Happy Valley Beijing | Music Roller Coaster | B&M Hyper Coaster
- Thread starter roomraider
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Indeed. To take a famous example from my own language, the word "bat" sounds kinda badass in English. One syllable, a short, sharp word. Hence a superhero named Batman sounds totally awesome (and hence, Batman: The Ride). But in Norwegian, the word for bat is "flaggermus", which may be translated back to English as "flutter-mouse". So while in English, Batman is a very cool name for a superhero, in Norwegian it sounds ridiculous. "The flutter mouse man" is more like an escaped mental patient than a dark knight of justice.
Coaster Hipster
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To add a little on this off-topic linguistic stuff, the French word for bat is 'chauve-souris', literally meaning... 'bald mouse'. In fact, I remember back in my childhood 'l'homme chauve-souris' ('the bald mouse-man') was indeed regularly used as a synonym for Batman, as just using the English word wasn't as widespread in France as today.
I've been learning Chinese on-and-off for several years, and one definite pattern I noticed is most words are monosyllabic or disyllabic (过山车/guòshānchē, the word for roller coaster being one exception). As a result, names which length are fairly reasonable in Chinese, sometimes end up awkwardly long and weird-sounding when translated into English - or any other Western language for that matter. Exemple: Yúnxiāo fēichē/云霄飞车 becomes 'Coaster Through the Clouds'.
Kw6sTheater
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There's one slight flaw in that theory in regards to this topic:
Himalayan Eagle Music Roller Coaster = 喜马拉雅雄鹰音乐过山车
It's just as bad in Chinese.
Coaster Hipster
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smile73775smile
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Hummmm. We take this name as a a joke sometimes. Never see a coaster name so long in China.
roomraider
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I like the trains
Click the link for a testing clip
bob_3_
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I like the trains
Click the link for a testing clip
I like the trains! and I also think it carries alot of speed, esspecially for early tests. The helix towards to end looks like it'll give some good force too, it might be abit of a surprise hit.
Coaster Hipster
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Miyapa Masane released his animated recreation of the ride
Kw6sTheater
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I hope it has more speed going over the hills; if that recreation is 100% accurate, I don't expect there to be much if any.
bob_3_
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It seems to hold up some good speed.
Cred: RollerCoasterDream
I hope the watersplash doesn't kill off the ending too much once it's in.
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I hope the watersplash doesn't kill off the ending too much once it's in.
Kw6sTheater
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That's the first 36-seater B&M has done since... well, Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia!
Makes sense if they'll only ever be running one train.
In real terms - B&M will give you whatever you want (and pay for), so maybe it just comes down to this park demanding something specific. Maybe the park are self-aware enough of the fact that they'll only ever be running this on one train!
B&M probably just have some nice stats for throughput-cost ratios for different length trains, and I'd guess that the 7-row trains are somehow optimised for some performance characteristic (factoring in the extra length station, more air gates, more sensors, etc that also all come with more rows). Quite what that would be though, or if there is another motivating factor, I wouldn't know.
