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Sam198
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Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:04 pm
Looking along the valley towards the back of the site, this thing really is huge!
Regardless of the magnitude of minor flaws its bound to have, it's great to see another invert on the scale of Montu, Katun (<3), Pyrenees and Alpengeist, etc being built.
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lewis97
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Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:02 am
Image from Kings Island's Facebook of the entrance to the Dive Loop...
And Jack, what you seem to have done is link in the live webcam to your post!
Jack
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Sat Oct 19, 2013 8:07 am
^well, no need for updates, just look at my post
jk jk
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lewis97
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Sun Oct 20, 2013 11:28 pm
A high quality image of all the track up so far, from Kings Island's twitter...
lewis97
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Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:57 pm
And there are now supports up for the loop's entrance and exit, and going into the entrance of the zero g roll.
lewis97
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Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:11 pm
More track is now in place for the dive loop, and the entrance/exit of the loop.
lewis97
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Thu Oct 24, 2013 6:03 pm
Dive loop complete...
From KI's twitter...
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Sam198
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Thu Oct 24, 2013 8:47 pm
It should be interesting to experience a 'proper' large-scale dive loop on an invert. OzIris' just felt slow and gimmicky - much like the rest of it.
Danny
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Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:57 pm
This seems to be taking forever to build compared to heide parks wing rider!
lewis97
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Thu Oct 24, 2013 10:34 pm
danny.g97 wrote:
This seems to be taking forever to build compared to heide parks wing rider!
Well firstly it's a much bigger coaster and so that obviously means it's going to take longer to construct. Furthermore, vertical construction on this began much later than at Heide Park.
On a typical day, either several pieces of track will go up, or a number of supports. There aren't many days when there isn't any vertical construction.
RollercoasterGEEK100
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Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:44 am
Heres a photo my friend from the USA took! Look how low it passes the ground.
Credit to NemesisRider
LoopyDan
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Tue Oct 29, 2013 8:53 am
RollercoasterGEEK100 wrote:
Heres a photo my friend from the USA took! Look how low it passes the ground.
That's like Air close to the ground! I can also see the loop is coming together.
lewis97
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Wed Oct 30, 2013 4:14 pm
The first loop is now complete!
Unfortunately I am unable to link in an image at the moment, so if someone else would kindly like to screenshot the live webcam please go ahead.
Senator
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lewis97
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Thu Oct 31, 2013 5:27 pm
The entrance to the zero-g roll is now under construction...
Danny
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Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:03 pm
Is the layout one that could be easily remade in rct3? Can't remember the plans and so far it looks like it
Jack
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Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:13 pm
^no, not really, it's quite hard to recreate