Steel Taipan Construction - Dreamworld Mack launched roller coaster

[Richard]

1 hour ago, New display name said:

Trying to remember, but didn't a post/column on Rivals get modified during construction because of a clearance issue?

More than just a clearance issue – it tried to pass straight through a support column for the track below:

https://www.parkz.com.au/photo/14866-DC_Rivals_HyperCoaster_construction/gallery/sort/newest/location/dc-rivals-hypercoaster/offset/207

The ride also had a major section of track removed for reprofiling a year or so after it opened: https://www.parkz.com.au/article/2018/08/24/620-Track_comes_down_from_DC_Rivals_HyperCoaster_during_annual_maintenance.html

Even if the design process is perfect (and as we see, it's glaringly not), there can still be flaws that appear during fabrication, shipping, ride construction as well as theming/landscaping construction.

There's also the fact that you probably also want to double check that the train can be safely winched around the track, because there's basically a 100% chance that it will stall at some point during its 30-odd year life.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

14 minutes ago, Richard said:

More than just a clearance issue – it tried to pass straight through the track below:

https://www.parkz.com.au/photo/14866-DC_Rivals_HyperCoaster_construction/gallery/sort/newest/location/dc-rivals-hypercoaster/offset/207

Doesn't Mack do test fits before shipping? or is that only for prototypes?

[New display name]

What do you mean by test fits?

[Gazza]

Some manufacturers put entire rides or sections of rides together in the factory to test fit, but I'm not sure what determines the need.

 

 

 

Edited August 31, 2021 by Gazza

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

nevermind. I've confused the two. I had seen prototype coasters put together bolted to cast concrete blocks in the middle of a patch of dirt, but the more I look, the more I think it might have been the S&S Axis...

[New display name]

I have seen new ideas getting tested but I have not seen many complete builds. 

 

Mack have a department that runs in house test.

 

Mack also has the advantage owning a theme park where they can retrofit a ride and carry out large scale test.

[joz]

I think the design of Blue Fire, aside from the backwards spike is pretty well sorted out at this point

[New display name]

19 minutes ago, joz said:

I think the design of Blue Fire, aside from the backwards spike is pretty well sorted out at this point

The way the track is supported, is different from any other Blue fire ever built.

Edited August 31, 2021 by New display name

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

^...not to mention that the question was actually on the DCR support that tried to go through the track...

[Naazon]

3 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

^...not to mention that the question was actually on the DCR support that tried to go through the track...

I spent way too much time looking for this but I swore the support had alignment issues with another support not the track and can now confirm, thanks to @themagician and the crazy amount of photos taken and @ThemeTendo

 

[fletch]

2 hours ago, Naazon said:

 

Looks to me like they just put a dent in it so it doesn't hit the other support and called it a day. 😂

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

that'll buff out.

[mssveattck]

Queue covering is now fully installed, fencing around the ride is now beginning to go up. 
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CTRldCUBqeE/?utm_medium=copy_link

Edited September 1, 2021 by mssveattck

[Tinter]

I really hope they run some greenery and vines along that prison fence

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Yeah look, I was about to slam the choice of chain-link \ cyclone fencing, but it worked fine for years for Lethal\Arkham and Superman. I guess the borderline carpark coasters like Rivals and Green Lantern have spoiled us with really nicely presented boundary fences - but I have to keep reminding myself they're trying to do this on a budget.

Chain link fencing is fine.

 

[red dragin]

I'd rather the decent shade in the queue that they've installed, than a fancy fence.

Green lantern's lack of shade is a joke in Queensland any time of the year. 

[themagician]

It’s probably because all their shading budget went to the nice fence

[Tinter]

5 hours ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

Yeah look, I was about to slam the choice of chain-link \ cyclone fencing, but it worked fine for years for Lethal\Arkham and Superman. I guess the borderline carpark coasters like Rivals and Green Lantern have spoiled us with really nicely presented boundary fences - but I have to keep reminding myself they're trying to do this on a budget.

Chain link fencing is fine.

 

Some cheap vines aren't that expensive. Hell, steal some passionfruit cuttings and that whole fence will be smothered in a year 

[New display name]

29 minutes ago, themagician said:

It’s probably because all their shading budget went to the nice fence

What happened to Wet n Wild?  No shading and no nice fences.

[Naazon]

10 minutes ago, New display name said:

What happened to Wet n Wild?  No shading and no nice fences.

You're implying they had a budget

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

1 hour ago, New display name said:

What happened to Wet n Wild?  No shading and no nice fences.

Sunk everything they had into used movie props.

[joz]

5 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

used movie props.

Is there such a thing as unused movie props?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

props built for a movie that weren't used I suppose?

[Naazon]

10 minutes ago, DaptoFunlandGuy said:

props built for a movie that weren't used I suppose?

If it wasn't used in a movie is it still a movie prop or just a prop now?

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Sounds like Schrödinger's Prop.