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[The Smiler] Train Speculation
andyramone
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Re: [The Smiler] Construction Updates and Ride Speculation Part 2
That pic looks like bright yellow OTSRs to my eye. I see three at the top of the picture. They look the same as SAW:
That pic looks like bright yellow OTSRs to my eye. I see three at the top of the picture. They look the same as SAW:
Rob
TS Team
And just to really put it to bed, here are Gerstlauer's lap bars on Dare Devil Dive:
Clearly not the same as we have here. Yet what we have is identical to the bottom of Gerst's OTSRs, which all in all equals OTSRs. I'm not at all disappointed as it's what I've been fully expecting for a while now.
Clearly not the same as we have here. Yet what we have is identical to the bottom of Gerst's OTSRs, which all in all equals OTSRs. I'm not at all disappointed as it's what I've been fully expecting for a while now.
Alastair
TS Team
Rob said:And just to really put it to bed, here are Gerstlauer's lap bars on Dare Devil Dive:
Clearly not the same as we have here. Yet what we have is identical to the bottom of Gerst's OTSRs, which all in all equals OTSRs. I'm not at all disappointed as it's what I've been fully expecting for a while now.
Their lapbars on DDD and Iron Shark are completely different. Who's to say they haven't done the same again and redesigned them?
Rob
TS Team
Of course it's possible. But they are identical to the OTSRs. Anyone expecting lap bars now is going to be severely disappointed! If those do turn out to be lap bars I will happily hold my hands up and apologise for being so confident and wrong about OTSRs.
Alastair
TS Team
Re: Re: [The Smiler] Construction Updates and Ride Speculation Part 2
This is what I think - these style of restraints:
Which would also match up with the image in The Sun (only in respect of the device on top of the handles) as well as the German article that suggested there could be heartbeat sensors/monitors in the trains:
Benzin said:
This is what I think - these style of restraints:
Which would also match up with the image in The Sun (only in respect of the device on top of the handles) as well as the German article that suggested there could be heartbeat sensors/monitors in the trains:
Alastair
TS Team
Rob said:Of course it's possible. But they are identical to the OTSRs. Anyone expecting lap bars now is going to be severely disappointed! If those do turn out to be lap bars I will happily hold my hands up and apologise for being so confident and wrong about OTSRs.
I won't give up hope until I see the full picture!
Rollercoasters4Life
TS Member
Re: Re: [The Smiler] Construction Updates and Ride Speculation Part 2
Just to disprove the idea of Gerstlauer Lapbars even more:
This is the best picture I could get of Iron Shark's Trains so you can see the restraints.
Benzin said:
Just to disprove the idea of Gerstlauer Lapbars even more:
This is the best picture I could get of Iron Shark's Trains so you can see the restraints.
Rollercoasters4Life
TS Member
Rob said:And just to really put it to bed, here are Gerstlauer's lap bars on Dare Devil Dive:
Clearly not the same as we have here. Yet what we have is identical to the bottom of Gerst's OTSRs, which all in all equals OTSRs. I'm not at all disappointed as it's what I've been fully expecting for a while now.
Just to disprove the idea of Gerstlauer Lapbars even more:
This is the best picture I could get of Iron Shark's Trains so you can see the restraints.
Alastair
TS Team
Rollercoasters4Life said:Rob said:And just to really put it to bed, here are Gerstlauer's lap bars on Dare Devil Dive:
Clearly not the same as we have here. Yet what we have is identical to the bottom of Gerst's OTSRs, which all in all equals OTSRs. I'm not at all disappointed as it's what I've been fully expecting for a while now.
Just to disprove the idea of Gerstlauer Lapbars even more:
This is the best picture I could get of Iron Shark's Trains so you can see the restraints.
Those are T-bar style, whilst DDD's are over the head style. They couldn't be more different in terms of lapbar design!
Rollercoasters4Life
TS Member
Alastair said:Rollercoasters4Life said:Rob said:And just to really put it to bed, here are Gerstlauer's lap bars on Dare Devil Dive:
Clearly not the same as we have here. Yet what we have is identical to the bottom of Gerst's OTSRs, which all in all equals OTSRs. I'm not at all disappointed as it's what I've been fully expecting for a while now.
Just to disprove the idea of Gerstlauer Lapbars even more:
This is the best picture I could get of Iron Shark's Trains so you can see the restraints.
Those are T-bar style, whilst DDD's are over the head style. They couldn't be more different in terms of lapbar design!
Gerstlauer have done two types of lapbars - Rob showed you one and I showed you the other. I disproved Iron Sharks type, and it also looks like Rob has disproved DDD lapbars.
Rob
TS Team
Well we can 100% rule out T-bar restraints, and isn't that what those who expected lap bars based on some of the very small promotional images were expecting? This does prove that the trains in some of the promotional images were not accurate though, no surprises there for me!