4th Dimension and ArrowBATic (From the old Arrow website)

[Dapalm]

Hi! I want to share with you some things I have found while searching on the web. They are from the old Arrow Dynamics website, and thought they were interesting. First, we are going to look to the 4th dimension coaster. They offered 4 models:

Delirium Quantum Mayhem Octophobia
Ride Height: 127' 92' 106' 92'
Ride Footprint: 168' x 647' 152' x 876' 223' x 558' 146' x 868'
Ride Length: 2529' 1988' 2258' 1962'
Ride Time: 89 sec 70 sec 79 sec 70 sec
Capacity: 1160 pph 1325 pph 1235 pph 1325 pph
Max Speed: 59 mph 52 mph 52 mph 50 mph
No. of Trains: 2 2 2 2

Delirium:










Quantum:







Mayhem:









I couldn't find any pictures of Octophobia, but here are the ride elements:

Skydive Downdrop
1 Twisting Backflip
1 Twisting Frontflip
1 Backflip

And then the ArrowBATic:





Since the initial Arrow Mad Mouse was developed in 1998, we found customers asking for a Meaner and Madder Mouse.

Rather than adding a drop and hill before the "S" curves, Arrow decided to take an extreme approach and offer the traditional Mouse ride in a different form, the ArrowBATic.

Arrow has taken the premise of the single vehicle offered on our Mad Mouse ride and engineered an inverted five-passenger vehicle. The ArrowBATic's single car vehicle allows optimum banking for tight turns, negotiating small elements, and executing 90 degree down drops.


These manueuvers are not possible when using a traditional coaster train. This provides a "free flying" ride experience as the single vehicle moves around the track path rather than being hindered by a long train.

Ride Packages

Arrow offers a family (non-looping) and an extreme (looping) ArrowBATic. Both versions can be accomplished utilizing a small footprint, therefore not requiring excessive real estate for ride placement as required by other inverting suspended rides.

Ride Summary
Family Extreme
Ride Height: 96' 152'
Ride Footprint: 110' x 240' 190' x 330'
Ride Length: 1710' 2484'
Ride Time: 80 sec 85 sec
Capacity: 900 pph 900 pph
Max Speed: 34 mph 59 mph
Vehicles: 8 8

What do you think? Maybe if Six Flags hadn't ask for such a big coaster (X) and had build one of these smaller models, Arrow would still be alive. And I found the ArrowBATic concept really intersting, and would have loved to see one of them in real life.

 

[Hyde]

Re: 4th Dimension and ArrowBATic (From the old Arrow website

^ Arrow had financial woes headed into the construction of X at SFMM, as B&M and Intamin had entered the steel market making Arrow no longer king. X was a last ditch effort, and Arrow failed deliver - the writing was on the wall for Arrow to exit the market, as it was already operating at a reduced capacity by the end of the 1990s.

However, the qualifier for all of this is that Arrow still exists as S&S Arrow, which has continued to produce roller coasters, including 4D's. Heck, the El Loco roller coaster model would appear to almost be a non-inverted descendant of the ArrowBatic model.

Here is a video of the ArrowBatic model in action as well:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RHCYRCZd_8[/youtube]

Would this be a fun ride? Maybe. Bear in mind, Arrow Dynamics was never known for its smoothness, and smoothness would be key in performing such tight inversions.