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[Jogumpie]

Gonna lose my B&M virginity in approx. 4 hours.

[Spinout]

Haha, you lucky ********.
The only coaster virginity I have lost is arrow...and who wants to lose that...lol.

[Jogumpie]

Wow! This ride was really awesome! The combination of intense G-forces, thrilling inversions, a wonderful landscape and the fact of being it a B&M coaster was just extremely cool.
Expect a trip report soon, including an onride/offride video and some pics too.

[Spinout]

Great to hear that is was a good ride. You are so lucky.

[pkiknex25]

Sweet, sounds like a ton of fun. But that probably is one of the most forceful B&Ms out there, infact B&M almost threw that track design away because they thought, it was too forceful. But I'm glad to hear it was a great ride.

[Swimming24-7]

This looks like one great ride. However, it is not the most forceful B&M out there.

There are many Batman the Ride clones out there as many of you all know. However there are actually 3 variations of the 8 car version.

One has a track length of 2700' and pulls 4g's. (SFMM)
The other has 2693' of track and pulls 4 g's. (SF Gadv)
There is only a 7 foot difference between the two.

However the third strikes me as sort of odd. It has a track length of only 2562'. (150' shorter than the rest) And it also pulls 4.6 g's going through the track. It's Great White at SWSA. I can say that it is deffinately more forceful than the others as I black out going into the two vertical loops and the helix. However, does anyone know why this is? GW hugs the ground very tightly throughout the entire ride and the second half of the ride is situated on a hill as opposed to the other versions which start high in the air and end in a trench. Any info on this will be great.

This does look like a very fun ride and that JR. Immelan looks awesome.

--cpfan101

[Jogumpie]

No trip report yet, but here's the video:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=O_StR0ApVh8
YouTube kinda messed it up, you can add me on MSN for the original file (640x480).

[Antinos]

^^Its probably because SWSA probably had them scale down GW by 5% or something.

I want to ride this ride so badly. Your lucky.

[pkiknex25]

Woah, was that you screaming in the beginning of the ride? lol j/k

Very cool video. You really are lucky to ride that.

[RCT2123]

Does anyone here actualy scream on coasters??...lol...
wish I could watch the video but I have aol...ahh takes to much time to load...I will look at it when I go to my friends house...You are so lucky you got to ride this...

[Swimming24-7]

^^Its probably because SWSA probably had them scale down GW by 5% or something.

If it were scaled down then are the forces should be the same. (It is a ratio and nomatter the size, the ratio will be equal.

Anyhow, this ride looks simply amazing. I really want to ride it.

-cpfan101

[Antinos]

^Your right, I didn't think about that earlier.

[zapa]

^ If the drop is bigger, won't the car go faster down the pullup causing more G's?

[Jogumpie]

If it were scaled down then are the forces should be the same. (It is a ratio and nomatter the size, the ratio will be equal.

Incorrect. It does have influence. Scaling down does enlarge the forces.
For example... Horse of Troy. Was the first dip too tight? No. Did it look realistic? Yes. What was the maximum force? 7,4 G's.
Okay, Horse of Troy was scaled down very much (duh, it's a model), but this also happens to real coasters.

[Swimming24-7]

No it shouldn't. They should be the same as it is a scale to scale model. I actually found out what was different. The straight away after the second verticle loop is almost nonexistant and pointing downwards? The drop is all the same size however, the second half of the ride is more compact making it more intense. Anyhow I don't really care as long as the fact that we got the most intense B&M batman clone ;-). It makes you black out its soo intense.

--cpfan101

[BGTKing]

You mean grey or brownout where your vision fades. If the forces continue, a blackout will occur. Blackouts are more serious, and often directly preceed unconciousness as blood continues to be pulled away from the brain.

[smallish]

You Texans are lucky with all those coasters in your local Sea World! We Californians only have Journey to Atlantis in our Sea World!