The Bat (1981) Working Model | Kings Island | World's First Arrow Suspended Roller Coaster
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2023
- Working model of the 1981 Bat roller coaster at Kings Island, based on the original design with corkscrews instead of helixes.
The ride has custom 3d printed trains by @3dcoaster, K'nex crossties dyed red, two Ryobi drills to power the lifthills, a LEGO EV3 system to control the brakes and station, and a few other elements of theming from arts and crafts stores.
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Looks so great! The grass and clouds were a nice touch
Appreciate it! Crazy how little additions like that change the entire look of a build.
Spectacular! There’s something satisfying watching the trains swinging about and especially through the corkscrew.
Yeah, I find myself getting mesmerized watching it go through the layout sometimes.
Wow! This is fantastic! I love the arrow building style and the attention to detail! The corkscrews are fantastic!
The inversions are wicked!!👍🏾👍🏾
Thanks!
Absolutely incredible! If ANY coaster companies decide to bring the swinging suspended coaster back in action, I hope they check out your model and decide to act on it!
Haha, that would be a dream come true!
Congratulations!
Epic
Great model
For anyone who didn't know or didn't read the description:
The Bat's original design had 2 corkscrews, but this was taken out of the design before construction started and replaced with helixes
The shot at 0:47 gives serious Arrow suspended coaster vibes.
Beautiful model, well done!
Haha, I really liked that shot, but I couldn't quite figure out why.
Congratulations on finishing it you convinced me to make a small coaster of my own
Awesome! Excited to see it!
I should have it up by Wednesday
this is so cool, love the swinging trains. I would love to use these trains for a vampire from CWOA recreation
That would be awesome! But you'd have to also recreate that awesome castle as well!
Great work! The theming is really cool!
Beyond amazing. The inversions turned out fantastic and the background ads a nice touch.
Thanks! I was very excited to find that background at my local craft store!
@@CoasterWriter Also wanted to ask you, how do you enable comments on K’NEX videos to be on cause when I uploaded my progress it marked it for kids and disabled comments automatically.
@@JunipersQuest you have to mark "no" when it asks you if your video is for kids. All "kid" videos have comments disabled.
Brilliant
Great job man, nice touch adding the sky and grass background!
Thanks! I really like the way it turned out.
@@CoasterWriter Yw, I'm excited to see your future projects!
This is really awesome. Thanks for sharing
You’ve got some serious talent! A Wonderful model that pays homage to the original Kings Island design!
Thank you! Hoping Kings Island keeps their current version of the Bat running for decades to come!
Very nice!
Ok now i really wanna see S&S Make a new swinging coaster With the corkscrews
You and me both!
@@CoasterWriter ✨Perfecton✨
Awesome!
Some serious innovation and talent on this channel. This is so good!
Thanks!
That's really cool. it looks like it took a lot of work and tweaking to get it right.
It definitely did. Hoping I can implement some of the lessons I learned into a future suspended coaster model one day.
This is amazing love to see it all come together perfectly. I love the fake plants I hope to see you add some fake plants to my rollercoaster model as well.
WELL DONE!
Thanks! Looking forward to seeing it!
@@CoasterWriter thank you
Sooooo the OG bat was centered around the two corkscrews
The original design, yes. But the corkscrews were never built because they did not function properly.
just hope it doesn't tear itself apart...
Che bello
Come te..
Wow .. just so flipping impressive....
I've tried to experiment with CoasterDynamic kits... but nothing even remotely close to this...
So many questions... did you 3d print all of this.. how do you get the cars to swing out.. ... just too kewl for school!!
Thanks! Most of the ride was built with K'nex rollercoaster sets, but the trains were 3d printed. The station was controlled using a Lego EV3 system.
where do you get the rails from?
This coaster had two corkscrews??
The original design had them, but they were never built because Arrow Dynamics couldn't get them to work propery.
Bat had no inversions...
The original model did but the corkscrews were taken out out the design before construction
@GoudLoodje did not know that. Rode the original opening year. Waited 1hr 45 mins to do so barely made height req. A fond memory and blast to ride.