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Hansa-Park: general discussion

Yeah Rage is fine, so it ain't a UK thing lol.

Speed just really grinds on my head, I come off with a head ache after every ride.

Saw makes me want to cry. Seriously.
 
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Posted on the Facebook Page of The Hansa-Park Fansite, there is now track emerging from the bottom of the tower!

Shouldn't be too long now until we finally get to see the rest of the layout :D
 
Excellent! I'd imagine th rest of the coaster should be somewhat easier to construct now that it won't be inside of a tower.

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Not much of an update in regards to track outside of the tower but some new photos have been posted on the Karnan minisite:

The tower still looks utterly ridiculous:
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Crikey, doesn't look a lot of space, wonder if they should have used the spacer first lol!!

Hope it's not TG Cruise and they have to move the whole tower :D
 
Latest images from the Karnan website:

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Obviously we do not know what the construction schedule is and I'm not sure when it is due to open but to me it looks like progress is very poor at the moment. It could be that they are having cold temperatures over there which is making concrete pouring difficult.

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They had similar issues with Fluch, that's what you get for building a park on the coastline of the North Sea...
 
Holy mother of flying cows!! That is going to be mental. I pray it is a smooth drop though.

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So happy to see a little Anton madness creeping into Gersts DNA.

I like how they seem to be up for having a go and these bonkers projects.

Now they just need sort their stinky restraints....

Oh yes....

THIS HAS LAP BARS REMEMBER :D
 
Makes you wonder why they separated the two sides though as it will be dark? Presumably so on the lift you don't see the drop, but lots of effort for little gain. Hats off.
 
smudge said:
Makes you wonder why they separated the two sides though as it will be dark? Presumably so on the lift you don't see the drop, but lots of effort for little gain. Hats off.
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I have a feeling they're doing to theme it. Obviously this year they just get the ride done, given it's size I think everyone would agree that's sensible anyway!

I also do think it makes that drop look pretty tremendous - also don't forget, the light will be leaking from the bottom of the drop from the exit, where I believe it may enter the hill through a dark ride section. If that is the case, that is STUNNING attention to detail and ride experience, simply stunning.

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Also this is another pretty extreme Infinity coaster, with that really peculiar looking support structure for the drop, I guess we'll soon get an idea of whether it was Gerst or Cruise who screwed up The Smiler's smoothness!

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THE LID GOES ON NEXT :D
 
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Sorry for the double post lol

At the same time work on the track foundations will be carried out. That involves steel tube piles, steel auger piles and cast-in-situ concrete foundations with reinvorced concrete tops. All this will be done and inspected by various experts: geotechnical experts, structural engineers that are specialised in rides and foundations as well as structural inspection engineers.
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Meanwhile.... over at Alton Towers new Gerstlauer installation:

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(Image Credit The Drum)
 
TheMaus said:
I guess we'll soon get an idea of whether it was Gerst or Cruise who screwed up The Smiler's smoothness!
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It's surely a mixture of both parties, as has been said before. There's a certain innate vibration to the ride system anyway if Karacho is anything to go by, and that's a competent but considerably more tame coaster than The Smiler (it felt like it could have been very intense indeed without the launch watered down, but that's for another topic). I think a Smiler clone built on a properly prepared site and with a rolling strip-and-rebuild programme for the trains would still shake riders about to some extent, and the construction cock-ups greatly compound that issue.
 
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