Utah Coaster Enthusiasts | Arachnid an Arrow Dynamics Arrowbatic Design @utahcoasterenthusiasts | Uploaded July 2015 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Arrow Dynamic's is one of my favorite coaster design companies. They had some very innovative ideas and very good engineers that have since Arrow going out of business gone on to make some world class roller coasters on their own or for other companies and parks.
It really is too bad that Arrow was never able to build one of these as I think it looks like a wild ride. I made only one change from the renderings and pictures. After the first barrel roll I made that turn an helix. The reason for this is because of the tower I designed for the first drop go in the way. Other than that I kept it as close to the rendering as possible, excluding making it smooth like a real ride would be.
I made a recreation of this same ride 4 years ago with No Limits 1 but that was on my old channel and I have since taken it down. I imported the track file into No Limits 2 but after surveying how much work it would be to try and fix it I decided to start brand new. So this recreation is completely a brand new NL2 ground up project.
I hope you enjoy this and keep coming back to my channel for more. I really enjoy doing recreations of rides, its fun to try and get it as accurate as possible. If there is a ride you think I should do let me know. Thanks
Please Enjoy.
Arrow Dynamic's is one of my favorite coaster design companies. They had some very innovative ideas and very good engineers that have since Arrow going out of business gone on to make some world class roller coasters on their own or for other companies and parks.
It really is too bad that Arrow was never able to build one of these as I think it looks like a wild ride. I made only one change from the renderings and pictures. After the first barrel roll I made that turn an helix. The reason for this is because of the tower I designed for the first drop go in the way. Other than that I kept it as close to the rendering as possible, excluding making it smooth like a real ride would be.
I made a recreation of this same ride 4 years ago with No Limits 1 but that was on my old channel and I have since taken it down. I imported the track file into No Limits 2 but after surveying how much work it would be to try and fix it I decided to start brand new. So this recreation is completely a brand new NL2 ground up project.
I hope you enjoy this and keep coming back to my channel for more. I really enjoy doing recreations of rides, its fun to try and get it as accurate as possible. If there is a ride you think I should do let me know. Thanks
Please Enjoy.
![XYZ - The Axis Coaster [NL2 Pro]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X1m3_h7F6-U/hqdefault.jpg "XYZ - The Axis Coaster [NL2 Pro]
Introducing a No Limits Roller Coaster project that I have been working on off and on for 2 years an S&S Worldwide Axis Coaster.
This is concept layout they displayed at the 2021 IAAPA Trade show and I instantly liked it. The first layout they revealed in 2020 for the Axis Coaster. So, when I saw this layout, I started working on bringing it to life in NL2. I found an NL2 user Costa 202 (https://www.youtube.com/@Coasta101/featured) who had shared their custom Axis Trains and Script to make the ride work. After some testing and figuring out how to make it operate correctly. I set about making the on the layout as exact as possible. In addition, I spent a good deal of time working on getting the Water-n-a-Bucket element working as I imagined it would being like a kind of no inverting loop.
The theme of the ride is that of a Moon base named Lunar Lab 23. The labs responsibility is to getting terraforming to work on the moon. Unfortunately their system for terraforming keeps going offline, requiring constant maintenance. Their solution for quick response times in Lunar Gravity is a rail based repair vehicle that can operate the quickest in the Moons Micro-gravity environment.
Please enjoy my XYZ- The Axis Coaster. I placed in my home park of Lagoon and set it so as to replace the aging Double Thunder Raceway, that turns 24 years old this year.
Music Provided by www.FesliyanStudios.com and the song name is Faster_Version-2023-03-20 Space_Debris By David Robson.")
![Tesemini: The Spirit of the Lake [No Limits 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aiHcKHu_p6E/hqdefault.jpg "Tesemini: The Spirit of the Lake [No Limits 2]
On April 21, 1981 The worlds first Arrow Dynamics Roller Coasters Suspended Roller Coaster model opened at Kings Island as the Bat. In the years that followed a rumor started floating around that one of these models would be installed at Lagoon Amusement Park, over the lagoon. Over the years from 1981 to 1993, 10 models of the coaster type were installed but never one at Lagoon. In 2002, Arrow Dynamics sadly went bankrupt with their assets being bought up by S&S - Sansei Technologies. Out of the 10 of these built only 5 remain operating today. I have ridden two of these and they are a fun experience, but not a WOW lets ride again type of experience. So since one will never be installed at Lagoon. I decided to use my roller coaster design program (Nolimits Coaster Simulation) and my Lagoon 3D digital recreation to create what I think one would have looked like. These types of coasters are restricted in what they can do being the carriers swing back and forth based on g-forces. Please enjoy your virtual ride on Tesemini: The Spirit of the Lake.
Although, it does make for a good basis for a NL contest. Therefore, I started a NL contest over Lagoon Fans Forum (https://lagoonfans.com/nl2-competition-t6170-s20.html#p87725) on this topic. No prizes, just a fun contest to see what a suspended coaster over the lagoon would look like.
This is my first time designing an Arrow Suspended and there isnt much that can be done with them besides swooping drops and turns. I tried to keeping as realistic to how Arrow would have designed it combine with my own ideas for a custom coaster. I hope you enjoy it.
