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More B&M Track

I'm now 99% sure that this will either be a Sitdown-Looper or a Floorless coaster.

Why??
First: It's way to small to be a Dive Machine coaster, so that will rule that out.

Second: And then some pieces show that this will have inside looping elements, which rules out the Speed coaster (unless they are going beyond vertical, which is highly unlikely, it's B&M we are talking about).

Third: It's all in the track-ties.
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Pictures from RCDB
Only the sit-down and the stand up have straight ties on the underside, which rules out both inverted and flying.

Final: I'm pretty sure that it won't be a stand up, since no one have built any of them for years, but then again it's is a tiny possibility.
 
Another thing to note is that Flying roller coaster track uses thicker rail tubes than the conventional invert/sitdown, due to the increase weight of the trains. It's hard to notice, but there is a slight difference in size between the rail diameter of something like Nemesis vs. Air, or Batman: The Ride and Superman: Ultimate Flight.
 
My bet is on pleasure beach, i know what your thinking! :--D . Because with rollercoaster on sbno i think, it might be going, and i had a pleasure beach guide from when i last went and it had a yellow b&m track in it on 1 of the pages, however it had grey rails.


Its probably nothing though.
 
^ It's very unlikely that they fabricate track for a park in Europe, since it would be a lot cheaper to transport it from Switzerland.
 
^Unless it's this Pleasure Beach you're talking about, I can't see that happening. Remember, the track would be fabricated in Mothey, Switzerland, if it was going to the UK.
 
Could the track be for a large indoor coaster that is being built in a huge American shopping mall? If so, then I think I know where it's going.
 
To really try and specify what type this coaster will be then the members of TPR saw a correlation between the first 2 letters in the Part number and the coaster type it was destined for.

TPR said:
DM = Diving Coaster
IC = Inverted Coaster
MC = Hyper/Mega/Speed Coaster
?? = Standup Coaster
?? = Sitting Coaster
LC = Flying Coaster
?? = Floorless Coaster
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But since no one have found any construction photos of track on the ?? ones then it's still a little vague on what type it is. Does anyone here have a photos of track identification stickers on here to finalize this list?

There are however guesses that: Floorless coaster would have FL, Sitting Coaster could have SC
and that Stand-Up coasters should have SU, but then again since Stand-Ups predates the Sitting coaster there is a possibility that it have SC as it's abbreviation...


And that X-Works probably mean:
x-works = the customer will arrange the transportation from the factory to the final destination.
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I really hope that it is going to Universal Studios Singapore as my Aunt and Uncle live there. I'd really like to see a dueling flying coaster!
 
Loefet; Great find. I found a photo of the ID tag on Screamscape and it has SC as the first two letters:


EDIT: wow, that's gay. Firefox isn't letting me copy and paste anything. It's on Screamscape. Scroll down to 1/23/09 and it's the first link. It's the last thumbnail.
 
^ Yeah I know that already since that is the coaster track that we are figuring out where it's going :)

What we need is on track that we already know what they are. But then again it seems that B&M recently have changed their markings, since there is pieces that only starts with a L, M or other letter combination.
 
Given how high the Euro is right now, does the location of this construction tell us anything at all about where it's going...? Really?

It might be SO much cheaper to construct in the states that it outweighs the transportation costs? Maybe?
 
^Had the factory been in Boston, I'd say so too. It would just be to ship the track to one of Europe's countless ports, instead of trucking it out of Switzerland. But the distance Ohio - the Sea is a bit too big for that to be worth it, I think. Though, it would be cool if Blackpool got track delivered right from the pier...

I still think we can say China or Singapore here now. Maybe even Malaysia. I doubt this is for the US, unless the old Six Flags management has couped the business and ordered a Medusa Clone.
 
Not really as dollar to Euro is just as bad as the pound and Euro.

If this coaster is for Europe its still cheaper to build the coaster in Switzerland, their costs have not changed its the UK and USA that seem the worst affected by this current financial problem.
 
Sorry to bring this topic back up to the surface, but there is rumours about a Floorless coaster going to Ocean Park in Hong Kong, as a part of their redevelopment that is going on at the moment.
Also looking at some of the concept art that they have available for the new "stuff" then there is some yellow track in the background...
 
^First Drop again?

If not, LINKS PLEASE!!!one!

And could somebody send a PM to our Chinese recruitment office, telling them to get us a couple of members who can take pictures? There are seemingly no coaster enthusiasts down there at the moment, which is weird for a country with that many coasters.
 
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