Unusual Design

I release that only part of the first support to this ride is up, however I find the design of the support unusual. I examined the pictures (from rcdb.com) on all of the Itamin AG coasters made in the past few years. I haven’t seen any of them that have any supports shaped like this one. Are the pictures of this support deceiving or is this an unusual shaped support? Or am I just nuts?

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Cedar Point can not and will not be responsible for any thing lost or dammaged.

Even though it's a square, this is a somewhat similiar support structure... Seems you were looking a bit too hard.

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-Jon
I'd Rather Be Riding Roller Coasters

Well, if this ride is going to be as high as its rumored to be, then I am sure it will need some unique support design.

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Turkeys, the only animal smarter than man

Yep your right... Funny thing is the MF is the only one I didn't look at picutres of because I assumed I knew what it looked like.

Thanks.

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Cedar Point can not and will not be responsible for any thing lost or dammaged.

well, that helps make me understand a little better, thanks for the pic - it helps!

I've been saying all along...at 400+ feet it makes much more sense to have one large tower similar to that of the first overbanked turn on MF (seen in the picture above) than to have two separate towers (a la Xcelerator). This seems to be exactly what Intamin had in mind as well.

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James Draeger
-Captain Sarcasm

Ok I'm new here and you all probably know a hell of a lot more about the new ride than I do, but being a huge CP fan I figured I would post some things that I noticed. First off I guess I should ask about how wide across the support structure is (appears to be). I am wondering this because even though I read a prediction somewhere that the tophat would only twist once, if you look at the front two supports in the triangle it looks like there are spots for more supports, possibly where the track will be heading straight up, over the top, and straigh back down the front of the structure. just a thought. I dont really know. Also at this point I think they have erected the forth level of the structure so if anyone has actually been to the park to see it in its current state, how tall would you say it is?

I am going there October 26th for the Halloweekends thing im taking a digital camera and im going to build a web page. im going with a friend who is real good at physics and math and stuff like that and he has this handheld thing where if you stand somewhat under the structure, it tells you how high it is. sort of an electronic tape measure, it goes to 200 feet

If you look at the tower supports for Wicked Twister and compare them to the other Impulses, the WT towers are different. There could be a number of reasons: height, more support due to winds off the lake, a more well thought out support, you name it... So this would justify that not all coasters of similar type by the same company have the same supports.

Draegs is right about the support structure...why not kill two birds with one stone by building one tower that contains a tophat and an overbank versus two towers that could clutter that area of the park?

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June 28th: LocoBazooka Tour (Sevendust headlining)
July 11th: Korn, Puddle of Mudd, and Deadsy

*start crazy idea*

Does anyone think that the launch might be THROUGH it's own big hill? I know it is a crazy idea-- but what if there was a 180 twist in the vertical ascent, and then a hill back down, bottoming out above the launch track/station? This would certainly save a lot of space, but it would make the drop not so long (recalling Texas Giant vs Hercules trauma). It certainly seems as if the tower could fit a train through it's center, if it wanted to. And it would be neat to be launched surrounded by supports-- really accentuate the speed.

Or is this baby going to bottom out at ground level?

I would say that the launch would be above the pull out track, but then all of the launching mechanism would need to be above the track-- not so likely.

*stop crazy idea*

-albert

I think the "Chiller" ride at one of the Six Flags Parks has a similar support structure. One train goes through a top hot and a second train goes throung a boomerang-type element. That structure looks pretty similar to me.