Liseberg | Helix | Mack Megacoaster

[Lofty]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

So, it turns out, they've redesigned the very beginning of the ride:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUVqIh6x1Y&sns=em[/youtube]

 

[Intricks]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

That is different and fun looking.

 

[TheCoasterCruiser]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

I thought it was going to be shorter and less fun but after watching the original video agian I can see that it's a improvement from the first layout and about the same length.

So 7 inversions now!

 

[IntaminToWin]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

Wow, they're fixing/improving things BEFORE the ride opens? Pay attention, Intamin, or these guys will be making all of the things you normally would- and by virtue, make me have to change my username or it would be irrelevant.

 

[Ian]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

Excellent, that little turnaroundthing out of the station before the launch reminds me of Shock at Rainbow Magicland - which is awesome. Best new coaster of 2014 without a doubt!

 

[owentaylor121]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

The hangtime in that corkscrew. <3

 

[Coasterfreck]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

They have improved the layout with what looks like an inside top hat after the second launch!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGmesc5tBt4[/youtube]
Making it now an 8 inversion coaster!
I am seriously wondering if this will be the "World's First ten inversion launch coaster".

 

[Smithy]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

Or a drawn out corkscrew

 

[tomahawk]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

My question is, why do they announce it, then keep adding twists? It was announced a year and a half before it opened, so I don't see the rush to announce it since they are making changes now.

 

[_koppen]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

My question is, why do they announce it, then keep adding twists? It was announced a year and a half before it opened, so I don't see the rush to announce it since they are making changes now.

Maybe they just wanna do it differently, having people more in touch with how the project is done?

Making it now an 8 inversion coaster!

It's still 7 inversions.

 

[Coasterfreck]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

My question is, why do they announce it, then keep adding twists? It was announced a year and a half before it opened, so I don't see the rush to announce it since they are making changes now.

Maybe they just wanna do it differently, having people more in touch with how the project is done?

I have a feeling they did it deliberately so that we can keep talking and promoting it, plus it makes it more fun when a theme park keeps things up their sleeves, as apposed to completly revealing the final layout and waiting for it to open.

Making it now an 8 inversion coaster!

It's still 7 inversions.

Well an inside top hat is an inversion, so that would count as the 8th inversion.

In a top hat inversion, also called an inside top hat, when the train approaches the top of the "hat", it makes a 90 degree twist so that it is on the inside of the element (hence the name), and once it reaches top hat's apex the train is upside down under the track.

 

[CoasterfanSWE]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

so that would count as the 8th inversion.

No, since they replaced the corkscrew that was previously there with the inside top hat. The layout was previously Launch 2-Twisted airtime Hill-Corkscrew, now it is Launch 2-Inside tophat-airtime hill

 

[iblamefish]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

That's the ultimate corkscrew. I'm most definitely going to have to ride this thing.

 

[Coasterfreck]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

so that would count as the 8th inversion.

No, since they replaced the corkscrew that was previously there with the inside top hat. The layout was previously Launch 2-Twisted airtime Hill-Corkscrew, now it is Launch 2-Inside tophat-airtime hill

That was not a corkscrew, It just was a Twisted Airtime Hill as this screenshot proves.

 

[Ethan]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

It was better before the tophat </3

 

[_koppen]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

That was not a corkscrew, It just was a Twisted Airtime Hill as this screenshot proves

You obviously don't know the layout for the ride, so stop commenting about it, it makes you look dumb.

 

[Ethan]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

^ Actually, Coasterfreck is correct. You obviously don't know the layout for the ride... It makes you look dumb.

 

[_koppen]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

^ Actually, Coasterfreck is correct. You obviously don't know the layout for the ride... It makes you look dumb.

No he's not. The ride don't have 8 inversions.

 

[TheCoasterCruiser]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

As _koppen says, the new layout hasn't increased the number of inversions.
Before the change it was: Launch - Airtime Hill - Corkscrew.
After the change it's: Launch - Inside Tophat - Airtime Hill.

 

[Ethan]

Re: Liseberg | "Project Helix" | Mack Megacoaster

Yes, but there was an airtime hill there before. That's what I was getting at.