Strange?

[beck2003]

this is one strange looking ride. check it.

http://www.rcdb.com/ig2773.htm?picture=14

[Hyde244]

Ahhh, the X-Car. It is a new ride concept that has really been jsut released by Maurer. Yeah, it is a really confusing concept if you ask me, as I have no clue as to how it will exactly work, even with the description, which reads (RCDB):

The Sky Wheel uses a vertical lift and is basically a giant not-so-round vertical circle. At the highest point the ride features a twist. This twist is rather hard to categorize with traditional inversions. It looks like a single Heartline Roll, however this Heartline Roll is entered and exited while inverted -- an upside-down Heartline Roll if you will. During the middle of this roll the train is right-side-up, so this is considered the division of two inversions. Looking at the direction of travel and the track leading into and exiting this twist, this closest resembles an Immelman followed by a Dive Loop.

According to some sources the Sky Wheel will be expanded in the future to also include a vertical loop and a cobra roll.

I know I read another article on it somewhere. I'll try to get it up.

[David Ellis]

One of these is going into Drayton Manor Park, Tamworth UK this year, and will open in July!

David.

[RCT2head]

isn't tht like an inverted impulse coaster from the game?

[goliath]

In some ways, it is. In other ways it isn't. I think it is launched, and in that way, it is like an impulse coaster. On the other hand, it inverts. Impulse coasters don't invert.

[BorisTheFish]

it doesn't launch, it uses a lift hill system to take it into the first inversion, called a Humpety-Bump Lift

[RCT2head]

what type of lift... i'm geussing chain wouldn't be used, not for that type of ride

[ColonelSandurz]

WTF?

I see no way that actually works

[Squid2]

Okay, Colonel, think of it this way...

The chain lift grabs the car and lift it up the vertical track. At the top, the track inverts back over the station. (1/2 of a Top Hat inversion.) Just past the highest point of the Top Hat, as the car starts to descend down the rest of the track, the chain lift disengages. Gravity takes the car down the portion of the track where the remainder of the top hat would be. At this point, the car rolls through the reversed heartline roll, then the rest of the top hat, down the second vertical track, and then back into the station.

(Note: I'm not being sarcastic... If you really do understand how it works, my apologies.)

Squid2

[RCT2head]

i dunno, it just seems too slow to be using a chain than a launch

[BorisTheFish]

perhaps it's meant to go slow to build up the suspense?

[RCT2head]

i meant too slow to give the momentum needed to make it through the rest of the ride with any excitment factor

[toosie_4ever]

Wow, funky looking coaster!
Seems like Germany & overseas gets lots of the strangest, coolest, keep-us-guessing rides/coasters. LOL They have good imaginations & creativity. :)
Thanks for sharing, have never seen this!

[BorisTheFish]

it's being extended soon too...

http://www.coastersandmore.com/pic/iaapa04/maurer04.jpg

[toosie_4ever]

Cool:cool:

[RCT2head]

could u maybe post that in smaller letters in english?
just wondering

[BorisTheFish]

Originally posted by RCT2head
could u maybe post that in smaller letters in english?
just wondering

who are you talking to? and what about?