Lagoon: General Discussion

Are they launches or brakes?

Brakes aren't normally white. Plus the park still hasn't announced the one of a kind element yet.

A couple of new photos:





You can see the track with the LIMs attached has been put in place. They seem to be on the descent that leads into an overbank turn throught the first immelman. A strange place for the ride to need a launch surely? Maybe they are some form of brakes.

I'm theory you can use LIMS to trim a ride, would potentially give you a more precise control over the speed.

Dave said:

I'm theory you can use LIMS to trim a ride, would potentially give you a more precise control over the speed.

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That would actually make a lot of sense. It would also mean that you could actively adjust the trims for each individual train. There are of course already coasters that do this but they all use mechanical systems with moving parts. Lagoon may have been quite clever here and found a way to achieve this effect without the maintenance headache.

The down side would be they would cost more to run than standard trims. But in the US energy costs are low.

Heaven on a crap stick that is one fine roller coaster fat chance of the uk getting anything close to this

Having just looked at the ride again... I think there is every chance that they could potentially be used to launch as well! If you look at the photo below posted on LagoonIsFun, you can see the supports for the Overbanked Turn going through the Immelmann. It is pretty much exactly the same height as the Mini Dive-Loop.



I guess it all depends on how well the ride runs. One would guess they are making their own trains too, so it's pretty hard to tell how quickly they will lose speed over the track. So there could be a possibility that they may well need a bit of a 'rolling launch' into the next element!


Also, moving away from the mysterious fins, the theming on this ride so far is looking pretty stunning! For a small relatively unheard of park like Lagoon it looks truly fantastic!



That is the theming surrounding the tunnel at the bottom of that almighty drop. Then there is also the other tunnel/waterfall feature, which judging from the framework, looks set to be pretty damn big!!



All photos from the 'LagoonIsFun' Facebook page.

An incredible look at construciton from a quad copter thingy:



Quite a perspective! I cannot wait to see this coaster testing.

A thought just occurs, why is the tower about 3 floors taller than the top of the ride?

Tower of Terrors lift mechanism is the only similar system I can think of that goes above the ride.

Tim said:

A thought just occurs, why is the tower about 3 floors taller than the top of the ride?

Tower of Terrors lift mechanism is the only similar system I can think of that goes above the ride.

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A thought for the apparent worlds first aspect of this. Maybe the lift up is not just a standard ascent to the top. Maybe as it takes you up there will be a sudden drop and it could enter a Tower of Terror like sequence? Would certainly be a unqiue and exciting start to a coaster!

It could just be aesthetics.

Perhaps it's a shop to buy on ride photos lol

Surely that's to house the lift mechanism? (Pretty sure this is supposed to have a "lift" rather than a lifthill)

Dive loop is now complete:



Looking tight just like the rest of this so far.

Wow!

This could be horrendous.

Or awesome.

There's only one reason to have LSM Motors on Cannibal....a Launch. There are already permanent Magnetic Brake Fins on the Drop, so there's no need to use the more Expensive LSM Motors as Trims. Additionally, all of the LSM Coasters (Zierer, Gerstlauer, Premier, MACK, etc.) that use these types of LSM Motors in conjunction with the Flywheel Inverter from InTraSys GmbH, do so to allow the park to recapture the energy during Braking. If the park decides to invest in the needed capacitors to store the energy, the ride could potentially recapture up to 75% of the Energy Used to Launch a Train. From what I've heard, the only coaster to utilize the system fully is Helix. If Lagoon had installed the Expensive Capacitors on Wicked, it was estimated the Ride could operate off the Grid for up to 3 Hours with the Energy Recovery System and the Flywheel Inverter.

I have complete faith in Dal Freeman's Design and ART Engineering GmbH to deliver another Quality Product like they did with BomBora, besides, Dal designed Wicked as well as The Big One, Magnum XL-200, and many other Arrow Coasters. The Inverted Loop and Diving Loop look absolutely sick in the best way! The Wingover/Immelmann Turn and "Switchback Barrel Roll" look totally sweet.

It's almost complete!

I like how this coaster looks about the size of a normal Euro Fighter until you compare it to the rides surrounding it. The skycoaster, S&S combo tower and Ferris wheel are completely dwarfed by it. Then there's poor little Wicked in the background.