Maverick Trains

Please name one coaster with only lap bars that has corkscrews, zero g rolls, airplane dives, cobra rolls, and all of those elements. Not saying Maverick will have those exact elements, but we know it has a few already.

Those elements place a very different force on you than just going upside down in a loop. It's scary to think of all the guests who would fall out due to that fact.

Not everyone is the same, and at some point a lap bar only ride with all of those elements would kill somebody. If you want that, I say save a few million and build your own. If you die, then it's your own fault.

^ Flight of Fear has a cobra roll, immelman, and corkscrew, and only uses lap bars and ankle bars.

Also, the Maurer Sohne X-Coaster designs also only use lap-bars, and perform some crazy stunts. http://www.rcdb.com/ig3185.htm?picture=51

But, that's just for arguments sake since you asked for examples. I fully expect 'Maverick' to have over-the-shoulder restraints.. simply because that's the Intamin trend lately.

Ok MAYBE spotted. There is a BIG ASS tarped section in the project 2007 staging area. This leads me to believe its not track, its probably train, car or a lift motor or something. Its of substantial size but no where near track shaped, unless maybe its transfer track. Sorry I don't have pics, my girlfriend was really sick and I didn't have time to stop today.

Like something new? Did it look anything like this?
http://www.pointpixels.com/4images/details.php?image_id=8213

No, it was a large blue tarp. About the same size though. It was the same old "don't want people to look under this" blue tarps. So to review... big thing, blue tarp. That's all I know. Big thing, blue tarp
*** Edited 9/6/2006 8:41:32 AM UTC by liebevision***

This is beginning to sound like the typical OTSR discussion - taller people don't mind because their heads are above the restraints, and shorter people can't stand them because their heads are right in the middle of them. The same things can be said for any manufacturers OTSRs, with the exception of the vest on Vekoma's Flying Dutchmen and a few others.

Personally, as a taller person, I don't mind them. I've been on plenty of Arrows, B&Ms, Intamins, Vekomas, and Premiers, and have found the Intamin OTSRs like on Kingda Ka and Storm Runner to be the less intrusive of the bunch. As someone mentioned higher in this thread, the biggest advantage is that they allow people of all shapes and sizes to ride, something the standard T-bar doesn't, and with all the problems CP's had with the T-bar I think this was an easy decision for them to make. I hope we do see them when they announce tomorrow.

I don't know guys.

I always bang my head on any OTSR. I'm only about 5'5", maybe 5'6" with shoes, but I never once touched the OTSR on Storm Runner, and I have rode it a ton of times, with my hands up and had no pinching or headbanging or anything.

what about the possibillity of a new design, espically with the height being so low?

That's good to hear. Actually, most of the things I've heard about the "new" OTSR's has been positive, so I have no worries about Maverick's restraints. :)

The cars will be traditional, but only have 3 cars to a train. 12 riders per train. Over the shoulder restraints similar to Ka.

Yeah, we've read that info at the same website you have.

Several days ago.

So .... 6 trains, eh? How long until they actually change it to a 5 train operation like TTD?

Interesting color choices. Basicly 2 colors with 3 different shades of each. I can see it now.

TL: Which one had the broken seatbelt?
Host: Uhhh... copper.... no wait... gold! Or maybe brass?

What I don't quite understand is that it was released that they were to resemble "steam-era-style "trains""..they just look like regular Intamin trains to me.

Also there were reports that it has "a first hill that drops 105 feet at a 95 degree angle" from news releases but the CP website says:

"Lift Height: 105 feet"

"Vertical Drop: 100 feet"

So, i'm curious as to which it is...

Well seeing as how it doesn't go underground, it's a 100 foot drop.

The official CP release (the actual news release) doesn't mention the drop height, just the hill height. I would imagine the news sources you've seen have taken that "105-foot-tall first hill" to mean its a 105 foot first drop. Go with CP's data, 105 feet tall, 100 foot drop.

How tall is Magnum? 205 feet? 201 feet? How about its first drop? 201 feet? 198 feet? 194 feet 8 inches?

More important, to what degree of precision do you really care how tall the ride is? Maverick is real close to 100 feet tall. Is that good enough for you?

--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Yeah the trains definitely don't have much theming to them. But, I'm diggin the colors. On the color subject though, who else thought the track color of "rust" was quite amusing. That track is bright red, not "rust". :)

^^ - are you looking for the 1989 height, or the post sinking height?

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Funny you should mention that. Magnum's 1989 stats, if I remember correctly, were a 201 foot hill and a 198 foot first drop. Now it is a 205 foot hill with a 194'8" first drop. So somehow the drop got shorter, but the hill got taller. Funny way for it to sink, don't you think?

In fact I remember a radio spot for Magnum where it ended by saying that "It isn't really 200 feet. It's 200 and 1."

--Dave Althoff, Jr.