They just repainted Intimidator which is their #2 coaster (also designed and built by the same company). They still have 1 wooden coaster that is terrifying, is got so many bolts on it and so much wood that I'm amazed it wasn't the one to fail.
Everything else seemed okay while I was there, most of the older ones are smaller and have much larger and more frequent supports too. The insanely long hyper coasters like this tend to be engineered more heavily to reduce steel usage because of their size, and that's probably one of the issues here. This specific one is still a record holder, so they don't have other examples to compare it to.
If it's not in operation, then that's fine. Hopefully they can have inspectors do a one over on everything else while they're around.
They just repainted Intimidator which is their #2 coaster (also designed and built by the same company). They still have 1 wooden coaster that is terrifying, is got so many bolts on it and so much wood that I'm amazed it wasn't the one to fail.
Everything else seemed okay while I was there, most of the older ones are smaller and have much larger and more frequent supports too. The insanely long hyper coasters like this tend to be engineered more heavily to reduce steel usage because of their size, and that's probably one of the issues here. This specific one is still a record holder, so they don't have other examples to compare it to.