Six Flags Over Texas (SFOT) Discussion Thread

[ZingomanIndiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Donkey.]

Some news is developing on one of the great mysteries of the project! The mystery at hand being whether or not the ride will have a midcourse brake section. If you look at the time lapse cam on the park's site you can see the old midcourse section has some track up (but appears to have an absense of ledgers?)! Can't wait to find out what the profile is since the angle from the tower makes that impossible to see. http://www.sixflags.com/overTexas/rides/TexasGiant.aspx

[Funky Cold MedinaDid the donkey fairy give me this title?]

^I thought I saw rails on the time lapse. I noticed the sun reflecting off of them. Maybe it'll be like on spaghetti bowl coasters and it's just a piece of straight track or another bank into a drop?

[BrandonRI'm a know-it-all about donkeys!]

It's a midcourse. I took more construction pictures today (September 11) and there is definitely a flat piece of track where the old midcourse was.

Oh, and this next picture should put some peoples' worry to rest about the overbanked track not being sturdy enough.


Well, maybe not completely. It still looks a bit scary, but hey, maybe that'll just add to the thrill.

More construction pictures from today are here: http://www.guidetosfot.com/features/giantreinvented/

[Funky Cold MedinaDid the donkey fairy give me this title?]

Those. Look. Awesome.

[CDIndiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Donkey.]

That looks so unnatural, yet so completely awesome!

[SynshineI'm a know-it-all about donkeys!]

That is crazy.

[texcoasterBonafide Donkey Expert]

Notice that the ledgers have slots in the ends like a tuning fork that surround the uprights. Looking at the pic, the overbanked portion have ends that aren't yet connected to an upright, leading me to guess that more uprights will be installed there. That would put the track in a tunnel-like enclosure of supports (awesome). It would make sense that they would install the long, curved track pieces there BEFORE they box in the track with the extra supports, so they don't have to try to thread them through the 'tunnel'.

[Funky Cold MedinaDid the donkey fairy give me this title?]

Man just hanging out like that past vertical will be insane.

[rcfreak417I know quite a lot about Donkeys!]

At least they are keeping the midcourse brake.

[texcoasterBonafide Donkey Expert]

At least they are keeping the midcourse brake.

Don't count your brake runs before they're placed.
There is a flat section of track where the MCBR used to be, but none of the pics I've seen so far show any actual brakes.

If they plan to run three trains (do they?) then they will have to have brakes installed there for blocking, but that doesn't mean that they'll be used in normal operations. We'll just have to wait and see. At any rate, without the problem of excessive wear on the track, there shouldn't be any need for them to slow down the train there (or stop it completely) like they used to.