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That's some seriously weird banking.

Is it me, or with recent mack coasters ... have they seen all our "looks slow" jokes and said "halt mein bier"? It's like they are trying to stall.
 
Stall features do seem to have become very popular coaster elements in the last few years and Mack have certainly jumped on the bandwagon.

Batman Gotham City Escape (sorry to keep banging on about this one!) is an example of a zero-G stall that works perfectly, giving you a brief but perfect moment of airtime when you are least expecting it. The near-stall over the top hat is a little overplayed but actually in the context of the ride as a whole works a lot better than I expected it to.

However I think some rides - such as Hyperia - have gone a bit far with the concept and some of the near-stalls seem a bit unnecessary, the 'stalled dive loop' feeling a hell of a slower than it really needs to in order to be effective.

There's also the problem that trying to stall without actually stalling requires a very fine balance. We've seen recently how problematic a 'near' stall element can be on a cold spring morning or with an underweight train.
 
2025: Ange Michel - Zephyr (Gerstlauer Eurofighter)

As has been the case in France recently, yet another tiny little park is rolling out a new coaster for 2025. My parents live in France, and I go regularly - but even I had not heard of this park. Ange Michel currently has 3 rollercoasters. It is located on single track roads in the middle of nowhere. The good news? it's much more accessible than La Récré des 3 Curés which is in the extremity of north west Brittany, the other French park I can think of which added a similar scale coaster.

Either way, good to see. I give you 'Zephyr' - Europe's newest Gerstlauer Eurofighter.

RCDB link.

What remains impressive for me is that whilst these extremely small parks in France (and other parks in Germany, Belgium, NL) seem to be able to add attractions, here in the UK many of our smallest parks are on their knees with nothing remotely close to this kind of investment going in. Maybe there is public money to support tourist economies?
 
I remember Milky Way having a plaque stating one of the rides was built via EU funding.

Probably a whole host of reasons though. Particularly in how the government try and support all forms of tourism rather than ones with the biggest pockets.
 
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