Pipeline’s specs won’t overwhelm anyone - 110 feet tall with a top speed of 60 mph - but the novelty of its airtime experience should put this on many coaster fans’ to-do lists. But the springing seats helped turn what would have been pops of airtime into literal jumps. If anything, the new restraint design was less comfortable for me than the one on Riddler’s Revenge, as Pipeline’s vest restraint pinched my shoulders. I got to ride Pipeline during its media preview last week. Can Pipeline create a new wave of popularity for this once common roller coaster design? Pipeline: The Surf Coaster is a next-generation stand-up coaster, with a unique bouncing seat design intended to address the discomfort that many, most often male, riders felt on the old stand-ups. SeaWorld and coaster manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard are trying to bring back the stand-up, starting in Orlando. Here’s how Knott’s, Six Flags and SeaWorld can compete with Disney and Universal.Why Disney’s real community of tomorrow is Anaheim.Is this the first in a new wave of theme park failures?.Disney-Florida battle says something about leaders on both sides.Why saying ‘no’ is important for Disneyland.When guests no longer want to ride something, parks are going to follow the market and make changes. Why? Ultimately it’s just easier - and more comfortable - to accommodate roller coaster riders of varying heights and builds in some form of a seated position. That was just one of several examples of parks abandoning stand-up train designs over the years. There are more new features and optimizations included.Sign up for our Park Life newsletter and find out what’s new and interesting every week at Southern California’s theme parks. It gives great results for inline twist inversions out-of-the-box, and only in rare cases manual adjustments are required. The new wooden support generator was completelly rewritten to fit the new hybrid styles. There is now a total of 43 different coaster styles included in the software. One normal version and one LSM launch version with headrests. The new hybrid coaster comes in two variations.
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