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2018: Wicker Man - General Discussion - SPOILERS! - Part One

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Wouldn't be amazing if there was no world's first, no washing machine, no crappy element attached to the ride at all?

It won't happen, but still, Towers simplest rides have paid off the most.
 
I agree but have to say Oblivions worlds first is A-MAZ-ING.

But it was just inevitably going to happen somewhere wasn't it.
 
There's surely no way that Merlin would agree to allocate Towers a budget for a bog standard GCI woodie. 'Europe's first launched wooden coaster' seems quite likely to be what Marketing will be spamming the press with as the ride takes shape, I'd say, at least based on what we can see so far. That would be a pretty acceptable gimmick, however.
 
Cheese said:
There's surely no way that Merlin would agree to allocate Towers a budget for a bog standard GCI woodie. 'Europe's first launched wooden coaster' seems quite likely to be what Marketing will be spamming the press with as the ride takes shape, I'd say, at least based on what we can see so far. That would be a pretty acceptable gimmick, however.
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I think they will go one better and market it as the World's First launched wooden coaster, and use the fact that Lightning Rod is topper track, and SW8 will be all wood (apart from the steel strip on top of it).
 
Cheese said:
There's surely no way that Merlin would agree to allocate Towers a budget for a bog standard GCI woodie. 'Europe's first launched wooden coaster' seems quite likely to be what Marketing will be spamming the press with as the ride takes shape, I'd say, at least based on what we can see so far. That would be a pretty acceptable gimmick, however.
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talking of launched wooden coasters, here's a POV of the worlds first launched Wooden coaster, Lightning Rod, at Dollywood in the USA:
 
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dazza4783 said:
I think they will go one better and market it as the World's First launched wooden coaster, and use the fact that Lightning Rod is topper track, and SW8 will be all wood (apart from the steel strip on top of it).
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Oops, I'd forgotten that Lightning Rod is the hybrid type of RMC instead of their higher wood content model! In that case yes, Towers would be very likely to advertise it as the world's first.
 
But lightning rod is built of wood, there's no steel in the supports and the track is stacks of wood with steel bindings, so it's a wooden coaster
 
Just goes to show what you can do with a load of imagination and the right kind of budget to be able to go for a world class manufacturer.

Merlin do have to pop their heads out of their bubble and see what other parks can do.
 
It'd make a lot more sense if this is part of Katanga Canyon rather than Mutiny Bay. That way they can reuse the pre-show from Zufari and save themselves a bit of money :)
 
skyscraper said:
talking of launched wooden coasters, here's a POV of the worlds first launched Wooden coaster, Lightning Rod, at Dollywood in the USA:
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Wow, looks like that delay was worth it. The airtime on the crest of the launch/lift must be insane. RIP headphone users for that video though ;)

Really puts into perspective how pitiful it would actually be if Towers built what we've seen in those plans, with a launch, and then tried to market it on that basis, when THIS came before it.
 
Dar said:
But lightning rod is built of wood, there's no steel in the supports and the track is stacks of wood with steel bindings, so it's a wooden coaster
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I must admit I wasn't clued up on which names RMC used for which style of track, their exact construction, and which type Outlaw Run has. Having checked their website, they say that the metal section on Topper Track replaces what would normally be the top two layers of the wooden stack, so a coaster built with it is technically still a woodie as you said Dar. SW8 would then have to be accurately sold as Europe's first launched wooden coaster, though I see Dazza's point that the marketers might still pretend that more than just a top layer of metal renders an RMC not a woodie.
 
Cheese said:
Oops, I'd forgotten that Lightning Rod is the hybrid type of RMC instead of their higher wood content model! In that case yes, Towers would be very likely to advertise it as the world's first.
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Lightning Rod is the higher wood content model, but the RMC woodies are considered by some to not be true wooden coasters because the top rail is all steel as opposed to wood with steel strips for the wheels to run on.
Because of that, if they really wanted to they could claim it to be the World's First launched true wood coaster. Hopefully they won't, and they will just market as a European first, assuming no launched woodies open anywhere in Europe next year. Do we know anything about Flamingo Land's rumoured woodie yet? Who know's, SW8 might not even be a UK first for all we know.
 
dazza4783 said:
Lightning Rod is the higher wood content model, but the RMC woodies are considered by some to not be true wooden coasters because the top rail is all steel as opposed to wood with steel strips for the wheels to run on.
Because of that, if they really wanted to they could claim it to be the World's First launched true wood coaster. Hopefully they won't, and they will just market as a European first, assuming no launched woodies open anywhere in Europe next year. Do we know anything about Flamingo Land's rumoured woodie yet? Who know's, SW8 might not even be a UK first for all we know.
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The world's first launched wooden coaster fully dedicated to wood?
 
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