! That's so good!! I love her.
Nessie has one of her trains out of the maintenance bay and in the station now. Hopefully this is a sign that she might open in the near future.
A Vekoma re-tracking of the whole course similar to Python at Efteling would do wonders for the ride when the time for either demolition or renovation inevitably comes. (Let's be real though, Nessie can't actually close, it's going to operate forever.) Apart from the brakes, station, lift, and any other non-high stress area of track the whole course could be re-profiled and re-tracked to allow for a smoother ride experience, as well as alleviating some of the maintenance troubles that the older track brings to the table. I just hope they don't remove any of that classic Arrow coathanger charm on the drops, they can reprofile the entry and exit into the loops all day, but touch the drops and we might have a problem.I could see vekoma giving this old girl "plastic surgery"
This is also a pipe-dream, but if they could somehow put lap bars on Nessie I think that would also open up the array of riders even more as the neck banging would be removed entirely, also that first drop with just a lap bar would be some straight heat.
Efteling's Python wasn't retracked by Vekoma, but some company called CSM: https://rcdb.com/897.htm
You might be thinking of SFoG's Ninja -> Blue Hawk.
Only thing I can think of, and this is probably wrong, is they've cleaned then regreased the 2nd lift chain so that boom is to catch any potential grease spills into the water from any drops that come off of the trains as they cycle.
Either that or paint, though I think they usually encircle the track section with tarps/plastic and paint usually sinks in water.
Regressing the second left chain or something like that also came to mind for me to. It's definitely not painting as she was repainted completely a few years ago and still looks really good.
Noticed this comment from the park while snooping around on the BGW Instagram.
Based on this comment and @horsesboy's photo it seems very possible that Nessie is going to open in the next couple of weeks!
Based on this comment and @horsesboy's photo it seems very possible that Nessie is going to open in the next couple of weeks!
Loch Ness Monster's inspection is scheduled for tomorrow according to @Adam. It could potentially reopen very soon.
