Coaster Hipster
Photos Coaster Hipster has uploaded
Here are all of the photos that Coaster Hipster has uploaded.
The final brake run. Trains come in backwards, and another track switch allows the trains to travel forwards out again, around a U turn, and re-enter the station.
"Live your odyssey with Pegase Express"
The bulk of the layout follows the main lift hill. It is a series of braided twists, turns and hills . Eventually the track heads up a second smaller lift hill into a the elevated temple seen in the distance on the left. Inside is a dead end. The track switches behind the train and it is launched into the 2nd part of the layout in reverse.
A drop leads towards the first lift hill.
The layout begins with a gentle launch from the station.
The tongue in cheek "Ancient Greek train station" theme carries through to the loading area.
The tongue in cheek "Ancient Greek train station" theme carries through to the loading area.
Gare Montparnassos is a pun of Gare Montparnasse, one of Paris' busiest train stations... which is itself named after Mount Parnassus, a mountain in Greece!
Pegase Express is a family coaster with both fowards and backwards sections, two launches, and a lift hill.
But you can ride in Obelix's oversized derrière.
Looks innocent enough...
The station is themed to typical Efteling standards. The trains are floorless. To allow boarding, an automatic retracting floor pops up when the train is parked.
Another look at the Immelmann.
Straight from the tunnel you emerge into an Immelmann inversion.
The key feature of dive machines being the vertical drop. This one even dives underground.
Baron 1898 is an elaborately themed "Dive Machine" coaster.
The ride was built by Vekoma, but runs Arrow Dynamics trains.
...And there's the corkscrew.
There's the loop...
Comet is a 'loopscrew' coaster.
