[MOC] Massive Rollercoaster-ish Ride -- Technic Figure Scale

[shadow_elenter]

Hello, ya'll!

I just had to make another attraction, and it's quite a beast!
 

Making a rollercoaster in LEGO technic figure scale is very challenging because  unlike the smaller mini figure scale, there's no curved track parts to make it go around corners.
I get around that by making all changes in direction mechanical, and that's why I call it a rollercoaster-ISH contraption.

It's not a traditional rollercoaster but given the looks and motions I'd say it comes pretty close.

I used 5 SBricks to control everything, and there's a total of 17 motors in this MOC to make all the mechanical transitions.

This thing is truly a giant, I completely ran out of black pins and liftarms longer than 5 studs!
113 x 63 x 67 cm
45 x 25 x 27 inch

EDIT: I'm having some issues posting pictures, so they will come a bit later.

 

Edited October 6, 2019 by shadow_elenter

[msk6003]

Wow. how to get spike prime base plate?

[MajklSpajkl]

Coolness level 9000! Looks very disturbing... for that poor technic guy 

Fantastic creation. Does it run automatic, in a sense that each contraption starts the next one, or do you need to operate it "manually"?

Best regards.

 

[Aliencat]

Completely over the top! I love it 

[m00se]

This is absolutely stunning! A real pleasure to watch!

[Permo]

Oh my....

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Super!

Incredible mechanisms! 

[ozacek]

Great! It's like GBC for technic-figs :)

[shadow_elenter]

Thanks everyone!

As promised:

On 10/2/2019 at 9:04 PM, MajklSpajkl said:

Does it run automatic, in a sense that each contraption starts the next one, or do you need to operate it "manually"?

Best regards.

 

I sequences it is segments so I could press one button and it would initiate everything automatically in that segment and then you have to press the button for the next segment, but I like controlling it manually better.
If I would actually enjoy programming I could make it a one-button-does-all ride, but I don't like it and the SBrick programming software is quite a pain in the butt .

 

Edited October 6, 2019 by shadow_elenter

[Ape Fight]

This is brilliant.

It immediately reminded me of the Thunderbirds chair things they use to enter their respective aircraft (or Wallace and Gromit). I think you have an opportunity to further develop this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paN781Mhb8I

[mahjqa]

On 10/6/2019 at 12:52 PM, Ape Fight said:

This is brilliant.

It immediately reminded me of the Thunderbirds chair things 

Now that you mention it, yeah!

I really love the corkscrew part in the middle.

What's the part that gave you most trouble? I bet it's attaching and detaching the chair from all the different mechanisms. 

[Aleh]

This guy in red Technic suit on photos spends his time even better than me

Please, do not stop making such wonderful MOCs!

[shadow_elenter]

Well, to make sure the cart wouldn't fall of the "spinning carrier" took me the longest and went through the most redesigns.
Fine tuning that is technically fun though. Getting all the gravity dependent movements to work reliably for both the cart with the technic figure and the cart with the gopro was more of a pain in the butt .