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The construction of Holiday World's B&M Launched Wing Coaster is now underway, with some orange track and supports arriving at the park.


To view the announcement of Thunderbird which includes ride animation video posted by CP2013 click

You can never really realise how big coaster track is until you see it like that! One piece takes up a whole lorry!

As I mentioned in the news topic about this, this looks amazing!

It looks so weird seeing seeing a B&M having a launch track, and then subsequently followed by an Immelmann!

That does look quite weird, almost like it should be a quite harsh brake run!

The Immelmann is now complete, I actually don't mind the fact that it doesn't have a lifthill track, and I hope if it proves to be a success we might get more launched coasters from B&M hopefully with different types, the only one it might not really work on is the Dive Coaster, due to the nature of the holding brake.

We've all totally lost place with the construction of Thunderbird, it is now finished!
Here is the final piece of track fitted.

Quite fun shot of the brake run there. Almost looks you should be hitting that support!

It really does look like that too. Thunderbird does look really cool though, I just hope that the it doesn't experience any issue in testing as it is the first ever B&M Launch Coaster.

Could happen, there hasn't even been a prototype that has been publicly seen, like Air or Oblivion.

I think this is the fear whenever B&M do something new, if memory serves me correctly Raptor at Gardaland was also the first prototype of the wing coaster technology.