Ian
TS Team
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Th13teen I think does somewhat prove a lot of Intamin's faults. Some of the cocks ups they have done just come across as downright careless. I mean Th13teen is butter smooth, and they managed to engineer a great piece of tech for the drop. But they spoilt it by messing up a simple calculation of how fast the train would hit lift 2. I mean seriously?! What if they'd done that to a break run? It'd be a disaster! It's a foolish mistake which was somehow allowed to be constructed, and then resulted in a bodge job to fix the damn thing. Then there was the whole lapbar sensor palarva which again seems like they were being a bit careless.
That's not to say B&M aren't without faults sometimes, like the Air flight arm, followed by B&M apparently saying "Oh. We thought that might happen..." But in retrospect that was on a prototype model which was a whole new approach to the format. At least they still got the track and train sums correct and were able to fix it without ruining the rest of the ride
I do still sort of feel sorry for new Vekoma. It seems they're trying really hard, but they never will quite shake this old image they have. Ben 10 is a fantastic piece of engineering. It's butter smooth for one thing, and it has a real look and feel f quality about it. I do wish more smaller parks would take up the Junior Boomerang. It's a solid little family coaster. I'd love to try Battlestar Galactica to see how that runs in comparison to their older rides. I've heard a lot of very positive reviews about the new SLC design. Hopefully when Disney get the new SMII trains in service we'll see Vekoma start to resurface in some form.
That's not to say B&M aren't without faults sometimes, like the Air flight arm, followed by B&M apparently saying "Oh. We thought that might happen..." But in retrospect that was on a prototype model which was a whole new approach to the format. At least they still got the track and train sums correct and were able to fix it without ruining the rest of the ride
I do still sort of feel sorry for new Vekoma. It seems they're trying really hard, but they never will quite shake this old image they have. Ben 10 is a fantastic piece of engineering. It's butter smooth for one thing, and it has a real look and feel f quality about it. I do wish more smaller parks would take up the Junior Boomerang. It's a solid little family coaster. I'd love to try Battlestar Galactica to see how that runs in comparison to their older rides. I've heard a lot of very positive reviews about the new SLC design. Hopefully when Disney get the new SMII trains in service we'll see Vekoma start to resurface in some form.