Comments on: Maximum RPM! Preview | Hard Rock Park

By: coasterluv

coasterluv — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:04:00 +0000

finally, a video posted may 23 on youtube shows the ferris wheel lift with cars in it. apparently the june 1st open date is not tangible because as you see here as of may 23rd the cars are still not being released from the wheel onto the rest of the circuit, so we can hope for a late june early july open date. Also note how long it takes for the track in the cylinder sections of the wheel to line up with the track on the 1st drop, now imagin people on the ride of different weights on each side of the car… thats going to be even longer. I thought that premier would have used a screw gear mechanism so that as the wheel lift turns, the cylinders would also turn to an exact postion at each point of the ride (for example on the 1001 natchs/1001 nights/flying carpet/rainbow flat rides, the platform carriage stays upright due to the screw gear mechanism that keeps the carriage at an exact position at each degree of the vertical circular path that the large arm the carriage is attached to that extends from the center of the circular path) but the cylinders on the wheel seem to be free swinging then positioned by a mechanism at the top of the lift, which i predict may cause problems when the cars have more weight of people on one side of the car versus the other. But anyway see for yourself…okay it won’t let me leave the url but type in maximum rpm coaster test on youtube and select the video that shows the cars actually in the cylinders on the ferris wheel lift.

By: My Theme Park Tickets

My Theme Park Tickets — Sun, 18 May 2008 21:25:00 +0000

I only wish I was in the area (or country!) to check this out. Any ride that has Mini Coopers (my favorite car) as their train is a must ride for me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:02:00 +0000

I think each car holds only 6 people so I bet it’s a fast little ride. I bet you’ll lose your stomach. lol. Isn’t that the building from on one of the Pink Floyd albums? Tne one with the pig in the air? Karaoke in the queue line? Talk about a captive audience! Can’t wait to check it all out.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 14 May 2008 23:04:00 +0000

The lift hill is very cool. But the rest of the ride seems kind of unremarkable. Other than the circular lift, are there any other elements that seem notable?