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Dollywood | Firechaser Express | Gerstlauer Dual Launch

Not quite the quality of a typical Dollywood ride, but it still looks amazing! I'd love to see one of these built in the UK. Chessington would definitely pull in the crowd with something like this!
 
I know I ask this every time there's a coaster I want to ride out of state, but how are the restraints on this? I know the ride is technically made for kids (those are the same trains used on their smaller family coasters if I'm correct) but they want families to ride it. How forgiving are these restraints? Because I don't want to play another game of "squeeze two grown men into a tiny Vekoma kiddie coaster car" like we did at Cedar Point. (IDK if anybody else on here remembers that) And are there belts or just lap bars?
 
Seats are partitioned with individual lap bars. Should be fine.

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Ah good stuff Jerry. Do you mount your own backward cams or are those things supplied on press / media days?

The reverse cam looks quite bumpy, is that the case?
 
They allowed me to mount my own forward facing 3D POV camera (as you can tell by comparing my POV with the one the park supplied to TPR), but the reverse facing camera was the park's. I would have mounted mine better and at a different angle.
 
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