I have the privilege of working in the S&S engineering group so I have had the opportunity to ride a few times. It has been a blast! It is crazy smooth and feels like flying! Like a bird being shot out of a cannon. Really cool stuff.

“A cloned concept could work” Six flags: hold my freespin

Imagine this thing but with terrain like eagles Fortress that would be the greatest ride ever

They need to hurry up and get this concept into a real park immediately because this is amazing.

S&S really seem to be pushing to become the next big innovators of the amusement industry. This decade was RMC, maybe next decade will be S&S

Sure Axis is cool, but what about the Allies?

Park looking to buy a coaster: "So how many different things can your concept do?" S&S Sansei: "Yes"

I honestly could see Universal using this attraction concept for the How to Train Your Dragon roller coaster at Epic Universe.

Since this is a prototype and Fiesta Texas is a "prototype-ish" park, I could see one maybe going there, but since its Six Flags idk. They did get the RMC Raptor and the Freespin so maybe.

I feel like it can kind of be seen as a "spiritual successor" to the suspended coaster. The concept looks good, hoping to see one pop up in the near future at a local Six Flags as they seem to be working with S&S quite a bit.

A tight non inverting loop would be so fun

Imagine a part where the track starts to roll and makes the vehicles stay in the middle, so that you would be going straight and the track is going around you, would be so weird to see

Taylor: “I do not want to see this with just one layout” Six Flags: “Allow me to introduce myself”

There are several ideas I can visualise but cannot put into words. This is just amazing and can be used amazingly.

This concept came out of nowhere and I'm loving it! As you said, so many creative possibilities out there... 🤩

he wasn't lying when he said he was gonna make a lot of videos about this

This would be the perfect fit for Alton Towers as SW9... imagine if John Wardley got his hands on this!

Spectacular!! It is exciting to see a bit of what the coaster makers are thinking for the future. I just love this concept and hope to see this model become something every park feels like they need to have in order to round out their lineup. Like the invert or the launch coaster has done. Great vid CS. Thanks for opening this window for all of us to peer through!

This looks amazing. I love rides that feel like more than a coaster. The way you rotate around the track is almost like you’re flying beside the coaster, instead of being in it.

One you are becoming legit dude. Can't believe you got invited to this 2 looks awesome I certainly hope we see a full coaster of this concept sometime in the near future

They should have a layout like Eejanaika with big inversions and drops.

Forget flying coasters. Now this is what I would love to see a Star Fox Arwing coaster based upon. It looks like it has that gliding feel that would fit that ride type well.

Congrats on 150k bro! So cool to see you grow as a channel, keep up the great content. Ain’t no one else in the community getting this kind of access rn :)

I’m sure S&S really appreciates you bringing their concept to the GP. Thanks for covering this project, I really hope to see one of these in a park soon!

This is like the cooler version of the 7 Dwarfs ride at Disneyland I am amazed by this prototype

I feel like these will start to show up around 2022 but we won't be seeing a major or bigger version of this until 2023-2024

This is such a cool concept! I can only imagine the possibilities with this concept and I hope it leads to something fantastic

That's so cool!!! I'm so jealous that you got to ride this.

I love this new concept! I can't wait to see new creative track layouts

How lucky are you!...I doubt we'll be seeing one in Europe anytime soon but I'm definitely keeping my fingers crossed !

Imagine all the awesome themes they could do for these coasters!

Dude when you showed iron dragon I had thought: how much longer is Iron Dragon's service life good for? If they continue tearing down and replacing coasters by Arrow I could see one of these in Iron Dragon spot with some sweet maneuvers over the water.

This looks absolutely sick!

This is an amazing idea. They can use this concept for pretty much any kind of experience a park could want. Family non-inverting heavily themed story experience (just think about the indoor ride possibilities) to an all out acrobatic freak out for thrill ride nuts. It looks really scalable too with launch vs lift hill (both!) and being able to make compact and large layouts so big and small park budgets could get one of these. It's like what RMC wants to do with Raptor, they're pretty cheap with how much material is needed to build them. S&S could easily create next gen Arrow Suspended coasters just by making a layout catered to non-inverting swinging. Those are dieing out so it would be awesome for that to happen. I can't wait to see what comes out of this.

The type of coaster this reminds me the most of is the old Togo Pipeline coastesr.

Knock, knock Cedar Fair this is right up your alley. Perhaps where Volcano The Blast Coaster used to be!

I hope King's Dominion installs one of these with the air launch and calls it "Hypersonic Volcano XLC: The Blast Coaster"

That first inversion is probably the closest thing i’ve seen to volcano’s first inversion

Dude you have no idea how much I want to ride this!! As soon and I saw it my imagination went wild, like you said there are endless possibilities! I've been on around 150 different coasters so far all across North America and other than X2 or the free spin coasters nothing comes close to Axis. The first park that gets one of these you can bet I'll be there with you in line ready to ride!!!

