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[2025] Project Ocean: New Forbidden Valley Flat Ride

Poisson said:
I think they might be concerned it will be seen as just another Ripsaw if it was a Top Spin, not 'new' despite it being new.

I think a Floorless Top Spin would go well on the Submission Memorial garden, with a themeing wall behind it.
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Would give the folks sat on the Oblivion breakrun people to wave at as well.
 
AT86 said:
I don't think it will be a topspin. Not only does it appear the base would be too small (11.5m x 14.5m) against a published size of 22m x 9m for a floorless topspin - but as @BarryZola says the plans show the base is wider than it is long, so even if they could squeeze one on somehow it would be orientated 90 degrees versus Ripsaw, with riders sat facing either Blade or Galactica, instead of towards Nemesis or the trees. Would seem an odd way to do things.
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This is what I couldn’t get right in my head but you’ve summarised it perfectly. Why would you have a topspin facing that way?
 
In terms of bridging the path, a top spin seems quite a logical choice as the supports wouldn't be directly over the tunnel.

From a practical perspective, the only trouble with putting a floorless top spin up there is that you need clearance for the floor to drop as well as for the ride itself. Must add quite a bit to the required height.
 
I think it would face blade and galactica, I think if it was a swinging ride (like a topspin /s & s etc) it could make riders face down towards the path with the added height of the base it could add some more thill, but also act as a thing to watch as you walk down the path, seeing something swing above your head
 
This section of the plans shows the layout of the platform:

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I think the entrance gate is at the top and the exit gates are at the bottom. There appears to the a host station with gate on the exit side too (opposite the exit stairs).

Also, there appears to be access to one of the theming columns on the exit side, with what looks like a door leading inside. Could the ops booth be inside that maybe?
 
John said:
I'd expect entry and exit to be the other way round given that we know the queue will be towards the bottom left of that image
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Would have thought the lift would be on the exit side though. As @Jb85 said there could be an indoor section of the queue.
And two exit gates would make sense for guest flow, plus we know the merge point is before the stairs.
 
Not saying it is a Topspin, but assuming it is a suspended Topspin and orientated side-on to the original Ripsaw orientation, I was just looking at the sections to see if that would fit. On the top section in the attached image, the concrete platform forms a central symmetrical recess which is similar to the trough for the retracting floor of a what I believe the suspended topspin has. Moving onto the bottom section, and working with the fact that the plinth does not seem to be quite big enough - could it be that the ‘towers’ of the topspin rest on the thicker walls of concrete and then the diagonal support struts extend off the plinth and into the cylinders marked as theming? If you look at the footprint of a top spin from above, the shape fits if you include those cylindrical areas as well as the concrete base.
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JamesP said:
Not saying it is a Topspin, but assuming it is a suspended Topspin and orientated side-on to the original Ripsaw orientation, I was just looking at the sections to see if that would fit. On the top section in the attached image, the concrete platform forms a central symmetrical recess which is similar to the trough for the retracting floor of a what I believe the suspended topspin has. Moving onto the bottom section, and working with the fact that the plinth does not seem to be quite big enough - could it be that the ‘towers’ of the topspin rest on the thicker walls of concrete and then the diagonal support struts extend off the plinth and into the cylinders marked as theming? If you look at the footprint of a top spin from above, the shape fits if you include those cylindrical areas as well as the concrete base.
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Well worked out! Highly likely to be a suspended top spin then.
 
Yeh that mockup matched what I was thinking. I’m sure Huss used to have the technical drawings to download which would then be easy for me to overlay at scale, but they seem to have gone from their site and only the original model comes up on Google.
 
Matt.GC said:
Hang on, "Underpass to Galactica"? Does this mean that the way of dealing with the long running theme clash between the rest of Forbidden Valley and Air/Galactica is that the area will be split in two?

Without the Galactica and RCR plaza, FV would still be quite a sizeable area and it leaves the Air car park free to create a brand new area in the future, which includes Galactica in it.

Far fetched I know but what the hell.
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If that’s the case then the new Nemesis shop will be on the wrong side ;)
 
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