The upside down airtime hill looks awful... An excessive amount of hangtime is usually a bad thing...
The layout as well seems rather uninspiring as well, like, there's nothing exceptional about it...
It's certainly much longer than Oblivion or Stealth.
Nothing exceptional about the layout? It's got that ridiculously profiled overbank, the inverted stall, the bizarrely banked final turn and a dive loop...on a wooden coaster! It's probably the most radical wooden coaster layout ever produced, even more so than Outlaw Run.
As for the hangtime, I can't see it being a huge issue with lapbars. It's usually the pressure exerted on the shoulders by OTSRs that makes hangtime uncomfortable. Without that, it just becomes inverted airtime.
I think that this coaster looks awesome. Yes, it's short but we always knew it was going to be and I think it can be forgiven for a ride on this scale with such crazy manouevres. It's certainly much longer than Oblivion or Stealth.
But it's not a wooden coaster, but a hybrid... The only reason it can do these loops and overbanked turns is because of the steel track they use...
This is why I don't get the hype, at the end of the day the RMC rides are steel coasters that have wooden supports... And in that sense they don't really do anything that ground breaking... And they also look really ugly as a result of that support choice... They might well be fantastic rides but if they didn't have the whole 'wooden' coaster stuff surrounding them the hype wouldn't be as high as it is...
I would agree with this. Calling it a wooden coaster is really only a marketing tactic, as having it marketed with the largest and steepest drop and a wooden coaster as well as being the fastest wooden coaster is going to get the crowds in more than simply calling it a good coaster. I think Six Flags and enthusiasts both know that it doesn't really matter if it's a wooden coaster or not, because they're concentrating solely on the ride experience- for which this would be great if it was wooden or steel.At the end of the day it doesn't matter what the track construction is so long as the ride is good.
Six Flags said:Record-Breaking Launch Coaster to Debut at Six Flags Great America
GURNEE, Ill. — August 30, 2018 — Six Flags Great America, the Thrill Capital of the Midwest, today announced a revolutionary, triple-record breaking, new roller coaster coming to the park in 2019. Maxx Force will be the fastest launch coaster in North America, and feature the fastest inversion and highest double inversion of any roller coaster in the world.
“Six Flags reigns supreme for record-breaking, one-of-a-kind rides and world-class thrills,” said Six Flags Great America Park President Hank Salemi. “The new Maxx Force coaster is in a class all by itself, launching riders from 0 to 78 miles per hour in under two seconds. No other coaster in the country accelerates at that blistering speed.”
Maxx Force highlights include:
- A unique air-powered launching system propelling guests forward at record speeds;
- The world’s highest double inversion at 175 feet above the ground;
- The fastest inversion on any roller coaster in the world with a 60 miles-per-hour zero-G roll;
- Five high-speed inversions; and
- One-of-a-kind custom coaster trains modeled after Formula One racing cars
Maxx Force will be the park’s 17th roller coaster and is scheduled to debut in summer 2019 in the Carousel Plaza area of the park.
For more information on Maxx Force and the 2019 season at Six Flags Great America, visit http://www.sixflags.com/greatamerica/newfor2019
I'd say the current fad is "back and forth" launches to try and make a very short ride seem longer. I'm shocked that this doesn't do that, actually.Is this the new hipster trend for coaster manufacturers these days? Who can over support their coasters the most?