Playland's Castaway Cove | GaleForce | S&S Triple Launched

[Hixee]

According to a Reddit post, this currently has no track:

Link

 

[CrashCoaster]

This is just really weird. I don't know what else to say...

 

[Matt N]

Some could call this project a bit of a GaleFarce...

 

[oriolat2]

I find it kind of amusing that the same company that builds massive, technologically complex rides like 4th Dimension coasters and the air-compressed launc coasters can't get this right.

I am assuming this could take the same route ringracer took after... 4 days of operation?

 

[CrashCoaster]

The new track has arrived:-

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10156138172807464

 

[CrashCoaster]

About half of the ride track has returned:-

Photo by Amusement Today.

 

[oriolat2]

I am guessing this is costing S&S-Sansei-Vekoma-whatever a lot of money. Good to see a park not giving up on such a special project.

 

[Antinos]

According to Screamscape, Galeforce Reopened a few weeks ago.

 

[Lofty]

Oh, yeah, this is still a thing.

 

[Pear]

Here's a rider cam video of the "new" ride featuring a familiar face

 

[Hutch]

Shame it doesn't have lap bars.

The real question though: did they use the exact track for reconstruction? If not, then it'd be a different cred!

 

[CrashCoaster]

Here's a rider cam video of the "new" ride featuring a familiar face

Actually there are 2 familiar faces.

 

[Matt N]

I don't know whether it's the video, but it still looks kinda rattly to me... probably the video, though.

 

[SilverArrow]

Daviddoc and I did this a couple of weeks ago on our trip. It was really smooth and we both loved it, it was a nice surprise! Great use of space!

 

[CrashCoaster]

Besides the re-tracking, it also looks to have been reprofiled slightly as well. Here are the 2 different POVs, comparing the old with the new.

Old:-

New:-

 

[GuyWithAStick]

Yeah, the new one appears to be much smoother.

Can't wait to see how next year's version turns out!

 

[Pear]

Two test dummies fell out of Gale Force during testing!

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/new...A5st9ML-Di99O5cGrxQWPIw3fQegTrtaLysF2gwJ24R8I

 

[owentaylor121]

When I first saw the article headline on Facebook I thought, oh god, this ride is cursed! I thought the restraints had failed.

Upon actually reading the article though, I realised it was a non-issue caused by the weird dummies having a leak...

 

[Antinos]

YEET

 

[Hixee]

I'd like to see these dummies. All of the ones I recall seeing previously are a solid plastic, which wouldn't deform if empty - would seem like such an obvious design flaw (on the part of the dummy manufacturer).

This is what I'd normally imagine:

Which are surprisingly close to what we've seen previously on GaleForce. Does anyone have a close up of the ones used here, or the new ones?

Would have loved to see them just go flying out. From a safe distance of course Bet they made a really satisfying splat noise.