Looks cool, but I already have concerns about load/unload times knowing how slow and inefficient the ride ops are there.
I'm curious on how this works out. Until VR units change I doubt this will work efficiently enough beyond a curiosity.
Looks cool, but I already have concerns about load/unload times knowing how slow and inefficient the ride ops are there.
Yeah lawsuit for strangulation of VR unit cable or something!
Agreed, it's a bit like Sum of all Thrills, it's a gimmick for now
In my experience, Air usually has the worst ops of all the coasters. I'm never there during 'peak' season (the park isn't even open late and the wait times are ridiculous), but I can't remember last time I saw both stations operating.The big bonus will be that Air being a flying coaster has duel loading stations.
In my experience, Air usually has the worst ops of all the coasters. I'm never there during 'peak' season (the park isn't even open late and the wait times are ridiculous), but I can't remember last time I saw both stations operating.
I was thinking the other day that if VR technology came far enough it would be sweet to see it mash together with a coaster somehow. I was thinking something along the lines of Manta simulating guests being in an Iron Man suit flying around fighting bad guys and what not. Obviously that is far away, but a cool thought. I'm intrigued by this project.
I thinks it is cool but sanitation is going be a huge problem if they use any eye/headsets.
That is my biggest concern. If they are taking time to sanitize the headsets between ride cycles like they should (lord knows a pink eye outbreak would be a terrible thing to happen, especially from a PR standpoint) then that will most certainly effect the rides hourly capacity in a very negative way.
Welcome to the future! In 3016 Forbidden Valley was chosen as the new home for a new space port operated by Galactica - The Universe’s first spaceflight voyager.
Partnering with Air Space Technologies to develop a multi-dimensional portal using the Resort’s iconic flying coaster as the propulsion device, Galactica will send passengers soaring through interstellar space for the first time in history, providing unrivalled access to the limitless wonders of space as never experienced before.
This was also a rumour for the VR, link you into the fight between the Phalanx and Nemesis and maybe even the babies that Sub Terra added to the story or heck even stuff from Sub Species at Scarefest. But no. We get space, cool but fits in less.
First review I've seen
I hurtled through space on a VR roller coaster and it was intense
Looks like they have covers on them to me?I read that as 'I hurled through space'
I'm still quite intrigued by this technology and once The Smiler opens back up, I'll be sure to make a trip to Alton Towers.
Have the restraints changed?