Monday, February 9, 2009

Back to the Future: The Coaster

I'm thinking that since the BTTF rides have closed in America, I proudly surmise a new original Back to the Future ride should be built in a park I'm doing: Universal Studios Massachusetts (located in Plymouth). It should be a B&M Floorless Coaster called Back to the Future: The Coaster, themed to the animated series. Here is how the seats will be like:

*Under the train (which will be themed to the DeLorean Time Machine, but with no floor), there will be station floor which, when the riders are all set, will come down.

*The back rest will be black, while the harnesses will be gray.

*The trains will still have doors and a front, despite it not having floor, to make it fit the DeLorean theme, thus making this the first B&M floorless coaster to have a front and door.

*In the front, facing the riders, will be the flux capacitor, the speed, the time you are arriving, and a monitor.

Here is how the track will be like:

*The track color will be black railings and gray track.

Track layout:

It starts with the station floor going down and Doc appearing in the monitor soliloquizing, "Now, to go through time, it is quite paramount to accelerate up to 88 mph." The train starts moving and turns to the left leading to the 120 ft. lift hill. As you slowly go on a lift chain, Doc counts the speed, "25 miles per hour, 35, 45, 55...", the train ascends, "... 65, 75, 85, 88 MILES PER HOUR!" The train gets launched from 0 to 40 mph. in 2 seconds through a zero-g-roll and a 115 ft. drop. The train goes through an immelmann loop followed by a loop surrounding the tunnel containing the lift hill. The coaster goes through a cobra roll, followed by a mist tunnel (where your on-ride camera is taken) under the walkway leading to the entrance of the ride, and a 180 degree overbanked turn to the block brake. After the block brake, riders go through a 80 ft. drop under the track leading to the cobra roll, and another vertical loop, followed by a corkscrew, a helix, and a tunnel. After exiting the tunnel, the train goes through the plot twist (a 540 degree helix which originated at Hollywood Rip, Ride, Rockit) and the final brakes.

There are rumors of on-ride videos installed throughout the coaster, like the ones recently installed on the Hulk.

1 comment:

Driving Force of Nature said...

I would love to try this ride out!!!