Skyliner.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sat Sep 19, 2015 3:30 pm

Here is a project that I would like to start, that I'll probably never finish and you can all laugh at me, but it seems like it would be fun to do.

The project is to recreate this roller coaster in NoLimits 2:

The Skyliner at Lakemont Park

I chose this one because it's a smaller, quainter ride, and I had one of the more treasured and enjoyable rides of my life on it back about 15 years ago, and I had a dream about it the other day. I also wanted to get back into NoLimits, so I felt the dream was a direct order from our vengeful Lord, to meticulously recreate the Skyliner.

I'll post updates to the project here, which will probably never happen.

Thanks for your time.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:27 am

Some important reference material!

This is as close as I could find to an overhead view:

Here is a POV video:
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pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:30 am

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:31 am

"Jeff Dick" lol

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:32 am

I guess I eventually also have to build the baseball field next to it:

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:34 am

The lighting is key. It appeared in both my real-life ride and in my dream, under this very same lighting:

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:36 am

The POV makes it look like on the last few dips, the track goes completely flat, but these shots make it look more like a very gradual dip:

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:37 am

Good overall shot:

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:39 am

This will be helpful for getting the incline of the lift hill correct. Anyone got a compass?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:42 am

The caption of this image was "Stephen Strasburg's debut", so the Skyliner now features prominently in baseball history!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 6:47 am

How can you figure out what this angle is, from this picture?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 7:46 am

Never mind, I used a program called "Screen Protractor" to measure it.

It's 21.1 degrees! Or thereabouts!

So the rcdb says it's 60 feet tall at the apex, with a 21.1 (or thereabouts) degree incline, we should be able to get pretty close to getting the lift hill right!

Is this exciting or what?!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 8:56 am

Do you think you'll be able to get Jeff Dick onboard for this project? Or do you have to go to one of his competitors like Peter Cumming?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 1:26 pm

Oh wait. There's a much better overhead pic. UH-DOYYYYYYY!?!?!?!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Sun Sep 20, 2015 4:24 pm

Here was my original review from my trip report the one time I actually rode it:

Skyliner (+3) - Maybe I was in a good mood, or maybe I got to the ride just at the right time, but I dug this one seriously. A simple, mid-sized out-and-back (or more specifically, out and left and right and back), it didn't provide much airtime after the first drop, it didn't thrill and amaze, it just sort of did it's thing and brought you along for the ride. I could have stayed on it all day, that's how nice and fun it was. In fact, I was in the front seat for another go when they shut the place down. The ride that wasn't. Now, about that first drop. I took a spin in the front, and it was delightful. Then I tried it from the back. The first drop on Skyliner, from the back seat, was by far the scariest, most intense, severe moment of airtime I experienced in all five days of this trip. If I wasn't standing straight up in the middle of the drop, I was damn close. At that point I was glad there wasn't much noteworthy for the rest of the ride, because I needed that time to catch my breath. Holy cheeseburgers, was that something. Yes, yes it was.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:43 am

Well, would you look at that! I still have my own reference material from the night I was there!

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:05 pm

I knew that looked familiar...

I used to ride that thing every summer when I was growing up. For my birthday every year I got to choose which amusement part to go to. Seabreeze..Olympic Park.. and Roseland Park were the three choices. (Darien Lake didn't exist yet). Too bad I hardly remember riding it now.

THE
BEEN THERE
AARDVARK

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 5:57 pm

[youtube][/youtube]

Now you gotta finish this!

And fix the frame while you're at it.

THE
BORDER PATROL
AARDVARK

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 7:26 pm

Wow, that's fantastic.

Alright, I'm DOUBLING DOWN.

Donald Ebinsen · Post by **Donald Ebinsen** » Wed Sep 23, 2015 10:37 am

pinback wrote:Some important reference material!

Here is a POV video:

Okay, Perfect, you now have an exact measurement for the entire rollercoaster. How? Look at the video on the sides of the track. Every track has a fence on one or both sides, perhaps 6 or 8 feet wide per segment. They all pretty much look the same. So, if you can detect any one spot where you know how long it is (you mentioned one of the drops is 60 feet), so if at that particular spot you count ten fence sections, then the fence sections are 6 feet long. If you get 6 then they're 10 feet, and so on.