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Steel Dragon 2000 gets new trains... from B&M?!

VH Coasters have a couple of new images of the trains here:

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There's also a short video of the trains to watch on the park's website here.
 
Also there seems to be a bar on the restraint to stop you sticking your legs out. I can only assume this is because B&M clamshells are designed for gentle floater airtime, and this beast has more agressive dynamics?

Either way, they look like a vast improvement on standard Morgan trains. Though the huge B&M wheels look rather comical on such small track :p
 
Let's hope that the leg bars are nowhere near as bad as the ones on Outlaw Run are, judging by what's been said on CoasterForce. :p
 
DiogoJ42 said:
Also there seems to be a bar on the restraint to stop you sticking your legs out. I can only assume this is because B&M clamshells are designed for gentle floater airtime, and this beast has more agressive dynamics?

Either way, they look like a vast improvement on standard Morgan trains. Though the huge B&M wheels look rather comical on such small track :p
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Apparently SD2K only has the same kind of floating airtime that you'd find on a B&M, and the wheels and chassis are the original Morgan ones! :)
 
Well at least these leg bars look to be plastic / rubber, not metal.

Bear said:
Apparently SD2K only has the same kind of floating airtime that you'd find on a B&M, and the wheels and chassis are the original Morgan ones! :)
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... I'll get me coat. :-[
 
Apparently SD2K only has the same kind of floating airtime that you'd find on a B&M, and the wheels and chassis are the original Morgan ones!
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So effectively the only major new parts are the seats and restraints. The rest of it is just ripping off the fibreglass shells and bolting on some B&M style trim. It goes to show how little of those boxy Morgan designs was actually needed. It's easy to forget how B&M revolutionised the coaster train by focusing on good seats and restraints and doing away with everything else.

However, on the downside the bulkiness of the seats sees the capacity of each train drop by a third. The old trains had three rows of two per car.
 
The changes are slightly more significant than that, as the new trains are made up of 7 cars rather than 6, which also means the reduction in capacity is not quite as bad as it would be otherwise.
 
You can tell the ride was built with the long trains in mind, I'll bet that these trains give a noticeably tamer ride than before.
 
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