Lagoon | Primordial | ART Engineering/Triotech Dark Ride Coaster
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MagicMountainFan
Roller Poster
Six Flags America's giga 4d coaster is going to open before this one.
TPoseOnTantrum
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TPoseOnTantrum
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TPoseOnTantrum
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So we seem to be shifting into an opening of sorts with this one, Lagoon has opened up reservations to Passholders throughout the remainder of the season. Maybe it won’t have a full public opening until 2024, unless you’re one of the lucky chaps attending ACE’s Fall Conference later this month. Dare say we’ll be getting opinions out of the ride soon enough.
Passholder registration can be found here; https://specialevents.lagoonpark.com/
Passholder registration can be found here; https://specialevents.lagoonpark.com/
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Magic-Man
Mega Poster
I'm a bit confused about what people expected from this tbh. We've known what is was going to be like for months. This is extremely impressive for an in-house build by a smaller theme park, especially considering the several endings! Like we don't see that at the big boys, much less smaller parks!
oriolat2
Giga Poster
What do you mean several endings? I only saw a switch track after the drop track section, which I assumed it was because the ride has two drop tracks for operational purposes.
The ride looks certainly spectacular, especially considering it's built in-house, but I expected more coaster and less dark ride. As someone mentioned, very reminiscent of CW's Wonder Mountain's Guardian.
Magic-Man
Mega Poster
There's also a tilt track! One side is a drop track and one is a tilt track. There's seemingly other changing elements in the ride as well. I've seen multiple people talking about something about an owl section not being used during the previews.
TPoseOnTantrum
Giga Poster
Not true, owl side was opened on the first day;
Basically each side has access to either a drop track or slide track. That’s two each that the park commissioned for this. And I say slide track instead of tilt track because it seems that ART Engineering has managed to go full SFX Coaster underneath our noses. Only difference is that they didn’t go bankrupt developing it, am still working to confirm what this hardware actually is;
My only gripe about Primordial is Triotech’s involvement with the dark ride hardware. Don’t get me wrong, they’re competent bay creating simulators and have a pretty good storyboarding team. It’s just that a fair amount of Wonder Mountain’s Guardian’s issues have stemmed from them and both the blasters and now-scrapped 3D were horrible. I’ve already heard complaints about both out of Lagoon - hopefully both of these elements will be able to last long-term.
Boodangy
Mega Poster
This looks really cool, my main gripes really are that you can see too much of the latticework holding the mountain up (if it's visible in camera it's 100% more visible irl) before you get to the actual physical setpieces, but I'm glad there are setpieces. Also, not nice going up this nice custom mountain when all you can see to your left is a bunch of trailers and a dirt parking lot. But the multiple endings and routes is really cool, and it's interesting that they got the slide track.
