Boomerang with something different

***Chip*** · #1 02-26-2003, 01:26 PM

I was clicking on the random roller coaster at rcdb and I came across Boomerang at Prater Park. Prater Park is a pretty neat sounding park with a load of old coasters, including a looping woodie, I think. See my [url=http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19453]previous thread[/url] about that.

Anyway, Boomerang at Prater Park has a tunnel! At least I think it does. Look at the [URL=http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery1093.htm]pictures[/URL] especially [URL=http://www.rcdb.com/installationgallery1093.htm?Picture=7]this one[/URL]. It sure looks like there's a tunnel on the exit (going forwards) of the cobra roll. Does anyone have any more info on this to confirm it? I think that's a pretty neat idea and a cool way to toy with the old boomerang.

CrystalKat · #2 02-26-2003, 03:43 PM

Yup, that's definately a tunnel; you can see how the tunnel structure crosses the supports for the coaster, so unless they just put like a wall on one side, it must be enclosed. Neat idea! Too bad I won't quite be able to make it to Austria to check it out anytime soon.

RaptorXLC · #3 02-26-2003, 04:04 PM

If you look at the other picks, it shows that it is definately a tunnel.

Are there any other Boomerangs that have something to seperated them from the rest.

slipknot8527 · #4 02-26-2003, 04:11 PM

Yah, some boomerangs have those UGLY new Vekoma trains...omg, just hideous those things are!

Cid · #5 02-26-2003, 05:56 PM

i think the tunnel was a later addition to this boomerang, because in some of the pictures it doesn't have it. it looks pretty cool though. i like the color scheme too.

musicfreak · #6 02-26-2003, 07:06 PM

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Cid [/i]
[B]i think the tunnel was a later addition to this boomerang, because in some of the pictures it doesn't have it. it looks pretty cool though. i like the color scheme too. [/B][/QUOTE]

The tunnel was a later addition, and it goes between the bottom half of the cobra roll and the very beginning of the loop. I forget when the tunnel was added, a few years back I do believe. I thought it would be cool to make the entire loop/cobra roll enclosed - hell, throw a boomerang inside a building and just let the lift hills stick out the top!

ride6 · #7 02-26-2003, 08:50 PM

Hell, why not completely inclose it! I've always wondered why there isn't a mirrored boomerang. It would accully very a little from the rest. If I was starting a park that would be a considerable since it probably wouldn't coast too much. A tunnel on a boomerang.... COOL! it shows hope that some boomerangs may someday be different! YAY!

BimmerZ3 · #8 02-26-2003, 09:44 PM

Imagine that, a unique bommerang. Geeze, that's practically an oxymoron for people like us.

2Tone Rudeboy · #9 02-26-2003, 10:59 PM

Vekoma had marketed an enclosed version of the Boomerang design back in the early to mid 90's called 'Automatic Rewind'- the ride (which as far as I know has never been built as such) would have been enclosed with audio/visual effects to enhance the ride experience. ACE News had a brief article on it during the 1995 ACE News for IAAPA; the same issue also showed the first models of the now imfamous HangOver coaster.

Kyle L · #10 02-27-2003, 12:20 AM

Cool, It looks pretty disorientating, if Vekoma's don't totally mess with your mind enough! It looks like it is defenetley a tunnel. (Hence the supports) And it looks like it would be a neat little feature, but........Its a Vekoma which is a thread to your Brain Cells......:D

**Leo C** · #11 02-27-2003, 07:08 PM

I would have a nightmare if the 2nd lift of a Vekoma Boomerang was all tunneled up and contained tens of blinding strobe lights. I would be begging for that slow lift cable to pull the train up and finally release it. It would make a Boomerang so much more interesting though. I could only take so much of the strobe, like on Lochness and on the special edition FrightFest Skull Mountain.

**Andrew P** · #12 02-27-2003, 11:55 PM

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by ride6 [/i]
[B]Hell, why not completely inclose it! I've always wondered why there isn't a mirrored boomerang. It would accully very a little from the rest. If I was starting a park that would be a considerable since it probably wouldn't coast too much. A tunnel on a boomerang.... COOL! it shows hope that some boomerangs may someday be different! YAY! [/B][/QUOTE]

Aren't the concept of a boomerang crappy enough. Some park can't afford a POS beemer so they stip this thing in. A tunnel just makes the thing look more like an eyesore. Kinda like how lowrider tires and eccentric spoilers make ANY car look like crap.

**Leo C** · #13 02-28-2003, 12:22 PM

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by CedarPoint_Mark [/i]
[B]
Kinda like how lowrider tires and eccentric spoilers make ANY car look like crap. [/B][/QUOTE]
The best I saw was an 80's boxy Caprice with a "Fast and the Furious" aluminum spoiler in downtown Trenton. Couldn't help but crack up. That big tunnel on the Boomerang makes it look like SFAW's Viper on the first drop.

**Leo C** · #14 02-28-2003, 12:24 PM

I only have pity for Boomerang's @ the beach piers like Morey's Pier and the "tiny can't do anything about it" parks.

DyingDutchman · #15 02-28-2003, 01:47 PM

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by CHILLERLC1 [/i]
[B]I would have a nightmare if the 2nd lift of a Vekoma Boomerang was all tunneled up and contained tens of blinding strobe lights. I would be begging for that slow lift cable to pull the train up and finally release it. It would make a Boomerang so much more interesting though. I could only take so much of the strobe, like on Lochness and on the special edition FrightFest Skull Mountain. [/B][/QUOTE]

LMAO! Yea those strobes in the tunnel on LNM are a killer. Vekoma is the king of headaches, brainaches, and other cranial ailments, that's for sure. There's only so much you can do with a boomerang though... even the Invertigos are nothing special.

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