Jurassic World VelociCoaster Construction Thread (Opening June 10)

[Magic-Man]

How would a giant roller coaster look out of place in a park with a giant roller coaster in clear view of the park entrance?

Hulk, for the most part, blends in. A hyper wouldn’t.

 

[rhino4evr]

They do an annual rehab every winter. Sometimes they fix/re-skin the animatronics during the month or so long closure, but mostly they clean, repaint, and fix anything broken. Water is unforgiving and the rockwork especially needs to be pressure washed and repainted often. They drain the ride during this time as well.

New lighting packages, for safety reasons as you said, could certainly be part of this winter's rehab, but the closure is not anything out of the ordinary.

Seems like a total PITA to keep maintained.

 

[OLSinFLA]

I mean, they literally rebuilt the whole thing 2 years ago and it's still rough as hell. Outside the first few seconds of the coaster, it is nowhere near good.

I swear I think we got new cars on top of the old chassis on Hulk

 

[Quint]

A friend who is related to the postman of a supervisor of a bus driver who ate at a Dippin Dots tells me that the temporary raptor location is being tested during the late night/early morning sometime this week.

 

[Mad Dog]

A friend who is related to the postman of a supervisor of a bus driver who ate at a Dippin Dots tells me that the temporary raptor location is being tested during the late night/early morning sometime this week.

:thumbsup: gotcha.....

 

[Joel]

wasn't sure whether to put this here or in /budgetcuts but I saw the new ride vehicle concept this morning

 

[Teebin]

I wonder if they will try to wrap a coaster in a glass bubble?

 

[Alicia]

I wonder if they will try to wrap a coaster in a glass bubble?

That solves the problem of metal detectors. Put the parts over guest areas in a bubble.

And leave it Universal to want to add screens to a moving coaster.

Edit: After looking at the patent, looks more like a moving theater ride system from UoE, version 2.0.

 

[Mad Dog]

That solves to problem metal detectors. Put the parts over guest areas in a bubble.

And leave it Universal to want to add screens to a moving coaster.

Screens could be greater than bulky virtual reality glasses, and essentially serve the same purpose, without screwing up capacity.

 

[Scott W.]

I wonder if they will try to wrap a coaster in a glass bubble?

Looks like a plane to me. Maybe the idea is you’re going on a site seeing tour over the island when it crashes sending you on a wild coaster experience.

 

[ChristopherSE]

Definitely looks like a break-apart theater. My guess is it's for Park 4.

 

[Scott W.]

The break apart bit reminds me of the early concept for Dudley.

 

[JungleSkip]

Reminder: Just because there’s a patent doesn’t mean it will ever be built

 

[GAcoaster]

I found out today that the coaster is coming from Mack and they are also doing coaster work for the Nintendo projects.

 

[AlexanderMBush]

Considering Hippogriff Hollywood being a YoungSTAR model, that makes sense. They have already had Mack before, and that'd be potentially great, considering what Mack is capable of.

 

[Imperius]

I found out today that the coaster is coming from Mack and they are also doing coaster work for the Nintendo projects.

Isn’t Mack the rumored boom coaster from early DK rumors?

 

[AlexanderMBush]

Isn’t Mack the rumored boom coaster from early DK rumors?

I think early on, we seemed to of guessed more to Setpoint Inc; more due to it being possibly close to where they were testing things.

 

[quinnmac000]

I like Mack Coasters. However they aren't really known for intense coasters which this is rumoured to be.

 

[Alicia]

I found out today that the coaster is coming from Mack and they are also doing coaster work for the Nintendo projects.

Really? Everything I’ve heard is Intamin for JP, and Mack isn’t doing any of the Nintendo rides. Unless the JP plans have changed very recently, it’s Intamin.

 

[OrlLover]

Really? Everything I’ve heard is Intamin for JP, and Mack isn’t doing any of the Nintendo rides. Unless the JP plans have changed very recently, it’s Intamin.

Well I guess were back at square one. :grin: