Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts

Dollywood Wild Eagle Layout

Posted above is the overhead layout for Dollywood's new coaster for the 2012 season, Wild Eagle, a B&M wing rider coaster, the first to open in the United States. I'm a bit disappointed that the terrain wasn't used more in the design as in having drop go down the side of the mountain but still looks to be a quality addition. And the internet has been buzzing about it. Now which parks to go to next year? And when will Busch Gardens Williamsburg officially announce Verbolten?

Holiday World 2012 Prediction

Alright, so a few hours before the announcement and my guess is Holiday World will be building a Proslide Hydromagnetic Mammoth water coaster, which is the next version of the LIM powered waterslide and features a 6-person "Clover Wheel" tube. Paula claimed on Facebook they would be breaking a new record and giving up and old one which could be world's longest water coaster. Also, Dan Koch comment it was named after an extinct animal (Mammoth? Saber Tooth Tiger? Dinosaur?). The construction location is next to Wildebeest so I think this makes a lot of sense. The ride debuted at IAPPA 2010 convention in Orlando, as can be seen on Theme Park Review.

I am one of 24

I've been selected as one of the 24 Jr. Researchers for the Ride Institute of Technology. What that actually means or entails I have no idea! Hopefully we will find out more tomorrow after HersheyyPark's 2012 announcement.


By the way, I love the terminology used in this sentence: 
The Ride Institute of Technology has reviewed your application using a proprietary admixture of random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, data sharding, Byzantine quorums, erasure coding, vector clocks, and of  course, combinatorial optimization.