Re: Kings Island 2014 Roller Coaster
_koppen said:
Why invest in a huge looping coaster when you will get the same kind of return with a regular 150 feet one (that is still plenty big).
I'm not an engineer, but...
Wouldn't an invert at great height be more costly than a sit down at great height? You need to "hang" the track off the supports, so you can't put a direct pressure on the support foundations from the bottom of the track, so you'd need more and beefier supports? It makes sense in my head anyway :lol:
Though...
madhjsp said:
I know that it's a silly hypothetical in the first place, but to those of you who said you'd love a hyper invert... why on earth would that be fun? In fact, I can't imagine a more effective way to ruin a good hyper layout than to make it an inverted coaster. No visibility past the front row, and OTSRs that restrict all the upper-body freedom that defines that ride style & kill anything resembling proper levels of airtime.
Jubilee Odyssey hung around in my top ten for years like a bad smell for one reason - scale.
The coaster is huge and exposed and a front seat ride on that thing is more terrifying than anything else. When you're so high up with nothing beneath you, and then that SLC drop facing out to the ocean? It's breath taking. The enormous loop too is incredible. It's purely down to the sheer size of the thing though, not because it's a great ride (though the drop is superb).
So there is sense to it, but I guess mainly with it being an SLC and with the two abreast seating it's more exposed than a B&M.
