Breaking down the elements

Thats the down side and the track will do a 270. The other side just does a 90 and it is just like Xcelerator. You need to look at some more recent pics. (and please don't ask me to post any, I am too new to know which sites are OK)

The apex piexe has a support connector on its concave side, dashing any hopes that the train will travel on that side of it.

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Launch: Tophat: Twistage: Brakes...

...Denial is an ugly thing.

CP bound, then let me ask you this, *assuming* the piece you are referring to *is* indeed the tophat "apex" then why is there still talk that the tophat track will be free-standing like Xcelerator?

At the very least, please tell me that you do not subscribe to such conflicting theories.

lata, jeremy

--an inversion kid, trapped in an airtime whore's paradise....

I didn't even know that there was still talk that the top hat track would be free-standing. I thought we all pretty much agreed that the top hat would be non-inverted (the train will travel right side up) and that there would be a single vertical support that will come up from the "weird piece" that is at the top of the tower right now and support the apex of the top hat.

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L-TH-TW-B... "Meh"
Wicked twists: 11

The tophat might be unsupported on the sides for a few feet, but it will be supported at the apex. As Majin Heero said, there will probably be a single vertical support connected to it.

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Launch: Tophat: Twistage: Brakes...

...Denial is an ugly thing.

I just hope it is a really long single vertical support!

Well I'm assuming that support will extend about 20 feet above the main structure... ;)

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L-TH-TW-B... "Meh"
Wicked twists: 11