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Music: The Fallen")
![Wooden Monster - A quick couple hour coaster design [No Limits 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/etY0HcsiJJM/hqdefault.jpg "Wooden Monster - A quick couple hour coaster design [No Limits 2]
The Wooden Monster is a roller coaster I came up with to be a background object in another video project. I only spent a couple hours on it, so its not my greatest creation ever but I liked it enough I thought Id show it off here.")
![Geronimo RAW POV [No Limits 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/euatwoxePyg/hqdefault.jpg "Geronimo RAW POV [No Limits 2]
I had a request for a Raw POV of my latest creation. I am happy to oblige. Enjoy this raw POV of Geronimo.")
![Colossus: The Fire Dragon at Lagoon Amusement Park [NO LIMITS 2] [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/f_HZjfkTcPA/hqdefault.jpg "Colossus: The Fire Dragon at Lagoon Amusement Park [NO LIMITS 2] [HD]
My latest coaster video is here. This is of Colossus: The Fire Dragon at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah, my home park.
I love Colossus. I love riding it, I love operating it, at least when I worked at Lagoon 20 years ago. Its such a good ride. Its a classic! I am glad Lagoon has this in their collection.
I created a recreation of it before when I was first getting started in No Limits Roller Coaster Simulator. Back then it was NL1 and my skills weren’t great. But in addition in NL1 it was difficult to make a glass smooth coaster or an accurate recreation. Click on this link to watch the first version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH0kOPtp0CQ
In the years since, I have toyed with the idea of recreating the coaster again now with my better skills and the great improvements from the NL team in NL2 but put it off for many years. Well, I decided to do it and part of the decision was that it was that I would go all out on the detail department. I committed to making all the custom scenery and I created all of it.
One detail I wanted was the headlights that ran on the ride but have been removed. I thought it was a cool effect. On the real ride the way they worked was by a generator connected to the road wheels. When they go to full speed the lights powered on and when they slowed down the lights turned off. This required a custom script to be created to get them to turn on and off correctly. I meddled with it for a bit but eventually I had to call in some help. Two users on the No Limits Central Forums had a hand in helping me. The first was the user known as BestDani for sharing his attachment script to attach the headlights to the trains and 2nd and the most helpful was the user known as MrRC. He put in the time into making the script work perfectly. I couldn’t have completed this bit of detail with out his help.
I hope you enjoy this recreation as much as I did making it. Please like, share and Subscribe for more great content.
Music: Retro 80s Electric Disco from https://www.Storyblocks.com by Bobby Cole.
Colossus: The Fire Dragon Stats from https://www.Lagoonhistory.com check them out for all your Lagoon History needs!
Originally Built: Jun 1981
Original Location: Oberhausen, Germany
Opened: 1 Apr 1983
Location: South Midway
Designed By: Ingenieur Büro Stengel – Munich, Germany
Manufactured By: Schwarzkopf – Münsterhausen, Germany
Ride Model: Doppel Looping with Additional Trackway Curve
Cost: $2.5 million
Max Speed: 55 mph
Max Height: 89 feet
Track Length: 2,850 feet
Lift Length: 197 feet
Lift Grade: 35º
Loop Diameter: 65 feet
Base Dimensions: 227 x 103 feet
Ride Capacity: 28
Number Of Trains: 3
Ride Time: 1 min, 45 sec
Hourly Ride Capacity: 1,600 people per hour")
![Wicked Remixed at Lagoon [No Limits 2]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hkCwYPl6YXM/hqdefault.jpg "Wicked Remixed at Lagoon [No Limits 2]
For a recent design contest called Remixed, which is currently in the judging stages. The contest was to take an existing coaster, past present or future (has to have been announced by a park) and make it better but while still being able to tell what ride it was based on. I decided being Lagoon is my home park and that I have wanted to do this for years, I decided to make Wicked: Remixed! The first half of Wicked I think is a stellar ride and did not need much improvement if at all. So on the first half I edited the airtime hill at the bottom of the first drop to be slightly larger to give more ejector airtime. Then the Mid-Course Brake Run (MCBR) I raised by 10 feet to help the second half be as fast paced as the first half. I made the second half start by dropping into a tunnel, using the same tunnel type, as Wicked has, to keep as true to the real ride as possible. Shooting out of the tunnel the car takes a hairpin turn and drops into a trench passing close to some shipping containers as Wicked’s theme is industrial and I kept that just added to it. Out of the trench, the car is immediately thrown through a barrel roll. Upon exiting the barrel, roll into a high-speed helix and sliding into the Reduction Brake Run. I feel that this is a much better seconded half than the two half pipe turns and wave turn on Wicked. It is realistic to have a coaster be changed like this, but there still is cost and to help keep the realism as close as possible to this happening I did not want to go crazy on track length. Therefore, I gave myself a 15-foot extension boundary on top of the 2050 feet that Wicked has. I ended up only adding 1 foot of track length bringing the track length 2051 feet for Wicked: Remixed!
Therefore, without further ado I present Wicked and Wicked: Remixed! I hope you enjoy them. Please leave comments on YouTube or on our Forum. I will be doing more Remixed coasters but if you have one you would like to see let me know in the comments. Thanks.")
