[Edwardo]

A quick look at the source code gave me nothing.

If you hit the mail link, though, it goes to the domain mbeshrewsbury.co.uk

[jasonwilson88]

I love whoever posted that the MCBR makes the second half "better" or "perfect." In no way does cutting speed make an airtime hill better lol. From most videos it looks like Diamondback crawls back over those hills compared to what it COULD do and most of us just would like to know why they trim it. It has something to do with B&M wanting total control and completely identical rides each time but when you start vallying mid-course thanks to trims (It has happened on Nitro and Diamondback confirmed) you might be causing additional unnecessary problems.

[Jstbcool]

Diamondback doesn't crawl through after the MCBR. Most the time it feels like the MCBR barely slows the train at all. It could go a little faster and give a little better airtime, but the airtime it gives now is great. Also, I've never heard the confirmed report that Diamondback valleyed. I know Diamondback was emergency stopped and people were evacuated from the MCBR, but never heard of it valleying. I know Nitro valleyed one day earlier this year during high winds that also caused El Toro to valley. If anything kills speed on diamondback its the trims on the hill just before the helix into the MCBR.

[jasonwilson88]

^ and that trim is exactly what caused it to valley at least two times, which I saw pictures of on someone's camera during CoasterStock.

[Jstbcool]

^That would make a lot more sense to me than it valleying after the MCBR (which was my original understanding). People claim that if you ride it early in the day or after it rains that trim is practically non-existant which would make the coaster even better than it already is. I dont understand why they have that trim on there so strongly. Hopefully Carowinds new coaster wont have an airtime/speed killer trim like diamondback (trying to stay somewhat on the topic of the new 2010 coaster ).

[April_Fool_79]

Isn't it great that with the internet we can spend countless hours debating what it will or will not be, a full month before the announcement is even made?

I remember when we used to pull up to a park we hadn't been to for a few years and go "Heh ... that's new".

BTW, to throw in another NASCAR bit, to the person that said Dale Jarrett drove the #44 ..... Yeah, he did, but who had it up until Adam died in 2000? That would be Kyle Petty. I'm gonna corner him in Bristol and beat this out of him, lol.

[dailyshow]

I'll second whoever said that the camel back trim on Raging Bull kills it, after that the ride screams "yeah I’m just trying to get back to the station as efficiently as possible"

[billcollins531]

Back on topic...
Has anyone gotten any pictures of what's going on out there? Anyone see anything new?

[bgwfreak]

This is the last update: http://www.carowindsconnection.com/view ... start=2101

[BoociferPatch]

As soon as I get over my sickness, I will upload my pics from the other day.

[CoasterFreak225]

I've ridden all the B&M hypers in the Americas and the only one I've experienced major slowdowns (barring the weather) was Raging Bull's horrible trim on the camelback hill. MCBR wasn't too bad. But then again, we didn't crawl back to the final brakes.

I've noticed that weather ruins the ride more than brakes. I went to Canada's Wonderland on a really bad day at the end of May. It was really windy that the trains BARELY made it to the MCBR on Behemoth and felt like it was crawling back to the final brakes. Second "half" (really, the last 1/3) of Behemoth was a total downer with no speed. My visit to Canada's Wonderland opening day this year gave me completely different experience, no trimming, light MCBR. Insane airtime. Also they were operating so efficiently, they were dispatching trains out of the station while another train was in the middle of the turnaround.

I don't see how MCBR would adjust the ride for better airtime??? That has never been the case for me.

Agreed, I rode all B&M coasters in Americas with The Jet Coaster. So yeah at first I thought it won't be that bad on Raging Bull, then when I rode it, wow it really killed the speed. So I would worry more about trims than mcbrs, however... even though Behemoth's trims aren't really affecting the ride that much, it was the wind...

Anyway, number 44... may be 44 degrees lift? *gasp* I got it!!!! OR 44 passengers train?? HMM

[chknwing]

Item #44, could that equal the 44th ride added to carowind?

[b&mcoaster1095]

^I think this'll be #51.

[carowindsman6654]

Well, this thread died fast. Somebody needs to go out and take some update pics tomorrow. I would but I live two hours away. Thanks to everybody who does go out and take update pics for the rest of us who live far away. I don't think 44 has to do with the number of rides either.

[Jay]

^^^The park currently has 37 rides not including the waterpark and around 50 with the waterpark. Safe to say that probably isn't it.