Friday, June 27, 2014

B&M Track Speculation

At this point, there are 4 colors of B&M track in the Clermont Steel Fabricators plant near Batavia, Ohio (first quote from Cedar Fair Roller Coaster Construction Facebook; second quote from Tosu97 at Carowinds Connection; pics from themepark.nl):
Here are a couple of shots from http://themepark.nl, according to the photographer(Simon de Bruijn), the white and orange track are both dive coasters destined for Europe. The yellow track i think is still for China, so that leaves the green track that is unaccounted for.
Now up to four colors of B&M track floating around- white, yellow, orange, and teal
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=649698781781076&id=528819877202301



Pics can be found here:
http://themepark.nl/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2130553#Post2130553

We have white track, orange track, yellow track (mentioned below), and teal track. There are two Dive Coasters confirmed for Europe next year: one in Efteling (in the Netherlands), and the other in Gardaland (in Italy; I've actually covered this park in the past with the construction of Raptor, the first B&M Wing Coaster, back in 2011). Heth from ThemeParkReview speculated this:
The promotional material for the Gardaland one has used an orange and black colour scheme, so I'd have guessed it was the other way around.
So we kind of have an idea where two of the track pieces are going, the orange going to Gardaland and the white going to Efteling. I had a feeling the white track was going to Carowinds though.

For the yellow track, here are some pics from Screamscape (back in February):
(2/26/14) Our local Screamscape spy dropped by the B&M Track Fabricator plant in Ohio and snapped up pictures of brand new bright yellow coaster track. If I’m reading the label right this is for a new B&M Flying coaster, and they do have one on the way to China for the Wanda Group set to open in 2014 at the Xishuangbanna International Resort park. The concept art for this coaster found on VHCoasters however had blue track and not yellow, so while this track could be for another project, I’m still thinking this is still the Wanda coaster unless someone knows of another B&M Flyer in the works. 








I'd definitely expect the yellow track to be for the flying coaster in China. It's been a while since we've last seen a B&M Flying Coaster, but "LC" means Flying Coaster.

So now we know:

ORANGE: B&M Dive Machine for Gardaland, Italy
WHITE: B&M Dive Machine for Efteling, Netherlands
YELLOW: B&M Flying Coaster for Wanda Xishuangbanna, China

However, that just leaves the Teal track. Cedar Fair has been adding teal/blue colored coasters recently, most notably Leviathan at Canada's Wonderland and Gatekeeper at Cedar Point. Banshee at Kings Island is an exception, as it has purple track, but does have blue supports.

Teal track would make sense for Carowinds given this recent trend. Normally I would doubt this if it was still going to be called "Centurion" (teal wouldn't make sense then :/). But now with the recent trademark of "Fury 325," I suppose it's pretty possible. So my guess for the teal track is Carowinds at the moment.

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