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I wouldn’t mind playing with it if no one else requests it.
Sounds good, @skippermike, would you like to stop over and get it sometime?
It’s a hectic week for me so maybe by the weekend. How big is the footprint? I don’t think it will fit in my car, but I might be able to get it into my wife’s car.
I don’t think it will fit in my car
I think it will fit across the back seat.
Someone sent us this today. It is absolutely brilliant. If you have ever ridden the Jack Rabbit, you will know what I mean.
The person who made this lives in Pittsburgh. Perhaps you could get with him and work on building terrain for this ride rather than the Thunderbolt.
For those of you wondering, my replacement part from Lego arrived in the mail yesterday. And… it’s the wrong part. The set requires two of the lower part and two of the upper part, and it came with three of the lower part and only one of the upper part. They sent me another lower part. The only good news is that if I ever BL additional track parts to expand the coaster, I am now $8 ahead courtesy of Lego’s errors. Another replacement part shipped today, and I checked the numbers in the confirmation email this time, and it appears that I’ll be getting the correct part.
I was looking at the cyclone model and I had a thought of how to maybe do the landscaping. Would it be easier to build it on a flat surface with the normal supports and then cover the up with landscaping? That might be less part intense if we don’t have to build up the terrain.
That might be less part intense if we don’t have to build up the terrain.
Are you saying to build it in a way that the white support pieces will hold the weight of the coaster, instead of the terrain bricks supporting the coaster? I noticed that the coaster is supported by big boxes on the ends. I think those would need to be replaced by brick.
Three cyclone sets to build the JackRabbit cost the builder $450. I think that if we actually work with another person’s coaster, we’d need to build the landscape in a way that the other person can easily get their coaster back if they want. In that case, I would think that we would need to build the terrain to support the coaster, rather than burying their white support pieces under the landscaping.
Yes, that is what I’m suggesting. If we do it with the Jack Rabbit, then yeah, what they want goes. But if we start on the Thunderbolt from scratch it might be an option.
Yes, that is what I’m suggesting. If we do it with the Jack Rabbit, then yeah, what they want goes. But if we start on the Thunderbolt from scratch it might be an option.
The cost of building our own Thunderbolt from multiple CDX systems is a deterrent. Perhaps we should work with what we have by creating baseplates for the CYCLONE and using that coaster in the amusement park display initially.
I looked at it again just now and I don’t think my plan works due to the curves for the track supports.
Neither the Jack Rabbit nor the Thunderbolt will take many supports. They hug the ground so the terrain is an integral part of the design.
What is this place … a LEGO museum? It does NOT look like someone’s house and it does NOT look like an old elementary school in southeastern Ohio.
didn’t know this existed until today, but apparently it has been around a while. no modified parts were used.
Pretty cool roller coaster. I have heard the name Matt Chiles before, probably associated with technic. It must be a real chore to move and setup this roller coaster.
Also, (cyberpunk) monorail, (Cyberpunk) Monorail, (CYBERPUNK) MONORAIL!
… very elaborate and impressive. He said “Blade Runner feel” which explains it well. The use of color, among many other things, is perfect. Although I think its funny that he said that Galaxy Squad is “old.”
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