For a recent design contest called Remixed, which is currently in the judging stages. The contest was to take an existing coaster, past present or future (has to have been announced by a park) and make it better but while still being able to tell what ride it was based on. I decided being Lagoon is my home park and that I have wanted to do this for years, I decided to make Wicked: Remixed! The first half of Wicked I think is a stellar ride and did not need much improvement if at all. So on the first half I edited the airtime hill at the bottom of the first drop to be slightly larger to give more ejector airtime. Then the Mid-Course Brake Run (MCBR) I raised by 10 feet to help the second half be as fast paced as the first half. I made the second half start by dropping into a tunnel, using the same tunnel type, as Wicked has, to keep as true to the real ride as possible. Shooting out of the tunnel the car takes a hairpin turn and drops into a trench passing close to some shipping containers as Wicked’s theme is industrial and I kept that just added to it. Out of the trench, the car is immediately thrown through a barrel roll. Upon exiting the barrel, roll into a high-speed helix and sliding into the Reduction Brake Run. I feel that this is a much better seconded half than the two half pipe turns and wave turn on Wicked. It is realistic to have a coaster be changed like this, but there still is cost and to help keep the realism as close as possible to this happening I did not want to go crazy on track length. Therefore, I gave myself a 15-foot extension boundary on top of the 2050 feet that Wicked has. I ended up only adding 1 foot of track length bringing the track length 2051 feet for Wicked: Remixed!
Therefore, without further ado I present Wicked and Wicked: Remixed! I hope you enjoy them. Please leave comments on RU-vid or on our Forum. I will be doing more Remixed coasters but if you have one you would like to see let me know in the comments. Thanks.
8 сен 2024