Something to consider with this ride is that it is very efficient when it comes to movement to steel ratio. An inline twist on this gives a similar amount of travel to a corkscrew.

A barrel roll on a straight piece of track

I think the element at 6:58 seems like the best one out of this prototype! It really looks like you'll get a huge sensation of falling when the car swings over the track like that. Imagine that at a much bigger scale and I think type of element would be really really thrilling

I hope we gonna see a nice longer layout for that, there are a lot of possibilities, depending on the speed of the train every element will be different. It would be great to see such an attraction in a heavily themed park such as phantasialand, image all the near misses which are possible.

Cedar point will definitely look into this...I'd love to see this track over water or some landscapes. S&S good work

Thats very cool, swinging over the track must make your stomach drop, thats damn cool.

Looks so fun!

It's an incredible effort of engineering and simulation to predict the movement of the carriage and influence it by changing minute details on the track What I really liked with the backward travel on this (even though it was primarily for reducing the braking G) is that effectively changes the inertial properties of the track, so a change of direction results in a fundamentally different ride experience

Imagine a raven turn on this thing

Imagine being in an inverted position, and then you go into a vertical loop, but at the top, you swing around the track like it did on the “Inline twist”

I like the concept. I could see some park kennywood work with S&S again and use their unique terrain to come up with something crazy

wow this is actually awesome!

This seems like this could be a good Superman ride at six flags.

Keep up the good videos! Your going places.

I’d love to see this at my homepark which is Playland in Vancouver, this would get so many people to come to it, and since they’ve finally closed down the Corkscrew they’d be able to put a new coaster in its place.

This has Six Flags Magic Mountian written all over it. With all their B&M and Arrow rides, they could do with some S&S goodness.

This looks like it would be an amazing ride! I would definitely ride it ;)

This looks terrific. I hope they solved the lateral stress issue that coasters like Big Bad Wolf had. No park is going to want one of these if they're a maintenance nightmare, especially after 2020.

I think this would be fantastic for Dorney park. 1. Lower capacity won’t be a big deal there. 2. Totally different from anything in the area despite having so much competition. 3. If they are the first park to get it there would likely be a discount because it would be a first of its kind and parks don’t even know if it will be a hit or not. This means Cedar fair wouldn’t have to break the bank for one of their smaller end parks. 4. It’s been too damn long since they got a new original coaster and if they do it right, this could put them back on the map in an area that has stiff competition. 5. If dorney doesn’t get it, six flags or Hershey park will get it and continue to take away from Dorney’s customer base. Note: I’m not entirely sure if reason 3 Is actually realistic, but I thought I heard prototype rides typically have a discount.

Universal and Disney would love this! Imagine the theming. The NEAR MISSES!!

Love your vids!

Don't forget the trains will have six cars! Backseat rides would be awesome!!

Air launch variant for Six Flags New England 2021?

It would be cool to see something like this at Hershey

Looks like awesome fun!! S & S are taking up where Arrow left off.

i could see this being some star wars pod racing coaster

Imagine if these cars were on steel curtain 😶😶

Looks amazing. Suspended loading station would be a must, and have a sway locking system while loading. I'd think Cedar Point, Magic Mountain or Hershey as a probable first location. This looks so amazing, I'm guessing the "Big Boys" will be fighting for dibbs.

I hope they install an Axis ride in the Polynesian area of PortAventura, my home park 🤣

That looks fun. Give it some long-ass trains and make a giga with an inverted lift hill. 👍

I would love to see theming with this, you can be way more dynamic with up-close decoration and props looking like they come right at you. Oh and ofcourse: THIS IS VR WOULD BE SICKK

There are so many possibilities! They could send riders through a small track 3 times but give the riders a different ride experience each time!

OMG I need to ride this!

So cool 😱

I really hope King's Dominion decides to put this in the place of the former Volcano Coaster. Maybe even with some intricate themeing.

This is amazing hurry and get these everywhere so awesome

Great review as always taylor, you present your videos as if you’ve been doing this for decades buddy. So polished and easy to understand , i much prefer these in depth analysis than simply watching an on ride review where there’s nothing but annoying middle aged men shouting “weeee loop de loop” I equally enjoy theme park world wide and theme park crazy, you 3 have all got bags of charisma and likability 👍

