DC Rivals HyperCoaster dominates the Movie World skyline

The ongoing construction of DC Rivals HyperCoaster is fast showing just how much of an impact the gargantuan roller coaster will have on the skyline at movie World as it towers over several of Movie World's tallest rides.

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Umm... question:

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The first drop will have some serious angle on it judging from the connection plate at the top. This will be the tallest point of the ride's lift hill structure.

The image associated with that caption is the top left in the image below. The top right image shows Rivals compared to green lantern - which looks nothing like double the height.

The bottom image shows (what i think) is the same support in @docoaster's rendering, which also clearly shows that the tallest point of the lift hill (according to the render) is a flat-top, supported by two separate supports, rather than an a-frame with the track mount at the absolute top point of the A.

(Green lines are pointing to what I believe to be the same support in each picture.)

 

So my question is is the caption wrong, or is the render incorrect?

@AlexB The caption is wrong, because two images down the caption is:

"The skyline at Movie World is rapidly changing – and there's still a lot more height to come!"

Also given that Green Lantern is 108 feet the highest point of the hill should be roughly double the height, which that support is not.

Edited July 6, 20179 yr by diesal11

@AlexB The rendering is right, since it was built after the plans from Mack. So you can be sure that there will be several meters added to what we see right now. 

Oops @AlexB... I noticed that caption was wrong yesterday and fixed it in the photo gallery but not in the article.

On 06/07/2017 at 3:59 PM, docoaster said:

@AlexB The rendering is right, since it was built after the plans from Mack. So you can be sure that there will be several meters added to what we see right now. 

I absolutely had faith that it would be @docoaster, and i'm sorry if my post implied that you hadn't done a great job at replicating it precisely - I guess it was my soft approach at asking why the caption was implying that it was the tallest when all other imagery suggested it wasn't. Nevertheless its all cleared up now.

Whilst the perspective I am seeing from the highway daily isn't the best to the judge, even with a few more metres to add to that current A-style structure, it doesn't appear as though it's going to be near double the height of GL ?

9 hours ago, AlexB said:

I absolutely had faith that it would be @docoaster, and i'm sorry if my post implied that you hadn't done a great job at replicating it precisely - I guess it was my soft approach at asking why the caption was implying that it was the tallest when all other imagery suggested it wasn't. Nevertheless its all cleared up now.

No worries, I didn't understand it that way. Just wanted to confirm that the coaster will be a lot higher.  

15 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

Whilst the perspective I am seeing from the highway daily isn't the best to the judge, even with a few more metres to add to that current A-style structure, it doesn't appear as though it's going to be near double the height of GL ?

I don't understand what you are saying.

19 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

Whilst the perspective I am seeing from the highway daily isn't the best to the judge, even with a few more metres to add to that current A-style structure, it doesn't appear as though it's going to be near double the height of GL ?

Well the Green Lantern is 33 meters tall and the DC Rivals is 61.6 meters tall, so almost double the height. Not sure if the 61.6m figure takes into account the huge joker face on top of the lift hill either.

The lift hill hasn't reached its highest point yet. What we see now is just the structure for the first drop. But there's many more supports to go in place. And that will take the ride to the 61.6 metre height 

The 61.6 m refer to the top of the track - not the joker face.

21 minutes ago, docoaster said:

The 61.6 m refer to the top of the track - not the joker face.

In that case the finished height including the joker face should easily be twice as tall as the green lantern

Originally on the MW website, it had the height at around 72 metres and everyone concluded, that was the height including the joker head. It's since been removed from their website and all marketing now bill the height as 61.6 metres. If you're wondering just how much height the Joker head will add.

3 hours ago, Skeeta said:

I don't understand what you are saying.

All good, everyone else did haha