Voyage. Holy Crap!

by **rich12_16** on February 4th, 2006, 1:23 pm

It will have over 24 seconds of airtime!

by **kahmooza** on February 6th, 2006, 2:10 am

*Insert Drum Roll*

Officially THREE MONTHS TO GO!

This is going to be one of the most premiere wood coasters on the planet. Just looking at the updated pics it is like a combination of many of my favorite coasters all on one ride.

First

You've got the Hades action going on. Now I've been on Hades at least thirty times let me tell you; a gravity group designed tunnel is absolutely amazing. The way they make the bank underground is intense. I doubt any of the many...many...tunnels on this track will be as long as Hades, but judging from these pics they will pack a punch. During a hot day its actually a considerably lower temp in the concrete tunnels GravGroup uses.

Also on a side note, it enters the tunnel on a huge bank like MilleniumForce would. If it were wood. It would!

Then you have:

Being a HUGE AmericanEagle fan, I admire this huge helix. It almost looks empty with it not being a racer with a double track.

Next you've got

Is it just me or don't the first hills seem like MagnumXL?

Rest of the pics below:

http://www.holidayworld.com/holiblog/holiblog.html

It only brings to mind 3 words. VOYAGE HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!

2 months, 29 days. :shock:

by **[jonrev]** on February 6th, 2006, 8:28 am

That thing's huge!

by **Trailblazer Tony** on February 6th, 2006, 4:20 pm

Kahmooza, I think it sort of looks like Magnum too. Thanks for the pics, that thing looks like it will be a long one too.

by **Mr. SFGAm** on February 6th, 2006, 4:45 pm

Wow! God that thing looks awesome!

I might have to scrape up some money to get down to Holiday World this year.

by **FRD714** on February 6th, 2006, 6:14 pm

Wow, thats awesome.

by **Trailblazer Tony** on February 7th, 2006, 10:42 pm

So much of an attendance increase do you guys think this will bring the park?

by **kahmooza** on February 17th, 2006, 9:59 pm

VOYAGE HOLY CRAP!

by **[jonrev]** on February 17th, 2006, 10:07 pm

OMFG!

by **FRD714** on February 17th, 2006, 10:13 pm

I wanna ride it!!! :shock:

by **kahmooza** on February 19th, 2006, 4:29 pm

by **Trailblazer Tony** on February 19th, 2006, 11:10 pm

^That is a very creative picture.

by **kahmooza** on March 6th, 2006, 2:02 pm

T-MINUS TWO MONTHS AND COUNTING!!!!!!

VOYAGE HOLY CRAP

by **Trailblazer Tony** on March 6th, 2006, 3:25 pm

^This ride is looking absolutely stunning. The topic name says it all.

by **FParker185** on March 6th, 2006, 7:29 pm

Anyone else going to the construction tour on the 18'th?

by **zjohn1988** on March 6th, 2006, 7:40 pm

is it free?

by **FParker185** on March 6th, 2006, 8:06 pm

$5 for the Voyage Tour $5 for Kentucky rumbler, though money was due last week

by **Trailblazer Tony** on March 7th, 2006, 1:39 pm

^Then I guess not.

by **kahmooza** on March 19th, 2006, 1:59 pm

Voyage. Holy Crap!

http://www.holidayworld.com/holiblog/holiblog.html

by **Aero737** on March 19th, 2006, 2:14 pm

Yeah, I've seen some photos, really does look like an AMAZING woodie. This think looks to have it all, High Gee Force overbanked turns, massive airtime hills, something for everyone!

by **FParker185** on March 22nd, 2006, 5:38 pm

Well.....

http://community.webshots.com/user/fparker185

2 galleries there one for Rumbler and one for Voyage, was a good test for my brand new camera.

(and I do realize Rumbler shots are much smaller, lower quality and there are missing pics if you look at the numbers, that is intentional)

With that out of the way, I might write a TR in the TR forum in the near future, but the Voyage tour was average, and Beech Bend bent over backwards to accomodate us, fed us all kinds of pizza and desserts (no food was included in the price of that tour), then to top it off, they unexpectedly opened the coaster for us for a commercial shoot despite them telling us all morning that it'd be a few weeks til they got it operational.

Truely outstanding hospitality on Beech Bends part.

by **shockwave guy mark** on March 22nd, 2006, 5:45 pm

hoy crap!

by **Cryptkeeper** on March 23rd, 2006, 11:22 pm

I must echo what FParker185 said. The Holday World tour was cool, but Beech Bend was the shining star of the weekend. The hospitality and friendliness that the park and GCI showed us was even greater than the thrills that the Rumbler provided..and that's saying something!

The Kentucky Rumbler is truly an amazing coaster. It has a surprisingly great first drop, hauls #$$ the entire course of the ride, and has some great lateral and negative g-forces. It's also as smooth as a baby's bottom. If you head to southern Indiana to ride Voyage, you would be doing yourself a disservice NOT to head the 2+ hrs. to Bowling Green to checkout Beech Bend and the Kentucky Rumbler.

In case you haven't seen them yet, I've got some photos of the Kentucky Rumbler and Voyage @ http://www.sfgamworld.com/gallery/BBHWConstruction. (shameless plug

).

by **kahmooza** on April 5th, 2006, 11:04 pm

Voyage HOly Crap!

http://www.thegravitygroup.com/voyage/03-06/

by **kahmooza** on May 4th, 2006, 10:46 pm

Holy Crap!

Anyone seen the media day footage yet? I'm going to opening day on Saturday, and was planning on it BEFORE watching this. I absolutely can't wait to ride the future best coaster of 2006.

It will be like Hades on steroids.

Those 90 degree banks are insane.

http://www.holidayworld.com/voyage_video.html

I really like the reverse shot video and have watched the POV 30 times.

No digi cam yet

so I hope someone else takes pics and put them up here from this Saturday.

Voyage. Holy Crap!

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