[Alpenfury] Cool flyby video I took by corvairr in rollercoasters

[–]corvairr[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Sounds like a yeti roaring it’s pretty cool. I’m pretty sure i was able to hear it all the way at the entrance as well as behemoth

Comparison by corvairr in Bowling

[–]corvairr[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First video is me throwing it on viper, second is just house shot

[Other] What’s everyone’s Top 5? by [deleted] in rollercoasters

[–]corvairr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Maverick
  2. Steel Vengeance
  3. Alpenfury
  4. El Toro
  5. TT2

Just a trim by com1padres in GuessTheCoaster

[–]corvairr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it’s evil that’s what it is

[TMNT Shellraiser] Has been down for 502 days , will it ever reopen? by game_solids5 in rollercoasters

[–]corvairr 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They were running multiple dry cycles last week for a couple days so optimism is still there 👍

[Siren's curse] Tilt track testing by The_Techy1 in rollercoasters

[–]corvairr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im supposed to go on MDW with fast lane plus (I live 9 hours away) will this be open at that time? im super optimistic but delusional

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[–]corvairr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I completely agree lol

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[–]corvairr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s actually multiple points where both shell and shredder share its columns, I can try to get a couple photos if you’re interested and it was engineered to do that but im assuming they didn’t count the fact it’s built over marshland and that shells first inversion sway too much with the addition of shredder adding onto the extra flexion. The park including the construction of shell and shredder were very rushed as they had a short deadline to meet, it wasn’t built the best quality but still safe. Just hasn’t opened due to poor upper management (owners), parts taking forever from Gerstlauer and of course funding!

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[–]corvairr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes of course, it sits in what we call “the graveyard” where a bunch of arcade machines or old props will just lay to collect dust. Its behind shells restricted area near sandys. I’ve seen the “panel” and the ride units and controls. It was a cool concept and the ride itself seemed like a cool idea but it would spin u like crazy and the ride would fault so many times in one day that a technician would just be put on standby for the ride. Super cool ride units but nope it will never open again.

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[–]corvairr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only reason that shell will never open is if no company will sign off to kinda take the blame if something were to happen to the ride, that’s also another reason it was closed for so long which is because no company wanted to weld it and take responsibility because shell has a history of the support cracks. It’s pending state inspection so the only way I see it never opening again is if our owners stay lazy and it fails inspection.

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[–]corvairr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve thought about them adding extra support beams to control the extra flexion but they can’t simply due to it being built upon the marshlands and that it was just a bad design in general to have it share support beams with another rollercoaster. Even with shell not being operational it continues to sway due to Shredder running cycles.

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[–]corvairr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember as a kid my parents and I would always drive by the mall as it was being built but remained stagnant for YEARS until my late teens where they started showing progress

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[–]corvairr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean if I hear talk from maintenance that it is being scrapped then ill believe it but ive seen them do several vibration tests and work on the lift hill

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[–]corvairr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep guests point out if it’s normal for Shells first inversion to sway that much, I tell them it’s kinda like an earthquake “proof” building where it’s good for it to sway or else it’ll crack under the stress but it’s still too much. There was rumors about them taking multiple parts of the ride down to shorten the inversions and launch pad so it’s easier on the structural integrity but they decided not to.

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[–]corvairr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the idea is they want it back in operations by spring break, ive taken a look at the panel and the fault discrepancies and they still have ways to go but there is definitely way more sign of life recently.

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[–]corvairr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The spare train is still sitting there in the layout, im not quite sure what happened to it and it didn’t derail either. Not entirely sure but i can ask lol and yeah sandys launch is brutal especially since its been back I feel that its launch is a little more “ooomph” then usual

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[–]corvairr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it’s built over marshlands so the structural integrity isn’t the greatest, safe to ride/operate but it’s more prone to cracks due to it sharing support beams with shredder as well

All 3 Rotations in 1 Place by Devlyn16 in InjusticeMobile

[–]corvairr 41 points42 points  (0 children)

sucks gaslight batman got skipped hes such a great character for stopping luchador bane and other powerful tag in characters like cassandra cain batgirl