Verbolten

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Manufacturer
ZIERER

Model
Elevated Seating Coaster w/ Vertical Drop Element

Hamlet
Oktoberfest (Germany)

Official Opening
May 18, 2012

Soft Opening
May 11, 2012

Tallest Drop
88ft


Top Speed
53mph

Inversion Count
0

Launch Segments
2

Riders Per Train
16

Number of Trains
5

Height Requirement
48in



Verbolten is an indoor/outdoor ZIERER Elevated Seating Coaster that features a Vertical Drop Element. It officially opened in mid-May 2012 on the site formally occupied by the Arrow Suspended Coaster, Big Bad Wolf.


Videos​

Development Documentary​

Ride Recordings​

On-Ride Videos​

Backstage Footage​

 
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Serious question for termite experts because I've seen it suggested a few times now...

Do termites like super high places? I don't know much at all about termites, but it feels like a termite would need to have taken quite a vacation to find their way to the roof of Vbolt's bridge. Maybe I'm totally misguided here?
 
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Zachary said:
Serious question for termite experts because I've seen it suggested a few times now...

Do termites like super high places? I don't know much at all about termites, but it feels like a termite would need to have taken quite a vacation to find their way to the roof of Vbolt's bridge. Maybe I'm totally misguided here?
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Based on what the guy who did our house inspection last week told us it's probably possible but HIGHLY HIGHLY unlikely. He stressed that they usually prefer to live and enter wood structures from. ground burrows but said that he has found they on decks and other elevated areas so I guess it's possible they went up a support or rail but again that seems remote.

It's also worth noting that I was outside and near the York River earlier in the day and there was actually a period around 2 or so where there was a good 10-15 minutes with very strong gust.
 
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[...] However, I will say that since at least part of the roof is still there, I’m guessing they’ll definitely build it back at some point by the summer. [...]
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They left the front facade of the bridge to give the impression the bridge is still there when you're riding Verbolten.
It's a similar effect as the entrance to the show building.

If the bridge was somewhere in the woods they might actually get away with leaving it like this.

Given how visible the structure is from the bridge over the river though I don't really see them keeping it in this condition.
 
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There’s no way they keep it like this. It would be smart of them to fix it before the rest of the park opens though. They’ve got a little more than a month to do prolly a weeks worth of 9-5 labor. 1 week of downtime is fairly acceptable to me.
 
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GrantLee123 said:
There’s no way they keep it like this. It would be smart of them to fix it before the rest of the park opens though. They’ve got a little more than a month to do prolly a weeks worth of 9-5 labor. 1 week of downtime is fairly acceptable to me.
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It wouldn't even need to be that if they did it the way they built it originally. The decorative parts of the bridge were built separately on the grown and then lifted onto the steel frame by a crane.
 
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horsesboy said:
It wouldn't even need to be that if they did it the way they built it originally. The decorative parts of the bridge were built separately on the grown and then lifted onto the steel frame by a crane.
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Then yeah, they should digging up those plans and making calls
 
horsesboy said:
Based on what the guy who did our house inspection last week told us it's probably possible but HIGHLY HIGHLY unlikely. He stressed that they usually prefer to live and enter wood structures from. ground burrows but said that he has found they on decks and other elevated areas so I guess it's possible they went up a support or rail but again that seems remote.

It's also worth noting that I was outside and near the York River earlier in the day and there was actually a period around 2 or so where there was a good 10-15 minutes with very strong gust.
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Had a thought on this today. Woodcarver Bees might actually be an explanation they are not as noticeable as termites but cut fair large bore holes in lumber including in treated lumber. They also fly which would make the height not an issue and are extremely hard to get rid of once established. They also like thick harder wood so on know to do some serious damage to thicker supports.
 
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Had a thought on this today. Woodcarver Bees might actually be an explanation they are not as noticeable as termites but cut fair large bore holes in lumber including in treated lumber. They also fly which would make the height not an issue and are extremely hard to get rid of once established. They also like thick harder wood so on know to do some serious damage to thicker supports.
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And given that bees themselves are good pollinators and not generally as disruptive as wasps are to guest experiences, it stands to reason there's little the park could do to prevent them from messing things up except use the plastic that looks like wood some people make fences and decks out of.
 
There are carpenter bees all over the park burrowing into the wood.

My wife loves them so I am on the lookout for them quite a bit. Found them in the fences, in the structure of the roller coaster stations and all over the Trappers Smokehouse.

They usually do not cause significant structural damage since most of them are solitary and don't build big nests.
Some live in small social groups of a mother with her daughters, but they would stay away from other groups, so the overall structure shouldn't be taking much damage.

The bridge also is pretty high up. It does not seem efficient to fly that high when there are plenty more convenient spots close to food sources are available.


Could it be that the wood just rotted away in the rain? I doubt there was much maintenance done to the structure.



This is Beeanca, her pet carpenter bee. Unfortunately Beeanca died in 2019.
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I feel like we should pay our respects to verboltens roof
 
I have a question for anyone with more experience related to permits and building codes. If Busch goes the same route as before with building the bridge cover on the ground and then lifting it into place over the steel do they need to file for a permit to start working on it or only before attaching it to the steel frame?
 
Interesting question - it's replacing an existing structure but not necessarily enhancing it; it's considered a decoration but also could be considered an occupied building whenever a coaster train runs through it (or maintenance has to go up there for whatever reason). What sort of permit do they need for any of that?
 
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I'd expect them to need a building permit.
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I am sure that they need one to actually mount it to the structure I am just not sure that assembling it on the ground before raising it and mounting it would require one as it wouldn't really be a structure at that point.
 
horsesboy said:
I am sure that they need one to actually mount it to the structure I am just not sure that assembling it on the ground before raising it and mounting it would require one as it wouldn't really be a structure at that point.
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I mean wouldn’t they really only need the permit to install it? They could build it anywhere really
 
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