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[Westside7th]

I am proud to announce my new, upcoming coaster,

Desert Eagle.
Desert Eagle will feature custom flying cars using the RR

car and other pieces. The current layout is as follows:

Station
1st

Launch Run
Giant Horseshoe Turn
Large Pretzel Loop
Fly To Lie

Turnaround
2nd Launch Run
Large Immelman
Inline Twist
Fly

To Lie Turnaround
Vertical Loop
Turnaround
Inline Twists
Lie

To Fly Turnaround

This layout is subject to change but that is the plan as

of 01.28.04. Construction may begin next week. If you have any questions, feel free

to fire away! (pun intended )

[jumpboy]

The layout sounds cool.What is going to be the

tallest part?

[Westside7th]

The tallest part is probably going to be the first

horseshoe right after the launch.

[Da Squriel]

sounds very good vant wait to see this coaster and

advice on the PRETZEL LOOP make a box and work with that.

[jumpboy]

Just curious,did you get the heads out the car?If so

how?

[Westside7th]

I didn't get the heads out yet. I probably

won't start on it until Polar Plunge is open. I will do whatever it takes to get the

heads off.

[Westside7th]

Well, I just tried to get the heads off. It took me

about ten minutes to pull of the boy and girl's heads! It wasn't that

hard. I am going to start work on making custom RR flyer cars.

[jumpboy]

You got them out,HOW?!Did you just pull really

hard?

[Westside7th]

I pulled really hard. I tried to get the boy out

first and worked at him for 8 minutes. He didn't budge. I tried the girl for a

minute and she popped right off so then I did the boy and he popped off quickly too.

You just need to pull as hard as you can and keep doing it until they come off. Also, it

helps to bend their necks to one side as you pull.

I just finished making a

custom flyer car that will seat 4 lego people in one row. Riders will be seated in pairs

and placed in one row of four but there will be a divider in the middle seperating the

two pairs. However, I have not placed any of the riders in yet. Since this uses RR

boosters, I don't know what to use as restraints. Rubber bands are annoying to

get on but work pretty well. I don't know if rubber cement will hold very well

with the powerful blast from the boosters.

[jumpboy]

You should try and use the rubber bands i used.Go to

a store like wal-mart,go to hair stuff and look for small black rubber bands.Goody

brand snap real easy so look by the relaxers and stuff thats how our wal-marts are set

up.

I just tried to get the heads out and they came right out doing the way

you discribed.Maybe ill do a launched floorless one day.

[Westside7th]

The RR boosters are great, IMO. A launched

floorless would be fun to ride. In RCT2, I made floorless rocket coasters and floorless

and flying impulse coasters. But, some rides shouldn't be done. I was talking to

Nitro on AIM and he said he wanted to do stand-up rocket coaster but I think that

would be painful to ride.

[Lanceshield]

I can't wait to see the pretzel loop, some

people I doubt, but I know you'll be able to do it with your experience. Just make

sure it has a LOT of speed, or put a booster right near it. Good

luck!!!

[jumpboy]

The

RR boosters are great, IMO. A launched floorless would be fun to ride. In RCT2, I

made floorless rocket coasters and floorless and flying impulse coasters. But, some

rides shouldn't be done. I was talking to Nitro on AIM and he said he wanted to

do stand-up rocket coaster but I think that would be painful to ride.

A stand-up rocket in real life would be

fun IMO.They would just have to make a completly new stand-up train and not base it

off the TOGO or B&M trains.Intamin could make a train without the stand up

seat thing and some other stuff and it would be fine IMO.
BTW,will the train fit

through the boosters?

[Westside7th]

Originally posted by jumpboyb@Jan 31 2004, 07:57

PM
Intamin could make a train

without the stand up seat thing and some other stuff and it would be fine

IMO.
BTW,will the train fit through the boosters?

Actually, Intamin has worked with

Giovanola on some stand-up coasters. If you go on their website, they have stand-up

coasters listed as a product. Their seatin design is just like the B&M style and

the trains, IMO look worse. Stand-up trains are big and bulky and fast acceleration

like TTD would wear down the trains very quickly. Plus, a sudden jolt from a luanch

would knock you off your feet!

Now that

you mention it, I don't think the trains will fit through the boosters but I can

modify them so they fit. Right now, most of my time is going towards getting Polar

Plunge up and ready to go.

[Westside7th]

I hope I am not breaking any rules for posting this but

I have made a logo/sig for Desert Eagle. For those of you who don't know, a

desert eagle is a very powerful pistol. I decided to name my new flyer after it

because the Eagle part fits the coaster type and since it is a rocket, why not name it

after a gun?

So, without further ado, here is the logo for Desert Eagle:
(staff, please notify me if this is inappropriate for the forums)

[Westside7th]

Well, construction should begin anytime now. Polar

Plunge is shceduled to be assembled today in a few hours so once that is up, more

work can begin on Desert Eagle. By the way, do you guys like th logo or is it too

plain? I thought is was simple yet effective. Also, depending on speed and ho I place

the boosters, some new elements might be added to teh coaster. It all depends on the

speed.

[Westside7th]

Construction has begun. A crude station has been

built and 1 booster is in place. The base of the big horeshoe turn is being built. Also,

the car has been modified to fit through the booster.

[jumpboy]

Have you tested to see if the car will fit and your logo

is cool.

[ThEoNe]

You should try to design an rr train, that would be

awesome. I tried to make one by disassembling the ss car and merely attacthing those

key parts to the rr, but it didn't work

[Westside7th]

I tried to make a RR train when I built Insanity but it

didn't work very well, either. Desert Eagle will most likely be one car per

train.

As you probably have noticed from my logo for Desert Eagle, I am

not very good at making sigs or logos, mine are usually very simple. So, if anyone who

is good at making sigs would be willing to help me out and make me a sig for Desert

Eagle, please PM me. Thanks.

Originall, the plan for Desert Eagle was to

have the first horseshoe turn be the highest point of the ride but I have decided now to

just build it as high as 1 booster will take it. I want to save the boosters for some other

elements. Construction has been halted at the moment because Polar Plunge needs

my attention right now.