Today's been a devastating morning in the theme park world so perhaps there's an intent to brighten the mood a bit;
Last summer Vekoma showed off their new Beat It dueling shoot the chutes for Vidanta World, in which riders will race to the top by... beating their drums. Losing gets soaked on the drop, not too new but here it is;
What is very new however are shipments from last week for a fourth Vekoma coaster. These be columns for a Switch Back Mine Train, similar to what's going on at Dreamworld in Australia.
Here's a video of the Switchback system courtesy of @MrRC;
A new construction update shows the Vekoma Beat It flume coming along well.
There's also some strange brown Vekoma track that's shown up on site. It's reminiscent of Big Bear Mountain's track but there are added support ties for what I assume would be wooden beams?
There's also some strange brown Vekoma track that's shown up on site. It's reminiscent of Big Bear Mountain's track but there are added support ties for what I assume would be wooden beams?
This would be for the Switchback Coaster (documented in the post above), using the tilted turntable system. The wide curved platform from the prototype also seems to be present and correct here. Pretty sure this is known only in this thread, as of posting I've not seen another source mention this;
Elsewhere they're digging foundations along the southern ridge for what's assumedly that crazy looping coaster that was teased last summer;
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