Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Holiday World 2015: 66 Days At Sea - Day 65

On May 19, 2014, Holiday World began releasing information about their 2015 expansion plans. They launched the teaser site 66DaysAtSea.com to give clues over the course of 66 days as to what the big announcement may be.  You can read more about the site here. We'll be highlighting each day's entry as well as providing our analysis of what we think the clues may be hinting at.

Day 65

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Analysis

Let's take a look at today's entry:
  • Since today's entry hasn't been posted yet I'll go ahead and throw out a few ideas as to what ground breaking, first of its kind, coaster this may be.  There seems to be a lot of speculation that the ride will be built by B&M based upon the shape of the footers that have already been poured, so for the sake of discussion I'll assume that is correct.  That leaves me with the question of what type of coaster or technology has B&M, or anyone else for that matter, not built?  Here's a few thoughts:
    • Even though I think this ride will feature a launched section, I don't think that's the groundbreaking technology here since Leah Koch mentioned that this coaster will have moved past technology that was available in 2009, and launches have been around prior to that.  Even though B&M has not featured LIM or LSM technology, The Incredible Hulk does have a launch so I wouldn't count a new launched B&M coaster to be the first of its kind.
    • That leaves me wondering about possible train configurations. The 66 Days journal has featured hints about flying, but also about being below deck. To me, the flying coaster, inverted coaster, and wingrider coaster are the three most likely candidates based on these clues, but to do something truly unique, I'm guessing it will be some combination of these configurations merged together in a single train. How about a wingrider with seats that rotate into the flying position? Or how about a coaster that starts out as an inverted coaster then lifts the riders into a flying position at the mid-course break run to finish the course as a flying coaster? Whatever it is, I'm expecting the ground breaking technology of this ride to be in the train configuration.     
That's it for today.  Check back tomorrow for our analysis of Day 66.

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1 comment:

  1. But the incredible hulk launch system wasn't actually made by B&M because at that time launch coasters were considered too unreliable to put B&M's name in front of. It could be the first B&M with a launch section made by it. But i still do like the ideas about the seats, and hey who knows! We'll see tomorrow!

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