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Well, I finally finished by roller coaster. It works great and was shown at
GATS in Portland with PNLTC the weekend of February 16th and 17th.
I believe this is the first successful minifigure scale roller coaster which
features a loop, but correct me if I'm wrong. Other features include a
banked turn, a hump and a spiral, with of course the obligatory long trip to
the top.
So without further delay, check it out for yourself at
www.insidethevault.com/rolleroaster/. And there are a few more pictures
available under "what's new" at www.pnltc.org.
-Matt :)
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| (...) WAY cool! Congrats on a job _well_ done! I see a mindstorms kit keeping the space/timing between more trains on the same time, perhaps make a "magasine" with trains so that each train is replaced every third ride, that way you could have it (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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| Matt- Abosolutely fabulous roller coaster! Thomas, David, and I have thought about doing a roller coaster for as long as they have been building LEGO and we appreciate all the difficult issues you had do deal with -- and no doubt many more that only (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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| dude, u need to add my 'crash couch' chair to your roller coaster train so the minifigs don't fall out ;-) here's view of the chair: (URL) here's the dir w/ the rest of the pics of it: (URL) build, matt -p (...) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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| Yes, yes, the roller coaster is totally awesome, but am I the first person to notice that the letter "c" is missing in the link to click on? I know that everyone else must've had to type the c in because otherwise, they wouldn't have seen the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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| Oh my Gosh!!!... I've been dreaming of something like this for the longest time, but haven't been able to figure an affordable solution to the track, and let me tell you, your solution is gorgeous, but no way I can consider that affordable. GREAT (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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| (...) After hearing you drop hints about this thing for so long, it's great to finally see it- I just wish I could have made it for GATS last weekend. Wonderful engineering! -- Tony Hafner www.hafhead.com www.pnltc.org (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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| That's amazing! Literally jaw-dropping. I saw the title of your post, and I thought, "OK, somebody made a cute little roller-coaster shaped MOC." But little did I suspect that somebody could pull off an actual *working* minifig scale roller coaster! (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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| Matthew & All, (...) That is simply one of the most amazing creations I have ever seen, Matthew. Outstanding job! I never thought LEGO could ever get rollercoasters right, but you proved me wrong! Now all you need is to put a camera on one of the (...) (22 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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| oh, cool....wow....(jaw hits floor)... One question, though. I'm not too well versed on track, but how did you get all the curves in the track done (i.e. curving up and down?) It's truly an incredible piece of work... -Scott Lyttle (22 years ago, 27-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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| "Matthew J. Chiles" <mchiles@goldendale.net> skrev i meddelandet news:GrzvsA.B8y@lugnet.com... (...) www.insidethevault.c...leroaster/ Just one word: "Fantastic! Great! Fabulous!" (Well, maybe I'm not so good at counting...) It makes me sooo envious (...) (22 years ago, 28-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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| That's Incredible and then some! The only roller coaster I have ever seen made of Lego is the one built by David Mercil. He used a different method for the tracks though. It never accured to me to use train tracks. (22 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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| I just added some video footage of the roller coaster in action to the web site. Mark Hafner took the footage and you can download the 15 second .mov clip in either small (680KB) or less small (1.8MB) sizes. It shows the trip from the top of the (...) (22 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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