Korey, Mike, Larry, Chad, Jonathan, Dave, Anthony

This year they had the privilege of supplying more goodies as our team has temporarily grown to seven to handle the many projects on our plate.  Our two new team members are drafting guru Dave Jewell and engineering intern Jonathan Wocher from Ohio State’s Theme Park Engineering Group.  We are thrilled to have them on board as there are reams of drawings to produce for the various jobs.

This next year is certainly going to be a banner year for The Gravity Group & Gravitykraft with many projects in addition to the underway Voyage Timberliner installation.  The first announced ride is the peppy smaller wooden coaster at Quassy Amusement Park in Connecticut. The second coaster on which we are working is the historic recreation of the Zippin Pippin from Memphis headed to Green Bay’s Bay Beach Amusement Park.  Also, you can’t forget about the awesome China racing / dueling coaster.  For these last two rides we are working with Martin & Vleminckx to provide the engineering.

So it is nice to step out of the office churning with drawings for a quick spell where the only stress you have is choosing what flavor of shaved ice sounds the best.  Of course even this task is not as easy as it should be; there were over 50 flavors!

…nice

Timberliners Update: Our friends at The Gravity Group (Gravitykraft) are continuing their work on refinements to the new train design. Since we’re in full throttle with the season, we will not have sufficient chunks of time for testing until we’re back to weekends-only operation. We’ll keep you updated with progress as we move into “weekends-only” after August 15. Thanks for your patience — they’ll be worth the wait! Meanwhile, The Voyage is running great using the original trains. :0)

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Here’s a quick concept sketch that Anthony created demonstrating one of the highlights of the ride, the racing camelback banked at ninety degrees, dubbed the “high five.” As more information can be shared, no doubt, it will be displayed here or on our Facebook page.

Here’s the MVR press release in its entirety.