![]() ![]() The TMNT Shellraiser is a steel indoor roller coaster at Nickelodeon Universe amusement park, within the American Dream Meadowlands shopping and entertainment complex, at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. Riders are arranged 4 across in a single row for a total of 8 riders per train. Anybody know why they do this? Is it as a service to the school trips that come for science days? If you ride behind those seats you can watch the g force read out right there in person. Busch tends to have accelerometers (g force gauges) mounted to the backs of certain cars on rides like Alpengeist, or Apollo's Chariot. The results are not public or anything though so I can't help you there. A good indicator that a park does this is probably the presence of the reflectors on the track. I know Cedar Point does this but I can't say for sure who else does. The rides must remain within certain limits and are tested anually to compare results and make sure the rides are maintaining the same result from year to year. All of Cedar Point's coasters have oval shaped red reflectors mounted to their spines or track ties for this purpose. Example, a reflector at the beginning and end of a coasters first drop will earmark points in the data stream and can be brought up as an individual section for analysis. There are markers attached to the track that the computer also pinpoints allowing the data to be broken into specific segments of the course. The end result provides all the data you are asking about and charts it out. They collect data measuring the exact forces for lateral, positive, and negative gs, as well as the amount of force applied to different parts of a rider's body such as the neck and back. They load up a computer and a dummy full of sensors on a train and run the ride. ![]() ^Some major parks do force analysis on their coasters. Also, on most Arrow loopers, there is a lot of rapidly changing lateral force from the neck up!Īlso, what is the maximum negative force on El Toro? On a non-coaster, some rapidly spinning rides will do, such as a Trabant/Wipeout (Notably Cyclone Sam at Worlds of Fun), a scrambler (especially the one that came to my local fair). And if you can get a Balloon Race or spinning cups ride moving, you can get good centrifugal force.Īs for deceleration, I know that on the Cedar Point Wildcat (RIP) they told you to grab the lap bar before the sudden stop. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville) come to mind. As for non-coasters, the Rotor-style ride at Worlds of Fun, Roundup-style rides at Worlds of Fun and Gravitron-style rides (one at a fair and another at the U.S. Also, the enlcosed Trabant/Wipeout-style ride at Worlds of Fun (Cyclone Sam) has insane airtime and wind effects to add to the experience.Īccelerational - Probably TTD for coasters. Space and Rocket Center pack a large punch - both are S&S launch towers. The mid-sized Detonator and the rather tiny Space Shot at Huntsville's U.S. As for on a non-coaster, probably an S&S ride - Power Tower at Cedar Point's intensity varies depending on which tower - one of the drops seems to be more intense than the other. Negative Vertical - MF and Maverick in the back seat, and Magnum in some seats (the backseat is intense, but I've heard row 3, car 1 is intense). I've been on I305, but it was trimmed at the time. As for a non-coaster, I don't know, maybe the Witches Wheel at Cedar Point (Enterprise). Positive vertical - I've been on Titan SFOT and Shockwave SFOT when I was younger, I believe Millenium Force's first drop made me briefly grey out (more like purple-out) a long time ago. I liked this thread and I want to post my experiences.
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