Thursday, July 23, 2009

Volcano God Coaster

I am planning another B&M coaster. It will be a stand-up (first one in years) and it will be themed to the Volcano God, another character I made up from a film I made up. The coaster will have a launch from 0 to 60 mph in 2 seconds (first B&M to do such a thing since Hulk). It will stand 200 ft. tall. The coaster's queue, main building, station, and maintenance building blends in with the volcano part of the coaster.

Queue:

The queue will go around the volcano part of the coaster surrounded by a hallway themed to a volcano cavern. You take a view of the volcano part from big holes in certain parts of the queue. After waiting a moment, you enter a line under the final brake run. Then towards a staircase leading to the pre-show room. Queue videos recap scenes from the film and show a video with a scientist named Howard Hooky saying information on their expedition to Mt. Dynamite.

Pre-Show:

The pre-show (just like the queue) will be themed to a volcano cavern. The pre-show begins with a geographer (who is crazy) entering the room. He says, "Uh, hello. My name is, uh, Evan. I work for a geographic team searching for, uh, a volcano called, er, um, Mt. Dynamite. It is very huge, very fiery, and very dangerous. There, uh, lies the home of, er, um, the Volcano God. Professor Hooky, your tour guide, will be here any moment." His voice is quiet, "Please don't make any noise. We don't want to awaken the, uh, Volcano God. If he is awakened, he will be very deadly. So hush!" He walks to the edge of the room, and the room is dark. He then sounds very scared, "Uh, who turned off the lights?" His pocket phone rang and he answers, "Hello." The caller roars. "Um, Pr. Hooky, er, is that you?" It roars again. "Um, stop playing with me, you are freaking me out!" It roars and the phone beeps ending the call. Evan continues in a panicked voice, "Sorry about the interruption." The wall then shows the words: GET OUT! Evan then soliloquizes, "Hey it is light again. Hmmm... What is this? Get... out?" He is even more panicked. "That's probably just a salesman... Nothing to worry..." The people hear a big roar. "Ummm... is that you Pr. Hooky." They hear the phone again and Evan answers again, "Pr. Hooky?" The voice of Pr. Hooky comes from the phone, "Help me, Evan! I am at Mt. Dynamite!" "What's wrong?" "Please help! Save the tourspeople! It's..." The phone turns off. "Professor... Are you still there?" He is horrified, and turns to the riders, "Ummm... Well, Professor Hooky is telling you to get out of here. Don't know why, but you should leave..." His voice is cut off by a big, loud roar and some red lights surrounding the pre-show room turn on. That same voice who made the roar said, "YOU! So, you are the ones who are besmirching my lair! YOU!" Evan turns around in all directions, quickly and panickly. "Um, are you the..." "Yes! I am the Volcano God! How dare you befoul my volcano!" "Sorry, just doing some exploring-" "I am not to be tricked! You besmirched my volcano, and now you are using trickory on me?! HUH?!" "I am not-" "LIES! I have had enough! BY THE POWER OF ALL VOLCANOES, I WILL CURSE YOU FOR ALL ETERNITY!" "NOOOOO!" Evan dies. The Volcano God appears over the riders (in a projection screen over the pre-show room) and bellows, "As for you, poor souls, I have something else in mind. An old mine cart with no seats. I rather you die standing. To prevent any movement, harnesses will automatically come down over your shoulder once you enter the cart. The cart will enter the Volcano Death Room, where I will kill you..." He goes on with safety instructions (in disguise of wanting you dead). "...Now move it slaves!"

Station:

Once the pre-show ends, the doors open revealing the station. The station is themed to a volcano cavern. The nose car (shaped like Chang's) will be themed to a mine cart. It will be brown. The harnesses will be fiery-orange. The back rest will be brown. The track will be fiery-orange and the supports will be brown.

Ride:

Once all riders are on board, the lights are off, the doors close, and you hear the Volcano God bellowing, "You have besmirched my volcano! For that you must pay the price!" The train then moves and turns left 45 degrees leading to a 200 ft. launched lift hill (the Volcano Death Room) (first time on a stand-up). As the train ascends the hill it slows down at some point as the riders hear the Volcano God saying his curse in a projection screen over the track. As says the curse, smoke appears in front of the riders. As he concludes, the train gets launched into the smoke from 0 to 60 mph in 2 seconds out of the volcano. Exiting the volcano, the ride will pass a zero-g-roll (just after the on-ride camera) leading to a 200 ft. vertical drop (also first time on a stand-up). Exiting the vertical drop, the ride enters a cobra roll (also first time on a stand-up) standing 150 ft. tall in the lagoon, breaking Hulk's record for tallest cobra roll. The next element is a loop leading to a mist tunnel passing the vertical drop. Exiting the mist tunnel, the ride returns to land and goes through a carousel turn (surrounding the volcano) and a tunnel crashing in the volcano under the launched lift hill leading to a corkscrew once you leave the tunnel. Departing from the corkscrew, the riders enter the volcano part of the coaster. It is outdoors and has fire and smoke effects. The riders enter a tunnel (with smoke effects to the left and the right) leading to a dive loop. It turns left and heads for an oblique loop (with a fire effect in the center of the loop). The train then enters through a tunnel and heads for the block brake, then drops to another outdoor room (this time observed by riders in the queue). Exiting the drop, the riders enter a corkscrew interlocking with another. Exiting the first corkscrew, the ride turns around, nearly colliding with the queue (a fire effect to the right of the riders POV) to another corkscrew and heads for a smoke tunnel indoors, turns around (with lighting effects) and heads for a tunnel leading to a cloud of smoke. Then they enter the final brake run, turn right 180 degrees.

Post-Show:

Once the ride enters the station, you hear the Volcano God say, "You may have escaped me this time, so I will let you go. But let this be a warning to you, next time you besmirch my volcano, you... will... pay!"

Volcano Outfitters:

The exit is to the right of the station. It turns left and goes down a staircase leading to the gift shop: Volcano Outfitters. It will have t-shirts of the coaster, toys from the film, an on-ride picture, and the on-ride video (launch, bottom of vertical drop, mist tunnel, before dive loop, bottom of second drop, and final brakes). The outside entrance is to the right of the entrance.

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