You can hear in the background the music from the land.
The speed it takes the first half or so of the circuit, especially the turn around between the dive loop and the vertical loop. :love:
1. Expedition Everest 2. Hollywood Tower of Terror 3.Superman De Acero 4. Katun and Nemesis 6. OzIris 7. Blue Fire 8. Black Mamba 9. Manta 10. Oblivion
As I've said for a while this is the 2012 B&M which I think has the most potential. In fact the only reason I don't think this ride will be among the greats is because everything after the ride disappears behind the station appears to just be meandering corners and nothing especial interesting. I hope to be proven wrong because as far as I'm concerned the start of the ride looks absolutely superb. Most unique opener we've seen on a B&M going all the way back to Nemesis (and some of their other new rides have been fairly original as well).
Does it even have a MCBR? I can't see one. If not surely it'll only run two trains? And at around 1:30 long that's going to make throughput interesting :P
Bote wrote:
Does it even have a MCBR? I can't see one. If not surely it'll only run two trains? And at around 1:30 long that's going to make throughput interesting :P
I make the actual ride 1 minute from lift to brakes?
It's a mid-sized B&M Invert, along the lines of Dragon Challenge.
Throughput will indeed be interesting, given that Astérix's throughput generally is, for want of a better word, crap.
I was counting it from leaving the station to returning roughly Dan :P The video posted is 1:14, and the train is partway up the lift at the beginning, so I guessed around 1:30 overall
This must the first half decent coaster at Asterix?
The rest just seems to be standard Vekomas and bobsleds. A few good water rides though it seems.
In a way this is a similar situation to Gardaland with Raptor, whereby despite being very established as a theme park, the park is only just getting its first quality coaster.
CoasterCrazyChris wrote:
This must the first half decent coaster at Asterix?
Have you never heard of Tonnere De Zues? That's far more than half-decent, it's one of the best woodies in Europe!
I do agree, though, that this coaster really will throw Asterix into a different league. I visited in the summer of 2010, and whilst I found the park brilliant, a coaster of this mantle is just what the park needed.
I know we Brits love to bitch about how bad the UK is in every walk of life.... but seriously, I don't think we realise how lucky we are in the coaster stakes. Take any one one the main UK parks, and the chances are it has a better ride line up than most EU countries, never mind parks! [Germany excepted, obviously]
darkside wrote:
I personally think Holland beats us by a mile, especially when you consider the size of Holland!
Well, Holland is Vekoma Central. Don't get me wrong, there are some nice parks (Efteling and Walibi being the main two) but really - they don't have many compared to the UK.
There isn't a single B&M, for example, in Holland.