Archive for May 2009:

The Little Coaster that Could

Amusement Today just published an update on the family-sized Quassy Amusement Park wooden coaster. [Links to the Article: Amusement Today, Quassy Website] The following renderings were Included in the article: (click all images for larger versions) For a refresher, here is the previously posted rendering and layout for the coaster for which young hesistant riders [...]

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Gravity Group Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10

It is grease monkey day at our office. Larry’s tearing apart one car. Chad and Mike are working on another. Where’s Cooter? # @coasterfanbase Yes, that car is most certainly a Timberliner! # Today Korey took some great HD video of the coaster in China. What a fantastic ride! It’s everything a wood coaster should [...]

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Translation, translation, translation

Communication is always a key component to the success of any project. In building a wooden roller coaster in China, the language barrier was a challenge. Owen was our project’s interpreter. His efforts were of great value to the overall success of the project.          

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Testing Photos from the Other Side of the World

Here are some photos of the dummy-filled train taken during the testing of the wooden coaster last week in Shanghai.  Hopefully Chad and Larry will get some of their photos posted a little later this week.  When they were over there, they took video too!  We’ll just have to wait and see. These photos are [...]

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Who-hoo! (that’s not Chinese)

The first wooden roller coaster in China has now had its first runs and first riders!  Congratulations to the teams at The Gravity Group and Martin & Vleminckx for this spectacular work of art. Chad said, “Rode it. awesome. smooth. WAY FUN!”  He went on saying it was fantastic with tons of airtime particularly on [...]

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