Dollywood | Lightning Rod | Launched RMC

[Intricks]

Unfortunately I am mobile at the moment (being just OH SO productive at work), so I cant upload the actual teaser, but as reported by screamscape, Dollywood is taking the wheel of their additions, and pushing the pedal to the metal for 2016.

The video is a short clip, but features the rear end of a car for a brief moment before it speeds off down a straight section of road while leaving behind a Tennessee liscence plate with DW 2016 on it.

From Screamscape:

Is the new 2016 Dollywood attraction going to be a launched ride of some kind? Possibly one with a hot rod or car theme? A reader sent us a video (see below) they shot shown at the end of the presentation by Dollywood's Pete Owens, which features an animated shot of a car with a Dollywood bumper sticker flooring it off the line and leaving behind a Tennessee license plate with 2016 on it.
One of the rumors for the new 2016 attraction I have already been hearing was that 2015 may be the last year for the park's Rockin' Roadway car ride, so if this is the location for a new high speed ride for 2016, it would make sense to have a car theme once again. Plus remember the reports last week about construction along the employee entrance road? Yeah... that road runs right alongside this area as well.
On a related note, I've also heard from a source that the Cas Walker's gas station themed store that was next to the car ride (to the right) may have already been demolished inside the park as well to make room.

So, what do you think it will be? Will they keep up this bi-yearly trend of new coasters or will this be an impressive set of flats?

 

[ECG]

Re: Dollywood 2016 || Teaser

Here's the teaser:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWPCeiP_-n8[/youtube]

 

[owentaylor121]

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I'd say launch coaster, themed to the 1950's Americana.

 

[peep]

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Lol, the awkward clap at the end of the video.

It would be very interesting if it is a launch coaster.

 

[Hyde]

Re: Dollywood 2016 || Teaser

Hmmm, what about a Zierer launcher?

 

[bmac]

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I do remember Dollywood reps being at BGW for a few days after Verbolten opened. It could also be one of these:

 

[Chris Coasters]

Re: Dollywood 2016 || Teaser

So screamscape posted today that the Herschend family filed for a trademark on the name Shot Rod and on the application for the trademark it said "Entertainment services in the nature of an amusement park ride, namely, a roller coaster with a classic car theme". So from what everyone on here said it seems pretty much a launched coaster with a classic car/americana theme.

Rest of the article is here : http://www.screamscape.com/html/dollywood.htm

 

[GuyWithAStick]

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Launched car coaster in the 50s area. I called it, you heard it from me first.

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[Ethan]

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Launched car coaster in the 50s area. I called it, you heard it from me first.

It's not exactly "calling it" when Chris Coasters wrote the same thing in the post above you haha!

It's the obvious guess though, so I have to agree with you both.

 

[GuyWithAStick]

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Well, I mean Final Guess. I'm not too big into Figurative Language.

 

[CanobieFan]

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Launched looping RCM woodie.

(if were calling it)

 

[XLR8R]

Re: Dollywood 2016 || Teaser

I'm hoping for a RMC launched woodie, but I have this gut feeling that a Mack launch coaster is more likely to happen.

 

[elephant58]

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It won't be a launched RMC woodie, because Alton are going to get the first. :wink:

I personally think it'll be a Zierer one. If not, a Mack one and if not that, an Intamin one. I can't imagine that it would be a Gerstlauer one.

 

[GuyWithAStick]

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Well, Firechaser is a Gerst Launch, and it's getting great reviews.

But I can see what you're saying with the same coaster type from the same manufacturer 2(well 3) years in a row.

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[owentaylor121]

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I'd hardly call Fire Chaser a launch coaster, it's more of an all round type of coaster, with the lift hills then a backwards launch, still looks fantastic though.

 

[Lofty]

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By technical definition it is a launch coaster, it has two launches, therefore 'launch coaster'. Although even the manufacturer considers it as a 'family coaster' and doesn't tie it in with their other 'launch coasters'. Gerstlauer list their products cleverly and cross reference types into different brackets on their website, but they don't list Firechaser Express as a launch coaster.

 

[CarolinaRider]

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If this is an RMC launched coaster, I think the launch (or launches, as some are hinting at a dueling coaster) would be over I-Box track before switching to topper track. I hope I can get out to Tennessee next year!

 

[elephant58]

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^There are different wheels for wooden and steel RMC track, though.

 

[GuyWithAStick]

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^^ I don't think so. Goliath has topper track, and goes faster than all the RMC Iron Horse coasters. And not to mention, Goliath uses Urethane wheels, so I don't see any wheel problems.

 

[elephant58]

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I'm sure someone a few weeks ago pointed out that the wooden coasters used polyurethane and the steel coasters used steel ones. Anyway, though one the wooden coasters, the 'rails' are wooden, not steel, even with a thin layer of steel on top of them.....