Fun Spot America Theme Parks

[Burniel]

It's been a while since any construction updates for Mine Blower have been posted here, so here's a few of the best shots from recent updates from Wild Gravity Travels:





Looks like the attraction's coming along great! The overbank in particular reminds of me of Cú Chulainn, which can only be a good thing.

According to the Orlando Sentinel, the ride will cost $9 to ride, or can be ridden using the wristband. Not bad value for a park like this!

[Robert.W]

Looks quite cool, but $9 is a bit expensive in my opinion! How many rides are you getting?!!

[Burniel]

Looks quite cool, but $9 is a bit expensive in my opinion! How many rides are you getting?!!

$9, roughly equivelant to £7, is hardly loads for a coaster of this magnitude at a pay-per-ride park in a tourist hotspot. Given that White Lightning over at Orlando and Kissimmee's own Wild Mouse, which are considerably less exciting and less new, are also $9 per ride, I personally wouldn't have been surprised if they charged at least $10, especially for its first year of operation.

You can also buy a full-day pass for $40 (£31), which easily pays for itself if you're planning a ride on all three coasters, a few re-rides on Mine Blower and a go on the excellent go-karts.

[Burniel]

Looks like the first inversion to feature on a wooden coaster in Florida is coming along nicely!


Credit to The Gravity Group.

[Robert.W]

It's actually looking really good!

[Owen]

Here's a G Force map for Mine Blower from The Gravity Group...



Lots of air time!

[ponder]

Looks quite cool, but $9 is a bit expensive in my opinion! How many rides are you getting?!!

$9, roughly equivelant to £7, is hardly loads for a coaster of this magnitude at a pay-per-ride park in a tourist hotspot. Given that White Lightning over at Orlando and Kissimmee's own Wild Mouse, which are considerably less exciting and less new, are also $9 per ride, I personally wouldn't have been surprised if they charged at least $10, especially for its first year of operation.

You can also buy a full-day pass for $40 (£31), which easily pays for itself if you're planning a ride on all three coasters, a few re-rides on Mine Blower and a go on the excellent go-karts.

The other way to look at it is that the average price for a Disney / Universal ticket is now around $110. So unless you're managing more than 11 rides in a visit (possible at Uni, less so at Disney), then you're still paying roughly the same price per ride.

I thought White Lightening was great by the way. For an off-the-shelf it rode a lot better than many bigger and more expensive custom woodies.

[Robert.W]

Good point!!

[Owen]

The trains are on thier way!





Credit to Fun Spot Facebook.

[Robert.W]

Wow! I wasn't expecting them to look like that!

[Owen]

Here they are in storage!



Credit to Fun Spot Facebook.

[Owen]

It's been confirmed that the second train for Mine Blower will have black along the top portion of the train, with the dynamite and bottom half remaining red!

Here's a look at the coaster from above! It's very close to testing now!



Thanks to Fun Spot Facebook for the image.

[Danny]

Do love GG coaster layouts, and this one looks set to be a great addition to their portfolio

[Owen]

Mine Blower will open on June 23rd!

Aka one week from today!

[Owen]

We have a test run! Watch it here.

It's certainly fast!

[Owen]

Here's a day time test video!

Here's Miday Mayhem's full testing update with test runs taken at many different locations around the ride!

[Owen]

And we have a POV!

[Aidan Lowe]

That thing moves through that course at some speed. And that inversion over the station looks wonderful.

[MakoMania]

I know this is by Gravity Group but if GCI can deliver the same sort of pacing with SW8 it could be a really great coaster for Alton Towers!

[Owen]

Here's a seat mounted POV showing the perspective of the rider.

However what's really crazy is this video showing the wheels leaving the track over airtime hills!