Superman: Ride of steel

[Gazza]

Which is interesting because in Vekomas early days they outsourced to Arrow. Maybe ABL is who does Vekomas aussie projects.

[willsy]

Does anyone know who this ABL company is? I cant find any info or contact detail for this company.

[willsy]

This is interesting, because Vekoma are notoriously in-house, and as far as I know always have been. Their track and support fabrication is done more or less exclusively in their own facilities around the world.

Richard is 100% correct there, Leathol weapon was manufactured in the Netherlands. Vekoma owns four production facilities (Vlodrop/Kessel in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and China and we do our own engineering, manufacturing and service.)

[Richard]

Gazza, I don't believe Vekoma outsourced to Arrow as such. Rather they licensed Arrow's track and purchased trains and other various components from Arrow. Vekoma have really always done their own thing, albeit with borrowed (i.e. licensed technology).

[Bussy]

Does anyone know who this ABL company is? I cant find any info or contact detail for this company.

You didn't do a very thorough search. It took me about 30 seconds to come up with these possibilities:

www.yellowpages.com.au"]Able Engineering Pty Ltd 17 Gantry Pl Braemar NSW 2575 ph: (02) 4871 **** Steel Fabricators &/or Mfrs Able Fabrications Pty Ltd 7 Orangegrove Ave Unanderra NSW 2526 ph: (02) 4271 **** Steel Fabricators &/or Mfrs Able Engineering Pty Ltd 46 Wolverhampton St Stafford QLD 4053 ph: (07) 3356 **** Metal Rolling & Forming

I know that they are not named ABL but it is pretty close. People have been wrong about names in the past. "The Bus is now leaving for ABLCS 9 Television Mast, South Australia"

[willsy]

Well i was only looking for the name of the company that the other user said, and the state it was in.

[righty]

interesting?

[NatDog]

Quite interesting there, can't really make out anything regarding the track in terms of elements/inversions though.

[Flea]

Calm down, it's fake. Nice try though

[righty]

i had nothing better to do so i did that.. isnt it great and stuff

[NatDog]

where u get it from righty???

[Adam]

hey righty, Good stuff mate. I'm loving it. Looks very nice.

[scott]

Nice work but I hope it isn't that crowded.Also I hope that the layout is a bit better then that.And it has a top hat too,remember.

[Adam]

Haha, I agree. Hopefully it will be better themed as well.

[joz]

What the? Catwomen revisited, another unnecessary word on the end of 'Wild West Adventure', Batman the ride 3... Seriously, whats doing good sir? BTW: Trivia for you, the building that was copied and pasted for the queue house for Superman is the uniform/costume room.

[Gazza]

RCDB appear to have added a couple of things ,according to them the ride will feature a top had that reaches a height of 40m, (equal to cyclone and 6.3 taller that LW) and the ride will open in October. Not sure of their sources, but if its true then this sounds pretty good and It would make it the second tallest Accelerator with inversions. Another thing to add, the Top hat would probably need to be a Kanonen style top hat where the twist is incorporated with the arch because Storm runner was pretty much at the limit of being able to have the twist and arch seperate whist keeping lateral Gs in check. Link: http://www.rcdb.com/m/id2999.htm

[Ian]

The stats on lethal may be wrong as tophat should be around 11 to 12 metres higher then lethal.

[Adam]

Rabid, has any construction / taking down of buildings started yet?

[Rocky]

RCDB appear to have added a couple of things ,according to them the ride will feature a top had that reaches a height of 40m, (equal to cyclone and 6.3 taller that LW) and the ride will open in October. Not sure of their sources, but if its true then this sounds pretty good and It would make it the second tallest Accelerator with inversions. Another thing to add, the Top hat would probably need to be a Kanonen style top hat where the twist is incorporated with the arch because Storm runner was pretty much at the limit of being able to have the twist and arch seperate whist keeping lateral Gs in check. Link: http://www.rcdb.com/m/id2999.htm

what's top hat? BTW, how can be rocketcoaster only 40m tall!? Top Thrill Dragster at Cedar point is 128m tall.

[willsy]

^ Easy. TTD $25million Superman $12million

[Chrisius]

Doesn't sound like it's going to be very big compared to Top Thrill Dragster or Kingda Ka which are both over 120m!

[scott]

Probably because they can't afford it.

[Adam]

It will be the second highest roller coaster in Australia (Tower of Terror is 75m higher and Cyclone is the same height as the new Superman ride). Edit: The height stat. on Lethal Weapon has been changed to 33.3m, when it used to be 35m. http://www.rcdb.com/m/recordholders.htm?st...c=1&continent=6

[Gazza]

Doesn't sound like it's going to be very big compared to Top Thrill Dragster or Kingda Ka which are both over 120m!

A ride being big doesnt make it good, im hoping for a ride with an interesting layout like storm runner.

[Ian]

^As gazza said compare storm runner to TTD different rides. And personally I would take Storm Runner as I think TTD would bore me after a few rides as its only up and over there no really elements after unlike Storm runner.