Today, the Gravity Group announced that FOUR new wood coasters are headed to China. Well under construction, a fantastic wooden roller coaster is underway at Fantawild Zhuzhou which will open in 2014. Hot on its heels, a custom terrain coaster is currently in fabrication for HotGo Park in Shenyang. Without any breather, the Fantawild park chain will follow these rides with exceptional rides at Jinan and then Wuhu in 2015.
These wooden roller coasters will more than double the current number of rides designed by The Gravity Group and manufactured by Martin & Vleminckx Rides. The style of rides range from ground hugging terrain coasters to cutting edge wooden coasters that go upside-down. The Gravity Group perfected the wooden roller coaster inversion in 2013 when they added a barrel roll to Hades 360°, and these advanced maneuvers are made possible with the state-of-the-art Timberliner train.
The team’s previous rides thrill guests in the cities of Shanghai, Wuhan and Tianjin. The pictured map showcases the current and future new wooden roller coasters by the TGG/MVR team in China.
Gravity Group/Gravity Kraft also had a green Timberliner car on display at their IAAPA booth. See a list of all the Gravity Group designed coasters on the recently updated Roller Coaster Database.
Stay tuned for more updates from IAAPA 2013!
Still hate how Timberliners look and always will, but if some of those do invert I’m okay with that, unlike Hades/Mistake 360, they’re built from scratch, not slapping a loop on an existing ride, which unless it RMC doing that and turning a wood coaster to a steel coaster (like NTG (wood to steel part), Iron Rattler, and Medusa Steel Coaster) while their at it, I’m against it.
But when will GCI enter the inversion game? they said that they could do it, and yet no one has officially done so, sure there’s rumors about BGW getting one, but that’s nothing solid and with the new Swtichback style and the wooden shuttle, what will give.
And again with China getting all of the wooden coasters these days, it’s only a matter of time before they either get a Rocky Mountain woodie or start knocking off their own, which won’t end well for the latter (which is likely why they’ve only stuck with steel), why haven’t parks in the U.S. been so heavy on the wooden coasters? there’s been only three (correct me if there are more) large scale wooden coasters built or being built in the states, Outlaw Run, Goliath and Gold Striker, White Lighting, Zippin Pippin, Wooden Warrior aren’t that big, and Hades/Mistake 360 isn’t actually new as is Flying Turns, when in China there’s these four, Viper, Dualing Dragon, Fjord Flying Dragon and the one at Knight Valley, it seems unfair. And I’m stuck with only one genuinely good woodie (Zippin Pippin), a good/insane/psycho one (Cyclops, namely last car), an okay one (Pegasus) a rib-breaker (Zeus, not too far off BTW), the everything breaker (Timber Falls Hellcat) and the single biggest mistake (IMHO BTW) Hades 360, so it annoys me even more, Great America and ValleyFair! aren’t too far out there,
Sorry about the rant, and envy of other places with actually good coasters, why does it have to be the waterpark capital? It’s just what I think of this,
This style of train F!#$%^& rocks. any haters should just stick to the sardine cans with wheels and get more brain damage. i have had the privilage of riding more than 100 coasters and the ones with the timberliners are by far the best. in my opinion. C.O.D BLOWS YOU NERD.
There’s a thing called respect Kevin, which you need to learn.
Everyone is titled to an opinion, and if they don’t agree with you, you don’t have the right to be a complete A-hole, and honestly it’s how the park matins the ride, not completely the trains, Zippin Pippin runs PTC trains and yet it’s smooth, rideable and incredibly fun, Mount Olympus on the other hand, doesn’t really care about their rides, Zeus and Hellcat aren’t bad because of the trains but their poor mantainence (spell check wouldn’t give me the correct spelling), in the case of Hellcat it’s that the park doesn’t get enough money to keep it up (blame Mount Olympus for that as well). I admit that my views on traditional wooden coasters is very traditional, and rides like the GCI Switchback, Boomerang and the inverting woodies, namely Rocky Mountain, are different, and Timberliner trains I just find look stupid on a traditional wooden coaster, GCI got it right with the Millennium Flyers and Mini-lenium Flyers, Rocky Mountain got it since traditional isn’t what they do, Gorkycrat and Gravity Group didn’t do it right IMHO, sure on the inverting woodies they fit (except for the crime that is Mistake 360), but not the traditional ones, try and put Timbeliner trains on the Coney Island Cyclone, people would be angry,
And if you took a pot shot at my ‘name’, you failed, and it’s also disrespectful, you’re a person that I don’t want to meet IRL, that’s the impression you left on me.
I could go on with my ideals, but I won’t, I may be alone in IMO on Timberliners and Hades/Mistake 360, but that attitude won’t get you far. That’s all,
(BTW my count is at only 11, but I don’t get the chance to go to parks that much)
lol.
Not very mature are you, and I should add that I started riding roller coasters at sixteen, so I was late to it, which also accounts for the pitiful credit count,