It's of a new company on the scene... Rocky Mountain Construction, or RMC. This company is known for totally transforming Texas Giant in Six Flags Over Texas, with new steel railings, or topper track. Next year, they will transform Rattler in Six Flags Fiesta Texas and are building their first-ever wooden coaster from scratch... and this one has quite a bit of stuff worth looking into... and apparently there was a leak on this ride just yesterday. Oh, and rumors point to the name being "Outlaw."
For starters, the first drop looks incredibly mind-blowing (this is coming from MidwestInfoGuide's 6/27/2012 update):
Word has it, the first drop is 81 degrees. If what I rode at SFGAdv (El Toro with its 76 degree drop, different manufacturer but still) is ANY indication of how the ride's first drop will be... um... why on earth does this have to be more than 1000 miles from where I live (you know, Miami, all that stuff...)?
Apparently the speed on this thing is 68 mph, which puts it under El Toro as the second fastest wooden coaster on Earth (El Toro is at 70 mph). Voyage at Holiday World will come into third at 67 mph. Oh, what's this... El Toro's now the fastest woodie on Earth? Yes, the old record breaker (Son of Beast at 78 mph) is no more... Son of Beast was confirmed to be removed a few days ago... I'll get into that later.
Ha, funny about Son of Beast... that ride experience also had a record-breaking vertical loop... Outlaw, however, is rumored to have a double barrel roll, making this the first wooden coaster to have a "roll" inversion. The double barrel roll came from the leak, but another element of uniqueness caught my attention (first pic from Screamscape today. Second pic from chadster on Facebook (found this on ThemeParkReview) way back on July 8th):
Initially I thought this was going to be a zero-g-roll... but it looks more like an insane Stengel dive (which is also a world's first on a woodie)... that one element is really insane-looking! I'm really in love with Stengel dives, especially the ones on Maverick and Skyrush.
All this will be done on stagecoach-themed cars, with lap bars! And we don't have to wait too much longer either... the announcement will come on August 9th, just 9 days from now!
You can find more pics on Screamscape, ThemeParkReview, and MidwestInfoGuide.
No comments:
Post a Comment