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DAY 4 Saturday began with a nearly 3 hour drive north. A pretty peaceful drive aside from the excessive amount of speed-monitoring cameras, I arrived at the next park: PowerPark! Immediately upon exiting the car, I was met with the challenge of the day: wind, and a lot of it. Decently strong...

I will never be against a new Gyro Swing, so this is welcomed; especially when replacing an old one. Your turn, Hersheypark.

DAY 3 Another nice hotel breakfast, and it was unfortunately time to leave Helsinki proper. Hopped on a train for a ~40 minute ride back to the airport to pick up my rental car for the next phase of the trip. Reserved a VW Golf, received a very nice Mercedes C-class. Thank you Enterprise! 😆...

DAY 2 After some much needed sleep, the next day began with a great hotel breakfast buffet and a walk around the city center. Immediately greeted by an unavoidable amount of rentable electric scooters, so I downloaded the app, scanned the QR code on a scooter, and took off around the city...

Hi all! I believe this is my first entry here. I just got back from a wonderful week in Europe, and after some inspiration from @toofpikk 's awesome thread, I'd love to recap everything here! As the title suggests, this trip consisted of my first visit to Finland and Poland, and featured these...

Jeeez, the stock Raptor is really that much? I figured it was in that ~$5-7 million range, certainly not just $3 million shy of ArieForce One...

That's sickening. Initial reaction to the Goliath repaint- don't love it. I'm a sucker for the current colors with the old school grey rails/ties. I'm sure it'll look great once finished, will be a great first impression at the park. But that reminds me... why can't they paint Nitro already?

Same could be said about a Dive Coaster. If that (probable) Tilt Coaster track didn't already show up at SF Mexico, I would agree that could be possible. But I don't think the odds are great that they've ordered a custom Tilt for Great America, or bought one off another cancelled project. A...

I do NOT intend for this comment to break out the chart. But from looking at the banking in the POV and comparing it to the horizon, it looks like the first element is banked at around 105° at the apex. You'll be floating through the top of it, but more sideways than upside-down IMO. I think the...

The Zamperla ones are great fun, but the openness of the restraints on Loke (and Swingi, and eventually this) are really unrivaled. Far & away superior.

Can't find a post about it, so apologies if I missed it- T3 was spotted in transit in the last couple days, and it's now been spotted at the port in Norfolk, Virginia, getting ready to be shipped somewhere. A user on the ParkFans Forum alleges that it's going to Dubai of all places.

Been on another forum for a month+, thought for sure that would have been posted here by now! 🤣 This one's WI-T:

This thing is flying up now! Pictured is the valley after the first overbank element and entry into the dive loop. The two pieces in the back are for the dive loop exit.

Yeah that's a Gerstlauer. Even aside from the track design, it's got no bolts at the base of the supports, true Gerstlauer style where it's just sat in the footer:

Correct, I think these will be the only two. Though, theoretically, I think it could be programmed to do even more options than this (ex. setting 1, but instead of the downward-facing lift drop, it goes over the lift crown backwards for an even longer backward cycle). Not expecting that though...

Yeah, not a fan of the 360* POVs usually, but at least this highlights the absurd clearance on the rise into the Immelmann! 😆

The yellow is the storage building, the station & brake run is the pink section. It goes up the lift, through the layout forwards to the spike, then does the backwards run; then eventually brakes and stops on the turntable which then feeds it back to the station.

Not a fan of the matched colors, and it'll probably have the normal Gerstlauer ride experience, but it's better than a cloned Eurofighter model and should be decently fun. So I must give it a nod for that. Interested to see if the whole train makes it over that bump on the spike.

New photo!

Extremely interested to see what the final vehicle looks like. From the video of the prototype, I'd be incredibly surprised if this chassis is capable of that kind of coaster drop 🤣