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Ok, I got this in powerpoint presentation today, it's part of a whole series of photos and most look (IMHO)to me like they are real enough, but this one, well I'm just not sure!!! My common sense tells me that It's been "shopped", but as the other photos (which I will post in the next few days) seem to look "fair dinkum", I'm at a loss in deciding for myself.
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I know some are going to say "way 'shopped" but I think it real.
It certainly is feasible. They just have an underground tunnel underneath this coaster....it would cost a fortune to build just for the safety alone... but I don't see why it wouldn't be real.
I don't see any shopped lines or any blur lines or any anything that would indicate otherwise.
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Well here's a picture of the Anaconda which is the "first" roller coaster to feature an underwater tunnel. If it's the first, there must be more.
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I Googled around for a while, and found descriptions of several coasters with underwater tunnels, but none of them seem to match the picture you posted. So I'm sure it's a real picture, based on the fact that there are rollercoasters that can go underwater. Now I'm just going insane trying to figure out *which* underwater coaster this is a picture of!
There is a palm tree in the picture - so maybe it's somewhere in Orlando? But Kraken and The Incredible Hulk (the only two underwater coasters I found listed for Orlando) don't look like the coaster in the OP. I'm giving up for now
Man, now I need to ride one of those... that looks like fun
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The coaster is called Vanish and is at Yokohama Cosmoworld, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan.
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The Red and the Green Stamps
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Based on the link Orgaz provided, the coaster does not look like it goes through the water, but merely a tunnel opening with fountains around it. I do not see why a person would have to "shop" the photo. It looks very realistic to me(and looks like alot of fun)!
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Seems real to me. I see no reason why there couldnt be an underwater tunnel. IMO that'd be a pretty cool coaster. Especially if the tunnel was clear and you could see fish and stuff.
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So now it's possible to get both motion and sea sickness on a rollercoaster. Will wonders never cease?
Seriously though, it looks like fun. If only I wasn't such a coward...
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ah, another case solved. I deducted it wasnt in britain as the sky is blue....not gray.
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No photoshop, but a cleaver deception none the less. The origional picture makes a person think, at first glance, that the coaster is splashing into the water, thus dunking the riders.
It's just jets that spray up when the coaster goes into a tunel, but I bet it feels like your getting dunkned!
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It's not that good a deception. You can plainly see the water jets and the tunnel walls in the OP image. I never once thought the coaster was actually being dunked.
The coaster is called Vanish and is at Yokohama Cosmoworld, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan.
Yeah, I've been on this coaster several times since I live in Yokohama and that drop into the tunnel is great--the rest of the coaster is pretty orthodox, though.
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The coaster is called Vanish and is at Yokohama Cosmoworld, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan.
Yeah, I've been on this coaster several times since I live in Yokohama and that drop into the tunnel is great--the rest of the coaster is pretty orthodox, though.
So it shares even more similarities with the Anaconda than just the underwater tunnel...
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