I first saw this prototype on the ACE KZfaq channel and it blew me away. I'm glad you were given this opportunity to not only ride it but also do an extensive set of videos on it, better explaining what's going on and what to possibly expect. Now for what park this should go to... I admit I'm biased in favor of my home park of Six Flags Magic Mountain. But I really think this should show up there first three reasons. 1) Arrow Dynamics' Viper custom looper is getting old and outdated. The queue for it is almost completely empty almost every time I've been there (save that Saturday I went a few weeks ago when the park was almost as filled as Disneyland on an at capacity day thanks to Fright Fest). I can't imagine it's cheap to keep it operating and it's probably well beyond its service life. 2) There's history with Six Flags and Magic Mountain and their building of a similar groundbreaking ride that sits right next to Viper... the ride that bankrupted Arrow Dynamics, X. Six Flags invested a lot of capital into that ride, even though it needed a redesign and Arrow had gone bankrupt, resulting in X2. While it's possible Six Flags could've learned the opposite lesson from their experience with X2 and would shy away from this sort of risk, I don't think this is the case here. S&S, unlike Arrow when X was being built, is in great financial shape. Especially given the fact that they're owned by the Japanese company Sansei, which had just bought Vekoma last year. I also think Six Flags will consider the expense to be worth it given that for what will be probably the price of your usual B&M coaster, they will get a first-in-the-world prototype which would be a huge draw for their flagship park. 3) A new roller coaster tends to be built at Magic Mountain every 3 years. Six Flags made the investment into West Coast Racers back in 2017 with an opening in 2019. Granted, that opening is delayed to early 2020 (much like an attraction at a neighboring park in Anaheim). But the money has been spent and the next project is probably being cooked up as we speak. Given that the next coaster Magic Mountain will likely see will be in 2022, the timing is perfect for S&S to design a potential ride at Magic Mountain (probably on the Viper site) and propose how much it will cost Six Flags to build. So yep, I'm thinking Six Flags Magic Mountain will be the park that gets this ride. Again, I admit I'm biased seeing as I live in Los Angeles and love that park. But the need to replace the aging Viper, the history of building a ground-breaking ride at that park, and the timing for the need of a new ride all make for a convincing argument that it will go there.

this is a great coaster to make the worlds first launch that does a full inverting twist!

It also reminds me of the new Vekoma flying coaster they are developing at Phantasialand, that will have a sideways track portion as well.

This concept is the best thing i have ever seen. I think this would be a perfect fit at Ceder Point in Ohio.

It looks absolutely insane. Like, different from anything we've seen before in the industry. My only worry is in the way the track is shaped. I know this is only a prototype, and we have no clue what a full-scale design is going to look like, but the original Bat at Kings Island didn't really have banked turns, and because the ride traveled so quickly through the layout, the track went through obscene amounts of stress. That last turn on this model, as well as part of the roll, looks like it'd also put a lot of stress on the track and wheels, so I'm wondering how they're planning on avoiding those issues. This does look absolutely dope, though.

I would love to see this at valleyfair mainly because it's my home park

Yep It seems to be crazy good, and it doesn't seems to make you sick at all. Only the good stuff.

This looks like something universal or Disney could add a lot of theming to

Heck yeah! Put it where the Vortex was at Kings island!!

This ride in a huge Pandora forest as flight of the banshees!!!!! That'll be amazing!!!!

Would you count this as a coaster credit even though it’s not a complete coaster ish

I wouldn’t be surprised is Magic Mountain got one of these in 2021 for their 50th anniversary. Since they just removed green lantern, they could also remove tidal wave and that opens up a pretty good plot of land. I can imagine this coaster being pretty compact. Six flags has been working with S&S a lot in recent years so it would only make sense

Kings dominion should grab this as a replacement for Volcano 🌋R.I.P

I have neck issues so I'm careful what i ride and how so this looks amazing! How Would you describe it compared to gate keeper at Cedar Point? Loved that. Also nintendo land at universal yeah they need to do this!

It could break the record for the most inversions on a coaster because it wouldn't affect us as much as it would on a normal coaster but it would still be fun

I can imagine a coaster using this model that loads with the track above your head and a lift hill that rotates as you travel up it, so that when you end the lift hill with the track below you.

YES THANK YOU :D

I could see this being both a kiddie-style ride, as well as a more thrilling version

Maybe add an option to _stop the spinning._ I'd love to see what crazy things you could come up with. Like have a dark ride part, with a fixed position and do a very slow element (like a heartline roll) similar to Saw The Ride. It also would make loading and unloading much much more comfortable.

That’d be a cool ride specially if it has a deep long drop

Very nice Concpt, i will fly it

Layouts - you can stack the track in certain areas to save space. Possibly even double back on itself. Maybe even have two tracks sharing the same center support path, and have them do chicken going toward each other in a roll.

4:35 well it likely _could_ be an inversion in an Axis, too. The designer ought to be able to make the seat fling around in almost every possible way, thanks to inertia, by picking appropriate track geometry right before an element.

US: Nah that coasters to weird for us EUROPE: Oh bloody hell this right here is a masterpiece