B&M Test track?

[Anonymous]

While receiving a new update of the "World Park Project" Google earth theme park layer there was a new location, namely a "B&M test track" location. It's in the town of Monthey where B&M have their HQ, and I'm guessing that the large steel work facility in the south west direction is their main factory.

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But the question is, what kind of test track is it?
According to the data in Google Earth then the image is from Mars 1997, so could this be a dive machine prototype?? Since Oblivion opened the year after...

 

[davidm]

That is quite interesting - the trouble being that none of the other maps (bing etc) have any pics from there.... and if you go down to streetview in Google, someone has gone and built a big shopping complex thingy right on top of there!

Nice find though!

 

[tks]

It's possibly a Dive Machine prototype. The original patents the ride was filed under had images showing the ride as a figure of 8.