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  1. andrus

    Comfortable vs exposed seating?

    There have been some discussions lately on the forum regarding the "most comfortable" seating position, where a great majority (including me) have promoted the B&M clamshell design or Mack lapbars. Nothing wrong with that. The comfort of these two seating arrangements is unparalleled! But then...
  2. andrus

    Man dies after falling two stories at Gröna Lund

    On Wednesday last week a man jumped a fence on the starflyer Eclipse at Gröna Lund in Sweden, and as a result fell two stories down and hit a woman. Yesterday the man died from his injuries at the hospital. Fortunately the poor girl who got hit by the man seem to have managed with minor wounds...
  3. andrus

    Mack mega-lites: better than Intamin or Chance Rides?

    There have been popping up some Mack mega-lites reacently! First in Etnaland in 2013, and then in Niglonad last year. Both of them similar to the Intamin model (with the latter almost a complete knock-off). While both coasters look very interesting, the thing is that they're located at parks...
  4. andrus

    Theme park architects/designers

    Help! I'm currently writing an essay for school on theme park design. However (which might not be a huge surprice) there's very little litterature on the subject.. With this in mind I came up with the idea of including John Wardley's biography :) Do you guys know of any other famous...
  5. andrus

    Helix Media Day

    Yesterday (23/4) was the media day for Helix at Liseberg, and Katia and I went as representatives of Coaster Force. We were very excited, but also a bit nervous since we had been looking forward to ride this coaster for almost 2 years!! The day started of with a 3 hours drive north to...
  6. andrus

    Tranan at Skara Sommarland collides

    The S&S free fly coaster Tranan at Swedish amusement park Skara Sommarland had an incident this saturday. One of the cars didn't stop at the final brakerun and collided with a car in the station. Several people where injured. Nothing serious though, only bruises. The incident was caused by an...
  7. andrus

    Black Mamba Wiener Prater

    I've seen this ride before, but stumbled upon it again today while browsing the coasterfriends.de forum. I haven't heard much or seen much of this ride. It's an amazing looking booster type of flat, themed as a snake. It's manufactured by Funtime (the company that makes the Starflyers) and the...
  8. andrus

    Tibidabo + PA in the rain

    This report will be divided in two parts. First I'll start off with Tibidabo since it seems like one of the less visited parks among the forum members! Then I'll continue with Port Aventura that probably everybody have been to. But mind you, I got a twist! It's rarely bad weather in this region...
  9. andrus

    Roller coaster interaction

    I personally think that esthetics is half the fun with roller coasters! It should be equally fun to watch the coaster as riding it imo :) A good coaster design can work both to intimidate the people standing in line for the ride as well as amaze the non-riding onlookers. A well thought-out...
  10. andrus

    Gröna Lund: Twister, Insane and more!

    Talking to the Brits during the US-live made me realise that almost everyone had already been to Gröna Lund! I felt very ashamed as both a Swede and a coaster enthusiast that I had never been :oops: So the first thing I did when I got home was to book train tickets to Stockholm to fulfill my...
  11. andrus

    "Just a coaster" vs an entire experience

    Ok I admit the title is a bit odd, but I couldn't come up with anything better to describe this. I was watching the TV show "Engineering Thrills" where they were doing some research to find out why people enjoy roller coasters. Then " the scientist guy" said at the end of a run on Fahrenheit...
  12. andrus

    Intamin wooden popularity

    How come the Intamin prefabs are so low in popularity among parks? I'm especially intrigued with this since Intamin share the 2 top spots at the Mitch Hawker wooden poll for the second year in a row. An impressive result indeed! But why aren't there being built more of them then? Since the...
  13. andrus

    Drachen Fire

    Hey everybody! I've heared of Drachen Fire before but never known exactly what it was until I stumbled upon a video of it on youtube and thought it looked really cool! Here's a couple of pictures for you who don't know what it is: My questions are: The coaster looks good with som funky...
  14. andrus

    Intamin woodies and wheels

    A question that has bothered me for a while really. Why does Intamin use 4 wheel cars on their wooden coasters? The ones I've been on, Balder and Colossos, are both great but they rattle A LOT in the corners! So why not use 2 wheel cars like they do on their steel coasters? And GCI who use them...
  15. andrus

    Best coaster in the Netherlands?

    I like polls so why not throw out another one? :) The Netherlands doeas albeit it's relative small size boast with some world class coasters! But which is the best? I've picked the top 4 wood/steel coasters from Mitch Hawker and Vliegende Hollander (which is a personal favourite of mine) as a...
  16. andrus

    Most exciting coaster project for 2012?

    There have already been announced a lot of coaster projects for next year, several of them looking really interesting! All from the vertical/multi-launch thing at BGW, the 20 million € project at Mirabilandia, the hypers at Hershey and Knott's, the GCI at Europa to the tallest B&M ever built at...
  17. andrus

    Mirabilandia |"DiVertical"| Intamin Water Coaster

    Ok, I'll start of by giving loefet the cred for notifying me of this in the "Dinosaur park" topic. After doing some quick google searhes I found these two interesting links: http://www.miraforever.com/2011/06/13/il-coaster-novita-2012-di-mirabilandia-sara-il-piu-alto-al-mondo/...
  18. andrus

    B&M track

    B&M uses a track that is significantly different from any other manufacturer out there. I know that the track type was used by Intamin when Walter and Claude still used to work for them. But why did Intamin quit using it? And why doesn't any other company use that box-track style? All other...
  19. andrus

    Best coaster videos!

    Which are the best coaster videos you've seen? There are loads of videos of coasters on youtube and other places but with varying quality.. Have you found some extraordinary video that captures the heat and adrenaline rush of a ride? Or just captures the pure beaty that certain roller coasters...
  20. andrus

    What not to miss out in the Dutch parks

    I'm going to Efteling, Toverland and Walibi Holland next week and I've heard that especially Efteling have a lot of amazing rides that are "hidden away" and hard to find. I'm asking for advice from those of you who have visted one or several of the parks; what attractions are there that I...
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