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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 (...) (22 years ago, 23-Feb-02, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build) !!
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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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(...) Iain, have you seen this? Any plans for one of your own? :-) (22 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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"Tim Strutt" <heidi.strutt@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:Gs1vGL.3vv@lugnet.com... (...) Wow, that's awesome! I haven't built a LEGO coaster for like, 5 years? I've done about 4 looping coasters. Iain (22 years ago, 24-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Glad you liked my roller coaster. :) So I have been checking all over for Lego roller coasters that loop and I have not seen others yet, but I keep hearing rumors... So how did you do it? Do you have any pictures???? -Matt :) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) looking for is a system that could be automated, or that would make it easy to take minifigure in and out when needed. I would imagine the rubber retraints would be a little tricky from that aspect... but they sure would cut down on my (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Thanks Ted! (...) The biggest unexpected thing was the energy loss that is constantly occuring. Everything has to be really tight to prevent that loss. The other thing this project taught me was how incredibly complex real roller coasters are, (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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(...) Thanks! (...) Mindstorms is definately something I want to add to this roller coaster. I like the idea of automatically replacing trains. Other spots for mindstorms are stopping at the station, opening and closing loading gates (if I had them) (...) (22 years ago, 25-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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(...) Oops! Thanks for pointing that out! The correct address should be www.insidethevault.c...rcoaster/. And this time I checked it! I also just put up a link for anyone else who clicks the old bad one... (...) If I hadn't been finishing up the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.build)
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"Matthew J. Chiles" <mchiles@goldendale.net> wrote in message news:Gs2CsB.n1t@lugnet.com... (...) I've (...) it? (...) I have pictures in a box in my closet that I took with a 110 camera. Off the top of my head... First looping coaster went down the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Feb-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Hey, that's REALLY cool! But I gotta say, I'm sure glad I'm not one of them minifigs... you wouldn't catch me on something that steep! hehe Great job Matt! Mel (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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(...) Amazing! Even my NLSO approved. I do have a question for you, Matt. How do you transport such a monstrosity? Andreas (URL) (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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(...) Glad you liked it. :) The up and down curves are 4.5V track layed on its edge so that the normal tops of two rails face each other. When you use curved track, the sides are now the tops and are now curved. 4.5V track has an advantage over 9V (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-02, to lugnet.build)
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(...) When my uncle's pickup truck came up for sale I bought it with transporting the roller coaster in the back of my mind. :) That is the first key element - a canopy covered full size pickup bed. Inside there is a carpeted bed liner with benches (...) (22 years ago, 1-Mar-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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(...) Matthew ansered this in the previus post: (URL) "brat" Arnesson :) (22 years ago, 2-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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