New Intamin "concepts"

[Skyscraper]

Intamin recently announced 4 new coaster concepts... although they're essentially ripping off Mack, RMC and Premier with their own version of Raptor, Powersplash and Sky Rocket.
Screwyloops did an excellent full breakdown, and the indivisual ride videos from Intamin are below;



Hot Racer:



Vertical LSM coaster:



Ultra Splash:



Giga Splash:



Thoughts?

 

[Rick]

"New" Intamin concepts.

 

[Skyscraper]

"New" Intamin concepts.

Well yes, they've just been announced.

 

[John_P]

Did Golden Horse buy intamin then?

 

[Tim]

The vertical LSM coaster is a bit different. Very gimmicky, the upside down launch seems a bit pointless and I don't get what's new about the inversions. But at least it's doing something different.

 

[Rick]

It's quite interesting to see Intamin making "me too" products. Not to say they haven't followed other manufacturers before but they have been hugely innovative with other products, with varying levels of success.

 

[Benzin]

What was the last unique world's first concept from them? Skyrush?

Even that has a varying difference of opinions.

Let alone things like Baco and Tornado at Bakken.

Definitely a reason why a lot more Intamin concepts tend to only have 1 (maybe 2 if lucky) built.