wild mouse/bobsled coaster (uc) update! 17/10/09

[jack.bell]

okay so i thought i would have a shot at building a wild mouse ride and at the moment are not succeeding overly well (mind you i havent touched no limits in almost a year and its my first coaster since then.) the idea came to me after i rode vilda mussen at grona lund (stockholm if you dont know.) the ride so far has some tight turns (wild mouse) and sweeping drops (bobsled coaster) and well i will let the pictures show you what has happened so far none of the colours are final they are just what they were when i took the shots. enjoy ! (or not)

 

[Xpress]

Cool, looks kinda like Euro Mir

 

[Crazycoaster]

Umm... reaaaally?

Euro Mir looks like THIS:

Any resemblance? Nope. None.

 

[jack.bell]

/\ lol but i can kinda see where he is coming from tho! it is abit similar with some sharp twists and some long curvy dropping bits! lol!

 

[Xpress]

Umm... reaaaally?

Euro Mir looks like THIS:

Any resemblance? Nope. None.

I said KINDA, as in it takes parts from it, I.E. the swooping turns, and the wild mouse hairpin turns.

 

[jack.bell]

Does this style of supporting work?

from another angle...

cheers

 

[A-Kid]

Nah, those supports look wierd. Probally because they arn't all at the same angle. I'd do 3 or 4 seperate A frames or /| shaped like the lift ones.

 

[Xpress]

Yeah, you need A frames there. Or what you could do is make both sections have vertical columns, then connect the two inbetween near the top with a cross beam, then have the A frames on the lift hill.

 

[jack.bell]

yea but the bottom of the lift hills a frames are the other side of that track so any supports from the other track eould collide with those on the lift hill?

 

[Xpress]

^Umm, what? You're going to have to re-explain that one to me :?

 

[jack.bell]

The footers of the A frames on of the lift hill go underneath the other pieco of track running next to it.

 

[Xpress]

^Be creative then. There's plenty of potential for it. And FYI, theres too many supports spaced too close together. For that lift hill, you'd only need like 4-5 support columns.

 

[Uncle Arly]

It looks too spread out to me, for a compact wild mouse/bobsled.

 

[jack.bell]

Xpress: yea okay i will sirt that out!

Arly: the ride isnt a normal version of that type its going to be a much more spread out and will once completed have good interaction with the scenery. so im making almost a new version of the rides. and no it wont be (very) realistic!

cheers jack