Re: [Rumour] 2012 B&M for Port Aventura
B&M are tamer than other manufacturers to anyone familar with roller coasters, but when a park says they want something "intense" that doesn't rule out B&M. If the park's brief is an intense ride, then they mean anything aimed at adults and they could mean anything in the 1.4 bracket. To say they want an intense ride so it's not a B&M is daft. I highly doubt that "intense" was even in the brief, or ever is, but that it's worded with target audience, such as; adult, teen, family, children, etc.
Intensity is subjective. Even between us lot, we argue constantly on something as simple as the definition. When parks talk about intensity or audience, it will be region specific and not simply motivated by ride hardware but by theming and marketing. Take an example such as Raptor - Gardaland was a family focused park with little for the teen market, so by contrast Raptor is a very intense and very gritty, adult ride despite being a very tame ride experience to most of us. Basically, there's more to all this than you guys are putting forward.
