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Coaster Toaster · Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 8:01 pm Post subject: Gadget Show

Stealth was showen and no limits are on next weeks show
Out to find the scariest roller coaster
Monday
Channel 5
8pm

Coaster Police · Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:38 pm Post subject:

LOL, i saw that too and was going to post Smile

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coaster-andy · Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 6:40 am Post subject:

I was also going to post to the board Laughing

We can tell what we watch on telly,
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Magic · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject:

They also filmed at Drayton Manor. Here's what the park say

Popular TV series, The Gadget Show recently visited Drayton Manor Theme Park, near Tamworth, Staffordshire, to film a feature searching for the ultimate ‘thrill ride’ for an episode in its current season.

As part of the search, presenter Ortis Deley braved Apocalypse, one of the theme park’s scariest rides. Apocalypse is the world’s first stand-up drop tower, which takes riders 54 meters into the sky before tilting them forwards and then dropping at over 4Gs. Visitors can choose to ride either sat down, stood up, or with no foot rest, just dangling from their shoulder restraints, which is what Ortis did.

Whilst on the ride, gadgets were used to measure Ortis’s fear. He wore a Vital Jacket, which monitored his heart rate, and a device to measure the strength of his grip for the duration of the ride. He also had a blood sample taken as soon as the ride finished to see how much adrenaline he had produced.

The Gadget Show also visited other theme parks in the UK to compare and decide the ultimate winner of the UK’s scariest ‘thrill ride’. The results will be announced on the show, which is being aired on Channel 5, Monday 25th May at 8pm.

Ortis commented: “We have to do lots of crazy things for the The Gadget Show and I was pretty excited when they said I was going to Drayton Manor because I love theme parks. Apocalypse is definitely one of the scariest rides I’ve ever been on, and I can safely say I couldn’t wait to get off it!”

Colin Bryan, Managing Director of Drayton Manor Theme Park commented: “It was great fun to have The Gadget Show filming at the theme park. It’s no surprise to me that Ortis was scared on Apocalypse, and I look forward to finding out the results of the show’s research.”
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frosty · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 5:40 am Post subject:

If they had filmed in Texas then Ortis Deley may change his mind about the scariest coaster - but for other reasons than a pure adrenalin rush.
Many of us will discover for ourselves the delight (did I really use that word!) of Ryan's favorite coaster circa 2011.
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stealth fan · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject:

I was quite disappointed by the choice of rides on this show. Stealth was fine, Air, what the hell and Apocalypse, since when has that been a Rollercoaster?
Would have loved to have seen Saw on this one.
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frosty · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 6:55 am Post subject:

Andy Hine MBE · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 7:04 am Post subject:

Yes I Saw the show (got to get a Suzi fix each week!) Wink

I agree, since when has Apocalypse been a coaster? And I did laugh when the presenters (Ortis) adrenalin reading was higher prior to riding AIR than when he was actually on it!! Does that mean that he looked at it and thought “Oooh that looks exciting” but when riding it realised it wasn’t!
And correct me if I’m wrong, wasn’t this a “roller coaster” challenge? Cos I didn’t see any roller coasters featured, only thrill rides. Where was Megafobia, Grand National, Big Dipper, etc.,

Real coasters are made of wood!

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Nemesis Nick · Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 9:19 pm Post subject:

Well I recorded the said edition of The Gadget Show, but only got round to watching it yesterday evening.

Magic · Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject:

AIRtime is the moment of weightlessness caused by the negative G associated with cresting hills. It doesn't matter if the coaster is steel or wood, both can provide AIRtime. Some coasters are designed to provide lots of AIRtime like Shivering Timbers, Phoenix, Formule Pax, Bizarro, Dream of Mediterranean. Not all coasters offer AIRtime, the likes of Kentucky Rumbler, Corkscrew, Nemesis, Shockwave and Twister offer little or none.

What you describe as AIRtime would appear to be high positive G's at the bottom of dips, and therefore is not actually AIRtime. AIRtime comes from the sensation of floating up out of your seat and grabbing some air, not being forced down into your seat.

I think of Hang Time as the moments when you're left hanging in your restraints, maybe upside down on a slow vertical loop, dangling off Oblivions drop brake, hanging at the front of a train as it goes over the lift hill.

When Stealth is flying over the top it can offer some AIRtime, but it depends on which seat you choose. It's also not a mega AIRtime machine.

It wouldn't have been feasible for the Gadget Show to use more rides. Going to an extra park like Oakwood or Blackpool would have added thousands onto the budget of the episode. You could expect the freelance cameraman, soundman, producer, lighting spark and runner to have cost around £1500. I suspect the crew would have been bigger than this. The presenters could cost even more. Everyone would have need accommodation too, so add on another £700. The additional tape stock would have added another couple of hundred assuming they shot on Digibeta rather than DV Cam. They would have hired the mini cams so add on another £500 for the day for them. All the crew would need feeding and this would come from the programme budget, so another few hundred there. It would take longer to edit as the additional material would need time to be ingested into the edit system plus the additional logging time of the footage. So an extra park, requiring an extra days filming would prove too costly.

On ride filming can and does take ages. Some rides take a lot of rigging to install the cameras. The rides also can't run whilst rigging is taking place, unless a train can be taken off the tracks. I filmed on Shockwave at DMP on a few occasions and the first time took over an hour to rig, by the third time I had it down to 20 minutes. The rig on Cobra at Paultons for a live weather forecast took me 4 hours. Whilst we recently did some filming on Klondyke at Hayling Island which took us only 15 minutes, but we had to compromise on shots so as not to hold things up for too long. So filming on multiple rides in a park will prove unpopular with guests when rides are down for long periods of time and the parks are unlikely to agree to this. It also eats into your days filming causing a lot of downtime for crew.

Editorially you can't fit too much into a program or you can't tell the full story. 10 rides would only allow for each to have 4 minutes. That's not enough time to set the scene, do the experiments and look at the results.

They probably chose Air knowing that it is sedate and un-scary. They needed a big ride that would produce different results to Stealth. Apocalypse is often rated as the scariest non coaster ride in the World, so ticks the boxes for inclusion in the programme. Stealth looks imposing and being a fast coaster deserved to be included.

Finally for me Apocalypse is nothing like Ice Blast. Ice Blast is fun and is purely about the launch and being forced into your seat, with maybe a pop of AIRtime at the top. Apocalypse is purely about the suspense and fear of the drop and for me is terrifying.
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Nemesis Nick · Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 6:53 am Post subject: