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[PlanetSaturn56]

^What does all of that mean?

-PS56:king

[coastercrazy10]

He means he's wasting his opportunity to make a great coaster by not using his advantage.
I think his spanish means "It's a good idea, but...[it's not executed well]"

-CC10

[KNexCoasterCreator]

Lo seinto pero....ew = I'm sorry but...ew.

[PlanetSaturn56]

^Oh, lol. How wide was Colossus?

-PS56:king

[KNexCoasterCreator]

6 feet if I remember right.

[PlanetSaturn56]

Oh wow, that's wide!
TTD33, you got a long way to go...

-PS56:king

[KNexCoasterCreator]

Actually, about 5.

[RC-Freak]

Holy Crap that looks awsome. Colossus?

[PlanetSaturn56]

HOLY CRAP!!! 33 feet will be huge. I have some doubts as to whether this will actually happen.

-PS56:king

[RC-Freak]

I can just imagine a bully coming along. LOL running full speed into that tower. OMGOSH that would piss him off soo bad ROFL!

[Top_Thrill_Dragster33]

Remeber I said I wasn't done put more structure on! :tmbs :tmbs :tmbs

[KNexCoasterCreator]

Well what kind of sturcture are oyu attempting? Do you have any plans drawn or are you just trying to make a big fat wall of K'Nex with no real idea of what you're doing?

[Top_Thrill_Dragster33]

Actually, this is still the prototype. I needed to work on this to see if the K'nex could hold it's own weight. Oh and BTW that wasn't me next to the tower. I was taking the pictures.

[RCT2123]

All you need to do is widen it. Make the space between each tower around 7 feet, then just connect the back tower acordingly. It really is not that hard...

-Rct2123:cool:

[Antinos]

You can see the supports kind of bending in that pic looking straight up. A good tip is to use the supports I used on Anarchy, Snake-eyes, and Sidewinder. The only way to twist them is to take apart the structure...

It will definately have to be bigger. Colossus doesn't look very wide, even though it is 5 feet. It looks like you have a lot of work ahead of you.

[imakecoasters]

^ True. Listen to what rollerdude said. The supports are bending in that way. Look at Anarchy's supports, or else the thing will snap sometime. Do not just make this tall. The only way it will work is if the supports are good. If you don't make good supports anything could happen, and you do NOT want to take any chances at all.

Make sure the track is ultra smooth once you begin sometime. I had a small bump on my 15 FT coaster and the car broke (not permanently, it just came apart) over that teeny little bump. And that was about 20 MPH, so.... yeah.

Oh, and pay alot of attention to Tyrant's posts, .

-IMC-

[Top_Thrill_Dragster33]

Major Improvements!!!!!
I have a major step forward for K'nex!
my dad and I have found a way to keep the car from splitting! Utilizing hand crafted aluminum.... oh never mind. Just look at the pictures.
Your average car......

But here's where it gets interesting!

You can see the aluminum cover on the car!


As you can see, this keeps the car from splitting!

[Garth]

^Good idea that looks like it'll work!

[KNexCoasterCreator]

Too bad that's not what me and Gump know about splitting. I mean shattering. Breaking into pieces. I don't know if that happened to Gump, but as soon as mine started to go up a liiitle bit the pressure killed it and the back wheels wqould break sometimes.

[RC-Freak]

wow.
The only splitting I've had is from letting the coaster drop without catching it lol.

How fast would a drop of 50" be?
aprox that is. average steepness of like 67-73' Ultra smooth